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We're delighted to be nominated in this year's Golden Geek Awards—Call of Cthulhu's GRAND GRIMOIRE OF CTHULHU MYTHOS MAGIC nominated for Best Supplement! Cast your votes here! Congrats to Mike Mason and Matt Sanderson, and all the team who worked on the book.

Ron Edwards, influential game design theorist, Diana Jones award winner, co-founder of The Forge (and recent emigrant to Sweden) is currently running an on line RuneQuest Classic game, posting the videos of the sessions and writing up his thoughts. Three sessions in, Ron describes RuneQuest as "one of the Great Games, a defining thing for our hobby, and still one of its most ambitious on a number of levels". You can see more about these sessions at Ron's site, Adept Play. (Ian Cooper, Chaosium's line editor for HeroQuest, is one of the players.) http://adeptplay.com/games/runequest Another good quote from Ron: "Cults of Terror is a not merely a landmark in role-playing history, it's a giant. Coupled with the rules it was written to support, RuneQuest 1980, and the supplement that immediately preceded it, Cults of Prax, it established a new-and-different bar for play which defined "I play RuneQuest" into almost its own sector and subculture to the present day."

Robin Laws has tweeted to say he estimates the forthcoming Six Ages is the equivalent of "nine novels or four RPG corebooks worth of writing" (nearly half a million words), all set in the magical world of Glorantha!

The Cthulhu Masters returns to UK Games Expo, 1-3 June, Birmingham UK! Bring your sharpest wit and your luckiest dice! The surviving winner receives a (quote) "horrid trophy of Deep One origin", so there's everything to play for and only SAN to lose... Proudly sponsored by Chaosium. More details here.

We are delighted Reviews from Rl'yeh (the blog "dedicated to reviews of RPGs and their supplements, with an emphasis on Call of Cthulhu and other Lovecraftian inspired games") has decided to take a look at Misktatonic Repository creations... https://www.chaosium.com/blog/miskatonic-monday-whats-new-in-the-miskatonic-repository/

We've got rules for running or playing Heroes as PCs in the new RQG: "...Heroes gain an increasing presence in the otherworld, which becomes a tremendous source of power, but also requires that the hero be worshiped to maintain it (that worship can be regular or propitiatory). A hero can return from the dead, and can gain other abilities such as unaging as a result of heroquest gifts. Heroes no longer need to be "super-skilled" - their "Hero Soul" and heroquest gifts enables them to do remarkable things, even if their actual skills are in the range of a Rune Lord or Priest." https://www.chaosium.com/blog/designing-the-new-runequest-part-10

Fantasy Flight Game's Masks of Nyarlathotep Expansion for Eldritch Horror is now out in general release! And there's a flyer in the box about the forthcoming new edition of Masks for Call of Cthulhu, with a link to this landing page: https://www.chaosium.com/masks. When Chaosium's new edition of Masks is released, it will feature a similar shout-out to the FFG board game. This is all part of a closer collaboration between Chaosium and Fantasy Flight Games.

13th Age Glorantha authors Jonathan Tweet and Rob Heinsoo talk about their processes, design choices and influences for 13th Age RPG and recently-released 13th Age Glorantha in this Tableplay Podcast interview. They also recount their abiding interest in Glorantha and how that started for them both, and give their "elevator pitches" for 13G (that starts 1.06)... A brief excerpt from the 13G elevator pitches: RH: "...Dragon Pass is a central area in Glorantha that actually literally exists between—though not everyone really knows it—the bodies of four living giant dragons." JT: "W-h-a-t??" RH: "And in between them you have this amazing vibrant area where all these cultures that are connected to different runes collide..." http://www.tableplaypodcast.com/episode051/

With the imminent release of Fantasy Flight Games' Masks of Nyarlathotep Expansion for Eldritch Horror, Chaosium's Mike Mason and Nick Nacario update us on progress of the new edition of Masks for Call of Cthulhu... https://www.chaosium.com/blog/masks-of-nyarlathotep-the-darkness-is-near Nick says, "Layout for Masks of Nyarlathotep is well underway! I am working through the England chapter, and I aim to have a finished PDF ready in a few weeks time... These are the most beautiful set of books that I have ever worked on, and I cannot wait for everyone to see them!"

We have Khan of Khans in the UK warehouse so local delivery will be at an Impala People degree of swiftness—should only take several days.

The perennial RuneQuest 2nd Edition favourite returns for RuneQuest Classic, fully remastered!GRIFFIN MOUNTAIN, the sandbox campaign is back: while you're waiting for the release of RQG, your adventurers can have a glorious time exploring Balazar and the Elder Wilds, frontier lands full of danger and excitement.Available now from Chaosium as a 228 page PDF, fully-remastered and true to the original 1981 printing: https://www.chaosium.com/griffin-mountain-pdf-1 NB - RuneQuest Classic Kickstarter backers have already received their copy. If you're a backer from the Kickstarter and haven't, check your email (look in spam folder) and Backerkit; failing these drop Dustin a line - customerservice@chaosium.com and he'll assist.

Andrey and I tried out a couple of different variations... We decided that having the broo with no weapon at all looked a bit wimpy, so we tried a spikey chaos trident before settling on the spiky double-dagger, based on the Rajput weapon known as the haladie. BTW, at an early stage the storm bull warrior was armed with a spear and shield, but we thought Storm Bull above didn't look right mirroring that... Tried out an axe for Storm Bull instead, but in the end decided Storm Bull just doesn't need weapons, and the fight didn't need to be an exact emulation above and below. The two-handed sword the Storm Bull hero is wielding is also from India (medieval rather than ancient):

Chaosium is back again for Free RPG Day 2018—this year it's Call of Cthulhu! More details to follow soon...

13th Age Glorantha now available to download at DriveThruRPG as well: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/234486/13th-Age-Glorantha

THE GLORANTHA SOURCEBOOK - an essential resource for Greg Stafford’s world of Glorantha, one of the most extensively developed and renowned fantasy settings of all time. PDF now available to download at DriveThruRPG: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/234489/The-Glorantha-Sourcebook

As is The Glorantha Sourcebook:

If DriveThruRPG is the way you get your gaming stuff, the newly-released 13th Age Glorantha PDF is available there now too...

As the gods are diverse, so too must be the bronze of their bones. We already have the example of different magic crystals, said to be created from blood of wounded and dead gods.

And PDF now available from Chaosium too! Remember (like all our products), if you order the PDF from Chaosium.com, you will get a coupon for getting the printed version later that gives you the full price of the PDF as a discount.

13TH AGE GLORANTHA—now available in PDF! Greg Stafford’s classic fantasy world of richly imagined cultures, ferocious combat, and colliding mythologies comes to 13TH AGE, the d20-rolling game of heroic fantasy, escalating combat, One Unique Things, and limb-ripping owlbears! Buy the 13th Age Glorantha PDF now, and you'll get a coupon for the full price of the PDF back when the hardback book is released later this year. https://www.chaosium.com/13th-age-glorantha-pdf For Game Masters, the 466 page 13th Age Glorantha includes: —More than 80 pages of monsters and enemies fully compatible with any 13th Age campaign, including Chaos priests, dragonsnails, scorpionmen, Crater Makers who call down the Moon, and the awesome Chaos demon known as the Crimson Bat. —More than 60 pages of ready-to-run adventures and heroquests—venture into myth to refight the battles of the gods and gain their cosmic powers! —A distinctive setting that will entertain longtime fans but is aimed at gamers who've never heard of Glorantha. If you’re a 13th Age player you’ll find: —5 new classes, including the hell mother who summons Darkness spirits and giant spiders; the swordmaster Humakti who wields Death; and the trickster who (in theory!) funnels your bad luck onto your enemies. —5 new class variants, including the wind lord, a fighter with magical storm-related exploits; and the rebel, a rogue with the supernatural ability to get where he’s not supposed to be. —2 new PC races, the trolls and ducks, plus Gloranthan humans with new cultural traits.

TYPE 40 have now delivered all the Leather document wallets to Kickstarter backers (by the promised delivery date!), but they have a few left over for anyone who missed out but would still like one. They come embossed with your choice of Elder Signs or Cthulhu. They also have the challenge coin, key fob and note pad from the Kickstarter available too. (NB Prices are in Australian dollars, though TYPE 40 will ship anywhere). Details here: https://type40.com.au/product/call-cthulhu-leather-document-wallet

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The box section describing Lunar Illumination causes mysterious lacunae to appear elsewhere in the text—hmmm, nothing to worry about I'm sure... Hang on, look what got deleted: In the Third Age, Illumination is most prevalent within the Lunar Empire, where the philosophy is widespread among worshipers of the Red Goddess and the Seven Mothers. In Dragon Pass, new forms of Illumination, based on draconic consciousness or Arkat’s teaching, have come to the fore, promoted by Argrath’s Sartar Magical Union. Illumination is known elsewhere, most notably in Kralorela, East Isles, Ralios, Jrustela, and Vralos. The Near Ones or Friends of Pamalt are also thought to be Illuminates by some.

Let's keep this thread firmly focused on errors & typos in the book, and take further disquisitions on the typography of hell to a new thread, thanks MOB (wearing moderator hat)

This is Lee Moyer & Aaron McConnell's spectacular cover art for 13th Age Glorantha—you can see why the theme of the book is "Chaos is Rising"! And this is Jon Hodgson's glorious cover piece for the Glorantha Sourcebook, featuring the Crimson Bat! Both books will be available in PDF from Chaosium later this month.