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Here you go: http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/category/systems/upwind

Explore the Skies! UPWIND is a narrative style RPG set in a strange alternate world of floating island nations, flying sailing ships, long-lost technology, wild elemental powers, looming war &forgotten legacies. Curious? Click here for the free Quickstart: https://chaosium.com/upwind

Mohenjo Daro (the Bollywood epic, at least) is about as RuneQuest as you can get ("...before the British Raj, before the Mughals, before Christ, before Buddha, before India as we know it, there was... Mohenjo Daro").

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In this 'Out of the Suitcase' instalment, Rick looks at the special editions produced for Call of Cthulhu's 20th anniversary in 2001. (BTW, this year is the 40th anniversary of Call of Cthulhu. We have some special items underway to mark this milestone too. Look out for these later this year!) https://www.chaosium.com/blogout-of-the-suitcase-8-the-20th-anniversary-edition-call-of-cthulhu-rulebook

Yep, that's the point. The wheel rut thing is based on how things once were in China, where different provinces had different axle widths, so travelling any long distance tediously required multiple sets of axles. There might be some vestigial remnants of superior roadways from Pavis's heyday, but in the Zola Fel valley the easiest way to move stuff most of the year is by boat or barge.

Chaosium congratulates sculptor Eric Vanel! His depiction of Gloranthan heroine Jar-eel the Razoress, cast in bronze in the 'heroic nude' style of classical antiquity, has been selected for the Salon des Artistes Français 2021. The Salon was established by King Louis XIV in 1667, with the Société des Artistes Français holding annual exhibitions since 1881. This year's exhibition in Paris has been cancelled due to the pandemic, but you can find Jar Eel among many artworks of very talented artists in the virtual exhibition here: https://www.artistes-francais.com/catalogue-salon/

Good news for our UK Call of Cthulhu fans! – we've just got confirmation that our Brexit-blighted Malleus Monstrorum shipment has (finally!) made it across the Channel. We hope to have MM available for sale from our UK warehouse by early next week...

Unless the god chooses you. There are plenty of unknowing/unwitting/accidental Chosen Ones in literature and mythology, after all.

We occasionally get asked about removing the backgrounds from PDFs for home printing and readability. Here are the 4 easy steps in order to turn off the background from your Chaosium PDF: https://chaosium.com/removing-the-background-from-pdfs

Dicebreaker's recent interview with our board games editor Susan about the forthcoming new versions of Dragon Pass and Nomad Gods notes that Mark Smylie of Artesia fame is on board to do the cover art. We're really excited about that! Dicebreaker used this piece of Mark's to illustrate the post. The artwork depicts Lunar heroine Jar-eel marching forth from Mirin's Cross with her Lunar Army legions. It is cover art for Martin Helsdon's acclaimed Jonstown Compendium release 'The Armies and Enemies of Dragon Pass'. "The Lunar heroine Jar-eel leads an army out of the great southern gate of Mirin’s Cross upon the wide lower tier of the Daughter’s Road. She rests her arm on her famed harp, and stares resolutely ahead, prepared for the trials of a campaign against the rebels of the south..."

"Two board games created by late RuneQuest designer Greg Stafford and set in the fantasy world of Glorantha are returning to print for the first time in several decades, with the potential for an unreleased third game in the trilogy to finally see the light of day." — Dicebreaker talks to Chaosium board games line editor Susan O'Brien. https://www.dicebreaker.com/companies/chaosium/news/white-bear-red-moon-nomad-gods-new-editions

While there are windfalls of lumber in the winter floods, people from Pavis and Sun County know where it comes from and go get supplies of wood when they need it. For example, the great arrows shot from the machine at Harpoon are fashioned by specially trained artisans at the hamlet of High Water, several keymiles down river. The redwood tree trunks used for this come from the great forest around Leaping Place Lake at the headwaters of the Zola Fel. It is a difficult and dangerous journey floating them downstream through the troll-infested Desolation Hills, Pavis County and the Big Rubble to the Lands of the Sun. Ensuring a supply of these logs is one of the main responsibilities of the Men with the Golden Gun, and Auric Goldflinger has led three such expeditions in the past decade.

Great Dicebreaker article on the immense popularity of Call of Cthulhu in Japan: "Call of Cthulhu’s influence on tabletop roleplaying in Japan as a whole has even led to some players to consider Dungeons & Dragons as 'CoC playing sword and magic fantasy'", Sakamoto added. https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/call-of-cthulhu-rpg/news/call-of-cthulhu-dnd-japan-rpg

Call of Cthulhu creative director Mike Mason talks with James Coquillat about upcoming projects...

The Sun temple in New Pavis resembles the the great Sun Dome Temple but is constructed differently. It's adobe, like the rest of the buildings in New Pavis, with (I think) a dome made out gold-painted fabric stretched over a wooden frame. The great SDT (and the Old Sun Dome) is masonry - ashlar with a rubble core. The Yelmalio temples in Balazar are different again - they are made of cyclopean stone. The unifying feature is a hemispherical dome on a square. So while the New Pavis Yelmalio temple is built of inferior materials compared to the great Sun Dome Temple, that really doesn't matter. There are scriptural directives setting out exactly how you should build a Sun Dome Temple, based on Dawn Age Dara Happan military specifications. But the holy writ is all about dimensions, proportions, (golden) ratios and mathematics, rather than the building materials per se. If you could build one out of papier mache knock yourself out, it just has to match the divine plan. Light, not Earth: it's an ideal. You have to bring your temple into existence using whatever mortal materials you have.

There are two Sun Dome Temples in Prax - the Sun Dome Temple and the deconsecrated Old Sun Dome Temple, which is shunned, haunted, and not talked about. We know from sources that in design, construction and layout, they are absolutely identical. Both sites were constructed by Mostali stone masons from Pavis, in fact the very same masons worked on both from the original plans, which still exist in the temple archives.

The sacrifices @Andrew Bean makes for The Chaosium: punching out his pristine personal copy of Nomad Gods (1994 French edition) for today's playtesting session with board games editor Susan: During the Solitude of Testing, only Sun Dome leaders privy to the whole Truth know of that shameful time the Morocanth came pouring out of Vultures Country to combat the Bison Tribe for control of Sacred Prax. Morocanth controlled the Sun Dome Temple and summoned many strange Spirits, including obviously the Sun Hawk: At last, after many battles the Bison managed to repel the Morocanth outside Sacred Ground and drive them back into the Wastes. Aided by the Newtlings in Corflu and Baboons in Pavis:

Rick shares our historic Call of Cthulhu Master Product List for in his latest "Out of the Suitcase" post (and shows off his one of his impressive bookcases of the Chaosium archives): https://www.chaosium.com/blogout-of-the-suitcase-7-for-completists-collectors-catalogers-and-the-curious

Chaosium is distributing Upwind, the RPG fable of lost science, elemental magic, and unchartered skies. Originally produced by Nocturnal Media and Biohazard following a successful Kickstarter, Upwind is now available from Chaosium in full color hardcover and PDF, along with the Prophecy of the Grand Amplifier sourcebook. "Imagine Bakshi’s classic animated film Wizards has a head-on collision with Disney’s Treasure Planet and the resulting fire is put out with a whole lot of Studio Ghibli’s Castle in the Sky. That, in an unexpected, animated mash-up, is Upwind." Upwind is a narrative style RPG set in a strange alternate world of floating island nations, flying sailing ships, long-lost technology, wild elemental powers, looming war and forgotten legacies. Upwind is powered by the Q system, an original stakes-based, playing card-driven mechanic that gives every encounter consequences with meaningful, narrative-building outcomes. With its unique bidding rules, Upwind plays as fast as you can tell your story. UPWIND: available now from Chaosium's US, UK, EU, and AUS warehouses Upwind Core Rulebook - 224 page full color hardcover + PDF - $44.99 The Grand Amplifier Campaign - 120 page full color hardcover + PDF - $29.99 Both titles also available in PDF. Download the Upwind character sheet here.

The Call of Cthulhu release Dead Light and Other Dark Turns is now available on Roll20! https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/bundle/9356/dead-light-and-other-dark-turns

Saturday evening roleplaying: Jason Durall ran another LORDS OF THE MIDDLE SEA playtest! @Jason Dreports, "Tonight's session featured betrayal and a running battle in a hurricane over the Nebraska Sea between four ships: the Bella Dama, a Mexican Empire cargo airship and a gunship, and a zeppelin air-carrier out of the New Republic of California. Action packed white-knuckle suspense!"

Added to our 'Stay In and Game' Warehouse Sale: the 13th Age Glorantha special leatherette limited edition. Was $90.00, now $79.99. US & UK only, while stocks last. And the 13th Age Glorantha Hardcover is now $29.99, was $54.95 (Available in US, UK, EU, AUS). Again, while stocks last! Price includes PDF. And here, apropos on nothing is my favourite pic in the book:

Rick was sorting through some things when he came across William Church's original Dragon Pass and Prax maps from 1979. He talks about the quirky origins of Greg Stafford's place names on the map in his latest "Out of the Suitcase" post on our blog: https://chaosium.com/blogout-of-the-suitcase-6-maps-and-legends

COVID-19 Shipping and Fulfilment Update - 27 Jan, 2021 Posted by Michael O'Brien on 27th Jan 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 some disruptions to postage times. In Europe, we're experiencing delays to certain areas including Greece, Ireland, Italy, and Sweden. The current delivery time from our EU warehouse to these locations is 14 - 21 days. Additionally, due to Brexit-related complications our UK warehouse is currently unable ship orders to customers outside the UK, and UK customers cannot order from our EU warehouse. We will advise when this situation changes. 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. UK Malleus Monstrorum Update In our previous shipping and fulfilment update we mentioned our difficulties getting the Malleus Monstrorum slipcases across the Channel (due to Brexit-related congestion in Calais, our shipping agent regretfully had to send the pallet back to Poland). Michal, our resourceful chief of operations, has tried a different approach, with the new shipment instead landing in Bristol. However, the estimated delivery date for this was 27th January and unfortunately, according to the latest tracking information, the shipment is still in transit. This situation is beyond our control and we appreciate the ongoing patience of our UK customers! We will make an announcement when the Malleus Monstrorum shipment finally arrives in the UK. The Malleus Monstrorum slipcase set, special leatherette edition, and associated Malleus Monstrorum Keeper Deck is available now from all our other warehouses (US, EU, AUS, CAN). On behalf of the whole Chaosium team, wishing everyone all the best until the Stars are Right again. — Rick Meints, president Chaosium Inc. COVID-19 Shipping and Fulfilment Update - 15 February 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. 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. UK Warehouse - Malleus Monstrorum Update With great relief we can finally announce that our Malleus Monstrorum shipment finally (!) overcame Brexit challenges and successfully made its way over the Channel to our UK warehouse, albeit nearly six weeks later than anticipated. The Malleus Monstrorum slipcase set, special leatherette edition, and associated Malleus Monstrorum Keeper Deck are all now available to UK customers. And from our four other warehouses around the world too. These shipping delays are beyond our control and we appreciate everyone's patience! For now, due to ongoing Brexit-related complications our UK warehouse is currently unable ship orders to customers outside the UK, and UK customers cannot order from our EU warehouse. We are waiting for various issues to be sorted out, including delivery duties and fees that might need to be paid (this particularly impacts smaller purchases). We will advise when this situation changes. On behalf of the whole Chaosium team, wishing everyone all the best until the Stars are Right again. — Rick Meints, president Chaosium Inc.