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DOWN DARKER TRAILS was released on November 16, 2017, which was one day after the cut-off for the 2018 Awards. It will be up for consideration next year though.

Four new titles on the Miskatonic Repository: an adventure, an update, a sequel, and an all new genre for Call of Cthulhu: Anime Punk - A New Genre for Call of Cthulhu by Carl Matthews ($10.00, 32 page PDF)"Whether you like your anime with demons and supernatural elements or just straight up modern dystopia in your Cyberpunk games, it’s likely that Call of Cthulhu can help you hit that sweet spot." Hocus Pocus by Adam Gauntlet ($4.00, 22 page PDF)"pits the investigators against minions of an Outer God, and all of New York may be forfeit if they fail." (nb a sequel to The Man Downstairs, but players do not have to have played that scenario to enjoy this one.) The Scarecrow by Michael LaBossiere (pay what you want - suggested price $0.99, 14 page PDF)"...a time for mysterious murders and scarecrow legends" Down New England Town by Michael LaBossiere (pay what you want - suggested price $0.99, 7 page PDF)"Resembling a plot line from one of his classic horror movies, the body of director Roger Colwin has been stolen from a church in New England..." (nb complete rewrite and update of the 1992 original adventure)

We are delighted three Chaosium products are nominees in the 2018 Origins Awards! The Grand Grimoire (nominated for Best RPG Supplement) The Two-Headed Serpent (nominated for Best RPG Supplement) Call of Cthulhu The Coloring Book (nominated for Best Game Accessory) The Origins Awards are presented by the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design to reward excellence in game design. The 2018 Awards will be announced at the Origins Game Fair in Columbus OH on Saturday June 16, 2018. Congratulations & good luck to all the nominees!

The Stars are Almost Right.

We're still building the list, but next week we'll start sharing some of the early access stuff. A couple of new images to go with the recruiting posts, (you may have seen them elsewhere): "Hill Country" by Andrey Fetisov "The Vale of Flowers" by Andrey Fetisov

The RuneQuest RPG is "one of the Great Games, a defining thing for our hobby..." says influential game design theorist Ron Edwards in Unnatural Selections: Recent Chaosium Reviews of Note #5 #RuneQuest #RQ #Ronadept #CultsOfTerror #CultsOfPrax

Our Miskatonic University: the Restricted Collection Kickstarter has come to a successful end: 3697 backers, USD$106,994 raised (of a $25K goal), and 20/20 Stretch Goals achieved. All our backers have graduated Summa Cum Laude—with the highest praise! Now we must put our efforts into the next phase of this Kickstarter - delivering all of the rewards as quickly and efficiently as we can. In the most recent update, we've outlined to our backers what those steps are. We will stay in regular communication with our backers. We delivered our previous board game Kickstarter on time and intend to do the same here. The Chaosium team would like to thank our backers for their support over the past 21 days. We're delighted to be back making Lovecraftian board games again!

Back our MU Kickstarter—even as a $1 "Student"— and get a 10% discount next time you visit Chaosium.com (on all product lines including RuneQuest). Or 15% if we make 4000 backers! But hurry, ends in FIVE HOURS... https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/448333182/miskatonic-university-the-restricted-collection-bo

We made to 100K, if we make to 4000 backers we'll up the "Field Trip" discount to 15% We passed $100K earlier today, so all 20 Stretch Goals have been achieved - top marks! With just over five hours remaining, can we get to 4000 backers? If we do, we'll make the Field Trip Reward treat even better: instead of 10%, it will be a 15% discount for all backers on your next visit to Chaosium.com! Tell your friends it's still not too late to enrol at MU and graduate with honors - but they have to hurry: the Kickstarter ends at 2.05PM Eastern US time TODAY! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/448333182/miskatonic-university-the-restricted-collection-bo/posts/2181975

Last Day of the Semester and Final Stretch Goals announced in our MU Kickstarter! "We give credit for life experience" Our final "Diploma Mill" stretch goal is the highly prestigious and coveted Doctorate of Medieval Metaphysics. We originally set this at $100K (that's now for a fancier box). But we moved the doctorate forward to $95K because at MU "we give credit for life experience". (Besides, we don't want our backers to end up in the accursed academic limbo that is ABD - "all but dissertation"...)

We are at the tail-end of the semester (just over 40 hours to go!), but still in pursuit of academic excellence! Here is the next Stretch Goal: $90K—Stationery Upgrade V: Super-Deluxe Player Mats We will further increase the thickness of the Player Mats to a solid 1.5mm board with glossy dispersion varnish. (We're also going to a announce a special backer reward if/when we reach 3000 backers - 65 to go!)

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Just don't ask the Morokanth how they make their surprisingly delicate and soft "kid" gloves...

Graduate Students are expected to sacrifice years of study (and at MU, maybe more) to learn from their esteemed academic mentors, the Professors. Fortunately, at Miskatonic University they're an endlessly renewal resource... Next Stretch Goal: $81K - GRAD STUDENT ADMISSIONS FORMS Full-size PDFs of the MU Admission Form (used on the Graduate Student cards in the game), and BLANK versions you can print and fill out yourself!

Ok, so "Don't lick the duck!" is Twitter's valiant effort at translating the Japanese, but come to think of it that is probably sensible advice too... #DontMessWithTheDucks

Comes in all SIZs including "Standard Gamer 3XL": Basic Role Playing: the "Big Gold Book" cover by Chaosium

Here you go: https://www.redbubble.com/people/chaosium/works/31614519-basic-role-playing-the-big-gold-book-cover

FROM THE MU FACULTY HANDBOOK: "It is a long-standing practice that professors and instructors at Miskatonic University are given a Staff Activity Number, or SAN rating. This number is not intended to rank or rate their relative expertise or caliber as a teacher, but only to serve as an extra guide to students choosing advisors."All MU Kickstarter backers whose pledge levels includes their name appearing in the Rule Book (Deans, Associate Deans, Professorial Chairs, Valedictorians etc) will also be invited to nominate their Staff Activity Number (SAN). https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/448333182/miskatonic-university-the-restricted-collection-bo/posts/2179841 MU was made an official "Project We Love" by Kickstarter a few days ago, which is cool - they clearly want everyone to pass with flying colors! $58K - A Miskatonic University Short Story $61K - Stationery Upgrade II - Player Mats $64K - Rules in Spanish $67K - Cover Art for Molly Tanzer's MU Story $70K - Stationery Upgrade III: the Box! $72K - New Optional Library Card: The Teaching Assistant $74K - New Optional Defense Card: Hide $76K - New MU Crest & Seal Miskatonic University's motto is Ex Ignorantia Ad Sapientiam; Ex Luce Ad Tenebras, which means "Out Of Ignorance Into Wisdom; Out Of Light Into Darkness"? Because the university crest has a lighted candle on it, uninformed people say the motto translates as "Better to light the candle of knowledge than curse in the darkness". Wags reply, "Is it though?" New Stretch Goals: $78K - Stationery Upgrade IV: Box interior $81K - Graduate Student Forms The Miskatonic University: The Restricted Collection Kickstarter concludes on May 8th.

We'll be sharing Andrey's full image sans the logo in high-res with people who sign up for the pre-release list.

The new Chaosium edition of RUNEQUEST is coming soon! Sign up to be informed the moment the PDF comes on sale*. SIGN UP HERE And as a special bonus for signing up now, we'll also give you exclusive early access to downloadable RQG content (art, wallpapers, the RQG character sheet) over the coming weeks! *The PDF will be made available immediately so you can start your RQG adventures in Glorantha straightaway! And you will receive a coupon for the full cost of the PDF off the price of the hardback version when it is released later this year. Art credit: "Kallyr's Funeral Pyre" by Andrey Fetisov

The new Call of Cthulhu video game website is now open! This game is licensed by Chaosium and has content from the Call of Cthulhu maestro Mark Morrison (Horror on the Orient Express, Reign of Terror)![And our creative director Jeff Richard just wants to let folk know - he's played it and it is awesome ("the perks of being the licensor are glorious indeed")]. http://www.callofcthulhu-game.com/

Another Stretch Goal passed, a new Stretch Goal added! This one is direct from Reiner Knizia's home base and design studio in Germany: a new eighth Defense Card for the game. We already have a "Flee" card in our MU game; this one enables you to "Hide" from the Mythos Horrors in the library, at least temporarily... both handy skills for prudent Call of Cthulhu investigators, and equally handy here. The 'Hide' card enables you skip your turn. This safely keeps you in the game until it is your turn again. In the meantime, calamity may befall your academic opponents. This is the second card expansion for Miskatonic University; we also have the New Library Card Teaching Assistant Stretch Goal at $72K. We're currently nearing $68K, so both of these are drawing close and we still have six days to go!

A convincing lizard suit might be a stretch though...