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Since helping take over the reins at Chaosium five years ago, my writing has mostly had to be licensing, media releases and the like, rather than RPG stuff. So I am delighted my new RuneQuest scenario 'Fortunate Sun' is out now in the Jonstown Compendium, our community content platform for gaming in Glorantha at DriveThruRPG! The adventure is based on a convention scenario I wrote with Brian Hebert way back in 1993. It was a great pleasure working with Jonathan Webb @Incendiary Pig , @Nick Brooke, Dario Corallo, and @lordabdul Ludovic Chabant, revising and expanding this work for RQG, and seeing it updated with splendid new layout, art and maps (and lyrics*). You can find 'Fortunate Sun' in the new remastered edition of Sandheart Vol 2, the middle book in Jon's best-selling series of adventures in Sun County, Prax - that place in Glorantha (for all its faults) that is closest to my heart.

Now available on the Roll20 Virtual Tabletop, the Call of Cthulhu Investigator Handbook. The Investigator Handbook contains expanded rules for creating players characters, a wealth of over 100 occupations and skill descriptions, as well as guidance on getting the most from the game. It introduces a range of organizations for your investigator to belong to, detailed information about the classic 1920s setting, equipment and weapons for both the 1920s and modern day, and expert tips and advice for all budding and experienced players alike. Play with Less Prep Call of Cthulhu players will love having the Investigator Handbook at their fingertips during play. The book enhances the player experience and speeds gameplay thanks to a wealth of quick-reference charts, player advice and setting information. The Roll20 Investigator Handbook Bundle also includes the Investigator Handbook Token Pack, containing 42 art assets for use with your Roll20 games. More Call of Cthulhu available on Roll20! Look out for more Call of Cthulhu releases on the Chaosium Marketplace page at Roll20.com. Call of Cthulhu Quickstart Rules - including 'The Haunting' scenario (free) Call of Cthulhu Starter Set Call of Cthulhu Keeper Rulebook The Lightless Beacon scenario (free) Harlem Unbound And we are releasing many more Roll20 Call of Cthulhu titles in the coming weeks and months...

These softcover Call of Cthulhu titles are now available Print-on-Demand, direct from Chaosium.com! CHA23131-S-POD Call of Cthulhu Quickstart - POD - $9.95 - $7.46 CHA23143-S-POD Cold Harvest - POD - $14.95 $11.21 CHA23146-S-POD Cthulhu Through the Ages - POD - $14.95 $11.21 CHA23133-S-POD Nameless Horrors - POD - $34.95 $26.21 CHA23134-S-POD Ripples from Carcosa - POD - $14.95 $11.21 CHA23157-S-POD Scritch Scratch - POD - $9.99 - $7.49 CHA23163-S-POD The Shadow over Providence - POD - $9.99 - $7.49 25% off - to December 31st, 2020 Please note, if you previously purchased one of these titles in PDF, there is NO discount to purchase the POD print version. However, until the end of the year (December 31st, 2020) all our POD titles are 25% off (check out the RuneQuest Classic POD titles too). The 25% discount is applied at Checkout. Ordering POD titles are printed and shipped by Lulu. It will take a minimum seven days for Lulu to print your order. Shipping for our POD products is calculated separately from our other products as they ship directly from the Lulu warehouses (USA, UK, Australia) directly to your address. You will get notified via email as your order moves through the production and shipping process. PDF is included in the price.

FYI, the new version is 90 pages, the MR version was 60. Now has 243 entries, with two versions of the ready to play investigator added, a new Getting Started section which provides guidance on using or adapting certain rules for solo play (inc. combat rules, Luck, and Insanity), all of the entries now have ‘back-track links’ - allowing you to back track your route, new interior art, new cover art. This edition can also be used with just the Starter Set (original MR version would have needed the full Rulebook to play).

Something to play if you're stuck at home over Thanksgiving - we'll be releasing our newest solo Call of Cthulhu adventure next week! (and congratulations to Miskatonic Repository creator Nicholas Johnson)

Now available at our itch-io page, the 24 page handouts pack for Cthulhu Dark Ages – all the Keeper resources, maps, player handouts, pre-gen characters, and the Cthulhu Dark Ages character sheet. It's a free download: print them and use them again and again! https://chaosium.itch.io/cthulhu-dark-ages

Now available at our itch-io page, the 141 page handouts pack for our new epic Call of Cthulhu campaign, THE CHILDREN OF FEAR – all the Keeper resources, maps, player handouts, and pre-gen characters. It's a free download: print them and use them again and again! https://chaosium.itch.io/the-children-of-fear

RIVERS OF LONDON creator Ben Aaronovitch talks to Charles Dunwoody of ENWorld about how novel writing is the "crack cocaine of world building" and what he's looking forward to in our Rivers of London RPG, currently in development. https://www.enworld.org/threads/meet-ben-aaronovitch-author-of-rivers-of-london.676207/#post-8120598

In the lead-up to their charity stream this Friday our friends at The Call of Cthulhu Mystery Program are doing a give-away of Mansions of Madness: https://twitter.com/CthulhuMystery/status/1326549480984899584

More Gloranthan treasure in the mail today from Campaign Coins... a horde of Seshnelan Silver Imperials, Sartarite Guilders, Sentanos Ducats, and Kralorelan copper Cash!

"We have adventured in Greg Stafford's Glorantha for decades, so it is an incredible honour to make the coins of this extraordinary bronze age world of myth and heroism. There is no game like it." New RuneQuest - Glorantha coins, from our friends at Campaign Coins - may Issaries continue to bring you good fortune! RuneQuest Series 2 coins available now: https://campaigncoins.com/runequest

The award-winning actual play audio drama, The Call of Cthulhu Mystery Program and Chaosium, renowned publishers of the Call of Cthulhu tabletop roleplaying game, have joined forces for a live charity spectacle! Behold as horror and hilarity unfold before your very eyes as a cast of audio dramatists and roleplayers explore "The Crack’d and Crook’d Manse". It’s two nights of improvised tabletop storytelling - like only Mystery Program can make - with cinematic music and sound effects, surreal old-timey radio adverts, and laugh out loud mayhem: November, Friday November 13th and Saturday November 14th - 7pm Eastern at CthulhuMystery.com/LIVE (4pm PST / 14th Nov midnight GMT, 1am CET, 11am AEDT) What’s more, this presentation isn’t just thrills and chills, it's benefiting the Transgender Law Center. Audience donations can alter the destiny of the players, boosting vital stats like sanity, and viewers have a chance to win digital and physical copies of Chaosium's recently remastered tome: Mansions of Madness! Bear witness to our stellar cast as they succumb to improvised imperilment: Sawyer Greene of This Planet Needs a Name, Caleb Del Rio of Valence and Inn Between, Dottie Vox of Dungeons & Doritos, Mystery Program alum Joshua La Forge also of Ghostbusters: Resurrection and RPG From Scratch, along with series showrunner, Cat Blackard, and Keeper Luke Stram.

COVID-19 Shipping and Fulfilment Update - November 6th We hope that you, your family, and your friends continue to be in good health. Throughout this challenging year, while there has been some delays in the mail at different times and places, fortunately we've been able to keep our fulfilment warehouses in the USA, UK, Poland, Canada, and Australia open throughout. If you want to check the status of your order, you can always drop Dustin a line: dustin@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. The Covid-19 pandemic is also causing disruptions to international freight movements. These too are out of our control, and has meant we've had to push back some release dates. Fortunately, we have just received confirmation that the Malleus Monstrorum shipment will arrive in the US on November 12, and in Australia few days earlier. These shipments then need to clear customs and be transported to our warehouses, but we hope to have the Malleus Monstrorum slipcase available for sale in these locations before the end of the month. UK, EU, and Canada will be a few weeks after that. We will announce any changes to our shipping and fulfilment status as the situation continues to unfold. We thank you for being patient with inconsistent shipping times and also appreciate people buying direct. It has helped the company in these trying times. On behalf of the whole Chaosium team, wishing everyone all the best until the Stars are Right again. — Rick Meints, president Chaosium Inc.

Has been solved: https://www.redbubble.com/studio/promote/60278463

Correct! Yes, as you can above, the image is on the tin. The jigsaws come up in different sizes up to 1000 pieces - the puzzle above is 500 pieces. https://www.redbubble.com/studio/promote/60278463

Jonstown Compendium creators – check out these Art Packs by fellow creators Martin Helsdon and Dario Corallo! Martin and Dario have both given permission to purchasers to use these illustrations in Jonstown Compendium publications (with a credit to the artist). The labels can be removed, and the images reduced in size, but no other changes can be made for publication without permission. And GMs and players can use them too! Solely for their own use in handouts and character sheets, but not for wider publication. https://www.chaosium.com/blogjourney-to-jonstown-16-art-packs-by-creators

We did a test print of some cover art and it came out wonderfully (who can guess what the puzzle image is?) Hint: this is the right channel for this

Gearing up for the approaching holiday season, we now have a selection of Chaosium jigsaw puzzles at our Redbubble store. We did a test print of some cover art and it came out wonderfully (who can guess what the puzzle image is?)

Early reviews of The Children of Fear, our new epic multi-part campaign for Call of Cthulhu, are stunning! Paul St John Mackintosh, paulstjohnmackintosh.com, says, "Unreservedly recommended... a gem and an instant classic. What an incredible odyssey this is through different mythologies and belief-systems. Players will encounter creatures and situations that will likely stun and bewilder them, as well as just challenging them to all kinds of contests of brain and brawn." As for the physical quality of the book and all its handouts and maps, it looks to me like a new high in Chaosium’s current, brilliant spate of high-quality design and art direction... Even a fantastic job of book production like the updated 7th edition Masks of Nyarlathotep rather tends to fade into the background in comparison with The Children of Fear." Read the full review here. Andrew Logan Montgomery, Exploring the Otherworlds of Fiction, Magic, and Gaming, says, "This is another campaign you are going to want, especially if you have any interest in a Call of Cthulhu campaign that shakes things up a bit. Full of colorful detail and explanation, you need know nothing about Theosophy, esoteric Buddhism, Chinese legends, or Tibet to run it. It has all the detail you need." "Loaded with hand-outs, pre-generated characters, new monsters, new spells, and a ton of resources, The Children of Fear is more evidence that Chaosium has cracked the code on how to make a massive, sprawling campaign accessible." Read the full review here. https://www.chaosium.com/blogunnatural-selections-35-early-reviews-of-the-children-of-fear-are-stunning

Astral TableTop is a Virtual Tabletop (VTT), partnered with DriveThruRPG. There’s a special demo experience for Call of Cthulhu, and now the Call of Cthulhu Quickstart is also available! With Astral you can build custom maps; add sound, weather, and atmospheric effects; track combat; upload documents for any tabletop RPG ruleset. Astral's combat manager and dice roller can be used on smartphones or tablets to enhance in-person game sessions. See more about Astral on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Now more than ever, it can be difficult for you and your friends to get together in the same place for a session of tabletop roleplaying. To make your online gaming experience as easy and as fun as your regular tabletop gaming, the team at Chaosium has put together some Top Tips for Online Gaming and has some recommendations as to what published scenarios you should consider trying out online.

You are welcome to do a non-commercial fan translation of the Quickstart in Italian, which we can share on our itch-io page. #siamotuttinoi

Thanks to a fan translation, over on our itch-io site Greg Stafford's 'The Adventure of the Great Hunt' KAP6 Preview is now also available in Russian! #МыЕсмыВсехНасъ https://chaosium.itch.io/the-adventure-of-the-great-hunt

Egg Embry interviews The Children of Fear author Lynne Hardy. Lynne talks about what inspired the project, what sorts of twists the players will face, and with the 1920s Asia setting, what steps did Chaosium take to insure this epic Call of Cthulhu campaign is culturally sensitive. https://www.highlevelgames.ca/blog/the-children-of-fear-an-interview-with-lynne-hardy-chaosium

Praise for the Call of Cthulhu Starter Set, from critics and fans alike! https://www.chaosium.com/blogheres-what-reviewers-and-fans-are-saying-about-the-call-of-cthulhu-starter-set

Allan is @Type40 here on BRP Central.