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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.

Next Saturday (June 16) is Free RPG Day! Chaosium's offering is the scenario SCRITCH SCRATCH, by our assistant Call of Cthulhu line editor Lynne Hardy. As Chaosium is a Free RPG Day silver sponsor, there will be at least five copies to give away in every participating store! Participating stores world-wide can be found on Free RPG Day's retailer locator. Keepers from the Cult of Chaos will be running Scritch Scratch in FLGSs all over the world. We recently made the The PDF of the adventure and a promo poster ready to download from the Chaos Library here at BRP Central.

We're excited that Six Ages is going to be a new and engaging way to explore the richness and wonder of Glorantha, one of the most popular original game settings ever! https://www.chaosium.com/blogsix-ages-the-spiritual-successor-to-the-glorantha-game-king-of-dragon-pass-launches-on-ios-on-june-28

Our sixth interviewee for Women in Tabletop Gaming Month is Mara Braun, who has started her career in RPG art with images for 13th Age Glorantha and our special art packs in Call of Cthulhu's Miskatonic Repository. Lynne Hardy talks to Mara here: https://www.chaosium.com/blogwomen-in-tabletop-gaming-month-6-chaosium-interviews-mara-braun

Third video in our "Welcome to RuneQuest" series! Jeff and Jason discuss the RuneQuest game system, its intricacies, and its relationship to other systems like Pendragon and Call of Cthulhu.

Here's a review of our Khan of Khans family game on Indonesia's top gaming site! They loved the game—"very fun and entertaining"—and it's tantalising to think that in Indonesian Rupees our Khan of Khans Kickstarter raised "half a billion". (If your Bahasa Indonesian is no good, you can click "translate" in the bottom right corner to read the review in English) http://boardgame.id/khan-khans-review

Juegos y Dados (Spanish) says, "Appearing almost 40 years ago for the first time, RuneQuest returns with the vitality of always". And Bell of Lost Souls says, "if you’re looking for a fantasy game that gives you a taste of something different, then check out RuneQuest. Or if you’re looking for more of Glorantha, I’m morally obligated to mention King of Dragon Pass–a hero’s journey-esque exploration of the world that cast you as the ruler of a people in the valley of Dargon’s Pass–every time I mention RuneQuest. Happy Adventuring!"

Yes, my post was about features that help make "RuneQuest" distinct among other roleplaying games , not "RQG" specifically. The RQ Bestiary, which will be available very soon, has the information required to play a variety of different races.There's a 16 page preview available from the RQG product page, and we'll be sharing another big chunk of the Bestiary in the next pre-release list mail-out.

Fortunately the vast, vast majority of people here are positive and collegial, and even if some are negative or critical they are for the most polite and genuine in the concerns. BRP Central is a great community. Since the return of Greg and Sandy in 2015, the new management team has had to make some hard and difficult commercial decisions bringing Chaosium back from the brink of total, utter, existential disaster, and for commercial/legal/personal reasons we can't always disclose all about why. These decisions inevitably impacted some long-time business colleagues and people identified with the company, some of whom are our friends, and who all have passionate supporters of their own work. The previous management was often lamented for its lack of engagement with stakeholders and fans, but we have striven to be communicative and open with people who follow Chaosium and with the wider gaming community. You will regularly find me, @Rick Meints, @Jeff and various of our line editors contributing and engaging on forums here on BRP Central, and we are thankful to @Trifletraxor for that opportunity. The role of communicating to the wider world has largely fallen on to me (and to Dustin for customer service issues). Being out there on wider social media for Chaosium means I'm the one who usually deals with legitimate criticisms and complaints from those who obviously feel we have done them or the gaming products they love wrong, as well as facing the occasional flare-ups of nerd rage, egregious concern trolling, or outright malignant hostility—among other unpleasantness I've had my mother called a whore and my death called for at the hands of Islamic terrorists (nb not made here, though it is no loss that that particular charming keyboard warrior has been preemptively and permanently banned by BRP Central). Nevertheless, I mostly enjoy this role - it has been great to see the Chaosium on line community grow significantly, and most people seem happy to see Chaosium prospering again. But frankly there are times I find my job exasperating (such as the above), and draining (such the tiresomely predictable response we got literally seconds after announcing our participation in Women in Tabletop Gaming Month). However, it does make me, a fairly self-confident middle-aged white male, appreciate the far, far, far worse levels of venom, harassment and bullying routinely levelled at various less-privileged segments of the gaming community. Fortunately, that sort of stuff rarely if ever happens here. As I said BRP Central is a great community.

It's great to have another Lynn(e) working at Chaosium again! Lynne Hardy joined the team as our Call of Cthulhu assistant line editor late last year. Here for Women in Tabletop Gaming Month Lynne talks about her career as a distinguished game creator: https://www.chaosium.com/blogwomen-in-tabletop-gaming-month-5-chaosium-interviews-lynne-hardy

There is just 8 hours left in Encounter Roleplay's competition to win a copy of RUNEQUEST - ROLEPLAYING IN GLORANTHA - the hardback and PDF, including international shipping: https://gleam.io/7Ex4O/runequest-hardback-pdf-giveaway