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Jennell Jaquays is an RPG pioneer, a GAMA Hall of Famer, and creator of such iconic RuneQuest releases as Griffin Mountain, the cult of Thanatar (and cover of Cults of Terror), and the legendary Duck Tower, among many other accomplishments. Jennell spoke with Lynne Hardy for Women in Tabletop Gaming Month: https://www.chaosium.com/blogwomen-in-tabletop-gaming-month-15-chaosium-interviews-jennell-jaquays

GM book - GM pack are the same thing. Due out in PDF in August. Yes

Here's the announcement of the release date: https://www.chaosium.com/blogmasks-of-nyarlathotep-release-date-announced-for-july-1st-2018/

Author Penelope Love's name has appeared in many Chaosium Call of Cthulhu releases over the years including Horror on the Orient Express, Reign of Terror and Terror Australis, to name but a few, and last year the anthology her fiction appeared in won a World Fantasy Award. Penny talks to Lynne Hardy here for Women in Tabletop Gaming Month: https://www.chaosium.com/blogwomen-in-tabletop-gaming-month-14-chaosium-interviews-penelope-love

The Bestiary will be out (in PDF) next month, and the GM Pack (in PDF) the month after that. We will have print copies of the RQG core rules at Gen Con.

Way back in 1996 Tales of the Reaching Moon #14 promised further investigation, in its special subscriber cover:

Lynne Hardy's thirteenth interview in our Women in Tabletop Gaming Month series is Call of Cthulhu Keeper and Cthulhu Live LARPer Bre Wynn, who right now is gearing up for Gen Con. https://www.chaosium.com/blogwomen-in-tabletop-gaming-month…

Chaosium licensees produce releases that supplement and support our own.There is a huge and unslaked demand for quality Call of Cthulhu RPG and related material, and we are fortunate to be able to collaborate with so many talented and diligent creators to help meet that demand. Here are some recent reviews of licensed products well worth your time! https://www.chaosium.com/blogunnatural-selections-recent-chaosium-reviews-of-note-7-/

Some recent reviews of note of Call of Cthulhu releases by Antonios S. of RPGnet, Pookie at Reviews from R'lyeh, and American entertainment trade journal Variety: https://www.chaosium.com/blogunnatural-selections-recent-chaosium-reviews-of-note-8

The photographer was a jack-o-bear.

Everyone on the RQG preview list just got sent a preview of Andrey Fetisov's amazing cover art of the RUNEQUEST BESTIARY (the baboon is just a small bit of it). The 256 page full-color Bestiary is coming next month. If you'd like to sign up to the preview list, here's the link: http://eepurl.com/dtqE9T It doesn't. All the preview files are in the same Dropbox Folder. You can access them all, at any time, from the link to the Dropbox Folder that is provided in every preview mail out. But we have just added a "welcome" email for new subscribers to the preview list, that includes the Dropbox link. That way they don't have to wait until the next Preview email.

We shared all 10 of pre-gens for Masks of Nyarlathotep with everyone on our preview list in the last mail-out. In the next one, we're sharing the campaign's travel appendix, and the official release date of the PDF. If you'd like to sign up, here's the link: http://eepurl.com/dwlxJ9

If you missed out on getting Free RPG Day's SCRITCH SCRATCH, here's how you can get one (after July 1st): https://www.chaosium.com/blogfree-rpg-day-2018-is-over-heres-how-to-get-scritch-scratch-if-you-missed-out

Playing Australia's iconic board game SQUATTER ("chat and laugh with your friends and family while you discover the challenge of battling the weather and fluctuating stock prices, pulpy kidney, liver fluke and red legged earth mite") proved fateful for Chaosium's Susan O'Brien, in our 12th interview by Lynne Hardy for Women in Tabletop Gaming Month... https://www.chaosium.com/blogwomen-in-tabletop-gaming-month-12-chaosium-interviews-susan-obrien

Join the Cult of Chaos: https://www.chaosium.com/join-the-cult-of-chaos

The next interview by Lynne Hardy in our Women in Tabletop Gaming Month series is Australian Call of Cthulhu writer and ceramicist Kelly Grant: https://www.chaosium.com/blogwomen-in-tabletop-gaming-month-11-chaosium-interviews-kelly-grant/

Antipodean Free RPG Day action in Melbourne, Australia today - at Mil Sims with Keeper Pete, and Kay-Jays with Keeper Andrew, both running SCRITCH SCRATCH for Call of Cthulhu. Madness ensued at both locations, and copies went fast - so if there's a participating FLGS near you, get there as soon as you can!

We are in discussions about licenses for various languages including French and Spanish, and some others.

A straightforward comparison between the two is difficult, because Call of Cthulhu 7th Ed was Kickstarted and RQG wasn't. But as a point of comparison, the CoC 7th Ed Kickstarter had 3668 backers (June 2013), pledging for both the physical books and PDFs (and a bewilderingly complex pile of bling). The RQG preview list was started in early May and is getting close to that number. Of course, people on the RQG list have not paid any money or have any obligation to buy, though presumably many have.

Japan-based artist Kat Birmelin is Lynne Hardy's next interviewee for Women in Tabletop Gaming Month. Kat is illustrating a new Chaosium board game project, 'The Red Thread of Fate', Pedro Zivani's Game Chef award-winning game about love, poetry and Japanese shapeshifters. This is Kat's amazing cover art for the project:

Your concern is a bit premature. RQG is not yet available in game stores. It won't be any time soon because of course it has only been out in PDF pre-release for less than two weeks (in which time, as Jeff noted earlier, it has sold more copies than the BGB did in its entire run; indeed, the BGB and Magic World combined.) Chaosium is a strong supporter of brick and mortar FLGSs, as evidenced by our participation in the Bits and Mortar initiative, Free RPG Day etc, but the commercial success of RQG is not dependent on game store sales alone. These days no game company could hope to thrive and prosper solely through retail distribution. Great, as you're self-aware that many of your posts here strayed a long way from the topic, this means we won't have to put a moderator hat on and ask you not to do it again. Start a new thread instead.

"...the RuneQuest edition I wish all the previous editions would have looked like." —El Runeblogger takes a comprehensive look at RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha:https://elruneblog.blogspot.com/2018/06/review-of-runequest-roleplaying-in.html

A new trailer for Call of Cthulhu the video game was released at E3 yesterday and has had more than 230K views in just over 24 hours:

RPG writer Sarah Newton recounts how she "carpet-bombed" Jason Durall's email with edits to Basic Roleplaying's 'Big Gold Book,' and her life as a designer creating her own RPG, in this interview for Women in Tabletop Gaming Month: https://www.chaosium.com/blogwomen-in-tabletop-gaming-month-9-chaosium-interviews-sarah-newton

Fortunately you can try out RQG for precisely $0: RuneQuest Quickstart.