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Death's Champion awaits in your first campaign for Pendragon! Releasing alongside the Pendragon Core Rulebook, Pendragon: The Grey Knight is a campaign of mystery, adventure, and death in the time of King Arthur! Get yours in April. Can't wait? Check out the Pendragon Starter Set and the free Pendragon Quick Start Rules and Adventure, both available now! Cover art by Loïc Muzy

Your journey as a knight in the time of King Arthur begins in April! The Pendragon Core Rulebook contains everything you need to create characters, adventures, and grow a legacy in the age of Pendragon! What kind of knight will you become? Can't wait? Check out the Pendragon Starter Set and the free Pendragon Quick Start Rules and Adventure, both available now! Cover art by Mark Smylie

Now on YouTube: episode two of our blockbuster Call of Cthulhu actual play series! This week's guest NPC is Paula Deming. Enjoy! After the death of a close friend, our investigators try to make sense of a dozen of seemingly unconnected leads, while famous folk in Arkham begin to take note of their inquiries... Graveyards of Arkham episodes premiere weekly on TwitchTV, Wednesdays at 6:30pm PT / 9:30pm ET, followed by YouTube the following Sundays at 2:30pm PT / 5:30pm ET. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and you won't miss a thing! Starring Mark Meer as Keeper of Arcane Lore, and Investigators Patrick Logan, Josephine McAdam, Lucia Versprille, and Noura Ibrahim. Guest NPC Paula Deming. Original Story by Belinda Cornish & Darren Ormandy. Grateful thanks to all the Graveyards of Arkham Kickstarter backers: we couldn't have made this blockbuster Call of Cthulhu actual play show without your generous support!

Call of Cthulhu's Horror on the Orient Express has long been revered as one of the most iconic and acclaimed horror campaigns in tabletop roleplaying — so we're very excited that a new board game adaption is coming! In this design journal series, co-designers Adam Kwapiński and Michał Gołąb Gołębiowski share insights on the development of the new game, which is to be launched on Kickstarter in 2024, and released in early 2025. Horror on the Orient Express: The Board Game Design Diary #1 – Where Our Journey Begins Horror on the Orient Express: The Board Game Design Diary #2 – The First Prototype Horror on the Orient Express: The Board Game Design Diary #3 – Analysing Expectations Check it out! Horror on the Orient Express: The Board Game is looking fantastic—we can't wait for you all to play! Be the first to back this project by signing up to be notified at launch: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chaosium/horror-on-the-orient-express-the-board-game

Call of Cthulhu's Horror on the Orient Express has long been revered as one of the most iconic and acclaimed horror campaigns in tabletop roleplaying — so we're very excited that a new board game adaption is coming! In this design journal series, co-designers Adam Kwapiński and Michał Gołąb Gołębiowski share insights on the development of the new game, which is to be launched on Kickstarter in 2024, and released in early 2025. Horror on the Orient Express: The Board Game Design Diary #1 – Where Our Journey Begins Horror on the Orient Express: The Board Game Design Diary #2 – The First Prototype Post by Michał Gołąb Gołębiowski Analysing Expectations In the previous Design Diary entries, Adam told the story on how everything started. Now, let me take you through the initial phases of our design process. Both Adam and I have created many games over the years, so when we first sat down to work together we had many differing ideas on what a proper board game design process should look like. But fortunately our dieas on the first step was very much the same: answering the question of what the game should actually be? This is where we asking ourselves: if someone told me about the game today, what would it be about? If I bought the game today, what would I expect to see in the box? If I got to play the game today, how would I expect it to go? Now you can see the pattern: analyzing expectations, as they are guides to making an exciting board game. We appreciate we are standing on the shoulders of giants - the Horror on the Orient Express TTRPG campaign is a magnificent theatrical experience, building off both the supernatural world of Cthulhu and the amazing tension of Agatha Christie's train-confined mystery. So we thought: let's have our first first prototype represent everything that fulfills these obligations! So, firstly, the passengers: a proper story needs the protagonists, the antagonists and the supporting actors. This last group is key – while most board games do feature the players and their opponents, it is very rare for the game world to be actually populated. Here we placed on board the train some 20 passengers the players can interact with, each with their own attitude! There are three types of people: investigators, controlled by players; suspects, a small subset of passengers, each hiding secrets (and some of whom are the cultists); and the unsuspecting fellow travelers who have yet to realize what is happening. Next, the train – and I mean THE TRAIN: the stage for the dramaturgy of events in the game, and the physical bounds for characters to move around. Obviously we want to evoke the Orient Express is as seen in the original HotOE campaign. And the Train does not go through a void. Actually it sort of does, as we've based the story around the Dreamlands part of the campaign journey, but that's even better! We've created a long set of tracks going by a long line of ever changing landscapes that the train encounters on its unstoppable way forward. Then the obligatory Mythos creatures, the stuff of nightmares lurking around in the darkness outside the train, waiting for people to stumble. And the last one, but very important to the game and the story: the evil antagonist (who we shall not name here), moving from car to car unhindered with its own agenda. Putting all these elements together, we knew there was an amazing game somewhere in there. But we also understood that the devil is in the details, and so now it was time to start the real work – turning our vision into a reality, and making this board game true to its legacy.

Volunteer for Chaosium Con Australia in June and get a free badge! Chaosium Con Australia is happening in Melbourne, Australia in June, and we're seeking a team of volunteers to help support the convention. Nine scheduled hours over the course of the weekend means a free badge, worth AUD$150.00. What sort of volunteers are we looking for? -- GMs -- In particular, we are looking for volunteer GMs to run Chaosium games. Run three sessions there's your nine hours! You can run convention scenarios we will supply, or submit your own events (subject to approval). Games we want to run include Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, Pendragon, Rivers of London, 7th Sea, BRP, and any Chaosium games from our back catalogue (e.g. Stormbringer, Ringworld, Magic World, 13th Age Glorantha, and so on). -- Operations -- Chaosium Con volunteers can also assist with the operation areas of the convention – from working the registration desk, giving directions, answering questions, to helping set up, tear down, and helping with signage. There are plenty of ways to get involved behind the scenes! What do volunteers get? A free badge, worth AUD$150.00 A free Chaosium Con Australia t-shirt, worth $35 Access to all standard game sessions, seminars, auction, vendors and events 10am - 8pm each day Free parking on site: gates open 9am - 9pm How do I volunteer? If you are interested in volunteering, please email andrew@chaosium.com We sincerely appreciate our volunteers for their hard work, energy, experience, and willingness to support the convention! Details about Chaosium Con Australia Dates: June 8th-9th 2024 (King's Birthday Weekend) Location: Moonee Valley Racing Club, Melbourne VIC Australia. 5 mins from public transport. Convention Hotel: The Sebel Moonee Ponds (a short walk from the venue) Announced international guests: Mike Mason, Andrew Logan Montgomery, and Bridgett Jeffries. Local guests TBA. Convention Badges go on sale soon!

Today marks a significant milestone – the 150,000th product sold on the Miskatonic Repository Established in December 2018, the Miskatonic Repository is Chaosium's platform on DriveThruRPG for independent Call of Cthulhu creators. Since then titles in this community content program have received critical praise, won several ENNIE and other awards, prompted the creation of a dedicated Storytelling Collective stream for first-time Call of Cthulhu creators, regularly topped the best seller lists at DriveThruRPG, and have sold out at pop-up stores at Chaosium conventions. And, most importantly of all, the program has fostered a thriving and dynamic community of independent creators, each exploring the Cthulhu Mythos in their own way, yet strongly supportive of each other in such groups as the Miskatonic Repository Creator's Circle on Facebook and community-run events like Miskatonic Repository Con. There's even the Miskatonic Playhouse, a podcast dedicated to playing and showcasing scenarios from the Miskatonic Repository. The #MiskatonicMonday posts at the Chaosium news blog also promote new releases in the Miskatonic Repository on a regular basis. Chaosium vice president Michael O'Brien said, "We congratulate the hundreds of independent creators involved in reaching this significant milestone, many of whom got their first experience of publishing a TTRPG title in the Miskatonic Repository. They are part of a thriving and supportive Call of Cthulhu creator community, producing works of amazing variety, set in mysterious locations all over the world and in time periods from Ancient Egypt to the far future. We encourage Call of Cthulhu fans to check out everything on offer in the Miskatonic Repository, and if they have an itch to create something themselves, our community is ready to help!" A number of writers, artists, editors, and cartographers have gone on to create directly for Chaosium's official Call of Cthulhu line, and even joined the Chaosium team. Check out the Miskatonic Repository at DriveThruRPG here.

Our smash hit Call of Cthulhu actual play series Graveyards of Arkham is playing now - catch new episodes on Twitch on Wednesday and YouTube the following Sundays! And celebrate the series with our friends at Roll20, who have helped make the series happen. You can preorder the Roll20 version of our eagerly awaited Call of Cthulhu: Arkham sourcebook and save $5.00 (releases on February 22nd). Furthermore selected Roll20 Call of Cthulhu titles – the Call of Cthulhu Starter Set, Doors to Darkness, Mansions of Madness, and Dead Light – are all 20% off. For a limited only.

Paula Deming joins Graveyards of Arkham as Pippa Franklin for Episode 2! Watch it first on Twitch on Wednesday night at 630PT/930ET, and catch up on Episode 1 on YouTube! Viewers have heaped praise on Graveyards of Arkham Episode 1, describing it as "The best TTRPG lets play production I have seen", "SO DAMN GOOD", and "Nothing short of amazing". Do join us for the premiere of Episode 2!

Chaosium's Jeff Richard, David Larkins and Rick Meints are special guests at GenghisCon, starting tomorrow February 15th in Denver CO, running through to Sunday 18th. Thanks to our wonderful Cults of Chaos GMs, there are more than 25 sessions of Chaosium games happening, plus there's a Chaosium panel on Saturday. And if you are coming to GenghisCon this weekend, check out Night Owl Games in the dealer room for all your Chaosium goodness! Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, Pendragon and more!

The 'Unnatural Selections' series is our regular round up of notable Chaosium reviews worth a look. Early reactions are in! Viewers love the first episode of Graveyards of Arkham, our blockbuster Call of Cthulhu actual play show which premiered last Wednesday on Twitch and last Sunday on YouTube! Here are some comments by viewers from YouTube: "The best TTrpg lets play production I have seen. Top marks." – knightofnii4659 "No joke I would pay to see this in a theater just as it is." – PlanetTrainWreck "This is fantastic - seriously appreciate the immense effort that has gone into it." – jasonberties "Outstanding! Great job all around! Looking forward to the next episode! :)" – amedeus40K "I already saw it on Twitch but will definitely rewatch it here too because IT'S SO DAMN GOOD!" – Telorion "Youtube needs a heart button! I can't like this enough!" – sharlettekneer1008 "Just finished it and holy shit it's just as good as the first series. Can't wait to see the next one!" – Tommcginn "Bookshops of Arkham was, in my opinion, the greatest short form actual play show to date. And if this is even just AS GOOD, we're in for a treat." – thelongcorgi985 "This cast is fantastic. So happy to see Noura and Josephine. Patrick and Lucia were great in the Bookshops play through and I'm excited to see more of them!" – CordellWoodworks "I loved the first season so much - definitely one of the best CoC live action play out there - I'm really excited! Mark Meer is a fantastic keeper and the cast looks amazing - let's gooo!" – MC K-Dawg the Prophet "Nothing short of amazing, well done! Can't wait till the the next episode." – Abhothra Watch Graveyards of Arkham episodes premiere weekly on TwitchTV, Wednesdays at 6:30 PT / 9:30 ET, followed by YouTube the following Sundays. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and you won't miss a thing!

Having today received advance print copies of the spectacular new Rough Guide to Boldhome, we've just learned that, due to cancellations, THREE spots have opened up in 'Home of the Bold', the magnificent live action game coming to Chaosium Con in April. Grab a badge and sign up while you can! https://tabletop.events/conventions/chaosium-con-2024 After Chaosium Con in April you'll be able to purchase the new Rough Guide to Boldhome at the Jonstown Compendium, Chaosium’s community content store for RuneQuest and Gloranthan gaming by independent creators. Designed as useful background for the 'Home of the Bold' freeform game, A Rough Guide to Boldhome is also a valuable resource for RuneQuest GMs and players wishing to explore the city of Boldhome and its inhabitants. Featuring content by many well-known Glorantha creators including Greg Stafford, Jeff Richard and David Hall, this 81 page full colour book features previews from the forthcoming official RuneQuest Sartar sourcebook, new Gloranthan fiction by Michael O'Brien, and new art and maps.

Four regular people get lost in the machinations of a nefarious cult in 1920s New England... Graveyards of Arkham - Episode 1 is now available on YouTube! In the premiere episode, our investigators gather together for the first time then set off on the trail of a missing girl. Their search starts in Arkham's rough waterfront. Things only get deadlier from there... Watch Graveyards of Arkham episodes premiere weekly on TwitchTV, Wednesdays at 6:30 PT / 9:30 ET, followed by YouTube the following Sundays. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and you won't miss a thing! Starring Mark Meer as Keeper of Arcane Lore, and Investigators Patrick Logan, Josephine McAdam, Lucia Versprille, and Noura Ibrahim. Guest NPC Andrew Leman. Original Story by Belinda Cornish & Darren Ormandy. Grateful thanks to all the Graveyards of Arkham Kickstarter backers: we couldn't have made this blockbuster Call of Cthulhu actual play show without your generous support!

We've had our Graveyards of Arkham blockbuster premiere on Twitch, now get the official movie poster at Redbubble! Featuring magnificent art by our very talented Chaosium staff artist Ossi Hiekkala, our poster is available in a variety of wall art formats. Watch Graveyards of Arkham weekly on TwitchTV, Wednesdays at 6:30 PT / 9:30 ET. Subscribe to our channel and don't miss an episode! https://www.twitch.tv/chaosiuminc

The secrets of the legend-haunted city will soon be unveiled! The eagerly anticipated Call of Cthulhu: Arkham supplement will be released in full colour hardcover on February 22nd. If you purchase directly from Chaosium.com, the price includes the PDF. Call of Cthulhu: Arkham is the definitive guide to the signature setting of Call of Cthulhu. A quiet town in New England—home to the prestigious Miskatonic University—Arkham’s underbelly hides criminals, speakeasies, and a witch-cursed history the threat of the Cthulhu Mythos is ever-present. Call of Cthulhu: Arkham will also be released on DriveThruRPG and Roll20 the same day.

The day has arrived, the Stars are Right: the Twitch Premiere of Graveyards of Arkham is coming up in just over an hour from now (9:30pm ET / 6:30 PT)!! Tune in to: https://www.twitch.tv/chaosiuminc VOD to follow weekly on the Chaosium YouTube channel

As Dicebreaker exclusively revealed late last week, following the release of Call of Cthulhu: Arkham this month, the next two releases for the Call of Cthulhu tabletop roleplaying game will be scenario collections. Quoting Dicebreaker: "[Arkham] will be followed by two adventure collections for Call of Cthulhu. The first will be Call of Cthulhu: The Order of the Stone, a new three-part campaign set during the 1920s. The Order of the Stone will be released this April. Following that, an currently untitled Call of Cthulhu scenario collection will make its way to the table in May. The previously unannounced anthology is billed by publisher Chaosium as a follow-up to its 2020 book Gateways to Terror, which featured three standalone adventures and four pre-made characters designed to showcase the game’s mix of horror, investigation and mystery in sessions that could be wrapped up in just an hour or so. The new scenario collection is similarly designed to work as a next step from Call of Cthulhu’s Seventh Edition Starter Set, allowing new players to take on the scenarios without requiring the RPG’s full core rulebook [Keeper Rulebook]. Each adventure will last around one hour." Read more at Dicebreaker!

Ann Arbor MI, February 5th, 2024 — Today we are pleased to welcome Jenelle C. Risser O'Neill into the Chaosium team as Head of Sales. Jenelle brings extensive games industry sales experience to the role, having worked at Alliance Game Distributors for the past 26 years, the last four and half years as Alliance's Sales Manager for the MidWest. Based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Jenelle's career at Alliance began in the data entry department (originally under Chessex Distribution), but after volunteering to help with international sales, she added domestic sales to her role by the end of her first year. For the next 17 years she continued in US domestic and Canadian sales as the Sales Lead and Canadian Sales Specialist, then shifting over to the Purchasing Department for four-and-a-half years before taking up the Sales Manager role. “As we embark on an ambitious plan to improve and expand our distribution worldwide, we’re excited to have a sales professional of Jenelle’s calibre join us,” said Chaosium’s Director of Operations Michal Lisowski. Company Bio

We were delighted to see our Stream of Chaos team appear in YouTube's celebration of the tabletop roleplaying community on January 26th. With over 300 million views of videos related to the topic of tabletop roleplaying games in 2023, YouTube changed their logo for 24 hours to spotlight the epic world of content crafted by Tabletop RPG Creators: Clicking on the logo took viewers to this 3 minute video, which in addition to the Stream of Chaos, featured Becca Scott and Good Time Society, Pixel Circus (playing their BRP game Salt and Serpent), Seth Skorkowsky, No Rolls Barred, Davvy Chappy and many other friends from the TTRPG community: YouTube have also put together a playlist, featuring Davvy Chappy's quick and helpful introduction to the game: And over on YouTube's official blog, their article Get in, role players, we’re tabletop gaming introduces newcomers to the concept, and recommends "if you’re just getting into TTRPGs, diving right in with a hyper-long game session, like this one of Call of Cthulhu (part one of three) allows you to see how lengthy these games can be and the unexpected twists they take along the way": If you enjoy our Stream of Chaos content, please do subscribe to the official Chaosium YouTube channel!

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Out now in print: the RPG Writer Workshop RuneQuest Adventure Collection! This 124-page softcover book brings together six RuneQuest adventures created by the graduates of the Storytelling Collective's 2022 RPG Writer Workshop's Write Your First Adventure course, with a refreshed layout. Scenarios in this collection include: The White Upon the Hills, by Sacha Gauthier and Reece Dyer. "For many seasons, the White Blight has plagued the hunting grounds on Stael’s Hills. During the Great Hunt, the adventurers encounter the aftermath of a monstrous attack and the origin of the spreading curse. Tracking the monster, they find a magic strike-stone from an ancient hunting legend. If they intend to use it, they must retread the steps of a mysterious hunting god — to bind, slay and cleanse their prey." Died in the Wool, by Braeden Harpool. "In a small highland community in Sartar, a case of missing sheep has the villagers on edge, and a caravan of trolls and their strange beasts has recently arrived. Tensions rise to a boil, and as the investigation unfolds, the only answer to the conflict is revealed: Trollball." A Lamp for Esrola, by Sven Lugar. "Journey into the Troll realms of the Shadow Plateau to retrieve the Tears of the Only Old One! At a celebration to honor the rebuilding of the Temple of Esrola and her Grandson, Fufluns, an opportunity to bring the source of eternal light to the temple is presented to the Adventurers. Are they up to journeying to the Troll-lands around the Shadow Plateau and negotiating or stealing Tear-stones? The Indagos Bull, by Rob Marcus. "It is just before the Earth Temple High Holy Day, and the favourite bull for the blessing ceremony has gone missing! The Earth priestess is worried that the community will be affected. Contains details of the Pavic meat trade, farming in Prax, Hazia effects, and what happens when you tangle with a Hazia Elf." The Lottery, by Robert Stoll. "After weeks on the road with the Ravenhair family trade wagon, you've finally reached the Lunar Empire. Shortly after crossing the Glowline, you enter a village where a local ritual ensnares you in an ancient curse. The fate of your family, two villages, and an entire river valley are all in jeopardy. Can you save them all from a terrifying cult before it's too late?" An Orlanthi Wedding, by Ian Straus. "One of your group's male Orlanthi adventurers is getting married. The scenario's five acts should be interleaved with other adventures over several seasons, and culminate with an unexpected heroquest." If you are interested in writing your first TTRPG adventure, do check out the Write Your First Adventure Workshops at the Storytelling Collective! Chaosium is proud to partner with the Storytelling Collective in this program, which includes dedicated streams for both prospective Call of Cthulhu and RuneQuest creators, along with a general stream. See more examples of creations by Write Your First Adventure alumni in these digital bundles at DriveThruRPG. Vale Braeden Harpool (1991 - 2022) This print edition of the RPG Writer Workshop RuneQuest Adventure Collection is dedicated to the memory of Jonstown Compendium creator and RPG Writer Workshop alumnus Braeden Harpool, author of the adventure "Died in the Wool". Braeden died unexpectedly on December 30th 2022. Five copies have been sent to his family, who've told us they cherish that Braeden's creative work has been memorialised in print. They will continue to receive the royalties from sales of his work.

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Yes, Alex is a big Call of Cthulhu fan. We do plan to release The Macabre Joke in English in due course, but have no release date yet.

-- David Waldron receiving the prize at the awards ceremony in Melbourne, Australia -- Congratulations to Miskatonic Repository creator David Waldron, whose Call of Cthulhu creation William Bailey's Haunted Mansion is a winner at the 2023 Victorian Community History Awards. This commendation for the History Interpretation Award, recognising "projects which use unique formats of historical interpretation", was given in a ceremony in Melbourne, Australia today by the Royal Historical Society of Victoria in conjunction with the Public Record Office Victoria. First presented as a live actual play production at the Ballarat Heritage Festival in May 2023, William Bailey's Haunted Mansion was published as a one-shot adventure on the Miskatonic Repository, Chaosium's platform for independent Call of Cthulhu creators at DriveThruRPG, in October 2023. Set in the turbulent 1890s of the historic city of Ballarat in Victoria's Goldfields, Australia, the scenario explores some of the places, figures and legends in that folklore and the machinations of a real but today largely forgotten cult which operated in western Victoria in the late 19th century; the New Lights or Stephenites, named after their ruthless and charismatic leader Stephen. Chaosium vice president Michael O'Brien said, "William Bailey's Haunted Mansion is a masterclass of showing how you can deftly concoct a (fictional) Cthulhu Mythos tale out of real historical happenings, bringing in known locations, authentic artefacts and documents, and actual people who lived at the time. We congratulate David Waldron and the talented players and musicians who brought the story to life at the gaming table, and have now published the scenario and received recognition with this award." William Bailey's Haunted Mansion is available in PDF and print (POD) formats at DriveThruRPG.

They will go sale very soon, hopefully early next week.