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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.

Congratulations to our friends Chris Spivey and Darker Hue Studios for the Diana Jones Award nomination of Harlem Unbound, their ground-breaking Call of Cthulhu/Trail of Cthulhu sourcebook, set in 1920s Harlem. As the nomination states, "Harlem Unbound places (issues of racism) front and center and focuses the spotlight on them until they begin to smoke and burn. It’s an important book in that it takes games as a serious art form in which such matters can be explored, plumbed, and — if we’re lucky — understood." Harlem Unbound is available direct from Darker Hues Studios: http://bit.ly/2l6RPmz And congratulations to all the other nominees!

If your roleplaying gaming has mostly been in the D20 sphere, here are some interesting ways you might find RuneQuest is different... RuneQuest is part of Chaosium’s D100 Basic Roleplaying system. It is intuitive and easy to play: virtually all rolls determining success or failure of a task are determined via the roll of percentile dice. RuneQuest has no character classes or alignments; characters are defined by their culture, the gods they follow, and the Runes that inspire them. Nor does the RuneQuest system use levels; instead, characters advance in skills and abilities by using them in course of play. Anyone can try to pick a lock, cast a spell, or decipher some ancient runic script. Combat in RuneQuest is exciting, immersive, visceral and always potentially deadly; players should be mindful even the lowliest trollkin can take out an experienced warrior with a lucky blow. https://www.chaosium.com/blogwhat-is-runequest-part-two-an-rpg-with-a-difference

RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha will be coming out in German! https://www.chaosium.com/bloga-german-edition-of-runequest-roleplaying-in-glorantha-/

Lynne Hardy interviews artist and graphic designer Claire Peacey for Women in Tabletop Gaming Month. Claire is doing the layout for FLOTSAM & JETSUM, our new and yet-to-be formally announced organised play campaign for Call of Cthulhu. https://www.chaosium.com/blogwomen-in-tabletop-gaming-month-8-chaosium-interviews-claire-peacey

We have just shared a second set of preview files with everyone on our Masks of Nyarlathotep Preview List. If you're on the list you'll now see the Table of Contents from Vol 2, an excerpt from Chapter One "Campaign Beginning", and the 10 pre-gen characters provided for the campaign (these can be used as starting or replacement characters, or for inspiration). We previously shared the ToC from Vol 1 and several pieces of art. The next preview is going to show off some of the handouts. MASKS OF NYARLATHOTEP will be unleashed on the world soon - on or before July 1st. We'll be ramping up the frequency of the previews leading up to the release. If you'd like to join the pre-release list, sign up here: https://chaosium.us8.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=c3792dc30db9982558880998c&id=09a559d6d5

The winner of the Encounter Roleplay competition to win a hardback copy of the new RuneQuest has been announced - congratulations to @SwordfallDnD and thanks to everyone who took part!

Through a huge reader poll, this month's Tabletop Gaming Magazine features a list of the "150 best board, card, roleplaying and miniatures games ever made". In the count-down of the "Greatest Games Ever Made"—covering every facet of tabletop gaming from Chess and Monopoly to Exploding Kittens—two Chaosium roleplaying games are in the Top Ten: Call of Cthulhu at #3, and RuneQuest at #9. Greg Stafford's King Arthur Pendragon was also voted at #75. https://www.chaosium.com/blogchaosium-has-two-top-ten-games-in-tabletop-gaming-magazines-poll-of-the-150-greatest-games-of-all-time

We just shared a new 12 page sneak peek of the coming RUNEQUEST BESTIARY with everyone on our RQG preview list! This new preview file features the Aldryami, aka the Elves, one of the many player character races for RQG. Sign up here if you'd like get special pre-release RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha news and goodies: http://eepurl.com/dtqE9T

The material in the Miskatonic Repository is available right here, open and available to anyone. The MR is for Call of Cthulhu; we may set up a similar community content resource for RuneQuest in due course, if we gauge there is sufficient interest (and DTRPG is amenable).

Lynne Hardy interviews Kerie Campbell for Women in Tabletop Gaming Month. Kerie conceptualised and co-wrote Call of Cthulhu's Dreamlands when she was just 17, and was lead designer of Hawkmoon (1986) at age 20. Kerie is an RPG trailblazer! https://www.chaosium.com/blogwomen-in-tabletop-gaming-month-7-chaosium-interviews-kerie-campbell

Our Miskatonic Repository community content site at DTRPG features all sorts of awesome material for Call of Cthulhu by independent creators. But Nicholas Johnson's 'Alone Against the Tide' is the first solo adventure to be uploaded there. It's in the same vein as our own 'Alone Against the Dark' or 'Alone Against the Flames'. Well worth checking out! https://www.chaosium.com/blogmiskatonic-monday-a-new-solo-adventure

Thank you to everyone who posted suggested corrections to our RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha corrections thread. We are now reveiwing those suggested corrections to prepare files to go to printer. We will also be producing an updated PDF which will be made available to everyone who has purchased the PDF. Once the updated PDF has been released, we will open this thread to catch any typos or errors spotted. We will continue to update PDFs on the Chaosium website, DriveThru RPG, and Bits & Mortar. Any later approved corrections will go into a subsequent printing of the book. Many thanks!

We have reached the deadline where we need to send RQG to print, so this thread is now closed. Many thanks to everyone who has contributed here, it is greatly appreciated! Subsequent correction suggestions should be posted on this new thread (which we will open once the updated PDF is released). We will continue to update PDFs on the Chaosium website, DriveThru RPG, and Bits & Mortar but any later approved corrections will now go into a subsequent printing of the book.