FatBuddha Posted August 10, 2016 Posted August 10, 2016 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.
joggiwagga Posted August 11, 2016 Posted August 11, 2016 I'm super excited about the Chaos Library and the retention of rights on the part of the authors (I'm a copyright nerd, so yeah, that does excite me).
Cthulhus_Voicemail Posted August 17, 2016 Posted August 17, 2016 I'm so excited about the Chaos Library. I've been hammering away at revising and cleaning up a couple of the homebrew scenarios I've been running at conventions.
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