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Quant à savoir pourquoi ils ont montré l'édition Chaosium de RuneQuest dans leur diapositive, vous devrez demander aux personnes du Prix Rôliste Prize

Received in the mail today – lovely to see my RuneQuest scenario 'Fortunate Sun' in glorious hardback! And it's been a delight to be part of Jon Webb's best-selling 'Sandheart' trilogy set in Sun County, Prax - that place in Glorantha (for all its faults) that is closest to my heart.

In the latest of our Chaosium Interview series, RuneQuest creative director Jason Durall discusses more about what's to come in the RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha product line including the RuneQuest Starter Set. Jason is talking with Chaosium's James Coquillat.

The Starter Set for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha is coming! Between now and its release later this year, RuneQuest creative director Jason Durall's Design Diary will share insights about the development of this exciting new boxed set which will introduce the RuneQuest RPG and Greg Stafford's mythic world of Glorantha to all-new audiences. @Jason D: Two years ago, in the center of Chaosium’s booth at Essen Spiel, the largest game convention in the world, I sat down with my colleagues Jeff Richard, Rick Meints, and Neil Robinson to plan a Starter Set for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha. It was the middle of a long day full of meetings with international partners and working the booth. The Call of Cthulhu Starter Set was on sale and receiving a wonderful across-the-board response, giving us hands-on feedback as customers from all over the world bought it and looked through the display copy. Design Goals This enthusiasm made it clear that we needed to make a Starter Set a priority for RuneQuest and for the company as a whole. So sitting in a small table in the middle of the teeming exhibition hall, as thousands of game players wandered past, together we established the following creative and design goals: First and foremost was to make a wholly accessible product to newcomers, instilling in them an enthusiasm for the world of Glorantha and the RuneQuest game system and the confidence to jump right in and start playing. We would draw from the valuable experiences making the runaway bestseller Call of Cthulhu Starter Set and the Ennie-award-winning RuneQuest Quickstart & Adventure. The RuneQuest version had to appeal to new and old fans of the line equally. Many starter sets are limited in that regard: we wanted something everyone could use and enjoy. Under no circumstances would it be a throwaway product to be used once and discarded, after a short introductory play experience. It needed to have ‘legs’, as they say. Rather than a stripped-down or abstracted version of the rules, the system would be presented as closely to the regular game line as possible. We wanted this to be an easy step into RuneQuest and Glorantha, as compatible with other products as we could make it. Once those goals were established, the next steps became clear, and it began to take shape in our minds. This would also be a deluxe product, staggeringly good value for the price ($USD29.99). But the most important aspect was that it be a manageable product, something that would let new players and gamemasters have an easy entry to one of the most well-developed settings in all of fantasy roleplaying. As one can expect, though, the exact contents shifted back and forth over the course of development, but finally have focused into a product we’re very happy with and can’t wait to share with everyone! Next Design Diary: Cover art reveal and what's inside the Box! Also, in the latest of our Chaosium Interview series, Jason discusses more about what's to come in the RuneQuest product line including the RQ Starter Set:

This is one of the last times we did actually sit around a table to have a board meeting. As the caption says, if only the table was round...

It probably helps that pretty much everyone in the company is an active gamer. We do have a company board though, but eldritch considerations mean we usually meet outdoors...

A quote from @Jason D:

Mythic Adventure; Culture and Community; Unique Adventurers; Brutal Combat — Check out everything that's going into the new RUNEQUEST STARTER SET! Just a few final tweaks and then it's off to printer...

COVID-19 Shipping and Fulfilment Update - 17 March 2021 We hope that you, your family, and your friends continue to be in good health. While our five fulfilment warehouses are all open (US, UK, AUS, EU, CAN), the Covid-19 pandemic continues to cause disruptions and delays to postage times in many places around the world. USA customers – please be aware we are currently experiencing shipping delays out of our US fulfilment warehouse, Bang Printing. Dustin has advised that Tyra, our account representative there, has been doing a heroic job keeping things moving. Nonetheless, March shipments, orders, and replacements are going out slower than normal. Bang have recently put on new staff (and Dustin also sent Tyra cookies over the weekend), and so we hope the US shipping situation improves soon. We appreciate people buying direct. It helps the company in these trying times. If you want to check the status of your order, you can always drop Dustin a line: customerservice@chaosium.com. And remember, while you're waiting for your physical shipment from Chaosium.com, you have the PDF already to read, play, and enjoy. On behalf of the whole Chaosium team, wishing everyone all the best until the Stars are Right again. — Rick Meints, president Chaosium Inc.

ATTENTION CREATORS: for the time being, going forward only English language titles will be eligible for Print-On-Demand in the Jonstown Compendium*. This restriction has been put in place for business and licensing reasons, and to help manage capacity for OBS/DriveThruRPG. Please remember the Jonstown Compendium is fortunate that POD is still an option at all; OBS/DriveThruRPG stopped POD altogether for some similar community content programs. *The title still must first meet the Electrum sales status (250+ copies in PDF) in order to qualify.

ATTENTION CREATORS: for the time being, only English language titles will be eligible for Print-On-Demand in the Miskatonic Repository community content program*. This restriction has been put in place for business and licensing reasons, and to help manage capacity for OBS/DriveThruRPG. Please remember the Miskatonic Repository is fortunate that POD is still an option at all; OBS/DriveThruRPG stopped POD altogether for some similar community content programs. *The title still must meet the Electrum sales status (250+ copies in PDF) first in order to qualify.

Children of Fear has been printed (in Poland) and is currently on the way to our fulfilment warehouses. This should take a month or two, but given the current highly disrupted state of international freight movements we can't give a precise release date.

Step-by-step, here's our friends at Really Dicey showing the simple and engaging process of creating a 7th Sea character:

In its "Obscure Games" series, the Ongoing Campaign blog looks at the fascinating premise and post-apocalyptic appeal of Chaosium's Lords of the Middle Sea board game – and is excited to learn there's now an RPG in the works too... http://ongoingcampaign.blogspot.com/2021/03/obscure-games-lords-of-middle-sea.html

Chaosium has been nominated in several categories for the 2020 Prix Rôliste Prize. These awards, staged by Rôliste TV and judged by a jury of prominent figures in the French media and actors, are described as a French equivalent of the ENnies. Chaosium's nominations are: Best Interior Design and Layout RuneQuest Roleplaying in Glorantha / RuneQuest Aventures dans Glorantha (Studio Deadcrows) Best Cover Art Berlin the Wicked City / Berlin, la dépravée (EDGE), art by Loïc Muzy Chaosium thanks the Prix Rôliste jury for these nominations and congratulates the other nominees. The winners will be announced at a virtual ceremony on March 27.

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Malleus Monstrorum is in stock in our UK warehouse for direct sales on Chaosium.com. Unfortunately, for the reasons Leisure Games gives above, we currently don't have sufficient stock in the UK to be able to send it out into retail distribution there. We are working finding an optimal way to get more stock into the UK.

The latest in our Chaosium Interview series is all about The Children of Fear, the epic new campaign by Lynne Hardy that reviewers have likened to Masks of Nyarlathotep and Horror on the Orient Express, promising to take a place as one of the greats of Call of Cthulhu. Chaosium's James Coquillat talks with Lynne about the extensive writing process that went in to creating this grand campaign. In this next interview, Lynne discusses her professional background, and how research influences her work:

Chaosium congratulates our friends at Studio Deadcrows – their local French edition of RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha was awarded the 2021 Graal d'Or for 'Best Reissue' (Création française et Rééditions)! The Graal d'Or Awards, presented by Groupement Azuréen d'Associations Ludiques, are usually held in person at the Festival International des Jeux de Cannes (International Games Festival) in Cannes, France every spring. This year due to the Covid-19 pandemic the awards were held virtually on March 5.

The Call of Cthulhu release Gateways to Terror is now available on Roll20!

In his latest 'Out of the Suitcase' post, Chaosium president Rick Meints looks at the company's earliest releases (from 1975 & 1976). As published on founder Greg Stafford's good old Gestetner mimeograph machine... https://www.chaosium.com/blogout-of-the-suitcase-12-the-chaosium-releases-from-1975-and-1976

Our Miskatonic Repository Community Ambassador Allan Carey invites prospective Call of Cthulhu creators and the Cthulhu Curious to an AMA with Call of Cthulhu Creative Director, Mike Mason, this coming Tuesday. Mike will answer your questions about writing for the Miskatonic Repository, Chaosium's program for independent creators of gaming material for the Call of Cthulhu tabletop roleplaying game. Live and free on the Miskatonic Repository Creator’s Circle Facebook group, all welcome. – 4pm EST Tuesday 2nd March – 9pm GMT Tuesday 2nd March – 8am AEDT (Australia East Coast) Wed 3rd March

An Evolving Tabletop Game set in Theah’s Most Interesting City Our friends at Pine Box Entertainment, publishers of the Doomtown Deadlands collectable card game, have announced the 7th Sea: City of Five Sails game is in development. 7th Sea: Five Sails is a hybrid card/board game of swashbuckling, sorcery, piracy, adventure, political intrigue, and skullduggery. Produced under license from Chaosium, it features key elements from John Wick's 7th Sea tabletop roleplaying game, incorporated into a rich, storyline driven tabletop experience. Players engage in combat duels that go back and forth with impending damage. Parry, riposte, and thrust at your opponent with the assistance of plot cards and attachments to damage and eliminate opposing crew members and mercenaries. Each Leader has their own unique playstyle with additional ways to obtain Hero Points, and forge a path towards victory. Alternatively, controlling the locations or assassinating the enemy leader will lead to domination over the City of Five Sails. Pine Box designers Case Lopez and Robert Croy have recently been joined by Legend of the Five Rings CCG designer Chris Medico and Transformers TCG designer Case Kiyonaga. Find out more about the game at the Pine Box Entertainment site: https://pineboxentertainment.com/2021/02/26/announcing-7th-sea-the-city-of-five-sails Pine Box are also looking for playtesters for 7th Sea: Five Sails! Email them here: pineboxentertainment@gmail.com.