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And the follow-up article too - it even gives the Miskatonic Repository a mention: https://gnomestew.com/game-making/getting-started-on-the-dms-guild-part-2-publishing-and-marketing

A lot of the helpful advice this Gnome Stew article gives for writing for the DMs Guild (D&D community content on DriveThruRPG) also applies for the Miskatonic Repository and Call of Cthulhu. If you're interested in taking the plunge as a community content creator, it is well worth reading. https://gnomestew.com/game-making/getting-started-on-the-dms-guild-part-1-your-first-product

Keepers - your investigators will find this chapter of Terror Australis extremely deadly, yet oddly enough it contains no Mythos content whatsoever...

A great unboxing video of the new Masks. It's 44 minutes long, because there's a lot to unbox...

With the release of Terror Australis 2nd Ed in PDF, this thread is to catch any typos or errors spotted. Please note them here, quoting the page number, the error, and the suggested correction. This "tribal edit" thread will be open for two weeks (until November 30). The book will then be sent to press with any corrections made. Many thanks.

"The RuneQuest flavour that made every version of the game from its inception so refreshingly different is fully on view. The Introduction warns: "every creature is an individual. Even a trollkin or a rubble runner might get a lucky critical hit against a far more skilled and better equipped foe." No mookish cannon fodder for murder hobos here, but that's always been the RuneQuest way, and more power to it. Your inner 12-year-old is not going to get an outing at Chaosium's expense." —from the glowing review of the RQG Bestiary on RPG.Net STYLE: 5. The revitalized Chaosium has been putting out some dazzling books, and this one is no exception - especially with the vivid and loving renditions of the various beasties and beings. SUBSTANCE: 5. Not just a compendium of creatures, but an indispensable companion, steeped in Gloranthan lore and thoroughly inspirational. https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/17/17808.phtml

Now out in the wild... https://www.chaosium.com/terror-australis-2nd-edition-pdf *purchase the Terror Australis PDF from Chaosium.com, and you will receive a coupon for the full price of the PDF off the cost of the physical hardback book when it is released in 2019.

The new edition of Masks includes the Australia chapter that was omitted from the original version. If, after playing through that chapter, you and your investigators want to do some more eldritch explorations in the Land Down Under, we have this new sourcebook coming very soon - later this month in PDF, hardback in early 2019:

CALL OF CTHULHU the video game has now been out for a couple of weeks. Here are some more reviews we like! "4/5. …among the very best Lovecraft-themed games I’ve played in terms of atmosphere, experience, and faithfulness to the spirit of the source."—H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. "4/5. The story is excellent, engrossing and tells a gripping yarn… a very solid, extremely entertaining game that I loved."—The Xbox Hub. "9/10. Being a diehard fan of Lovecraft´s work, this game definitely gave me an extra pleasure… it is a perfect introduction to what is coming if you follow this path of reading, playing the board games or any other Lovecraft stuff."—Comics Buzz. "8/10. Call of Cthulhu has a whale’s belly full of atmosphere. It’s dark, sometimes disorientating and very faithful to Lovecraft’s idea of reality and insanity being sometimes one and the same. Terrific."—Punk & Lizard. "8.5/10. The entire experience is a love letter to one of the best American writers of the last two centuries and the weird, frightening worlds he created. …this is the Lovecraft game we’ve been waiting for."—Air Entertainment. "8/10 - Call of Cthulhu is as gripping as it is atmospheric. Cyanide has delivered a truly horrific world and an incredible story that fans of the mythos will absolutely love."—SquareExo. "80-85/100 - Call of Cthulhu provides hours of suspenseful narrative-driven gaming. If you’re a fan of Lovecraft then this is aimed squarely at you, so give it a go. If you’ve never delved into the world of Cthulhu or other Lovecraft stories, like myself, then I think this is a great taster and has certainly left me wanting more."—mygameslounge.com. "8/10 – not your typical horror experience… Call of Cthulhu is a slow burner. There is a constant build-up of dread and a general foreboding atmosphere all wrapped up in an unsettling tone that keeps you guessing to what is actually happening."— xblgamerhub.com. "4/5 - a creepy mystery that will mess with your head and rattle your nerves."—Mirror. "4/5 …a thrilling ride through and through."—Windows Central. "4/5. Fans of Lovecraft and the horror writers, films, and games he inspired can be an obsessive lot – and I should know, as I’ve been fascinated by this stuff since I was a teenager – and Call of Cthulhu has plenty to keep them happy."—indiegamerreview.com. "4 stars out of 5 - Call of Cthulhu proves that Lovecraftian horror is still alive, as the role-playing game has players investigate mysterious events on their own terms through an interactive adventure. The story is creepy, unsettling, and fascinating to the point that it sucks you in and pulls you under. Despite some minor gameplay and design hiccups, Call of Cthulhu is an atmospheric mystery game worthy of H.P. Lovecraft himself.—The Outerhaven. "4/5. Genuinely fun to play… an effective horror yarn about the world-rending terror of the Great Old Ones that would make H.P. Lovecraft proud."—adventuregamers.com. "4.5/5. The game is amazing! The story is intriguing and keeps you wanting to play. The atmosphere is pure Lovecraft. The music makes the mood perfectly, the sound effects add the tension."—Horror Fuel. https://www.chaosium.com/blogunnatural-selections-13-more-reviews-of-call-of-cthulhu-the-official-video-game

UK memorial gathering for Greg StaffordJoin members of the Chaosium team for a post-Dragonmeet informal gathering to celebrate and commemorate the life of Chaosium founder and Grand Shaman of Games, Greg Stafford. Latymers Pub is 5 mins walk away from the Novotel Hammersmith, venue for Dragonmeet.Date: Saturday, December 1, 2018 at 7 PM – 11 PM UTCLocation: Latymers Pub - 157 Hammersmith Rd, Hammersmith

New in Chaosium Free Stuff! One-shot Call of Cthulhu scenarios to download and play, complete with pre-gens: — THE DEAD BOARDER: A horror-themed adventure set in the era of the Great Depression. Where the investigators risk life and limb - and their very sanity- in order to fathom the mystery presented. — WHAT'S IN THE CELLAR: The Blackwood family line is both blessed and cursed. Can you save convicted murderer Arthur Blackwood from the electric chair? He says the proof of his innocence is hidden in the family cabin. — CAMP SUNNY: A group of college students choose to take a break at a vacation camp during the off-season. Unfortunately, the owners of the resort are not regular folk... —plus ALONE AGAINST THE FLAMES: a solo scenario that teaches the Call of Cthulhu 7th Ed rules. https://www.chaosium.com/cthulhu-adventures

Now available at Chaosium.com: free PDF downloads for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha —Character Sheet —Family Background Worksheet —Holdings/Family/Allies sheet. These may be printed and freely used by you and your players! nb these are not auto-calc sheets. https://www.chaosium.com/runequest-character-sheets #RuneQuest #RQG #Glorantha #rpg #ttrpg

The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society says, "CALL OF CTHULHU: THE OFFICIAL VIDEO GAME is easily among the very best Lovecraft-themed games in terms of atmosphere, experience, and faithfulness to the spirit of the source - 4 out of 5 Stars." http://www.hplhs.org/reviews_cocvideogame.php

Here are some more recent reviews of Call of Cthulhu that focus on how the video game is inspired by and emulates the essence of the Call of Cthulhu tabletop RPG: "4/5. Call of Cthulhu immediately earns points for shelving horror tropes in favor of focusing on the foreboding atmosphere and slow-burn scares of its source material. Inspired more by the pen-and-paper role-playing game of the same name than H.P. Lovecraft's seminal short story, it ambitiously – almost stubbornly – avoids the shock-value gore, jump scares, and virally-infected freaks that have come to define the genre in recent years… Call of Cthulhu’s gameplay offers a surprisingly fresh take on the fright-filled genre." —Empire "8.8/10. A brilliant game inspired by the classic H.P. Lovecraft stories and 1981 tabletop game... a truly horrific and disturbing first-person RPG adventure."—Gamepitt.co.uk. "Interesting take on the Call of Cthulhu pen and paper RPG… if you like first-person exploration games, a dark atmosphere, and the Cthulhu mythos, then you’re going to have a good time playing Call of Cthulhu on PS4. 8/10."—PS4blog.net. "One of the best horror games in 2018. …a great adaptation of the classic pen & paper version of the game."—The Gaming Buddha. "Chaosium's unhallowed tabletop RPG gets a proper video game representation that nails the feel of a pen and paper campaign... the official video game version of Chaosium's classic tabletop RPG is a worthy successor to the name."—gameskinny.com. "Two Thumbs Up! Altogether, a classic Call of Cthulhu experience ...encapsulated in this video game is the essence of the tabletop game."—Microphones of Madness (podcast). "Evocative of a ‘choose your own adventure’ story and unlike conventional RPGs, Call of Cthulhu is refreshing amidst a sea of flat and disappointing Lovecraftian adaptations. This is because Cyanide Studios and Focus Home Interactive based the game on the already adapted and successful pen and paper RPG, as opposed to directly replicating H.P. Lovecraft’s original mind-bending short story… The overall story and eerie atmosphere in Call of Cthulhu is executed incredibly well. Just don’t expect to run in guns blazing because this is a game that requires less firepower and more brainpower."—gamebyte.com. "Call of Cthulhu is an investigative thriller at its core… Just like the Call of Cthulhu Tabletop RPG, you can find a different way to do something. 8/10."—Gamespace. "Call of Cthulhu, developed by Cyanide Studio, has the advantage of actually being an adaptation of the tabletop roleplaying game of the same name, rather than a direct adaptation of any of Lovecraft's works… the game takes satisfying twists as the story unfolds, and even a seasoned Lovecraft fan won't always feel sure of where the story is going. Cults, insane asylums, mutations, invisible monsters, and sinister paintings all play significant roles in the story, and those who are more familiar with the Mythos will appreciate all the references, big and small."—Game Crate. "At the end of the day, Call of Cthulhu the game is an excellent adaptation of Lovecraft’s Mythos & the Chaosium Rules, and anyone who is in love with these two things should have an excellent time with this game."—Terminally Nerdy.

At the close of RQ Con Down Under III this weekend, we were delighted to present Lev Lafayette with the inaugural Greg Stafford Memorial Award for Gloranthan Fandom. This is a new award, established in memory of Greg Stafford and with the blessing of his family, that Chaosium will occasionally and irregularly give out to recognise a *significant* and *exceptional* contribution to Gloranthan Fandom in a current year. Why did Lev receive this award? As our Australia - Asia/Pacific convention coordinator Andrew said when we presented it to Lev: "You went on a heroquest and brought RQ Con Down Under back from the otherworld. Greg would be proud." The previous RQ Con DUs were in the last century (1996 and 1998). Lev was the driving force successfully bringing RQ Con Down Under back. The event was a great success, and sufficient funds and interest were raised to want to stage it again next year. #WeAreAllUs

Chaosium's Neil Robinson and Jeff Richard pay their respects at Greg Stafford's memorial in Berkeley this weekend. #WeAreAllUs

Available now! - the Masks of Nyarlathotep slipcase. Stocks in all three Chaosium warehouses: USA, UK and Australia. PDF included. https://www.chaosium.com/masks-of-nyarlathotep-slipcase-set "Should you get Masks?... This will be an adventure you and your RPG friends will be talking about 20-30 years after the event. If you played Masks years ago and want to play it again, yes. The best commercially available RPG scenario has got better."—BRITISH FANTASY SOCIETY. The Leatherette version is coming, and should be available next month. It is in the same shipments as the Call of Cthulhu Starter Set. If you bought the PDF from Chaosium.com already, you should have received the coupon by email. If no, check your spam/junk folders; otherwise contact customerservice@chaosium.com and we'll sort it out.

The #ShipsOfCthulhu have set sail again...

Call of Cthulhu's NAMELESS HORRORS is currently 50% off on DriveThruRPG as the #DealoftheDay http://bit.ly/2SVrebE

One way to get a large, high quality "Greg Rune" is by using the core Glorantha font available here: http://www.glorantha.com/docs/glorantha-core-rune-font/ It’s a vector image so it will scale up properly. An 800pt rune fits on a sheet of A4. If you use a Word Processor you can drop shadow or color etc. too.

Yes it is. Deliberately so. As the post says, "Here is what some reviewers are saying about the game". There are other reviewers out there that have given less favourable or even negative reviews, as is their right to do so. They are not getting aggregated and shared here though.

Here is what some reviewers are saying about the game, which is the official video game version of Chaosium's classic tabletop RPG. "An intensely Lovecraftian experience, pregnant with atmospheric dread"—iHorror. "Its mystery comes across as a carefully crafted concoction of the most noxious and odious elements of several stories, and nails the tone of a slow descent into madness… a compelling, unnverving take on Lovecraft mythos"—The Daily Dot. "Call of Cthulhu is a slow burn horror/detective RPG. There isn’t a horde of monsters or jumpscares interrupting the gameplay every couple minutes. No, instead it relies on atmosphere and intrigue to form a compelling narrative that had me mesmerized like the call of a particular cosmic horror… a thrilling experience from start to end."—Gaming Trend. "One of the finest cosmic horror experiences in modern gaming. A mind-shattering good time. 8.6/10."—IGN. "Frequently unsettling, occasionally horrifying and always engaging."—Gamespew. "An essential experience for fans of Lovecraftian horror."—2 minute video review by Gameumentary (YouTube). "Full of tense thriller moments and exciting sequences truly heightened by the excellent voice acting and storytelling which any fan of the Cthulhu mythos would love to be a part of. It is safe to say we finally have a really good Cthulhu based game after a good while and I cannot wait to see what Cyanide does next. 8.5/10."—Push Start Play. "…a truly mesmerizing adaption of H.P. Lovecraft’s cosmic horror tales and it does incredibly well to create the exact unique, eerie and foreboding atmosphere that those tales are so famous for."—Impulse Gamer. "Call of Cthulhu: finally Lovecraft done right."—video review by digitallydownloaded.net (YouTube). "Call of Cthulhu is such a dark game that if you turned off the lights while playing it, you might get sucked into the void. 80%."—Gamer’s Temple. "An intriguing descent into madness destined to become a cult hit."—The Game Fanatics. "The story is incredibly engaging. From the moment it started, whether it was the story or the graphics, I was completely hooked until the very end… even if you aren’t versed in the ways of H.P. Lovecraft, the Call of Cthulhu will definitely catch you and you will be powerless against it. "—1428elm.com. "Turn down the lights, pour yourself a measure of laudanum, and settle in for a solid tale of intrigue and insanity well-rooted in Lovecraft’s lore."—Jump Dash Roll. "Call of Cthulhu blew my expectations out of the water… What I’m trying to say is I’m impressed, which doesn’t happen that often."—The Mentalic. Gooses bumped. 8/10."—Indian Noob. "A must-play terror: Call of Cthulhu is easily one of the best horror games of recent years. 4.5/5" – Screenrant.

It will all go up in due course.

As we announced in August, Chaosium is working with our friends Nocturnal Media in the release and distribution of Greg Stafford's King Arthur Pendragon and related products. Today, we officially announce their initial release on Chaosium.com.The following products are now available in hardback and PDF: KING ARTHUR PENDRAGON, PRINCE VALIANT. PALADIN is also available in PDF, hardback in early 2019. As with all Chaosium new releases, buy the PDF now, and you will receive a coupon for the full price of the PDF off the physical version when released. We are also offering CLASSIC PENDRAGON, the full array titles from KAP 1-4 editions in PDF. More details: https://www.chaosium.com/blogpendragon-and-related-products-now-available-on-chaosiumcom

We think Masks is going to be very popular, but I seriously doubt it will sell out before you get home from work!