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The MASKS OF NYARLATHOTEP special Leatherette Edition is now available! This is a Chaosium.com exclusive - the Leatherette edition will not be available in retail distribution. $USD299.99. https://www.chaosium.com/masks-of-nyarlathotep-leatherette-slipcase-set Stocks are available from all three Chaosium fulfilment warehouses - USA, UK, Australia. We also have stocks of the regular hardback slipcase edition in all three locations too (USD$129.99).

Now out as a fully-remastered PDF, true to the original printing: the SOLOQUEST CLASSIC COLLECTION. Three SoloQuest Adventures for RuneQuest 2!—Dreamquest, Phoney Stones, Maguffin Hunt—Scorpion Hall—The Snow King's BrideAvailable from Chaosium.com: http://bit.ly/2USz5IeAlso available from DriveThruRPG: http://bit.ly/2SPPD1A

To coincide with the launch of the CALL OF CTHULHU STARTER EDITION, we've created a new video series introducing the game. Specifically pitched to newcomers to roleplaying games and Call of Cthulhu, these short (2 - 3 minutes) videos cover basic topics including "What is an RPG?" and "What is Call of Cthulhu?" Instalments we'll release shortly include "How to Play", "The Starter Set", and "What Next?". Here's Part One: The video series features Jess, an actor, dancer, gamer, and friend of Chaosium from Melbourne, Australia, and later some of her friends, around the gaming table. You can see more of Jess's performing arts work here:https://www.starnow.com.au/jessicamartin55

The CALL OF CTHULHU STARTER SET Launch Parties at Good Games Stores across Australia this week were lots of fun and well-attended! If your local FLGS doesn't stock it, ask them to!

The CALL OF CTHULHU STARTER SET is now available at DriveThruRPG in PDF too: http://bit.ly/2EmnWts (The physical boxed set + PDF is available from Chaosium.com)

A World of Mystery, Horror and Adventure in a Box! This Starter Box contains everything you need to start playing Call of Cthulhu: available now from Chaosium.com - $USD$24.99 https://www.chaosium.com/call-of-cthulhu-starter-set The #CallOfCthulhu Starter Box contains everything you need to start playing Call of Cthulhu—the tabletop #rpg of mystery and horror. INSIDE THIS BOX —Book 1: Introduction and Alone Against The Flames—a solo introductory adventure, teaching you the basics of Call of Cthulhu as you play through a mystery. —Book 2: Call of Cthulhu Starter Rules—the essential rules, everything needed for starting play. —Book 3: Adventures—three starter adventures for your players to explore. —Ready to Play Investigators—five ready to play game characters. —Blank Investigator Sheets—ready for creating your own investigators. —Roleplaying Dice – a set of six polyhedral dice for use in the game. —Player Handouts – a set of ready to use props. ADVENTURES! This box comes packed with four classic adventures for over twenty hours of game play. —Alone Against The Flames —Paper Chase —Edge of Darkness —Dead Man Stomp Available now from Chaosium for USD$24.99: https://www.chaosium.com/call-of-cthulhu-starter-set

Chaosium Inc, original publishers of Greg Stafford's King Arthur Pendragon roleplaying game, will once again become the owners and publishers of the game, it was announced today. All rights to KAP and the Prince Valiant story-telling game have been transferred from the ownership of Nocturnal Media to Chaosium. More details (and a wonderful Greg Stafford anecdote) at the link: https://www.chaosium.com/bloggreg-staffords-king-arthur-pendragon-rpg-returns-to-chaosium-ownership

It's #MiskatonicMonday - check out two new Call of Cthulhu community content releases in the Miskatonic Repository, both set in Outer Space!https://www.chaosium.com/blogmiskatonic-monday-call-of-cthulhu-community-content-in-outer-space

We're owed a significant sum of unpaid royalties by ESD, which we count on to keep our own company afloat. ESD's failure to meet its obligations to Chaosium means we've had to tighten our belts and now can't spend those anticipated funds on new writers, editors, and artists. There are many victims here.

It is with regret that we announce that Chaosium shall not be renewing Éditions Sans-Détour's license for any products. ESD's permission to use our trademarks, logos and all related intellectual property has been withdrawn. Call of Cthulhu fans deserve to know our reasons why we sadly cannot continue this relationship. Details at the link: https://www.chaosium.com/blogstatement-about-ditions-sansdtour

Can you guess what the Top Seven best-selling items are in our Redbubble merchandise store? All is revealed at the link... https://www.chaosium.com/blogunnatural-selections-16-the-top-seven-most-popular-items-on-our-redbubble-merchandise-store/

There will be Launch Parties for the new CALL OF CTHULHU STARTER SET at FLGSs across Australia later this month, thanks to our friends at Good Games. Come along, play Call of Cthulhu and win prizes! Details at the link: https://www.goodgames.com.au/au/news/15-gaming-events/368-the-stars-are-right-at-good-games.html (We're planning release parties in the US and Europe in the early new year too; details forthcoming.)

A memorial gathering in honour of Greg Stafford was held on Saturday evening last weekend, after Dragonmeet in London, UK. Our tribe's own rune priest, Rev Dr Stuart Mousir-Harrison aka Dr Moose, gave a beautiful address in Greg's memory. It began: What draws us here together is a love for the world Greg Stafford created, love, admiration, even awe, for him as a creator; a common bond of understanding forged through it. It transcends our disagreements and difference, unites us across perceptions and practice. Greg gave us a gift. A gift of creation in which to play and flex creative muscles, difference from what had gone before. It doesn’t remove the genius of others, like Tolkien and Gygax, but adds his to the mix – and allows us to do the same. You can read the rest of Dr Moose's moving eulogy at his web page: https://drmoose.wordpress.com/2018/12/02/thanksgiving-for-greg-stafford-1-dec-2018 Earlier that day at Dragonmeet, the Chaosium team also spoke of the life and legacy of Greg Stafford in an equally packed seminar session. Here's everyone raising a glass to Greg at the memorial event. The toast was "WeAreAllUs - Vale Greg Stafford".

"The first 2,000 feet passed very quickly and terra firma looked damnably 'firma'. As I fell I began to hear my faithful little Camel somewhere nearby. Suddenly I fell back onto her." When a player wants a RW example of critting a Luck roll... (h/t Preston Becker) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grahame_Donald

And here's a transcript of the eulogy from the UK memorial gathering, from Dr Moose himself: https://drmoose.wordpress.com/2018/12/02/thanksgiving-for-greg-stafford-1-dec-2018

Our tribe's very own rune priest Dr Moose delivered the eulogy and proposed the toast at the Greg Stafford UK memorial gathering tonight. #WeAreAllUs.

Wow! With just over a day to go, the crowdfunding campaign for the licensed Polish edition of Call of Cthulhu is at USD$214K and 5,900 backers! (It met its funding target in 23 minutes and was already the biggest crowdfunding campaign in Poland ever, a week ago) https://wspieram.to/zewcthulhuRPG

Shirley Curry is the 82 old grandma and Internet phenomenon who has picked up hundreds of thousands of subscribers while playing Skyrim on YouTube. Shirley's recently started playing Call of Cthulhu... Here's Shirley doing well in Skyrim:

The crowd-funding campaign for the licensed Polish edition of the Call of Cthulhu RPG has reached USD$160K with 5 days to go - but it's already the biggest Polish language crowd funding campaign of all time! Congratulations to our friends at Black Monk Games!

Rick shows off advance copies of our MISKATONIC UNIVERSITY board game, the CALL OF CTHULHU STARTER SET, and MASKS OF NYARLATHOTEP to Board Game Heaven at Essen last month. Masks is out now, and the Starter Set and MU are on the way...

After #BlackFriday comes #SquamousSaturday. And because Cthulhu is timeless, we're offering three current Call of Cthulhu hardback releases from different historical periods at 20%+ discount! — PETERSEN'S ABOMINATIONS (modern) — DOWN DARKER TRAILS (Old West) — REIGN OF TERROR (French Revolution) https://www.chaosium.com/blogits-squamoussaturday-and-cthulhu-is-timeless

First box prototype of our forthcoming game, Pedro Ziviani's RED THREAD OF FATE, complete with appropriately coloured string (an important component of the game). Our board games editor Susan will bring a working demo to Dragonmeet in London next week!

Check out this community content release at the Miskatonic Repository, it should be very helpful: http://bit.ly/2x6xX9D

...and there's 20% off everything at the Chaosium Redbubble merchandise store today (and site-wide) - use code BLACK20 https://www.redbubble.com/people/Chaosium

...and there's 20% off everything at the Chaosium Redbubble merchandise store today (and site-wide) - use code BLACK20 https://www.redbubble.com/people/Chaosium