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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.

"GAMING continues to prove its artistic credentials – not that they should be in any doubt at this point – and the latest example of the connection is cast in bronze and featuring in an important French art exhibition." —Game On Aus talks to the sculptor himself, Eric Vanel: https://www.gameonaus.com/news/runequest-character-sculpture-features-at-prestigious-art-exhibition-nsfw

In his latest "Out of the Suitcase" post, Rick has an intriguing real-life Call of Cthulhu mystery to solve... https://www.chaosium.com/blogout-of-the-suitcase-10-can-some-investigators-help-solve-this-mystery-with-library-use Although it is on the cover of the first edition rules booklet, Marvel Comics artist Gene Day drew this iconic depiction of Cthulhu several years before the RPG was even conceived of. Rick is trying to track down which publication Gene drew this for, and wonders if anyone can use their Library Use skill to find out more:

Now available as a MegaPack: Peru, New York, London, Egypt, Kenya, Australia, Shanghai! - our friends at Syrinscape have matched immersive background sounds and music to every scene in every chapter of Masks of Nyarlathotep, one of the greatest TTRPG adventures of all time! https://www.syrinscape.com/store/418-masks-megapack

Unfortunately, we do not sell the slipcase separately for Call of Cthulhu. nb the only reason why we have empty slipcases available for RuneQuest is because we sold the RQG core rule book before the other titles (Glorantha Bestiary, GM Screen Pack) that together comprise the RuneQuest slipcase set.

There's another few percent to add to my chance of Illumination next Sacred Time...

Roll 20's Q4 2020 Orr Report is out today – there are now 8 million users of the platform, and over 10% of the campaigns being played there are Call of Cthulhu. And throughout 2021 we're adding a whole lot of new Call of Cthulhu content to Roll20. So, as they say in the report, if ever there was a great time to get into battling eldritch gods, it’s now!

In his latest 'Out of the Suitcase' post, Rick talks some more about how he's updating a book that went out of print over 20 years ago – the Meints Index to Glorantha (MiG) https://www.chaosium.com/blogout-of-the-suitcase-9-more-about-the-mig

Jonstown Compendium creators – you will be aware we have a rule in place that a title must reach Electrum Seller status (250+ copies) before being eligible for Print-On-Demand. This is to assist OneBookShelf, who have limited capacity to add POD titles on their site. We are fortunate POD is allowed on our community programs at all (it was stopped for the DM's Guild), but that is kindly at OBS's discretion. However, please note that Chaosium may, from time-to-time, approve a Jonstown Compendium title for POD *before* it reaches 250+ sales. We may even approve a title for POD on initial release. This is at our discretion, and will be done for internal Chaosium business reasons. Please do not ask. If we want a particular title to be POD before it reaches Electrum sales status, we will get in touch with you! — MOB, Chaosium Inc.

Miskatonic Repository creators – you will be aware we have a rule in place that a title must reach Electrum Seller status (250+ copies) before being eligible for Print-On-Demand. This is to assist OneBookShelf, who have limited capacity to add POD titles on their site. We are fortunate POD is allowed on our community programs at all (it was stopped for the DM's Guild), but that is kindly at OBS's discretion. However, please note that Chaosium may, from time-to-time, approve a Miskatonic Repository title for POD *before* it reaches 250+ sales. We may even approve a title for POD on initial release. This is at our discretion, and will be done for internal Chaosium business reasons. Please do not ask. If we want a particular title to be POD before it reaches Electrum sales status, we will get in touch with you! — MOB, Chaosium Inc.

"30 Coins is structured like a tabletop role-playing game, with subplots following each other in a narrative that eventually reveals their close connections. The director said so himself, expressly citing the Call of Cthulhu campaigns The Masks of Nyarlathotep and Tatters of the King."—Polygon. '30 Coins' creator and director, the Spanish filmmaker Álex de la Iglesia, is a long-time fan of the Call of Cthulhu tabletop RPG.

Call of Cthulhu creative director Mike Mason describes the indescribable: here he talks to James Coquillat about the eldritch entities found within the pages of the Malleus Monstrorum, our newly-released Cthulhu Mythos Bestiary:

Finally some good news for our patient British Call of Cthulhu fans! – after two attempts, we got our Brexit-blighted Malleus Monstrorum shipment across the Channel and into our UK warehouse! In stock in all five Chaosium warehouses (US, UK, EU, AUS, CAN): Malleus Monstrorum Slipcase Set - USD$89.99 Malleus Monstrorum special Leatherette Edition - $199.99 Malleus Monstorum Keeper Deck - $29.99 Price includes PDF!

Roll20's latest 'Orr Report' is out – with over 100 million total play hours logged in Q3 2020, we're pleased to see Call of Cthulhu remains the second-most played game on Roll20, even growing by 10.05%! And as the report says, "with Compendium support and excellent modules like Harlem Unbound coming to the site, Call of Cthulhu’s growth isn’t surprising, and we expect to see it continue to flourish on Roll20, especially with some of the upcoming releases and developments on the horizon." https://blog.roll20.net/posts/the-orr-group-industry-report-q3-2020-breakout Throughout 2021 we'll be adding more Call of Cthulhu releases to Roll20 on a regular basis. Our existing titles include: Call of Cthulhu Starter Set - $24.99 Call of Cthulhu Quickstart Rules (inc. 'The Haunting' scenario) - FREE Call of Cthulhu Keeper Rulebook - $54.95 Call of Cthulhu Investigator Handbook - $44.95 Harlem Unbound - $44.99 Dead Light and Other Dark Turns - $14.99 (new!) The Lightless Beacon - FREE

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