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Magic World is a self-contained fantasy roleplaying game using the classic Basic Roleplaying (BRP) system, and is now available in print again, via DriveThruRPG's Print-On-Demand. Magic World (272 page softcover) allows you to play characters in a world of fantasy, adventure, and excitement. The BRP-based rules are simple to grasp, while having enough options and complexity to suit any gaming style. Characters grow in experience organically, without relying on artificial constructs such as classes, levels, etc. Any sort of fantasy character you can imagine, you can play. Also now available Print-On-Demand: Advanced Sorcery (128 page softcover), providing new options to players of the Magic World game, as well as other Basic Roleplaying-based roleplaying games. Plus check out the six new POD titles we added to the Call of Cthulhu Classic range last week, plus over 150 more Print-On-Demand Chaosium titles at DriveThruRPG.

Here Noura Ibrahim journeys to Glorantha to show off the amazing RuneQuest Starter Set in just two minutes — stick around to the end, she's got a special discount code! Also check out Noura's unboxing of the equally amazing Call of Cthulhu Starter Set.

With Basic Roleplaying: Universal Game Engine, you can go anywhere and become anyone. Where will you go first? Read more: https://buff.ly/42yybmL Art by Loïc Muzy, whose award-winning work you can see on such Chaosium releases as Berlin the Wicked City, Petersen Field Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors, the Malleous Monstrorum, and the forthcoming Cults of RuneQuest.

For anyone who may be concerned about what happens to products released under the existing BRP OGL, the answer is simple - absolutely nothing. Products released under the current BRP OGL are completely unaffected.

As the Gloranthan equivalent of Augustine of Hippo might say, "De libero arbitrio voluntatis".

NOTE: Spoiler for Horror on the Orient Express / Reign of Terror More TTRPGs as fine art: "Le Portrait du Louvre"... Delphes Desvoivres, creator of the licensed Kickstarter art projects The Sedefkar Simulacrum and The Props of Nyarlathotep, is selling the original and prints of "Le portrait du Louvre". This is her masterly depiction of Le Comte de Fenalique, the iconic vampiric villain from our famous Call of Cthulhu campaign Horror on the Orient Express and associated volume Reign of Terror. Delphes's work is an oil painting on canvas, that was six years in the making. In addition to the original, 25 art prints are available that are hand-signed by Delphes with a certificate of authenticity. The size of the painting and prints is 57x68.5 cm. For further details check out Delphe's Patreon page, and The Props of Nyarlathotep Facebook page. Christian Lehmann writes: "In 1990, Richard Watts and I fathered the ultimate monster in Chaosium’s Horror on the Orient Express campaign, Le Comte de Fenalique, as he was known to some unfortunates in Paris just before the French Revolution. Le Comte, aka Fenalik, has an ancient history, steeped in darkness. He has had many guises, and we described him in some of them. At the basest stage of his devolution. At the height of his powers. Le Comte is as powerful as he is malevolent, as unknowable as he is corrupt. The French Royal Court is a perfect place for him to hide in plain sight. Magnificent candlelit ballrooms, delightful golden curtains hiding piss-stains and worse. He is Corruption walking among the living. He is at an unending Feast of his own design. Delphes’s portrait captures him perfectly: evil, devoid of any empathy, cruel, and immensely powerful. Our beautiful, beautiful son. 'You still don’t understand what you’re dealing with, do you?' asks Ash in Ridley Scott’s ALIEN, 'A perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility.' This is what I see when I look upon the Portrait du Louvre."

Chaosium Con 2023 Event Spotlight: H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society Events We are so excited to welcome Sean Branney and Andrew Leman of the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society to Chaosium Con 2023. Here are a few ways to connect with these legendary award-winning prop-makers and all-around epic personalities! Upping Your Prop Game Seminar Friday @ 1P Eastern Sign up here The Call of Cthulhu Movie Screening Friday @ 9P Eastern Sign up here The Whisperer in the Darkness Movie Screening Saturday @ 9P Eastern Sign up here

Chaosium Con 2023 Event Spotlight: Cults of RuneQuest Panel Join Creative Directors Jeff Richard and Jason Durall for the Cults of RuneQuest Panel We are proud to announce the 10-volume Cults of RuneQuest — a series of player-focussed supplements for Chaosium's Bronze Age epic fantasy TTRPG RuneQuest! The first of these books is set to release in July, with a big launch at GenCon Indy in August. However, in April, during Chaosium Con 2023 you can get get the inside scoop directly from Jeff and Jason. Saturday at 10AM

Chaosium Con 2023 Event Spotlight: Seth Skorkowsky returns to Chaosium Con 2023! We are delighted to have Youtube star, co-host of The Modern Mythos podcast and author Seth Skorkowsky coming back to Chaosium Con 2023!!! Here's how you can connect with Seth: A Roundtable Discussion w/ Industry Reviewer and Collaborators -- Friday @10AM Join Seth Skorkowsky, XPLovecat, Heinrich Moore, and Evan Perlman for a roundtable discussion on how industry reviewers approach/review/evaluate content. What do reviewers look for? Learn how to avoid common mistakes, properly solicit reviews, and more! Podcasting and Streaming 101 -- Saturday @6PM Join Seth Skorkowsky, Arthur Rothfuss, Mike Diamond, and Ludovic Chabant as they break down podcasting! Ask questions, manage your expectations, and get the tools you need to podcast your content. Modern Mythos Unpack and Discussion w/ Skorkowsky and Harms -- Friday @1PM Join Seth Skorkowsky (Modern Mythos) and Dan Harms (author of Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia) for a discussion on how to modernize your mythos!

What failed dice roll was most fun for you? Call of Cthulhu creative director Mike Mason shares his advice on how to turn failed checks into exciting and memorable moments. He's talking to James Coquillat as part of our Chaosium Interviews series.

Any rules, conditions or variations beyond these time-honoured basics must have the assent of both parties - for example, agreeing to not use magic in the duel, or restricting the duel to certain weapons, or banning the use of Healing, or (in extreme cases) fighting to the Death instead of first fallen, etc. Sure, but there's a difference between duelling with a Humakti and fighting a Humakti duel. Unless both parties are at least lay members of Humakti, they're not fighting a "Humatki Duel". The Humakti doing the fighting know they're honourable. Although there are many good reasons to have such duels in public, they may not care what society thinks.

For Immediate Release Ann Arbor, MI—Chaosium, creators of the award-winning Call of Cthulhu tabletop roleplaying game, announced today the April release of Basic Roleplaying: The Universal Game Engine in PDF, with hardcover to follow in 2023. Basic Roleplaying (“BRP”), is the game engine that powers Chaosium’s most popular games including Call of Cthulhu and RuneQuest. For 40 years the BRP system has been lauded for intuitive and easy-to-understand “roll low” mechanics, which makes games designed with BRP accessible and quick to learn. BRP games keep the focus on roleplaying, and exploring the setting that the game master has prepared. This release serves as an update to the core BRP system. Under the new Open RPG Creative License (ORC), game creators are free to use the BRP rules engine to develop their own games, royalty-free and without further permission from Chaosium. "Chaosium was one of the first game companies to sign on to the Open RPG Creative License initiative being spearheaded by our friends at Paizo,” said Chaosium COO Neil Robinson. “We're pleased to have our core rules system released under the ORC as an example of an open RPG license that anyone can use.” Basic Roleplaying: The Universal Game Engine contains all the core rules for character creation and advancement, deadly and tactical combat, magic, psychic powers, mutations, superpowers, weapons, equipment, and vehicles applicable to any setting and genre. Players can use this book to create a seamless roleplaying experience using an existing setting, or one of their own design. Basic Roleplaying: The Universal Game Engine will be released in PDF in April, and will be available directly from Chaosium.com, and DriveThru RPG. A hardcover release will follow later in 2023.

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What’s the strangest change you’ve seen in a TTRPG using an established setting’s lore?Jason Durall, creative director of RuneQuest and all things BRP, talks to James Coquillat about when and how to best break the lore. Part of our Chaosium Interviews series on YouTube.

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If you're enjoying The Calyx and would like to experience Call of Cthulhu in the time of Jane Austen yourself, Regency Cthulhu is out now in hardback, special leatherette version, and PDF from Chaosium.com. Also available in PDF from DriveThruRPG.REGENCY CTHULHU includes new rules for creating Regency-era Investigators, along with new skills and occupations unique to this slice of history.REGENCY CTHULHU also contains two scenarios designed to introduce players to the Regency-era. The scenarios can be played as one-off games, or used as the foundation for an ongoing campaign. The book also introduces a brand new mechanic to Call of Cthulhu: Reputation. Much like Sanity and Luck, Reputation is a fluctuating statistic that measures a character’s standing amongst others in high society, and will rise and fall during play.A detailed primer on the fictional English town of Tarryford gives a beginning Keeper everything they need to use the town as a setting for their Call of Cthulhu games in both 1813 and 1913. *If you purchase the physical book direct from Chaosium the PDF is included in the price. And don't forget you 10% off storewide at chaosium.com with the code "GOODTIME".

Chaosium Con 2023 Event spotlight – less than a month to go, last day to book hotel block at special rate! Wow, that came up fast! There's less than a month to go to Chaosium Con 2023! Our weekend dripping with cosmic horror, essential runes, swashbuckling adventure, and chivalrous quests takes place from April 13th - 16th in Ann Arbor, MI – and we'd love to see you there! The Venue The Eaglecrest Golf Resort and Convention Center is just 17 miles west of Detroit Metro Airport (DTW) and directly off I-94. A cab ride from the airport to the venue is approximately $40.00. Accomodations - special hotel rate Tomorrow (Friday March 17) is the last day to book our hotel block at the special convention rate. Accommodations within Walking Distance If the on-site accommodation is full, there are two hotels within each walking distance to the Conference Center that you could consider booking. Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Ann Arbor Ypsilanti Hampton Inn & Suites Ypsilanti Chaosium Con Important dates Event Submission Event submissions are still currently OPEN Note: We'd love to see more RuneQuest, 7th Sea, and Pendragon events! Event Registration Event registration is OPEN. Sign up now for games, panels, demos, workshops, and more! Keep checking back-- we're adding events daily. Last Day to Book Hotel Block: Friday, March 17th, 2023 Secure your badge TODAY Book your hotel NOW

The long corridor gets longer and our investigators cross into another realm! Will they survive their look into the unknown? Keeper Becca Scott guides investigators Kari Lee Cartwright, Surena Marie, Katie Michels and Jessica Lynn Parsons through "The Long Corridor", one of the scenarios to be found in our new Call of Cthulhu release Regency Cthulhu. This is episode three. Get 10% off storewide at chaosium.com with the code "GOODTIME".

Download for free! Keeper resources, maps, character sheets, and every player handout for our latest Call of Cthulhu release Nameless Horrors 2nd Edition. Print them and use them again and again! Nameless Horrors contains six scenarios for Call of Cthulhu, each taking place in a different setting and time period—perfect for one-shot games, and for kicking off a new and unique campaign. You can download these free Keeper and Investigator handouts directly from the Nameless Horrors product pages at Chaosium.com (available in hardback+PDF, leatherette+PDF, and PDF), and at our Itch.io page. Please note, all handouts and maps required for play are already included in the book. These free, easy-to-print downloads are provided for the extra convenience of Keepers and players.

One more new Call of Cthulhu Classic POD title to add to the list at DriveThruRPG – Horror's Heart (84 page softcover): a dangerous investigation is set in Canada, in the 1920s.

"Forgive Me" is a 7th Sea audio drama, written by Carmel Rechnitzer and performed by the crew at The Writers Room. Brought you by our friends at Pine Box Entertainment, publishers of the licensed 7th Sea expandable card game City of Five Sails. Have a listen here: And discover more about The Writer's Room 7th Sea podcast here, where you can find all sorts of adventures, antics, and escapades for the 7th Sea RPG!

To be clear, we have no plans to take down Magic World from DTRPG. It is in fact on our (long) list of titles there that we will eventually get round to offering as POD. The latest being here:

We've added a Print-On-Demand (POD) option to five more Call of Cthulhu Classic titles at DriveThruRPG: Secrets of Tibet (168 page softcover) - this sourcebook features details about its history, culture and religion, a bestiary of Tibetan gods and monsters, a guide to the Forbidden City of Lhasa including maps, and three scenarios that will take investigators to the Tibetan plateau and beyond. Atomic Age Cthulhu (224 page softcover) - brings Mythos horror roleplaying into the post-war golden age of the 1950s. The Stars and Right (176 page softcover) - Ten Modern Day scenarios about that which is greater than mankind, lurking beyond the rim of human consciousness. Utatti Asfet (160 page softcover) - a four world-spanning campaign set in the 1990s. A Resection of Time (64 page softcover) - a short Modern Day campaign that begin s in San Francisco, and ends in steamy jungles of Belize. And don't forget we launched Basic Roleplaying's 'Big Gold Book' in POD this week too - 400 page softcover! Check them all out, plus over 150 more Print-On-Demand Chaosium titles at DriveThruRPG.