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From time-to-time humans opportunistically come to settle on the fringes of this rich, fertile and seemingly uninhabited region of Dragon Pass, dismissing the cautions of their neighbors. They might even live and prosper there for years, undisturbed or ignored by the dragonewts. And then, without warning, the dragonewts come and exterminate them. And people forget and the cycle continues... Yep, Mostali society resembles Alpha Complex, with the clones all professing to be loyal citizens yet each harboring guilty secrets, heresies, and mutations. The World Machine is your friend...

Here's what that FB post said, and the images shared: Our massive new Call of Cthulhu campaign THE CHILDREN OF FEAR will be out in PDF early next week; and in full-color hardcover early next year. As always, if you buy the PDF from Chaosium.com you get the full price of the PDF off the cost of the printed book when it is out. Among the downloads you'll receive is a 44 page Handouts and Map Pack, featuring the superlative cartography of Vandel J. Arden, Matt Ryan, and Olivier Sanfilippo. The maps, handouts etc are included in the book, but can be downloaded for printing separately.

Wearing Mod Hat: This thread has diverged a long way from the initial topic. Folks, you want to continue having a discussion about representation of female characters across the editions of KAP, please go start another thread. If you wish to continue discussing the KAP6 Quickstart, cool. But @Atgxtg, you've already said on another thread that KAP6 is going to be a "dealbreaker" for you and you won't be picking it up, so you might want to move on to something else.

Artwork from Berlin the Wicked City is the Cthulhuween selection for Day 21. This is 'Getting Around' by Sam Beck. Available at our Redbubble store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/chaosium/works/59559077-cthulhuween-day-21-getting-around-by-sam-beck

'A Narrow Escape' by Victor Leza is Julia's pic for Day 20 of Cthulhuween. It's from the Pulp Cthulhu campaign A Cold Fire Within. This, and lots of other cool art, available at Redbubble! https://www.redbubble.com/people/chaosium/works/59558850-cthulhuween-day-20-narrow-escape-by-victor-leza

Our Pendragon 6th Edition Quickstart preview 'The Adventure of the Great Hunt' is now also available at the Chaosium itch.io page, along with plenty of other free downloadable Chaosium content: https://chaosium.itch.io/the-adventure-of-the-great-hunt

Last weekend the first Miskatonic Repository Con was held online, organised by Miskatonic Repository creators themselves. Chaosium’s global community of players got a chance to see the best that Chaosium’s community creators have to offer, with Keepers from the Cult of Chaos running gaming sessions, and Repository creators themselves playtesting their own scenarios. In addition to all the gaming, the con featured two panels which will be of interest to prospective community content creators: Publishing Panel Are you looking to publish your Call of Cthulhu scenario or supplement? Chaosium's online collection of user-made content - the Miskatonic Repository - allows creators to sell their own original Call of Cthulhu material. The community of creators that has developed around the Miskatonic Repository provides a ready-resource for any authors looking to get their start, but who are struggling with developing their ideas or navigating the process of turning them into published products. In this panel from the first ever Miskatonic Repository Convention, Meredith Gerber, RPG Publisher Relations Representative for DriveThruRPG, leads a discussion of what it takes to publish on the Miskatonic Repository. She is joined by Chaosium vice president Michael O'Brien; writer and reviewer Pookie from the Reviews from R'lyeh blog; RPG designer and game design lecturer Marek Golonka; and from Golden Goblin Press, author William Adcock. Writing Panel Are you a new RPG writer working on your Call of Cthulhu scenario or supplement? Writing within the Cthulhu Mythos, where death and madness may lurk behind every door, poses a number of unique design challenges for even veteran authors. Chaosium's online collection of user-made content - the Miskatonic Repository - allows creators to sell their own original Call of Cthulhu material and explore some of these challenges while putting their own spin on the Cthulhu Mythos. The community of creators that has developed around the Miskatonic Repository provides a ready-resource for authors looking for help with their writing, whether it be help with brainstorming, sensitivity reading, editing, layout, and much else. In this panel from the first ever Miskatonic Repository Convention, author Heinrich Moore leads a discussion on writing for the Miskatonic Repository. He is joined by Chaosium Creative Director Mike Mason; author Jon Hook from the Miskatonic University Podcast; author Matthew Sanderson from the podcast The Good Friends of Jackson Elias; and president of Golden Goblin Press, Oscar Rios. Chaosium thanks Niels Von Douten, Marek Golonka and the rest of the organising team for staging the convention, the volunteer Keepers who ran the games, and Max Writer for recording and posting these videos.

https://www.redbubble.com/people/chaosium/works/59558623-cthulhuween-day-19-mansions-of-madness-vol-1-cover-by-lee-gibbons We got Lee Gibbons, cover artist of the original Mansions of Madness (1990) to do the cover art for the new 2020 edition. And it is the #Cthulhuween art for Day 19. Get it over on Redbubble on various merch items.

Middle of November, unfortunately. Covid shipping delays out of our control.

With its ruling patterns and marginalia, Simeon Cogswell's beautiful layout of our new Pendragon 6th Ed Quickstart 'The Adventure of the Great Hunt' is designed to evoke a medieval manuscript. (The last image is from the Manesse Codex, an actual medieval manuscript, for comparison).

Released! https://www.chaosium.com/blogthe-adventure-of-the-great-hunt-a-quickstart-preview-of-greg-staffords-ultimate-edition-for-the-pendragon-rpg

If you'd like to know more about what's in store with the forthcoming Pendragon 6th edition, definitely have a listen to the latest episode of The Smart Party. Gaz and Baz talk to Pendragon line editor David Larkins. David also drops news about a new KAP-related Kickstarter... https://www.whatwouldthesmartpartydo.com/2020/10/18/king-arthur-pendragon

Cthulhuween Day 18 is Dagon Moor by Caleb Cleveland. From Cthulhu Dark Ages! https://www.redbubble.com/people/chaosium/works/59558339-cthulhuween-day-18-dagon-moor-by-caleb-cleveland

Those steep steps got very icy during the Great Winter too; nasty place for undernourished old folks to be clambering about, especially in those heavy ceremonial vestments...

And here it is... Pendragon veterans will find that the fundamentals of the game remain the same, with subtle modifications reflecting the culmination of nearly three decades’ refinement of Greg’s vision of Arthurian fantasy. For newcomers to Pendragon, everything you need to experience the Pendragon system is here in The Adventure of the Great Hunt: the core rules, a scenario playable in a single session, and six pre-generated characters.

Free download marking the second anniversary of Greg Stafford's passing #weareallus This week Chaosium marks the second anniversary of the passing of Greg Stafford, the company founder and its original creative visionary. With the hashtag #WeAreAllUs, we commemorate Greg as one of the greatest game designers of all time; winner of too many awards to count; and a friend, mentor, guide, and inspiration to generations of gamers. While Greg Stafford's influence on the universe of tabletop gaming is beyond measure, he considered the King Arthur Pendragon RPG his masterpiece. And this year for #WeAreAllUs, we salute Greg’s magnum opus with a free sneak peak of the 6th Edition core rules and an accompanying scenario, The Adventure of the Great Hunt, originally outlined by Greg way back in 1991 and presented here in print for the first time. Greg started work on the new edition ten years ago. Since that time, it has gone through multiple development phases and is at last nearly ready for its public debut. He called this, and always intended it to be, his “ultimate edition” and we are proud to see it finally coming to fruition. "Pendragon veterans will find that the fundamentals of the game remain the same, with subtle modifications reflecting the culmination of nearly three decades’ refinement of Greg’s vision of Arthurian fantasy", said Pendragon line editor David Larkins. For newcomers to Pendragon, everything you need to experience the Pendragon system is here in The Adventure of the Great Hunt: the core rules, a scenario playable in a single session, and six pre-generated characters. Download your free copy of The Adventure of the Great Hunt here: The Great Hunt Pregen Characters for The Great Hunt Let us win glory for our king, who will reward us with honors and lands; and the devil take the hindermost!

"It's right behind you!" Cthulhuween art Day 17 is Mariusz Gandzel's cover for Gateways to Terror. Get it now over at Redbubble on various merch items: https://www.redbubble.com/people/chaosium/works/59557984-cthulhuween-day-17-gateways-to-terror-cover-by-mariusz-gandzel

Damn, another +1% to my illumination roll...

Michelle Lockamy's 'The Lizard of Hanging Rock' is Julia's Cthulhuween art selection for Day 16. It's from our sourcebook Terror Australis. Available at Redbubble! https://www.redbubble.com/people/chaosium/works/59074576-cthulhuween-day-16-the-lizard-of-hanging-rock-by-michelle-lockamy

Free PDF download. 26 pages. At this stage, no. We are going to do a Pendragon Starter Set in due course.

This week Chaosium is marking the second anniversary of the passing of company founder Greg Stafford. On Sunday we will launch 'The Adventure of the Great Hunt', a special Quickstart preview of Pendragon 6th Edition Rules, Greg's magnum opus. More details here:

This week Chaosium is marking the second anniversary of the passing of company founder Greg Stafford. On Sunday we will launch 'The Adventure of the Great Hunt', a special Quickstart preview of Pendragon 6th Edition Rules, his magnum opus. Greg started work on the new edition ten years ago. Since that time, it has gone through multiple development phases and is at last nearly ready for its public debut. He called this, and always intended it to be, his “ultimate edition” and we are proud to see it finally coming to fruition. #weareallus "Let us win glory for our king, who will reward us with honors and lands; and the devil take the hindermost!"

Julia's Cthulhuween art for Day 14 is 'Train to Berlin' by Chris Huth. It's one of the exquisite pieces in our sourcebook Berlin the Wicked City. https://www.redbubble.com/people/chaosium/works/59073893-cthulhuween-day-14-train-to-berlin-by-chris-huth And this is 'The Forbidden City of Yian-ho' from the Pulp Cthulhu supplement A Cold Fire Within. Artwork by Andrey Fetisov, and available Redbubble. Cthulhuween Day 15! https://www.redbubble.com/people/chaosium/works/59074174-cthulhuween-day-15-the-forbidden-city-of-yian-ho-by-andrey-fetisov

The Greg Stafford Memorial Award for Gloranthan Fandom was established in November 2018 in memory of Chaosium's revered founder and original creative visionary Greg Stafford. With the blessing of Greg's family Chaosium will occasionally and irregularly present the award to recognise a significant and exceptional contribution to Gloranthan Fandom in a current year. The inaugural recipient of the award, in November 2018, was Lev Lafayette, the driving force behind successfully bringing back RQ Con Down Under after a hiatus of twenty years. This week marks the second anniversary of Greg Stafford's passing, and we are pleased to present the awards for both 2019 and 2020. The 2019 Award The 2019 Greg Stafford Memorial Award for Gloranthan Fandom goes to Martin Helsdon. Martin created the impressive fan work The Armies and Enemies of Dragon Pass, based on Greg's writings. This 382 page opus has been a bestseller on our Jonstown Compendium community content platform, received rave reviews, and done much to promote interest in Gloranthan scholarship. (Martin has since followed this up with a new 182 page sequel and Art Packs from the series that can be used by other creators.) On receiving the award, Martin said: "I would like to express my thanks and gratitude in accepting the Greg Stafford Memorial Award for 2019. I am indebted to Greg Stafford and all the creators of Glorantha, past and present, for building a world of such inventive depth and extraordinary color for all of us to play in, whether we adventure there, run games there, or attempt to add to it. Glorantha is one of the few fictional worlds that really takes on a life of its own. For me it came alive when reading Cults of Prax, long ago, and I believe it still stands as one of the most influential and imaginative game books ever written. This was a world, I realized, with its own mythology and history, its own secrets and wonders, and every new boxed set and book became an object of anticipation, for the glimpses and insights they offered. I am deeply honored that my own contribution is thought a worthy addition. Thank you." The 2020 Award The 2020 Greg Stafford Memorial Award for Gloranthan Fandom goes to Nick Brooke. Nick Brooke has been a long-time passionate Glorantha fan and advocate of Gloranthan gaming. This year Nick has kicked that advocacy to another level through his support of the Jonstown Compendium, Chaosium's community content platform for Glorantha on DriveThruRPG. As well as releasing well-received products of his own, including The Duel at Dangerford, Nick is using the community content format to bring back Gloranthan material from the golden days of the 1990s including the gloriously updated A Rough Guide to Glamour. This is based on the Reaching Moon Megacorp Freeform that Greg so memorably played Great Sister in at RQ Con Down Under in 1998. It's great that via the Jonstown Compendium this sort of long out-of-print yet richly-resonant material has a means to reach an all-new audience of Glorantha fans, and Nick is a driving force behind that. In addition to releasing highly-received products of his own, Nick has also been very supportive and helpful to other creators, and maintains a comprehensive list of all the content being added on a weekly basis. The list has grown from 5 to 35 pages, and is being updated by Nick on a regular basis, reflecting the success of this fan-driven program and the growing interest in Greg's world. On receiving the award, Nick said: I am honoured to receive the Greg Stafford Memorial Award for 2020. I first met Greg 35 years ago; I think of him every day. He changed my life by introducing me to David Hall and the Reaching Moon Megacorp, the leading Gloranthan fan publisher of the 1990s. Now, through Chaosium's community content programme, everyone can publish works set in Glorantha -- the kind of easy-going creative collaboration Greg always encouraged. "Your Gloranthas Will Vary: please share them with us." It has been a pleasure to write for the Jonstown Compendium, and to support my fellow creators. My profound thanks go to Suzanne Stafford and the Chaosium board. I dedicate this award to Steve Thomas, who taught me everything I know about layout when we worked on Tales of the Reaching Moon magazine. JONSTOWN COMPENDIUM CREATIONS BY MARTIN HELSDON AND NICK BROOKE

Not quite every day, but we are about to announce something related to Greg (just not related to KAP, that will be later)