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Chaosium's RuneQuest/BRP line editor Jason Durall is the guest on tonight's Hardboiled GMshoe's Office Q&A, talking about the new RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha. Coming up soon! Wed, June 27, 7:30pm – 9:30pm EST Connect to the Q&A here: https://gmshoe.wordpress.com/connect-to-rpgnet/

Here's 13th Age Glorantha authors Rob Heinsoo and Jonathan Tweet holding up a printer's proof copy of 13G that Chaosium passed on at Origins. Rob says, "We knew it was big. And now we know it's beautiful!" The books have been printed and are on their way! Further details: https://www.chaosium.com/blog13th-age-glorantha-update-printed-books-are-on-their-way

Unnatural Selections: Recent Chaosium Reviews of Note #9—Gloranthan Goodness. RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha was launched in PDF to critical acclaim earlier this month, plus what reviewers say about some other recent releases set in Greg Stafford's mythic realm. https://www.chaosium.com/blogunnatural-selections-recent-chaosium-reviews-of-note-9-gloranthan-goodness

RPG gamer Ellie A. Akers is a Glorantha fan from playing the King of Dragon Pass video game, but up til now RuneQuest was never really on her radar. Here Ellie breaks down how playing the new RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha brought the setting to life for her. https://www.chaosium.com/blogellie-a-akers-diving-into-a-bold-colourful-world

The 10% Field Trip reward coupon for the Miskatonic University: The Restricted Collection Kickstarter expires on September 30. That's a different coupon to one purchasers of the Masks PDF will receive that entitles them to the full price of the PDF off the printed book. You can use the Field Trip coupon when buying the PDF though.

Coming soon from our friends at Q Workshop! #RuneQuest #RQ #Glorantha #RQG #dice

Jo Kreil has contributed to Call of Cthulhu publications by Chaosium, and licensee publishers including Golden Goblin Press, Stygian Fox, Arc Dream and Sixtystone Press, among others. And here she is interviewed by Lynne Hardy for Women in Tabletop Gaming Month. https://www.chaosium.com/blogwomen-in-tabletop-gaming-month-20-chaosium-interviews-jo-kreil

I suspect the unintended consequences of the Windstop were just as much a surprise to the Lunars as the locals.

Chaosium is pleased to announce award-winning RPG designer Chris Spivey will be developing a new BRP-based science fiction line to add to the company's suite of roleplaying game brands. Last year Spivey's Darker Hue Studios produced the licensed Call of Cthulhu/Trail of Cthulhu supplement Harlem Unboundwhich has received critical acclaim for its groundbreaking treatment of issues of race and the Lovecraft Mythos, and is a nominee for the 2018 Diana Jones Award. "I am excited and honored to be brought on by Chaosium. I grew up playing Call of Cthulhu, Stormbringer, Nephilim and more. Now the chance to fully manage a science fiction line that only previously existed in my own mind has left me speechless, but let's hope not wordless.”—Diana Jones Award nominee Chris Spivey https://www.chaosium.com/blogchris-spivey-to-develop-scifi-rpg-game-setting-for-chaosium

Australian painter and graphic designer Liz Gridley is part of a team of three talented women in tabletop gaming bringing Pedro Zivani's Game Chef award-winning RED THREAD OF FATE to publication. Lynne Hardy talks to Liz here (and interviewed the other two members of the team, Susan O'Brien and Kat Birmelin, earlier in Women in Tabletop Gaming Month). https://www.chaosium.com/blogwomen-in-tabletop-gaming-month-19-chaosium-interviews-liz-gridley/

"Another of the summer’s big releases is the latest edition of legendary RPG RuneQuest, as Roleplaying in Glorantha brings together 40 years of innovation and imagination in the fantasy world. We speak with creators Steve Perrin and Greg Stafford about how spirituality and mythology led to a roleplaying revolution – plus, read our thoughts on the newest incarnation in the reviews section."—in the coming issue of Tabletop Gaming! https://www.tabletopgaming.co.uk/board-games/news/25-years-of-magic-the-gathering-runequest-revisited-and-free-wild

Award-winning cartographer Stephanie McAlea of Stygian Fox Publishing is Lynne Hardy's next interviewee in our Women in Tabletop Gaming Month series. https://www.chaosium.com/blogwomen-in-tabletop-gaming-month-18-chaosium-interviews-stephanie-mcalea

We have just announced the Relaunch of the Chaosium Fiction Program, under the capable direction of publishing and gaming industry veteran James Lowder. We're starting back with Mythos and weird fiction, but Glorantha and other fantasy fiction is definitely on the table. More details at the link.

Chaosium, Inc., publisher of the celebrated roleplaying games Call of Cthulhu and RuneQuest, announces the relaunch of their fiction program. The Chaosium fiction line originally launched in 1992 and was suspended in 2015 during a general company restructuring. Subsequently, Chaosium management brought on publishing and gaming industry veteran James Lowder as a consulting editor to help resolve any outstanding contract and payment issues with authors, editors, and artists. Lowder then drafted new, creator-friendly contracts for the department, worked with SFWA to register the company as a qualifying professional market, and then commissioned a schedule of new, creator-owned fiction releases, in both print and e-book formats. With the line’s relaunch, Lowder will assume the title executive editor of fiction for Chaosium. James Lowder's previous editorial experience includes serving as the Forgotten Realms and Ravenloft fiction line editor for TSR, executive editor for Green Knight’s Arthurian fiction program, and freelance editor for dozens of novels and anthologies. Lowder has also written several bestselling dark fantasy novels, as well as short fiction, comic book scripts, critical essays, and roleplaying game material. His work as an editor and author has received five Origins Awards and two ENnie Awards, and been among the finalists for the International Horror Guild Award and the Stoker Award. “I’ve been a regular reader of Chaosium’s fiction releases since the line’s inception and look forward to adding new works to the already-impressive catalog,” Lowder notes. “For many years Chaosium was a leading publisher of classic Mythos fiction reprints, along with original Mythos-steeped anthologies and novels. Given the current Mythos renaissance in pop culture, it’s a great time for the line to return.” Chaosium to release three new fiction titles in 2018 In SEPTEMBER, the humorous picture book H.P. Lovecraft’s Dagon for Beginning Readers, by R.J. Ivankovic; Dagon is a follow-up to Ivankovic’s popular H.P. Lovecraft’s Call of Cthulhu for Beginning Readers, also published by Chaosium. Cover by R.J. Ivankovic. In OCTOBER, Sisterhood: Dark Tales and Secret Histories, a trade paperback anthology of horror and Mythos stories set in female religious communities around the globe and across the centuries. Sisterhood is edited by Nate Pedersen and features stories penned by some of the genre’s leading female voices, including Nadia Bulkin, Livia Llewellyn, Molly Tanzer, Sun Yung Shin, Penelope Love, and Damien Angelica Walters. Cover by Liv Rainey-Smith and Inkspiral Designs. Finally, in NOVEMBER, the trade paperback The Leaves of a Necronomicon, a braided novel revealing the fates of the doomed owners of one particular copy of that infamous cursed tome. Leaves is edited by Shirley Jackson Award-winning editor Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. and features stories by Nick Mamatas, S.P. Miskowski, Jeffrey Thomas, Anna Tambour, and Michael Cisco. In 2019, Chaosium’s Mythos and weird fiction titles—which will eventually include anthologies, novels, novellas, single-author collections, and select non-fiction—will see release on a roughly quarterly schedule, along with other special fiction and non-fiction projects scattered throughout the year. All titles will be available through traditional book channels, as well as through game shops, DriveThruFiction.com, and the Chaosium website. https://www.chaosium.com/blogchaosium-announces-fiction-program-relaunch

I noticed that yesterday, but then it reappeared. And now gone again!

Lynne Hardy interviews Icelandic RPG artist Fifa Finnsdottir for Women in Tabletop Gaming Month—we loved her character sketches in Pulp Cthulhu! https://www.chaosium.com/blogwomen-in-tabletop-gaming-month-17-chaosium-interviews-fifa-finnsdottir

For our next Women in Tabletop Gaming Month interview, Lynne Hardy talks to RPG writer and Gloranthan chef Claudia Loroff: https://www.chaosium.com/blogwomen-in-tabletop-gaming-month-16-chaosium-interviews-claudia-loroff

In the MGF scenario Rune Metal Jacket drill optio Dacretia literally eats raw recruits for breakfast, but even he does it on the sly...

The slipcase is not a limited edition, but it is possible our initial print run may run out. We may then do a second printing if we think the demand is there. We have reprinted the 7th ed core rules multiple times since 2014. These coupons don't have an expiry date, though obviously at some point the physical books may no longer be in print.

In the latest update, we've got the details for claiming the 10% Field Trip reward at Chaosium.com (hey, just in time for the release of Masks of Nyarlathotep, if you're also a Call of Cthulhu RPG fan): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/448333182/miskatonic-university-the-restricted-collection-bo/posts/2218523

The print version will consist of a slipcase containing Vol I and II hardback books, plus a carton containing the new Masks keeper screen, 1925 calendar, and 96 pages of handouts and maps.

Indeed, such is the aversion or even revulsion - that even in Pavis, in the middle of Prax - herd man meat is commonly and euphemistically referred to as "mock pork", and artfully butchered/prepared/spammified so its anatomically human origins are no longer obvious. As Otto von Bismarck didn't say, "Laws are like Mock Pork on a stick, it is better not to see either being made."

The semester ended some weeks ago, but we at Chaosium have been diligently hard at work, deep in the MU library stacks getting things ready for the next stage of this project. Next steps outlined at the link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/448333182/miskatonic-university-the-restricted-collection-bo/posts/2218323

Yesterday we announced the release date of the new Masks of Nyarlathotep PDF—July 1st, 2018. The PDF package will cost USD$59.99 and contains the following electronic items: —Masks Book - Omnibus PDF of both volumes (666 pages) —Keeper Screen PDF —NPC Portraits PDF —Keeper Reference Booklet PDF —Handouts (including Maps & Pre-gen PCs) —Book Cover images x 2 —Pre-gen Character Sheets x 10 More details at the link: https://www.chaosium.com/blogmasks-of-nyarlathotep-pricing-details-and-what-you-get-in-the-pdf-package

Welcome to the Miskatonic University: The Restricted Collection forum on BRP Central - the Chaosium Forums! Grimoires, elder signs, academic politics and madness — all are to be found in the treacherous and terrifying Restricted Collection, and here you recount your academic achievements, tally the grimoires and sigils you found, playfully taunt your academic rivals, or gain secret inner knowledge from other MU scholars. If you have any questions you are welcome to ask them here, along with exchanging game-play strategies, forbidden wisdom from the library, and anything else related to the game. Kickstarter backers: we will keep you informed about the Miskatonic University: The Restricted Collection fulfilment via Kickstarter updates first, and provide the same information here soon after. BTW - BRP Central also has a Call of Cthulhu forum, for questions, dialogue and debate about our famous Lovecraftian roleplaying game of horror and investigation , as well as forums for all the other games and settings Chaosium produces (including RuneQuest, 13th Age Glorantha and our Reiner Knizia game Khan of Khans, and more). We also host forums about the many and varied RPGs in the D100 family. Please explore!