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The latest in our Chaosium Interview series features Lynne Hardy, line editor of our forthcoming Rivers of London RPG, which is based on the popular series of novels by Ben Aaronovitch. Lynne updates us on recent developments, including playtesting. She is talking with Chaosium's James Coquillat.

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Chaosium Inc, publisher of tabletop roleplaying properties including Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, King Arthur Pendragon, and 7th Sea, has appointed Daria Pilarczyk as its new Licensing Manager. "Chaosium is working with a growing range of commercial licensing partners around the world. Daria is an ideal person for this position, having gained her licensing experience on the other side of the business – since 2012 she has been part of Black Monk Games, bringing many foreign titles to the Polish market under license", said Chaosium's head of licensing and vice president, Michael O'Brien. Indeed, Daria was the project lead for Black Monk's wildly successful licensed Polish edition of Call of Cthulhu, which included the largest-ever funding campaign in Polish crowdfunding history. Daria's role at Chaosium involves monitoring the on-going execution of licensing agreements, ensuring they meet contractual requirements and maintain quality and brand values. She will also serve as a first point-of-contact for prospective and current licensees. Daria Pilarczyk company bio: Daria Pilarczyk Chaosium Commercial Licensing Chaosium Fan Use and Licensing Q&A

What you are doing is covered under the Fan Use policy: https://www.chaosium.com/fan-material-policy Just put this statement on your work and you're covered:

Chaosium's James Coquillat interviews Mike Mason about his creative director role, managing the different lines of the Call of Cthulhu RPG. Part of our 'Chaosium Interviews' series on YouTube.

Once again the pandemic-related disruptions to international shipping movements complicates things, but Children of Fear should be out in print in June. The finished 'Chaosium Unveiled video' was up for a few hours today inadvertently. nb Jimbo is able to make these videos in advance because we arrange for the printer to send fresh-off-the-presses copies his way by courier. The rest are coming by shipping container from Poland.

Two million Critters, exposed to the madness of Call of Cthulhu! Critical Role's acclaimed one-shot "Shadow of the Crystal Palace" has just clicked over 2,000,000 views on YouTube! This special Call of Cthulhu one-shot features Keeper of Arcane Lore Taliesin Jaffe guiding investigators Marisha Ray, Erika Ishii, Phil LaMarr, Travis Willingham, Ashly Burch, and Liam O'Brien through a horrifying adventure. Pick up the Call of Cthulhu Starter Set for a cosmic horror adventure of your own and use the code CriticalRole at check out for 10% off your entire order at Chaosium.com.

A new addition to the Community Ambassador team: welcome Bridgett!

A new addition to the Community Ambassador team: welcome Bridgett!

Chaosium is pleased to welcome Bridgett Jeffries to its Community Ambassador team, which supports independent creators in its community content programs on DriveThruRPG. Along with existing Community Ambassadors Allan Carey and Nick Brooke, on Chaosium's behalf, Bridgett will act as a first point-of-call and helpful sound board for prospective Miskatonic Repository and Jonstown Compendium content creators. Bridgett says she heard the Call of Cthulhu about 10 years ago and has been madly in love with the game ever since. Bridgett's own independently-created scenarios can be found on the Miskatonic Repository. She is also now writing Call of Cthulhu material directly for Chaosium, and is part of the Rivers of London RPG development team. The recently-published Gnome Stew article "You Too Can Self-Publish Call of Cthulhu" was written by Bridgett, and is essential reading for aspiring community creators: "Bridgett told us she wrote the Gnome Stew article to inspire and encourage independent Call of Cthulhu creators, and offer plenty of helpful advice and links to where you can get more of both. This is exactly what we're looking for in a Community Ambassador, and we're happy to have her on board.", said Chaosium vice president Michael O'Brien. Chaosium's Community Ambassadors Allan, Bridgett, and Nick are here provide advice with 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. Our Community Ambassadors can also direct queries to the appropriate person at Chaosium or DriveThruRPG if need be. 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. The Jonstown Compendium, established in December 2019, fulfils the same function for RuneQuest and Greg Stafford's world of Glorantha. 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.

As it happens... 31. The glow of the Faro Wheel can be seen for great distances and serves as a helpful navigational beacon, drawing in ships through the Troll Straits and from across the Mirrorsea Bay. (T) from here:

As we note in the Jonstown Compendium Guidelines, “Your Glorantha Will Vary” is long-established principle in Gloranthan fandom. While we strive to ensure that official Chaosium publications stick to canon, that is a restriction on our interpretations of Glorantha, not yours. Your Glorantha can vary as much or as little as you want for what you create for the Jonstown Compendium, or in your own games. What @Sir_Godspeedsaid in the quote above (the very first reply in the thread) succinctly and satisfactorily defines what Gloranthan canon is and how it is - and isn't - applied. Magister dixit.

Chaosium Inc, publisher of the Call of Cthulhu and RuneQuest tabletop roleplaying games, welcomes award-winning artist Loïc Muzy to the Chaosium team. Loïc has formally joined the company as Staff Artist. A professional illustrator in France for more than 10 years, Loïc works mainly in the field of role-playing games. His award-winning work is well known from the English and French editions of Call of Cthulhu, and can be seen in other RPG lines including Les Lames du Cardinal. Loïc's cover art for the critically acclaimed 2019 Call of Cthulhu release Berlin the Wicked City won multiple awards. His art for 2017's Petersen Field Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors won the Gold ENnie for Best Interior Art. Loïc's work also features extensively in Chaosium's new edition of The Malleus Monstrorum, a two volume collection that vividly portrays over 250 alien and otherworldly horrors of the Cthulhu Mythos. "The Lovecraft Mythos is a something of a red thread in Loïc's career; to date, he has produced more than 1000 illustrations for this universe – but we're delighted he likes to experiment with new settings too, such as RuneQuest's world of Glorantha", said Chaosium creative director Jeff Richard. Loïc's current major project is working closely with Jeff on The Gods of Glorantha, a monumental compendium of all the religions in Greg Stafford's Glorantha, setting for the RuneQuest RPG.

"...Most TTRPGs treated gods as a sort of theological ConEd for wandering clerics. Gods had different names and superficial attributes, but otherwise their cults were much of a muchness, with no actual doctrinal differences. One notable exception was Chaosium’s RuneQuest, particularly those supplements set in Greg Stafford’s gaming world of Glorantha. Glorantha is a Bronze Age world featuring legions of gods and just as many cults." James David Nicholl at Tor.com discusses religion in fantasy, and cites RuneQuest as the standout example of a TTRPG where religion is more than "a bland background noise". https://www.tor.com/2021/05/03/five-fantasy-novels-featuring-gods-and-religious-sects

Great news: our one-on-one scenario collection Does Love Forgive? is now available from all our warehouse locations including Canada and finally Australia! 64 page full color softcover: $12.99 includes PDF https://www.chaosium.com/does-love-forgive?

Here you go: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/newcometgames/corsairs-of-cthulhu-a-call-of-cthulhu-campaign-book/description

More about the Great House, the Faro Wheel, the Pharaoh/oah*, and Belintar breaking the bank in this thread: *long ago in my undergrad university days – back when the work we submitted was handwritten, and if you wanted to check your spelling, you had to look it up in a damn dictionary – I got a distinction for an essay about ancient Egypt. When handing it back to me the lecturer said it really deserved a high distinction, but for the fact I'd used three different spellings for Pharaoh throughout, and all wrong.

The Great House – the original manor of Talar Barat - is a two story round building in the centre of Casin Town. It houses the Faro Wheel, the strange artifact the Talar retrieved from the Clanking Ruins. Because wagers on the Faro Wheel can be made with intangible concepts (runic affinities, mana, life-force, perception etc), Ingareen statisticians have long disputed what the Great House’s house edge actually is. But it is said Talar Barat’s beard turned gray that day Belintar "broke the bank" on the Faro Wheel.

When Pendragon goes WEIRD... in the latest of our 'Chaosium Interviews' David Larkins talks to James Coquillat about some of the stranger sessions of the King Arthur Pendragon RPG he has run in the past...

And with that cogent response, there is little of use to be gained from further discussion here.

FYI there are quite a few titles still not showing. I had some concerned Miskatonic Repository and Jonstown Compendium creators ask about this, so I got in touch directly with the ENnies. They said they have quite a backlog of entries to get through, and their list so far only goes up to April 20. The confusion is understandable because their update says April 30.

That is correct. That is also correct. And nor are creators in the Jonstown Compendium, where you will find the aforementioned A Rough Guide to Glamour.

Chaosium Unveiled takes a quick look at our Beyond the Mountains of Madness reprint. If you've always wanted a copy of this long-out-print classic campaign, now you can – it's back in hardcover and much-easier-to-read two column layout!

While we at Chaosium are of course pleased to see our official releases receiving postive reviews, it's positively delightful to see releases by independent creators in our community content programs at DriveThruRPG getting critical acclaim too!For example, RPG historian Shannon Appelcline – who knows a thing or two about RPGs – says Andrew Logan Montgomery's Jonstown Compendium release Six Seasons in Sartar is "One of the best RuneQuest adventures ever." How's that for high praise?Shannon's whole review is worth reading, and a testament to the quality of the material in our community content programs being produced by independent creators: And Andrew's recently-released sequel to Six Seasons in Sartar, The Company of Dragon, has racked up similar high praise from RuneQuest fans.More recent praise of many other Chaosium community content titles here! CHECK OUT THESE COMMUNITY CONTENT TITLES AND MANY MORE IN THE MISKATONIC REPOSITORY (CALL OF CTHULHU) AND JONSTOWN COMPENDIUM (RUNEQUEST) AT DRIVETHRURPG!