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Next year here's hoping we have a whole lot of new RuneQuest, HeroQuest Glorantha and even 13th Age in Glorantha titles up in contention for an ENnie too. But this year, we've got 10 nominations for Call of Cthulhu. Like the Great Old One himself, Chaosium is rising once again from the depths, and these nominations and your support are helping the company get there. Please consider giving these your vote: http://www.ennie-awards.com/vote/2017

Next year here's hoping we have a whole lot of new RuneQuest, HeroQuest Glorantha and even 13th Age in Glorantha titles up in contention for an ENnie too. But this year, we've got 10 nominations for Call of Cthulhu. Like the Great Old One himself, Chaosium is rising once again from the depths, and these nominations and your support are helping the company get there. Please consider giving these your vote: http://www.ennie-awards.com/vote/2017

The ENnies are the annual fan-based celebration of excellence in tabletop roleplaying gaming. This year the Stars Must Have Been Right, because the Call of Cthulhu RPG received an amazing 10 nominations, including Product of the Year for Doors to Darkness. Voting has opened, and Call of Cthulhu now needs your support! How you can vote for Call of Cthulhu at the ENnies: 1. Go to the ENnies page: http://www.ennie-awards.com/vote/2017 2. Vote 1 for the Call of Cthulhu product in these categories: Best Adventure - Doors to Darkness Best Aid/Accessory - Call of Cthulhu – Keeper’s Screen Pack Best Art, Cover - Call of Cthulhu – Investigator Handbook Best Art, Interior - S. Petersen’s Field Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors Best Cartography - Call of Cthulhu – Keeper’s Screen Pack Best Monster/Adversary - S. Petersen’s Field Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors Best Production Values - Call of Cthulhu – 7th Edition Slipcase Set Best RPG Related Product - Call of Cthulhu: The Coloring Book Best Supplement - Pulp Cthulhu Product of the Year: Doors to Darkness And vote for Stygian Fox's licensed Call of Cthulhu supplement The Things We Leave Behind for Best Adventure as well! 3. Pick Chaosium as your Fan Favorite Publisher - we'd be flattered! Like the Great Old One himself, Chaosium is rising once again from the depths, and these nominations and your support are helping the company get there. 4. Tell your friends who are Call of Cthulhu fans to submit their vote too!

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That is correct. Since early this year we have striven to keep the Kickstarter backers informed about progress, with several updates each month. This information has also been relayed on the Chaosium news page, and here.

Chaosium is taking part in the ENnies "Dream Date" auction for Gen Con this year. The money raised helps support the continuation of the ENnie Awards. The highest bidder will meet up with the Chaosium team at cocktail reception starting at 6:30pm, and sit at the Chaosium table during the awards ceremony at 8:00pm. What's more, in honor of Gen Cons's 50th anniversary and to celebrate the 40-odd years Chaosium has had a booth here, we're offering up a nostalgic mix of old and new goodies from the vaults and also hot off the presses. Included in winning bidder's swag box will be: Call of Cthulhu 7th edition slipcase set. An additional CoC slipcase you can fill with any of our 7th edition releases of your choosing. Chaosium “tuxedo” black t-shirt Cthulhu for President Y2K Kit (1999) Mint Copy of Lords of the Middle Sea (1978) The bidding is already open, and closes July 14!

We are delighted Call of Cthulhu received nominations in 10 categories for this year's ENnie Awards! Congratulations to the many writers, artists and creators involved. Best Adventure - Doors to Darkness Best Aid/Accessory - Call of Cthulhu – Keeper’s Screen Pack Best Art, Cover - Call of Cthulhu – Investigator Handbook Best Art, Interior - S. Petersen’s Field Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors Best Cartography - Call of Cthulhu – Keeper’s Screen Pack Best Monster/Adversary - S. Petersen’s Field Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors Best Production Values - Call of Cthulhu – 7th Edition Slipcase Set Best RPG Related Product - Call of Cthulhu: The Coloring Book Best Supplement - Pulp Cthulhu Chaosium congratulates everyone who has been nominated, in particular our friends Stygian Fox Publishing, whose Call of Cthulhu licensed supplement The Things We Leave Behind was nominated for Best Adventure. Voting takes place from July 11 - July 21. We encourage all members of the Chaosium tribe to get behind Cthulhu!

Indeed there will...

Coming soon, from our friends at Rapier miniatures - Morokanth! "Most people of Glorantha know only these things about the morokanth; they are one of the five great tribes of Prax , and they alone herd and eat men there." (WF #9)

TLDR: PDF can be downloaded free from Chaosium.com and DrivethruRPG, or get a print copy from Chaosium.com, or POD from Lulu. Links for all at the link: http://www.chaosium.com/blog/four-ways-to-get-a-hold-of-a-copy-of-the-runequest-quickstart/

Free Downloadable Resources for The Two-Headed Serpent: a 42 page Keeper Resource Pack, with all the Maps, Handouts and Diagrams from the campaign. http://www.chaosium.com/blog/free-downloadable-resources-for-the-twoheaded-serpent/ You can also download free Pulp Cthulhu Character sheets from the CoC character sheets page too: http://www.chaosium.com/cthulhu-character-sheets

UPDATE: Unfortunately, we have sold all of the printed copies we are allowed to sell and have turned off the item on DTRPG.

The wait is over! Download the RuneQuest Quickstart and Adventure PDF now, or get it in print for USD$9.95. Plus, we have the bonus 6th pregen character and QS rules for spirits and shamans, and a guide for GMs running the 'The Broken Tower' adventure included in the book. http://www.chaosium.com/runequest-roleplaying-in-glorantha-quickstart/

Dire consequences, secrets, & unfathomable power: the Grand Grimoire of Cthulhu Mythos Magic is available now in hardback for Call of Cthulhu, direct from Chaosium: http://www.chaosium.com/the-grand-grimoire-of-cthulhu-mythos-magic-hardcover/ PDF is included in the price. People who bought the Grand Grimoire PDF previously will receive a discount coupon for the full price of the PDF. nb Availability Notice: This book will be arriving in Australia on or around July 7th. Australian orders received prior to its availability will be flagged as pre-orders.

I think that is the fundamental difference between the Brithini and the Vadeli. Both races are effectively immortal if they continue to abide within their rules and strictures, but while the Brithini live it to the letter, the Vadeli shamelessly exploit every possible loophole. Even though they concoct absurdly elaborate explanations to explain what they are doing is within the rules, they almost always seem to get away with it unscathed. Not so the Brithini.

Back in March 2015, 771 backers brought the Masks of Nyarlathotep Companion to life. Backers are now receiving their copies from Sixtystone Press, and have been amazed and astounded at the sheer size of the book (739 pages!) and the breadth of what it covers. If you missed the Kickstarter, here's your one chance to get a Masks Companion of your own: Chaosium now has its royalty copies to sell, in a special hardcover 'Sandbat' edition. Chaosium's copies will be available for purchase as a print + PDF bundle on DriveThruRPG from 12 noon EDT (5.00pm BST) on Saturday July 1st. This is strictly on a "first-come, first-served" basis. Once Chaosium's allocation is sold out, the Companion will be withdrawn from sale. More details at the link: http://www.chaosium.com/blog/masks-of-nyarlathotep-companion-special-sand-bat-edition-available-from-saturday-july-1st/

The Brithini. Lack of adherence, even inadvertent breaking of the rules, is punished by aging.

Sweepers and Keepers, as @jajagappa mentioned earlier. Neither school is formal, nor do initiates choose one or the other way, but it is simply the way that the Healers think about the world. Though the Sweepers believe that life is sacred, they only go so far as to keep the living creatures swept away from the Hospital. The Keepers, on the other hand, try to avoid stepping on anything, and also leave insects, animals and in fact all living things unmolested and at peace. Where the Keepers reside or preside or are in the ascendant, such places are utterly infested with what others consider vermin. Insects crawl over everything (including the priestesses); plants grow in wild profusion through all the brickwork, etc.

"Chaosium-Approved Cthulhu Madness" - indeed it is... This is Playstation Lifestyle's preview of the game-play in Call of Cthulhu—The Official Video Game, but it will also be available for Xbox and PC. nb Horror on the Orient Express writer Mark Morrison was involved in developing the story and the the RPG aspects of the game play.

Personally, it's also a bit sobering for me to think I was involved in the first completely new Glorantha scenarios to appear for Chaosium/AH RuneQuest (Sun County, which came out eight years after the launch of RQIII) and the last (in Strangers in Prax), 23 years ago. We are going to ensure our new edition has plenty of Gloranthan scenarios to play from the go-get.

Thanks Runeblogger! In your review you make the somewhat sobering point that The Broken Tower is the first official scenario published for RuneQuest set in Glorantha's Third Age (the "default" campaign setting) since 1994, when the scenario book Strangers in Prax was published for RQIII—23 years!

A new RuneQuest Design Notes from Jeff, outlining some of the refinements to the rules we're making, based on the Free RPG Day feedback: http://www.chaosium.com/blog/designing-the-new-runequest-part-17

Yes, exactly. The RQG rules as shown in the RQ Quickstart, and as discussed in Jeff's RQ Designer Notes articles, etc. Not yet.

We are pleased to have appointed a new director of marketing and media, the writer, journalist and editor Lillian Cohen-Moore. Lillian's extensive RPG writing and editing credits include releases for White Wolf, Paizo, Atlas Games, Catalyst Game Labs, and many others. Lillian was also a Gen Con 2014 'Industry Insider', along with Greg Stafford and Ken Hite. Over on the Stafford Codex (Greg Stafford's personal site), Greg's got the transcript and audio of the panel they did together at the con. They discuss how the act of creating, exploring, and defining a game world resembles the creation and exploration of myth. Well worth checking out! http://www.staffordcodex.com/news/2015/1/1/gaming-as-mythic-exploration-gencon-2014-audio-and-transcript

Here's what we're going to do going forward: Cult of Chaos Forum (password protected) - Discussion, questions, post mortems about "The Broken Tower" scenario in the RuneQuest Quickstart. RuneQuest Forum - Discussion about the RQG rules themselves, and the rules as presented in the RuneQuest Quickstart. No discussion or spoilers about "The Broken Tower" please.