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GEN CON event tickets will be released for purchase by the public on May 19th. With our support of crack team of GMs and Keepers from the Cult of Chaos, our director of organised play Todd has out together a massive program of games in our dedicated 20 table event space. If you're coming to Gen Con, book early from May 19th: these events are all likely to fill fast! First off, conventions scenarios we've run at Gen Con before and will be running again this year, in #ThrowbackThursday: https://www.chaosium.com/bloggen-con-preview-1-chaosiums-massive-program-of-scheduled-games Here are the brand new convention scenarios we'll be debuting this year at Gen Con: https://www.chaosium.com/bloggen-con-preview-2-new-convention-scenarios-debuting-at-gen-con And, as part of our massive program of games at Gen Con this year, we're featuring the following VIP Creator's Series sessions: https://www.chaosium.com/bloggen-con-preview-3-chaosium-creator-series-vip-sessions And with Call of Cthulhu continuing to be one of top games with the highest unmet demand at Gen Con year after year, it's wonderful that there are many groups and individuals committed to running Chaosium games at the convention. Some of these other GM groups we know will be running their own Chaosium games at Gen Con this year are listed here (more are certain to be added to the program both before May 19 when event registration goes live, and in the lead-up to the con): https://www.chaosium.com/bloggen-con-preview-4-other-groups-running-chaosium-games-as-call-of-cthulhu-continues-to-be-one-of-top-games-with-the-highest-unmet-demand/

Out in PDF later this month* - A COLD FIRE WITHIN. A new and complete six-part Pulp Cthulhu campaign by Christopher Smith Adair. *as usual, if you purchase the PDF from Chaosium, not only do you get it to read and use straightaway, you also get the full price of the PDF off the printed book when it is out. "Brendan Sterling sought answers in experimental past-life regression. Unfortunately, his mind isn’t the only one seeking answers in the past...."

RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha is out, and we're so happy it is a critical and popular success! But there are different ways to scratch your Gloranthan itch too - here are recent reviews of some of the other products which you can use to explore Greg Stafford's mythic universe... https://www.chaosium.com/blogunnatural-selections-23-other-gloranthan-goodness Plus, previous instalments of #unnaturalselections: https://www.chaosium.com/blogunnatural-selections-11-call-of-cthulhu-the-video-game https://www.chaosium.com/blogunnatural-selections-12-reviewers-discuss-how-call-of-cthulhu-the-video-game-gets-its-inspiration-from-the-tabletop-rpg/ https://www.chaosium.com/blogunnatural-selections-13-more-reviews-of-call-of-cthulhu-the-official-video-game/ https://www.chaosium.com/blogunnatural-selections-14-first-update-of-call-of-cthulhu-based-on-player-feedback-more-reviews https://www.chaosium.com/blogunnatural-selections-15-more-call-of-cthulhu-reviews-we-like https://www.chaosium.com/blogunnatural-selections-16-the-top-seven-most-popular-items-on-our-redbubble-merchandise-store https://www.chaosium.com/blogunnatural-selections-17-call-of-cthulhu-the-official-video-game-on-special-at-steam https://www.chaosium.com/blogunnatural-selections-18-call-of-cthulhu-video-game-fan-wiki-and-some-2018-retrospective-reviews https://www.chaosium.com/blogunnatural-selections-19-the-call-of-cthulhu-starter-set https://www.chaosium.com/blogunnatural-selections-20-call-of-cthulhu-the-video-game-is-25-off-on-steam-until-feb-11 https://www.chaosium.com/blogunnatural-selections-21-unboxings-of-the-new-rq-slipcase https://www.chaosium.com/blogunnatural-selections-22-impressions-of-the-new-runequest-slipcase-set

This came moseying down the trail today... an advance copy of the next release for DOWN DARKER TRAILS! The rest are on their way by ship, and will be in the corral soon. (But if you have a hankerin' right now for more horrors and terrors of the Old West, go buy the SHADOWS OVER STILLWATER PDF from Chaosium and you'll get the full price of the PDF off the cost of the physical book when it arrives - https://www.chaosium.com/shadows-over-stillwater-pdf)

We have been delighted with enthusiastic reception the Call of Cthulhu release Terror Australis 2nd Edition has received, including the request made by the National Library of Australia to add the work to their collection, as being of "national significance". Chaosium will be doing an official launch of the book on the 26th of May. Many of the Terror Australis authors will be in attendance as guests of honour. "The Terror Australis launch will be a great way to mark the release of the work, and also to recognise and celebrate the extraordinary longstanding contribution Australian writers have made to the Call of Cthulhu RPG and wider Cthulhu mythos", said Call of Cthulhu line editor Mike Mason. The launch takes place on Sunday May 26th in The Atrium at the Woodlands Hotel, Coburg, VIC Australia. All are welcome.

A: If a player uses the reflex card they are not expelled from the library and so will continue to participate in the round. Accordingly, the lowest sanity card remains on the table. The round continues until all players have left the library. At that point there will be no more sanity cards available. Sanity cards do not carry over to the next round.

Chaosium's anthology ATOMIC AGE CTHULHU is DriveThruFiction's Deal of the Day: 60% off! http://bit.ly/2rXzQSO

Now over 40,000 views. Nice work Mike Mason and Penny Arcade! (BTW, if you're looking to buy the Call of Cthulhu Starter Set, do check out what it says when you click "SHOW MORE" for the video description...)

Giving the new RuneQuest Slipcase Set a launch at Good Games Melbourne tonight - thanks to all the GMs and players who came along to give RQG a go! More RQG events in other Good Games stores around Australia happening in the coming days and weeks too: https://www.chaosium.com/bloggood-games-to-host-runequest-launch-events-in-may-australia Mark Morrison in the GM's chair at the Good Games Melbourne of the new RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha Slipcase Set. Although Mark is renowned for his writing for Call of Cthulhu, he was recently interviewed about his abiding and longstanding love of the RuneQuest RPG. You can read that interview here: https://www.goodgames.com.au/au/news/406-runequest-launch.html

On the occasion of our first Gold seller in the Miskatonic Repository - Joe Trier's The Idol of Thoth - we thought it a fitting time to congratulate all the titles and their creators that have (so far) made it to Gold, Silver, and Bronze sales status on DriveThruRPG! https://www.chaosium.com/blogmiskatonic-monday-congratulations-to-gold-silver-and-bronze-sellers-in-the-miskatonic-repository GOLD The Idol of Thoth by Joe Trier ($3.95 SILVERAlone Against the Tide by Nicholas Johnson ($4.99) Kirkwood Farmhouse Massacre by Fred Love ($1.99)Solo Investigator's Handbook by 5e Solo Gamebooks ($9.99)The Scales of Time by Michael Nagel ($4.95)Zgrozy: Powidoki Przyszłości (Polish) by Marek Golonka ($1.00)Zgrozy: Pasterz Ciem (Polish) by Marek Golonka ($1.00) COPPER A Light in Darkness by Matthew Puccio ($3.99) An Invitation in Yellow by Patrick Viggo Moeller ($2.99)Drawn from the Dark by Michael Nagel ($8.95)Isle of Madness by Ed Possing ($2.95)Moonglow by John Almack ($2.95/$6.95/$7.95)Plague by Matt Ryan, Noah Lloyd ($3.95)Shortcut of Supernaturalism: Jasper St. Jones Got The Prettiest Bones by Tristan Jusola-Sanders ($1.99)Terror Itself by James Coquillat and David Naylor ($3.95)The Knife by Michael LaBossiere ($0.50)The Man Downstairs by Adam Gauntlett ($4.00)The Pipeline - A Call of Cthulhu Scenario for the 1980s by Alex Guillotte ($9.95/$14.95/$15.95)The Prepared Investigator by Stephanie McAlea ($2.99)The Titan Incident by William Adcock ($5.99)Tomes of Terror by K.E. Brennan ($3.99)Trail of the Monolith by Michael Nagel ($11.95)When the Light Goes Out by Megan Tolentino ($2.95)Visceral and Emotional Damage by Jon Hook ($2.00)Zgrozy: Wernisaż (Polish) by Michał Gralak ($2.00)

Are we saving the world, or ending it? The Disk of R'lyeh, from the classic Call of Cthulhu campaign Shadows of Yogsothoth. An amazing Mythos prop, currently being Kickstarted by our friends at TYPE40: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/329574091/disk-of-rlyeh-call-of-cthulhu

Some notable first impressions of the new RUNEQUEST Slipcase set from TV writer/producer Robert Hewitt Wolfe, RPG and video game writer Mark Morrison, Newt Newport of D101 games, and others...https://www.chaosium.com/blogunnatural-selections-22-impressions-of-the-new-runequest-slipcase-set "Final first impression 10/10. Will play. Great presentation, tons of content, a wonderful relaunch of a terrific game."—TV writer/producer Robert Hewitt Wolfe. "RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha subverts many of the tropes of both the fantasy and RPG genres. It makes you care about the world on a profoundly personal level. It makes you invest in your character's story so heavily that you don't want to risk their death. It evokes a sense of vulnerability that is reminiscent of Game of Thrones… It's absolutely one of the games you need to try."—Brian Holland, Good Games. "The new edition is so beautiful. The Chaosium team have brought Glorantha to life in living colour, beyond everything. I can't get over the vibrancy of the world... It's the best possible time to get interested in RuneQuest."—RPG and video game writer Mark Morrison (interviewed in the Good Games article above). "Cheaper than its constituent parts, easier to assimilate, faster to run... this is the best-researched setting that fantasy roleplaying has ever seen, topped by a robust system that meshes integrally with the fluff."—Antonios S. review, RPGnet. "Newcomer friendly, with all the Glorantha you need being hard-baked into the rules. In my opinion it’s the best out of the box representation of Glorantha ever."—D101 Games, publishers of the fanzine Hearts in Glorantha.

We're excited to announce that Chaosium Con Down Under is going to take place a year from now (2-3 May, 2020) at the evocative and historic Glebe Town Hall in inner Sydney, Australia. With our friends at Aetherworks, we're planning a boutique yet captivating program that's going to be in parts mythic, epic, heroic and horrific, with Chaosium's favourite games on offer including Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, Pendragon, 7th Sea, HeroQuest, and more. More details at the link: https://www.chaosium.com/blogannouncing-chaosium-con-down-under-23-may-2020-in-sydney-australia

Fantasy Grounds is a popular system for playing a host of different roleplaying games online. It is used by more than 130,000 gamers worldwide to connect and play popular games including Call of Cthulhu, as well as Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder, Savage Worlds, and more. Fantasy Grounds Unity is the name of the upcoming version of this virtual tabletop software, having been completely rebuilt from the ground up. It has just been launched on Kickstarter, funding in 38 minutes, and rocketing through the Stretch Goals. What you get for backing this project is a license for Fantasy Grounds Unity (or FGU). This new game engine has all the great features of current version of Fantasy Grounds (soon to be called Fantasy Grounds Classic) along with new enhanced features. Unity includes a Call of Cthulhu Essentials Pack, available as an add-on: Chaosium Call of Cthulhu Essentials Pack – $50 Includes: Call of Cthluhu 7E (Ruleset), Investigator's Handbook, Doors to Darkness, Alone against the Dark, The Haunting Note: If you're already a Fantasy Grounds user, you can upgrade on the Kickstarter at a special discount, and anything you already own on your account at fantasygrounds.com will continue to work with FGU. The Kickstarter is live now, and runs until May 30th: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smiteworks/fantasy-grounds-unity

Seth is a wonderful advocate for Call of Cthulhu. He puts heart and soul into his videos, and everything he reviews he and his group have played through first.

Seth takes an entertaining look at the sci-fi setting "Cthulhu Icarus", part of CTHULHU THROUGH THE AGES. Although in space, no one can hear you (fail your Sanity Roll and) scream, Seth says he and his players had "a ton of fun" with this setting.

Though some certainly retire to a tower voluntarily, these are the same reasons why you might get sent to one in Sun County. The retirement towers are a means to put someone inconvenient out of the way without killing them, in which everyone involved saves face.

Yes. But until recently (at the Sun Dome Temple in Prax), ordinary punishments were expeditious: beatings, whippings or fines for minor crimes; mutilations or death (by various means) for serious offences. Traditionally, prisoners were only held in custody until their trial and whatever punishment followed. "As of 1621, the Count's mines [at Pent Ridge] have only been open for seven years. Sun Dome justice is still adapting to the need for laborers to be sent out there to work them. By tradition, established during Sun County's long period of isolation during the Solitude of Testing, punishments and penalties are usually exacted expeditiously: beatings, whippings or fines for minor crimes; mutilations or death (by various means) for serious offences. Traditionally, prisoners were only held in custody until their trial and whatever punishment followed. However, since the reopening of Pent Ridge, Count Solanthos has enthusiastically embraced the concept of penal servitude, and many of those who come before him can expect to serve a spell in the mines. This includes foreigners who fall foul of the law, even those rounded up to play antagonist roles in Sun Dome rituals (if they lose, and live). "Beg the Count to pluck out your eyes rather than send you to Pent Ridge." - Sun Domer adage The Sun Domers in Prax do not keep (human) slaves. Until the mines reopened, Sun Domers in Prax would normally quickly ransom Praxians, using their Yelmalio counterparts in the tribes as brokers. They don't take trolls prisoners at all; they are immediately and summarily killed.

In our RQG game last week we fortuitously managed to temporarily knock out a giant who was about to go on a rampage, after freeing him from Red Cow clan thralldom. As giants are naturally contrary, having him swear an Oath not to take vengeance on the Red Cow didn't work. So to get him tractable again and then as far away from the Red Cow lands as possible, we got him stupefied on Hazia. *BTW, my character, Narses the Chalana Arroy Healer freed and healed the giant. He also freely joined the Oath, in order to convince the giant to take part. If the giant ever does come back to wreak vengeance, both he and Narses will cop a POW 77 Sever Spirit. (Not the first Sever Spirit Narses has faced down...)

Sweet!—the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design has been in touch to let us know MASKS OF NYARLATHOTEP is a 2019 Origins Award nominee (Best RPG Supplement). It's also eligible for the 'Fan Favorite' award. Congratulations to Mike Mason, Lynne Hardy, Paul Fricker, Scott Dorward, and everyone who worked on the new edition, and honouring the memory of the late Larry DiTillio and Lynn Willis, the original creators of Masks.

Last year, on the release of the core rulebook of the new RUNEQUEST, we recorded a series of short videos talking about the game. Now the full slipcase set is out, we thought it was an opportune time for a reprise. Jason and Jeff are two of the key people in the RQG design team, and in this six part series they take you through: —1. What is RuneQuest?—2. What is Glorantha?—3. How the Game Works—4. Runes—5. Family History—6. Character Generation The full set of videos is available here: http://bit.ly/2PCGkBP

This is a wonderful article about what makes the RuneQuest RPG so special and unique. It features award-winning RPG writer Mark Morrison, who was first entranced by the game as a teenager, but says now is the best possible time to get interested in RuneQuest. Read and find out why... https://www.goodgames.com.au/au/news/406-runequest-launch.html Good Games says "It's absolutely one of the games you need to try" and are as a good as their word, running RQ demos in their stores in the month of May (details here: http://bit.ly/2GRTlET)

When running the convention scenario Last Tango in Pavis long, long ago at Necronomicon in Sydney (1993) we had to make up an extra PC on the fly, and so made him a disgraced 79 year old Light Priest busted back to the Sun Dome militia for farting in the temple, or some such. When Rich, the guy playing him asked me what Yelmalio magic does he have, I said "all of it" (incidentally, presaging how Rune magic is done in RQG). When he asked what Yelmalio geases his character had, I replied "all of them!" (and we read them all out!) This made for some very amusing roleplaying!

Though Yelmalio's justice burns pure and clear, fortunately for player characters "needlessly" is a great MGF get-out clause for that geas...😎

"TRIED AND TRUE - The Call of Cthulhu RPG has been in print from the same publisher since 1981. It is the horror RPG that all other horror games are judged by."—As recently seen in Powell's, the famous bookstore in Portland OR - said to be the biggest independent book store in the world (and definitely one of the coolest) http://bit.ly/2GP8vul.