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Playing online now you're home? Try out our virtual backgrounds to add some epic flavour to your RPG sessions! Use one of these backgrounds when playing online - Zoom, Google Hangouts, GoToMeeting, one of the VTTs (Roll20, Fantasy Grounds, Astral), etc, and share an image of it on social media with the hashtag #homewithchaosium. We'll pick three winners on May 10th. Each winner will receive a custom-made printed Chaosium Redbubble Art Board, compliments of Chaosium. More backgrounds (Call of Cthulhu, 7th Sea, Pendragon) and helpful tips here:

Playing online now you're home? Try out our virtual backgrounds to add some epic flavour to your RPG sessions! Use one of these backgrounds when playing online - Zoom, Google Hangouts, GoToMeeting, one of the VTTs (Roll20, Fantasy Grounds, Astral), etc, and share an image of it on social media with the hashtag #homewithchaosium. We'll pick three winners on May 10th. Each winner will receive a custom-made printed Chaosium Redbubble Art Board, compliments of Chaosium. More backgrounds (Call of Cthulhu, 7th Sea, Pendragon) and helpful tips here:

Playing online now you're home? Try out our virtual backgrounds to add some epic flavour to your RPG sessions. Once only available to film and television, many computers are able present virtual backgrounds as though a person had a green screen. They can easily be used to spice up what your fellow gamers see. Check out your software to see if you can use one. We've put together a collection of images from our games to use as a backdrop, for Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, 7th Sea, and King Arthur Pendragon. Or use the Chaosium Library as your backdrop: You'll find all of these on our Online Gaming - Getting Started page. Take Part in our Virtual Background Competition! Use one of these backgrounds when playing online - Zoom, Google Hangouts, GoToMeeting, one of the VTTs (Roll20, Fantasy Grounds, Astral), etc, and share an image of it on social media with the hashtag #homewithchaosium. We'll pick three winners on May 10th. Each winner will receive a custom-made printed Chaosium Redbubble Art Board, compliments of Chaosium. Note: to achieve the best virtual background effect, it's best to have a solid color background, preferably green, and to avoid wearing clothing that is the same color as the virtual background. For Zoom, here are the instructions for installing a virtual background: Right click image, 'save image as' In a Zoom meeting, click arrow beside video icon (bottom left) 'Choose virtual background' Click the + and select your saved image!

COVID-19 Shipping and Fulfilment Update - April 7 https://www.chaosium.com/blogcovid19-shipping-and-fulfilment-update-april-7th We hope we hope that you, your family, and your friends continue to be in good health. Chaosium products that you order from our website are sent to you from our fulfilment warehouses in the USA, UK, EU, and Australia. At present, all four warehouses are reporting they are able to ship product as normal, except to Norway and Switzerland where delivery is currently not possible. Our Chaosium merchandise store at Redbubble is also printing and shipping as normal. Please note that delivery times may be slower than usual though. We will announce any changes to our shipping and fulfilment status as the situation continues to unfold. Remember that buying electronic versions of our products from Chaosium.com or DriveThruRPG is of course, unaffected. And, if you buy a PDF direct from Chaosium, you get the full price of the PDF off the printed book if you decide to buy it later. We've made the decision to not reduce our headcount nor cut anyone's hours: our team are Chaosium and what makes the company succeed. But we appreciate that many people are doing it tough in these strange and difficult times. We get it though, if current circumstances mean you can't afford to buy our products like you may have done in the past. In the meantime, please take a look at the Free Stuff we're offering on our website and our YouTube Channel, or maybe take part in our RuneQuest Coloring Contest. On behalf of the whole Chaosium team, wishing everyone all the best until the Stars are Right again. — Rick Meints, president Chaosium Inc.

Yes, we are going forward with it.

Answered in the Q&A thread: If it is not Prohibited Content then you are free to create your own derivative work. But note that none of the text in the BGB is Open.

"coloring-in masterpiece", a masterpiece you have colored-in

There is no sunset clause in the BRP OGL. Material published under any version of the License can continue to be published using the terms of that version - see clause 10.

"I'm a Keeper" and "Ask me about my Cthulhu Mythos skill" - two new t-shirts in our 'Casual Wear for Cultists' range at Redbubble.nb Redbubble advises that printing and shipping is currently operating as normal.https://rdbl.co/3apuuoh

Julia, our 'merc of merch' has added two more t-shirts to our CASUAL WEAR FOR CULTISTS range over at Redbubble: PULP CTHULHU HERO - https://rdbl.co/3bQerA2 INVESTIGATOR - https://rdbl.co/34dbkj4

As answered in the questions thread: If someone would mistake your content for material from one of the Chaosium games listed under Prohibited Content, it's not transformative.

And as MT Black, best-selling DMs Guild author and co-writer of Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus, observed over on EN World:

We aren't asserting any restriction to use of mechanics except to the extent that they are specifically covered in Prohibited Content, like Call of Cthulhu's Sanity mechanic. (BTW, questions like this should ideally be asked in the BRP System Reference Document/OGL Questions Thread, so the answers are all in one convenient place.)

Stay in, play board games! We've put our ENnie Award-winning games Khan of Khans and Miskatonic University the Restricted Collection on special to help you do just that: —KHAN OF KHANS (great for kids) now USD$9.99 (save $14.96): —MISKATONIC UNIVERSITY now USD$14.99 (save $10): Available from all our warehouses (USA, UK, Australia, EU) - while stocks last, or until the Stars are Right again...

Please note, these comments have been brought over from the BRP System Reference Document/OGL Questions Thread. The specific purpose of that thread is for Chaosium staff to directly answer questions related to the Basic Roleplaying System Reference Document and OGL. We asked for any discussion, arguments, dissent or debate about responses to go another thread, so here it all is:

To help you while away the hours in lockdown, our free coloring books are now also available to download from DriveThruRPG! – CALL OF CTHULHU THE COLORING BOOK – RUNEQUEST THE COLORING BOOK The usual price will be USD$4.99 but we're going to keep them as free downloads "until the Stars are Right again."

To help you while away the hours in lockdown, our free coloring books are now also available to download from DriveThruRPG! – CALL OF CTHULHU THE COLORING BOOK – RUNEQUEST THE COLORING BOOK The usual price will be USD$4.99 but we're going to keep them as free downloads "until the Stars are Right again."

Enjoy coloring an amazing array of scenes, with fantastic images from Greg Stafford’s Glorantha and the award-winning RuneQuest RPG.

We had a lot of fun with our Call of Cthulhu Coloring Competition last month, so we're doing the same for RuneQuest in April! Enjoy coloring an amazing array of scenes, with fantastic images from Greg Stafford’s Glorantha and the award-winning RuneQuest RPG. Download RuneQuest the Coloring Book for free, and color in any of the scenes. Use Photoshop or a paint program on your computer, or print off your picture of choice and color it in with pencils, pens, Walktapus Ink, etc, whatever you like. Share your work on social media with the hashtag #homewithchaosium. We'll share your works on our channels too and BRP Central for everyone's admiration. Here's some coloring work-in-progress by Chaosium's Todd Gardiner, of the scene of the RuneQuest adventurers crossing the Thunder Hills: We'll show off your works on our channels and pick out 3 winners on 30 April, 2020. Each winner will receive a custom-made printed Chaosium Redbubble Art Board of their work, compliments of Chaosium. Note: these art boards will be one-off creations and not made available for sale. If your colouring work is not digital artwork, you can still win, we will instead send you an Art Board featuring artist Andrey Fetisov's own coloring. Download RuneQuest the Coloring Book for free here. The print version is available via Lulu for USD $9.95.

Chaosium's RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha has been described as "one of the most stunning RPG books ever made", and now you can color in Andrey Fetisov's Gold ENnie Award-winning art yourself, with RuneQuest The Coloring Book. It's a free download, one of the fun and engaging diversions the Chaosium team has been working on to help keep spirits up and minds occupied while staying in, working-from-home, in quarantine, or in self-isolation. The book features 24 scenes of Bronze Age Fantasy to color, with scenes from current and future RuneQuest releases. Evocative Gloranthan locations include Snakepipe Hollow, Boldhome, the Big Rubble, the Pegasus Plateau, the Smoking Ruin, Nochet, the Vale of Flowers, the Monkey Ruins, and more. Create your own technicolor cure for generic fantasy! Wishing everyone all the best until the Stars are Right again. — your friends at Chaosium RuneQuest Coloring Competition We had a lot of fun with our Call of Cthulhu Coloring Competition last month, so we're doing the same for RuneQuest in April! Colour in any of the scenes in RuneQuest the Coloring Book and share your work on social media with the hashtag #homewithchaosium. Use Photoshop or a paint program on your computer, or print off your picture of choice and color it in with pencils, pens, Walktapus Ink, etc, we don't mind. We'll share your works on our channels and BRP Central for everyone's delectation. We'll also pick out some winners! Winners will receive a Chaosium Redbubble Art Board of their own coloring-in masterpiece. Download RuneQuest the Coloring Book for free here.

Congratulations to the winners of our Call of Cthulhu Coloring Contest! Each winner receives a bespoke printed Chaosium Redbubble Art Board of their work, compliments of Chaosium. Thanks to many people who participated, and managed to stay between the [non-Euclidean] lines. We hope all this coloring in has helped everyone keep or even restore SAN during these strange and difficult times where many of us are stuck at home. The Gold ENnie award-winning Call of Cthulhu the Coloring Book will remain a free download until the Stars are Right again. The print version is also available here for USD$9.95 (includes PDF). There were many wonderful and worthy entries, which you can find with the hashtag #homewithchaosium. Our winners are: Alfredas Buiko - Horror on the Orient Express @madmelodie1 - From Beyond NUPPA666 - Hunting Horror nb When looking on Horrors from beyond Time and Space it's hard to stay within the (non-Euclidean) lines... While this entry didn't win our Call of Cthulhu Coloring Contest we felt it was worth an honourable mention:

Please ask such questions on the thread we have set up for that:

The office plans seems to work for WotC, so we hope so!

So today should have been the day Chaosium gathered the staff from around the globe to take up residence in our new, custom-designed corporate headquarters in scenic Ypsilanti, Michigan – but we're doing the responsible thing and staying on lockdown. We'll be using the extra time to puzzle out the non-Euclidean office arrangement, so all 23 of us somehow get a corner with a view.

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