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The Calyx returns next week for a new four episode run, starting next Tuesday, February 28th live at 7pm PT! Keeper Becca Scott says, "We're playing Call of Cthulhu: Regency Cthulhu for some eldritch Jane Austen/Bridgerton vibes with some familiar faces from The Dungeon Run." Join her, and Investigators Kari Lee Cartwright, Surena Marie, Katie Michels and Jessica Lynn Parsons live at Good Time Society on Twitch. The show will later be available on YouTube.

You may have seen the news we've got an updated edition of Nameless Horrors coming out on March 8th: it's in hardback, with a color interior, new layout, art and maps. There will be a special leatherette version too! The original 2015 version (softcover, B&W interior) is now out-of-print, but is still available as a PDF, and softcover POD. Please note we'll be withdrawing the 2015 version from sale at Chaosium.com on March 1st. So if you haven't got a copy but would like to, order while you can!Nameless Horrors PDF:Nameless Horrors - PDFNameless Horrors softcover POD (price inc PDF):Nameless Horrors - Softcover - POD

Yes - until there is clarity on the copyrightable status of AI art, we’re not going to approve its use in our community content programs. And until there is a system in place to recompense artists for their inclusion in AI art databases. Same answer as above. Same answer as above. Same answer as above.

No. Yes. No new AI art after March 31, 2023.

Nameless Horrors is the latest supplement for the award-winning tabletop horror game Call of Cthulhu, and releases worldwide on March 8th. The book features six scenarios across time, each showcasing a brand new aspect of the ever-building Cthulhu Mythos. Unlike many Call of Cthulhu supplements, the denizens of Nameless Horrors are bespoke entities meant to keep even the most seasoned of Investigators on their toes—the creatures that haunt these scenarios are indeed of the Mythos, but you won’t have encountered them before! The scenarios in Nameless Horrors take investigators from the signature setting of 1920s New England, all the way to Paris of the 1890s, and modern-day Britain. This book presents a toolkit of scenarios for Call of Cthulhu Keepers to insert into campaigns, add to their one-shot repertoire, or use as a source of inspiration for an entirely new slew of adventures across various times and locations. Nameless Horrors was previously published in softcover in the very early days of the current edition of Call of Cthulhu, and has since gone out of print. This updated edition contains updated layout, brand new art, and is presented in hardcover for the first time.

Following on from our 16 December 2022 Statement about AI Art, in consultation with DriveThruRPG we are enacting this new policy for our Community Content programs, including the Miskatonic Repository, Explorer's Society, and Jonstown Compendium: AI Art: We are concerned about the ethics of AI art and its impact on the livelihoods of artists, and the ability of artists to maintain control over use of their creations. Effective 31 March 2023, AI art (e.g. Midjourney, Dall-E, etc) is not permitted in new titles for Chaosium’s community content programs, including the Miskatonic Repository, Jonstown Compendium, and Explorer’s Society. Our program guidelines will be updated in due course. Creators with questions or concerns should get in touch with our Community Ambassadors.

As successful community creators themselves, our Community Ambassadors Allan, Bridgett, Mark and Nick are all experienced in the pitfalls and pathways to independent publishing. Here are some samples of their community content work:Allan Carey's Miskatonic Repository release The Mummy of Pemberley Grange, is part of his 'Seeds of Terror' series of accessible and exciting scenarios for Call of Cthulhu that Keepers can pick up and run in one evening.Bridgett Jeffries's Miskatonic Repository release Sorrow in Tsavo is a Call of Cthulhu scenario set in 1898 Kenya and based on historical events.Mark Morrison's The Saltwater Inheritance was written in 1985 but first published (on the Miskatonic Repository) in 2019. It came runner-up in a White Dwarf magazine scenario competition, which, as Mark says, "is kind of like winning second prize in a beauty contest, but with more tentacles". Described as "Top-shelf, high-grade Gloranthan psychedelia", Nick Brooke's Jonstown Compendium scenario Black Spear is a lavishly illustrated, stand-alone mini-campaign for RuneQuest.

-- L-R: Allan, Bridgett, Mark, and Nick -- Chaosium's Community Ambassadors support independent creators in our community content programs on DriveThruRPG. These programs enable fans to self-publish material for Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, and 7th Sea TTRPGs. Creators can offer their work free of charge, set a price, or offer it as pay-what-you-want. As successful community creators themselves, Allan, Bridgett, Mark and Nick are all experienced in the pitfalls and pathways to independent publishing. They are here to help with advice about the various aspects of creating and publishing a community content work, including ideas generation, IP issues, writing, editing, art direction, layout, publication, and preparing a title for print-on-demand. They can also direct queries to the appropriate person at Chaosium or DriveThruRPG if need be. The success of these fan-driven programs is evident by their thriving communities of creators and the rapidly growing number of titles available, with more added every week. The Miskatonic Repository is Chaosium's platform on DriveThruRPG for independent creators of gaming material for the Call of Cthulhu tabletop roleplaying game. It was launched in December 2018. We recently celebrated its 1000th independent title! The Explorer's Society established in March 2017, is our DriveThruRPG community content program for John Wick's 7th Sea RPG. The Jonstown Compendium, established in December 2019, fulfils the same function for gaming in Greg Stafford's world of Glorantha with the RuneQuest RPG, along with the QuestWorlds, and 13th Age Glorantha systems. We recently celebrated its 250th independent title! Later in 2023, we're launching a new community content program along similar lines for the Pendragon RPG! Contact our Community Ambassadors via our Contact the Team page.

2" box now SOLD OUT in our EU warehouse. Still available in our US, UK, and AUS warehouses. But remember, when our 40th Anniversary Sets are gone, they are gone. https://www.chaosium.com/call-of-cthulhu-classic-2-deluxe-boxed-set/

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From our Frequently Asked Questions: Q: Did Greg Stafford own the first-ever copy of D&D sold, bought directly from Gary Gygax himself? A: TL/DR - Yes. As Greg himself told it in the now defunct Stafford Codex (retrieved via Wayback Machine) The First Dungeons & Dragons Game Ever Sold "I'd like to share one tale about D&D, from way back when. After high school I used to work for Bergamot Brass Works, a belt buckle company out of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Real hippie job. I'd take buckles, hitchhike around the country and sell them to shops. After a while, though, I moved to California and stopped doing that. My friend and business partner, Jeff Platt, remained in the Midwest, selling buckles (we were called Buckle-itis). Through the various circumstances described elsewhere, I'd decided to publish my first board game, White Bear & Red Moon, on my own. As I was finishing up work on it, I got a package in the mail from my old partner Jeff. His cover letter said, “I was picking up my catalogues from the printer the other day and there was this guy waiting for his stuff. I asked what it was, and he said it was a fantasy game. I said, ‘Hey, my buddy in California is doing one too! Can I buy one from ya?'" Of course the guy was happy to, and so Jeff sent me this strange little box called Dungeons & Dragons. Later on I wondered, “Heck, I wonder if that was the first one ever sold?" Well, I asked Gary Gygax if he remembered this incident and he did, and confirmed that it was the first one ever sold. Man, do I ever now wish that I'd not lent it to my DM! I never got it back!"

In this interview, which is the fourth part of a series, Lynne Hardy, line editor for Rivers of London and associate editor for Call of Cthulhu, talks about the magic system in the Rivers of London tabletop roleplaying game. Lynne is talking with Chaosium's James Coquillat. Get the PDF for Rivers of London: The Roleplaying Game now, and we'll take that cost off the physical book when it is released in April 2023!

We will be making an announcement about the official release date soon.

In his newest 'Out of the Suitcase' post, @Rick Meints discusses how Chaosium made errata available in its early days, back when "cut and paste" literally meant with scissors and glue... https://www.chaosium.com/blogout-of-the-suitcase-39-errata-a-lesson-on-how-change-can-be-difficult/

In the latest of Chaosium Interviews series, Jason Durall, creative director of RuneQuest and all things BRP, talks about how the evolution of genres has affected the TTRPG industry. He's talking to James Coquillat.

Bookshops of Arkham Episode 3 is now available on YouTube! Join Mark Meer, Saige Ryan, Lucia Versprille, Carlos Luna, and Patrick Logan as they continue their investigation into the twisted world of the Cthulhu Mythos! 'Bookshops of Arkham' is an original Call of Cthulhu adventure by Belinda Cornish and Darren Ormandy. Get started with Call of Cthulhu yourself with the Call of Cthulhu Starter Set. And learn more about Call of Cthulhu on Roll20 and 'Bookshops of Arkham' at Roll20's Call of Cthulhu Hub.

"In the USA, Dungeons & Dragons is synonymous with the tabletop RPG hobby, but in Japan, Call of Cthulhu is the most popular pen-and-paper RPG." Screenrant talks to our localisation partner Arclight about the extraordinary popularity of Call of Cthulhu in Japan; read the full article by Derek Garcia here: https://screenrant.com/dnd-alternative-call-cthulhu-ttrpg-popular-japan

Event Registration for Chaosium Con 2023 is open! Prebook over 200 events – games, seminars, workshops, VIP games, the auction, and more. It's going to be amazing. Note, we will continue accepting event submissions up to April 7th, so do check back every once in a while and see what new offerings are on the schedule. https://tabletop.events/conventions/chaosium-con-2023

Today our friends at FrogGames announced a forthcoming new licensed Japanese edition of RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha, the mythic fantasy RPG created by Greg Stafford and published by Chaosium since 1978. Hobby Japan translated and sold a portion of RuneQuest 3rd Edition from 1987 to 1994. At the time, the game was even more popular in the Japanese market than Dungeons & Dragons and it still has many fans in Japan and abroad. FrogGames's announcement has been well-received by TTRPG fans in Japan. Publication of the new Japanese edition is scheduled for the fall of 2023. Please stay tuned to FrogGames and Chaosium on social media for further developments. 2023年秋の出版を予定しています。 『RuneQuest』は、Greg Stafford氏によって制作され、1978年からChaosium社によって出版されている神話ファンタジーRPGです。青銅器時代のグローランサ世界を舞台に、魔法と謎、そして非日常的な冒険に満ちた『RuneQuest』は、その長い歴史から業界の名作として知られています。 同作品は日本市場において、1987年から1994年まで『ルーンクエスト第3版』の英語版の一部をホビージャパンが翻訳・販売しました。当時、日本市場では『ダンジョンズ＆ドラゴンズ』を凌ぐ評価を誇っていました。現在でも国内外に多くのファンを持っています。 最新版である『RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha』が2018年にChaosium社から出版されました。 FrogGamesは『RuneQuest』の日本語版を制作しており、予定では2023年秋に発売予定です。 今後の展開については、FrogGamesとChaosiumのソーシャルメディアにご期待ください。

In two eldritch minutes Noura shows off the Call of Cthulhu Starter Set — and she's got a special discount code at the end!

Chaosium President Rick Meints has run collectible auctions across the world, but the Chaosium Con Collectable Auction is a very special one. He and Mike Mason will be auctioning a truly amazing array of rare collectables from the secret vaults of Chaosium itself at Chaosium Con II on Saturday April 15th from 3 PM to 5 PM. Reflecting on the process of sorting through the Chaosium vaults, Rick said, "As we slowly cleaned out the Chaosium warehouse to bring some order out of chaos we uncovered numerous treasures. You could open a dozen dusty boxes and find only bank statements, but then open a rusty filing cabinet and find a stack of mint copies of Different Worlds magazine in the bottom drawer. The greatest find was the “library”, where mint copies were stored for reference, and, um, never referenced… I doubt it had even been opened for many years." -- Rick deep in the Chaosium archives in September 2015 -- Full details about the auction are in the catalog. Download the complete 60 page Chaosium Con II Auction catalog here. Here are some examples of the more than 200 rare items on offer (note, all items are complete and in excellent or better condition unless otherwise noted. The pictures shown in the catalog are of the actual item being sold): Play Games. Make friends. Experience Chaosium like never before! For more information and to get your ticket go to our Chaosium Con 2023 Page.

A lot of effort goes into producing a show like Bookshops of Arkham. We're happy these talented folks came together to create something hauntingly beautiful. Catch up on Bookshops of Arkham on Chaosium's YouTube channel here. Watch episode 3 tomorrow on Roll20 Twitch.

Bookshops of Arkham unfortunately had severe technical difficulties. In this audio-only episode, Keeper Mark Meer narrates the missing events in an evocative and all-together unsettling manner. Check it out before episode 3 releases on Roll20 Twitch on Wednesday! The upcoming episode 3 also contains a brief recap of what was missed, but for those who want the full Bookshops of Arkham experience, we heartily recommend you check this out – as co-writer Belinda Cornish says, it's like a scary little podcast! Enjoy!

Episode 2 of Bookshops of Arkham is now live on YouTube! Watch the official blockbuster actual play of Call of Cthulhu, and see episode 3 this Wednesday over Roll20's Twitch channel. Bookshops of Arkham is an original Call of Cthulhu adventure by Belinda Cornish and Darren Ormandy. Join Mark Meer as the Keeper of Arcane Lore as he guides Saige Ryan, Carlos Luna, Lucia Versprille, and Patrick Logan through an encounter with the servants of Yog Sothoth. Learn more about Call of Cthulhu on Roll20 and 'Bookshops of Arkham' at Roll20's Call of Cthulhu Hub.

'Bookshops of Arkham' is the latest official Call of Cthulhu Actual Play—watch episode 1 on YouTube now, and catch new episodes on Roll20 Twitch on Wednesdays. Join Mark Meer as the Keeper of Arcane Lore as he guides Saige Ryan, Carlos Luna, Lucia Versprille, and Patrick Logan through an encounter with the servants of Yog Sothoth. And if you're new to Call of Cthulhu, Bookshops of Arkham also features helpful pop-ups about the game's rules! 'Bookshops of Arkham' is an original Call of Cthulhu adventure by Belinda Cornish and Darren Ormandy. Learn more about Call of Cthulhu on Roll20 and 'Bookshops of Arkham' at Roll20's Call of Cthulhu Hub.