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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.

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Lynne Hardy's The Children of Fear is our newest Call of Cthulhu campaign, and we're printing it in Poland; the printer there has just sent us advance copies, and they look superb! The presses are rolling; will be shipping to our warehouses soon! And remember, if you buy the PDF direct from Chaosium.com now, you get the full price of the PDF off the printed book when it's out.

In past five years at DriveThruRPG MW and AS between them have barely sold 2-3 copies a month (if that), so we're gonna see if this moves the needle...

Advanced Sorcery is $2.99 as well.

Please note, Magic World is now no longer available in print format. As part of some reorganising at Chaosium.com, we have moved PDF sales of Magic World and Advanced Sorcery to DriveThruRPG, along with various other legacy titles: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/128323/Magic-World As noted at the beginning of this thread back in 2016, we know that Magic World has a small but devoted following, and we have no issue with Magic World continuing on as licensed/fan-produced product.

In his newest 'Out of the Suitcase' post, Chaosium president Rick Meints poses the question, was 1981 Chaosium's golden year? From his shelves, Rick shows off the impressive array of releases Chaosium fans were treated to 40 years ago. Plus, a solution to Rick's real-life Call of Cthulhu mystery from his last 'Out of the Suitcase' post... https://www.chaosium.com/blogout-of-the-suitcase-11-1981-a-golden-age-for-chaosium-plus-a-solution-to-ricks-reallife-call-of-cthulhu-mystery

That's correct, Magic World is now no longer available in print, but lives on in PDF at DriveThruRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/128323/Magic-World

Our board games editor Susan got a surprise in the mail today: a near-mint copy of Dragon Pass (Avalon Hill version) that had sat in someone local's collection undisturbed for nearly 30 years. This will be a handy reference as playtesting for the new edition continues. And although it came unpunched it won't stay that way for long, because Susan and her playtesting comrade @Andrew Bean believe that games are meant to be played...

We print our books in a variety of places, including Lithuania and Poland. The product then gets shipped to our various warehouses. Shipping from the EU to the UK used to be fairly seamless but since Brexit it has become complicated and slow. We don't print in the UK, the exception being our POD titles (these are printed locally by Lulu in various places around the world, including the UK).

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The Red Book of Magic will be out by June*. As always, if you buy the PDF direct from Chaosium now, you'll get the full price of the PDF off the cost of the physical book when it is out. *That is our plan but, as some other commenters have noted, the pandemic continues to severely disrupt international shipping movements and clearances. And Brexit has added additional challenges getting product into the UK.