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No recording, but I took notes for the Cult of Chaos panel at Gen Con. Curated by Mike Mason, Jeff Richards, Michael O'Brien, Paul Fricker, and Todd Gardiner. Talking points: -Gen Con notes - "Cthulhu 500" non-stop Cthulhu games running the "Dead Boarder" scenario. An earlier survey showed between 1500-6000 requests for more games at Gen Con only serving roughly 360 players. -The Cult launched and within a year has grown from 200-1200 folks. The first organized play campaign, "A Time to Harvest," has been released with good interest and feedback. The choice for a campaign was to have player investment and knowledge that continues through more than one night. -The hope of the Cult is to drive new games being run, new content, and new players. -New Chaos Library with access to Cult members will be driven with user-written scenarios, community feedback, and more exposure. Emphasis was placed on keeping your rights to uploaded scenarios. There will be a possibility to submit Library scenarios to Chaosium for publication, with some rights still retained by the user. Chaosium will also contribute free materials to the Library. -The hope is that the Library will offer community collaboration in the form of editing/feedback, redrawing maps/artwork, creating player aids/handouts, and conversion to 7th edition. -Perks for the Cult of Chaos will be better products, opportunities to run convention games, providing prize packs/support for events, and Chaos Bucks (credit for Chaosium store). -Chaosium will continue to support new edition with new content and revising/updating older scenarios, also for availability. -Discussed looking into platforms for hosting Call of Cthulhu online (Roll20, Fantasy Grounds), and looking for feedback on what to use and how to support. -New short demo scenario coming.

Sorry, I couldn't stay for RuneQuest. Hope Chaosium posts it.

In case you missed it, here's a link to the Chaosium Call of Cthulhu Gen Con Panel I recorded from Gen Con on Friday (Aug 5th) for those who couldn't go. Mike Mason, Sandy Petersen, Jeff Richards, Paul Fricker, and Lynn Hardy talk about new plans for the Cthulhu line and share some juicy new details. The youtube description contains a breakdown of topics and timestamps. Biggest news is a new campaign from Lynn Hardy, new Pulp Cthulhu campaign from Paul Fricker, new collection of scenarios from Sandy Petersen, and remarks about quality and production from all Cthulhu products down the road. Exciting stuff!Audio version here: http://outofspacegames.blogspot.com/2016/08/gen-con-2016-call-of-cthulhu-panel.html