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DEVIL'S GULCH might be a BRP supplement, but lends itself seamlessly for Call of Cthulhu's Down Darker Trails setting. You get a complete town and cast of characters, ideal as a base of operations for your Wild or Weird West campaign. And now it's only $7.99 (53% off) in our 'Stay at Home' spring-cleaning sale. US and UK warehouse only. Includes PDF. While stocks last. https://www.chaosium.com/devils-gulch

28% off – NAMELESS HORRORS - Six Reasons to Fear the Unknown is on special, part of our 'Stay at Home' spring-cleaning sale. Your players will not have encountered their like before, and no one will be on safe, comfortable ground... Available from our UK, EU and Australian warehouses only. While stocks last. https://www.chaosium.com/nameless-horrors

Today Chaosium's MOB (me) and Lynne met with Ben Aaronovitch and Genn, who manages Ben's newsletter (among many other things). Despite Ben's wonky internet's best efforts to derail everything, a great discussion was had about timelines, art briefs, and ideas for the Rivers of London RPG, which we have in development. This is an exciting project!

Voting is live for the UK Games Expo 'Peoples Choice' Awards and Chaosium has three titles in contention! Please vote for them at the link:– BEST ROLE-PLAYING GAME: RuneQuest Slipcase Set, Paladin - Warriors of Charlemagne– BEST ROLE-PLAYING EXPANSION: Berlin The Wicked City https://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/whats-on/show/awards-shortlist

Voting is live for the UK Games Expo 'Peoples Choice' Awards and Chaosium has three titles in contention! Please vote for them at the link:– BEST ROLE-PLAYING GAME: RuneQuest Slipcase Set, Paladin - Warriors of Charlemagne– BEST ROLE-PLAYING EXPANSION: Berlin The Wicked City https://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/whats-on/show/awards-shortlist

Voting is live for the UK Games Expo 'Peoples Choice' Awards and Chaosium has three titles in contention! Please vote for them at the link:– BEST ROLE-PLAYING GAME: RuneQuest Slipcase Set, Paladin - Warriors of Charlemagne– BEST ROLE-PLAYING EXPANSION: Berlin The Wicked City https://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/whats-on/show/awards-shortlist

And now the Rivers of London RPG creative team has been assembled! They'll be working closely with Ben Aaronovitch on the game's development and presentation. They are, in alphabetical order, Paul Fricker, Adam Gauntlett, Lloyd Gyan, Lynne Hardy, Gavin Inglis, Keris McDonald, Helena Nash, and Lucya Szachnowski. More details here: https://www.chaosium.com/blogrivers-of-london-rpg-the-creative-team-is-assembled

This thread continues to be my favourite thread on BRP like... ever!

Later this month

I got some Gloranthan treasure in the mail today... https://basicroleplaying.org/topic/12518-runequest-glorantha-coins-set-to-be-released-at-gen-con-online-by-campaign-coins/?do=findComment&comment=195267

I got some Gloranthan treasure in the mail today...

When you've finished playing our new one-to-one scenarios in Does Love Forgive? , check out Jon Hook's Spark of Life in the Miskatonic Repository. It's another adventure designed especially for one Keeper and one Investigator. More Call of Cthulhu to help you pass time in lockdown or socially isolate with a friend or loved one!

Gen Con Online is over, and was a great success! Across the past four days we successfully ran over 300 gaming sessions – and that's down to our wonderful crew of volunteer GMs from the Cult of Chaos: many, many thanks! We'd also like to give a shout-out of appreciation to our North American convention coordinator Todd, and our digital content team Jamie and David, for their tireless efforts keeping everything running smoothly behind the scenes. And the organisers of Gen Con Online itself: their ability to pivot from a massive in-person convention to an equally-massive online event was impressive! Over the next week or so we'll have all of our streamed and recorded content up for viewing on our YouTube Channel. Whether back in Indy or online again, Chaosium will see you next year at Gen Con! https://www.chaosium.com/bloggen-con-online-is-over-chaosium-thanks-cult-of-chaos-gms-for-making-it-a-great-success

It's now out:

Chaosium is pleased to announce that The Dragon’s Eye, a new sourcebook for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha, is in development. Originally conceived as “Your Glorantha May Vary”, this collection of locations demonstrates the versatility of the setting, putting that phrase to work by showing new and veteran gamemasters alike how to customize and make the world of Glorantha their own. The Dragon’s Eye gives gamemasters more possibilities than they can possibly use. For each location, the book details multiple ways to interpret it and use it in a campaign. Adventure hooks and engaging nonplayer characters get the adventurers involved in the action. From homely villages to the mind-bending limits of mortal reality, the adventurers encounter everything that Glorantha has to offer, expanding upon locations such as the Dragon’s Eye, the Wasp Nest, Wilmskirk, Old Wind Temple, and many more. The Dragon's Eye is being written by renowned game designer Jonathan Tweet. For decades, Jonathan’s roleplaying designs have shown players and gamemasters how to get more personality, drama, and action into their games. His design work includes Ars Magica, Everway, Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Ed, and 13th Age. For Glorantha, Jonathan co-wrote the RuneQuest 3rd Edition supplement Strangers in Prax with Mike Dawson and Chaosium's Michael O'Brien in 1994. More recently, he partnered with D&D 4th Edition's Rob Heinsoo for 13th Age Glorantha, their "400+ page love letter to Greg Stafford’s World of Glorantha". The Dragon's Eye sourcebook is being produced by the award-winning RuneQuest creative team of Jeff Richard (The Guide to Glorantha, King of Sartar, HeroQuest, etc.) and Jason Durall (Basic Roleplaying, RuneQuest, The Laundry, World War Cthulhu, Conan, etc.). "Jonathan Tweet has been a Glorantha fan since the ‘80s, and this new book shows how much he still loves the setting", said Jeff Richard. No publication date has been announced. Dragon's Eye artwork by William Church, from the cover of Wyrms Footnotes #5, Summer 1978.

Our friends Campaign Coins debuted their new Twitch stream at Gen Con Online. One of the things they were excited to talk about are their new Glorantha coins, launched this weekend! Find out more about Wheels, Lunars, Clacks and Bolgs at 29:49:

Chaosium congratulates our 2020 ENnie Award winners! Berlin the Wicked City won in both categories it was nominated: the Gold ENnie Award for Best Art - Cover and the Gold ENnie Award for Best Setting. Refractions of Glasston, our creative collaboration with the Taylor University Professional Writing Program, received a Judge's Spotlight Award. We also congratulate our friends Stygian Fox Publishing – their licensed Call of Cthulhu supplement New Tales of the Miskatonic Valley 2nd Edition won the Gold ENnie Award for Best Electronic Book. Chaosium's David Larkins accepting the award for Best Setting Berlin the Wicked City cover artist Loïc Muzy accepting the award for Best Cover Art T.R. Knight and Taylor University students accepting the Judge's Spotlight Award Congratulations to all the other winners and nominees! Many thanks to the ENnies judges for shortlisting our products, and the members of the Chaosium tribe, fans, and supporters for your support. Chaosium thanks and recognises the creative teams behind our winning titles: BERLIN THE WICKED CITYAuthors: David Larkins, Mike Mason, Lynne HardyCover Artist: Loïc MuzyInterior Artists: Sam Beck, Kristina Carroll, Caleb Cleveland, Emanuele Desiati, Trevor Henderson, Chris Huth, Pat Loboyko, Michelle Lockamy, Magdalena Mieszczak, Löic Muzy, Odessa Sawyer, Dimitar StoyanovCartography: Matt Ryan, Vandel J. ArdenHandouts: Matt RyanLayout: Nicholas NacarioCopy Editing: Dave Gross and Matt ClickSpecial Thanks: Alex Drusts and the Esoteric Order of Roleplayers and Friends (Desiree Valdez, Jennifer Pearson, David Schimpff, Sage Morris-Greene, Alexander Marcus, Jade McLellan, Scott White, and Aidan Kallas) for their invaluable feedback and playtesting assistance. Thanks to Jeff Richard for his contributions, and also to Sam Riordan for sensitivity reading. REFRACTIONS OF GLASSTONAuthors: Sam Guinsatao, Carson Jacobs, Joy Lemont, Elijah Oates, Rayce Patterson, Emily Pawlowski, J. Tucker WhiteDeveloped by: T.R. KnightMentors (Chaosium): Mike Mason and Lynne HardyCover Artist: Mary NiewenhisenInterior Artists and Cartography: Joy Lamont, Johnny A. Moscati III, Mara Braun, Simon Bray, Marco MonteLayout and Design: Rayce Patterson and Emily PawlowskiScenario Compilation: Carson Jacobs and Emily PawlowskiIndexing and Table of Contents: Tucker WhiteProofreading: Elijah OatesProject (Taylor University): T.R. Knight,Taylor University Professional Writing DepartmentProject (Chaosium): Michael O'Brien THE CHAOSIUM TEAM Steve Perrin, Sandy Petersen, Dustin Wright, Nick Nacario, Mike Mason, Rick Meints, Jeff Richard, Neil Robinson, Michael O'Brien, Raja Panchmatia, Todd Gardiner, Jason Durall, Susan O'Brien, Ian Cooper, James Lowder, Lynne Hardy, Kalin Kadiev, James Coquillat, David Scott, Andrew Bean, David Larkins, John Wick, Julia Rawcliffe, David Naylor, Michal Lisowski, Monika Godyń, and Brian Holland. #weareallus\ https://www.chaosium.com/blogcongratulations-to-our-2020-ennie-awards-winners

One year ago today, in the midst of Gen Con 2019, Critical Role's SHADOW OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE Call of Cthulhu one-shot was released on YouTube. In the time since over 1.5 million Cthulhu-curious viewers have witnessed this gaslight-era mystery of malevolent proportions! Once again, many thanks to Keeper of Arcane Lore Taliesin Jaffe and his doughty investigators: Marisha Ray, Erika Ishii, Phil LaMarr, Travis Willingham, Ashly Burch, and Liam O’Brien. Watch their evening of Call of Cthulhu secrets and shadows here! And you can still pick up the Call of Cthulhu Starter Set for a cosmic horror adventure of your own and use the code CriticalRole at check out for 10% off your entire order

This is our Call of Cthulhu game played live on Gen Con's official Twitch channel last night with the Ain't Slayed Nobody crew and Mark Morrison in the Keeper's chair – enjoy!

May Issaries bring you good fortune! To mark the commencement of Gen Con Online, our friends at Campaign Coins have their launched their new Gloranthan Coins set. Perfect for RuneQuest roleplaying sessions or for Gloranthan collectors! https://campaigncoins.com/runequest-coins-sample-pack-4

Does Love Forgive? is a collection of two special scenarios for Call of Cthulhu for one Keeper and one player. Great for a fun evening of gaming for two people. And perfect if you're currently in lockdown or socially isolating with a friend or loved one. Each scenario can be played over the course of one to two sessions, and is suitable for Keepers of all experience levels. Available now in PDF from Chaosium* and DriveThruRPG. *purchase the PDF direct from Chaosium and you receive the full cost of the PDF off the printed version, which will be out later this year. Based on Miłość ci wszystko wybaczy? by Airis Kamińska and Anna Maria Mazur, published for the Polish version of Call of Cthulhu in February 2020 by Black Monk Games. This supplement is best used with the Call of Cthulhu Starter Set or the Call of Cthulhu (7th Edition) roleplaying game.

Here is what we have to say about the matter: "Greg Stafford registered the HeroQuest trademark in 2002 for his HeroQuest Roleplaying game. Moon Design Publications became the licensed publisher of the HeroQuest RPG in 2006. In 2012 Moon Design purchased the HeroQuest trademark and other related IP from Greg Stafford. Moon Design continues to publish the HeroQuest RPG to this day, via Chaosium Inc. HeroQuest publications have largely been used for tabletop roleplaying in the fantasy world of Glorantha. In April 2020, Moon Design Publications published the Questworlds System Reference Document (SRD) so independent publishers could use the HeroQuest RPG core rules system for other game worlds and settings. Moon Design Publications does not currently have a licensing deal or any other business agreements with Restoration Games." — Rick Meints, president Chaosium Inc.

"D&D players may have issues with playing races as evil or not, but RuneQuest had it figured out in 1982. These trolls are NOT one-dimensional collections of hit points and potential XP and treasure... There is just so much to love about this product. It is jammed packed full of ideas." — review of TrollPak by The Other Side blog.

Former Tales of Reaching Moon artist, now plastic surgeon Mark Baldwin can't practice his craft at the moment due to the pandemic, so here's some busts of another kind he's been working on, for the Jonstown Compendium. These works-in-progress are of illustrious historical figures from Sun County history, immortalised in marble. They're for the next title in the Sandheart series, RuneQuest adventures in Sun County, Prax. You can pick up the first three instalments - 'Sandheart', 'The Corn Dolls' and 'Tradition' at DriveThruRPG.

Professor Thaxton's quest for the secrets of lost Atlantis may instead reawaken its doom... Now is a great time to get in some dedicated reading, and James Lowder's THE PAPER SHIELD is our latest free fiction. Read his Mythos tale at our website: https://www.chaosium.com/fiction-free