Chaosium Inc. - Newsletter #84

News from Chaosium...
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#84 the straight scoop from the well of chaos... The Glorantha Sourcebook - Out Now in Hardback! THE GLORANTHA SOURCEBOOK is an essential resource for Greg Stafford’s world of  Glorantha, one of the most extensively developed and renowned fantasy settings of all time. System-free and Player-friendly! 226 pages, full color hardback. PDF included. Shipped from our warehouses in USA, UK and Australia. HARDBACK: https://www.chaosium.com/the-glorantha-sourcebook-hardcover/ "Glorantha is my personal North Star as an author of vast fantasy game narratives… a sacred but unattainable goal."— KEN ROLSTON, The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind, Oblivion. This systemless sourcebook can be used to enhance and support any fantasy roleplaying game of your choosing, including RUNEQUEST, HEROQUEST GLORANTHA, and 13th AGE GLORANTHA, and others. What the Critics Say "Drawing on long out-of-print sources, and including new materials, this belongs in the collection of new Glorantha fans and old timers alike… vividly told, beautifully illustrated, and inspirational."—Andrew Logan Montgomery, Exploring the Otherworlds of Fiction, Magic, and Gaming. "Awesome…rich in detail. …Quite surprisingly, Chaosium has managed to produce an introductory book that is also interesting for veteran fans of Glorantha."—El Runeblogger (review is in English). 13th Age Glorantha - now available in hardback! 13TH AGE GLORANTHA is the d20 "love letter" to Greg Stafford's mythic universe Glorantha, one of the greatest RPG fantasy settings of all time. By DUNGEONS & DRAGONS lead designers Rob Heinsoo (4th Ed) and Jonathan Tweet (3rd Ed). 13TH AGE GLORANTHA is now available in hard cover! Join us in Glorantha, Greg Stafford’s classic fantasy world of richly imagined cultures, ferocious combat, and colliding mythologies. Create your group’s unique Gloranthan campaign using 13th Age: the d20-rolling game of heroic fantasy, escalating combat, One Unique Things, and limb-ripping owlbears! 466 page full color hardback + PDF. Available from our US, UK, and Australian fulfilment warehouses. https://www.chaosium.com/13th-age-glorantha-hardcover What the Critics Say "A 400+ page love letter to Greg Stafford’s World of Glorantha, one of the most extensively developed and renowned fantasy settings of all time"—EN World. "13G gets an enthusiastic thumbs up... It is clear the authors love Glorantha, and their giddy enthusiasm is on every page"—Andrew Logan Montgomery, Exploring the Otherworlds of Fiction, Magic, and Gaming.   Jonathan Tweet talked to RPGGeek TV about 13th Age Glorantha at Gen Con this year. Get a quick overview of 13G from one of the co-creators of the game! Licensee Focus The Props of Nyarlathotep: Peru Delphes Devoivres of Sedefkar Simulacrum fame is back with another beautiful set of sculptural art pieces for Masks of Nyarlathotep. This time, it's glorious objects from the new Peru chapter. Her new Kickstarter fully funded on day one, and has just a week to go! Check out Delphes' amazing work here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/195095939/the-props-of-nyarlathotep-the-peru-chapter RuneQuest Leatherettes Sold Out in Australia and UK, limited stock left in US.   Due to unprecedented demand, we are now out of stock of the RuneQuest Leatherette edition in the UK and Australian warehouses. Leatherette still available from our US warehouse. Rest assured, we do have plenty of copies of the RQG hardback in all three locations! 448 pages, full color hardback. PDF included. New Miskatonic University Coat of Arms revealed in MU: The Restricted Collection Kickstarter   We've created a new coat of arms for Miskatonic University for our forthcoming Miskatonic Univerity: the Restricted Collection board game! It's available now on various merchandise items including t-shirts, wall art and mugs at our Redbubble Merchandise Store. We've also got a detailed explanation of the imagery on the Chaosium news blog, which is also available as a poster. The MU board game is on track to be fulfilled as promised in November, and will go out into a general release after distribution to the Kickstarter backers is complete.

What is Ab Chaos? (...from Ab Chaos #7, May 31 1992) Ab - Latin "from" Chaos - (1) Any condition or place of total disorder (modern vernacular); (2) the disordered state of unformed matter which preceded creation (since Milton, Paradise Lost); (3) the dark, empty space which preceded creation (Greek Mythology); (4) the [formerly] Californian roleplaying game company. Ab Chaos is an informal newsletter for Chaosium fans. Through our history we have tried to serve the players and gamemasters through craft and art as well as (and sometimes at the expense of) marketing and moneymaking. We appreciate your loyalty, and offer this communication to those who are curious about us, beyond the mere "product". It is planned to be informal and irregular. We are, after all, not the Orderium.

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All the latest Cthulhu and RuneQuest news from Chaosium...
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#82 the straight scoop from the well of chaos... The RuneQuest Gamemaster Screen Pack will be released in PDF on Friday, September 14th on Chaosium.com and DriveThruRPG. Here's what's inside: 4 panel GM screen blank character sheets 128 page book of adventures 20 page quick reference of commonly used tables 16 page gloranthan calendar 6 maps pre-generated character sheets. Andrey Fetisov's wonderful cover art for the GM Screen Pack is available to download in our special RuneQuest pre-release Dropbox Folder. Sign up here to access: http://eepurl.com/dtqE9T   RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha and The Glorantha Bestiary are available now in PDF from Chaosium.com and DriveThruRPG!   Purchase the PDFs from Chaosium, receive a coupon for the full price of the PDFs off the hardback books when they are out later this year. Having sailed close by R'lyeh and the cyclopean ruins of Nan Madol, the XIN QING DAO brought its cargo of RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha to Botany Bay, Australia earlier this week. The UK and US consignments arrived earlier this month. Once the cargoes have all cleared customs we'll be able to set a release date, but it will be soon! Call of Cthulhu the Official Video Game: Live Game Play trailer Check out the new gameplay trailer for Call of Cthulhu, "the official adaptation of Chaosium's tabletop RPG", as is so nicely said at the start of the video. The game is out on October 30 for Xbox One, PS4 and PC. Prepare your mind for all-new Call of Cthulhu gameplay, taken from Edward Pierce’s investigations within the Hawkins Mansion. Chaosium Fiction Update:   The Girl with the Star-Stained Soul THE GIRL WITH THE STAR-STAINED SOUL is a new Lovecraftian southern gothic novel by Bram Stoker Award-winning author Lucy A. Snyder. We're excited to be publishing it in the Chaosium Fiction line in early 2019. Watch Masks of Nyarlathotep actual play - starting September 12 On September 12th, the madness begins with Masks of Nyarlathotep, Encounter Roleplay's brand new Call of Cthulhu actual play series.  Featuring the roleplaying talents of: @Laughlovelindy, @JPruInc, @GrimJack21502, @DonathinFrye, @Redundant_uk and @EncounterRP. Watch here, Wednesdays 1 PM EST: https://www.twitch.tv/encounterroleplay and available later on Encounter Roleplay's YouTube channel. Licensee Focus:   SYRINSCAPE: Revolutionising your Call of Cthulhu tabletop gaming experience "It’s been a huge benefit to my own game. I highly recommend checking it out!", says Matt Mercer of Critical Role.  Matt loves Syrinscape, and so do we - there is now even a special Masks of Nyarlathotep Sound Set available, starting with the Peru Preview chapter. Plus a general Call of Cthulhusound-set. Revolutionise your Call of Cthulhu gaming experience here. 13th Age Glorantha Update Free 13G Demo Scenario! 13G co-creator Rob Heinsoo has written a two-hour demo scenario for 13th Age Glorantha: it's available to download for free over on our friends Pelgrane Press's 13th Age resources page! The scenario is called "The Next Valley Over", and features everything you need to run a demo game at a convention, including an adventure, pregens, and monsters.   13G Kickstarter distribution will be completed soon The 13th Age Kickstarter orders have now been delivered to 95% of all backers. The remaining are going out this week. If you're a backer and not received yours by Friday September 21st, we're sorry that something has gone wrong — please get in touch with customerservice@chaosium.com and we'll assist!   For non-Kickstarter backers, we're hoping to have both 13th Age Glorantha and The Glorantha Sourcebook hardbacks available for general release by the end of the month. In the mean time, if you buy the PDFs now from Chaosium.com, you'll get a coupon for the full price of the PDF off the hardbacks when they become available.  Licensee Focus   Occam's Razor, by Stygian Fox Publishing A new Call of Cthulhu Kickstarter is underway by our friends at Stygian Fox Publishing. The scenarios look into the dark heart of humanity and the mythos... but this book has a twist: these are five adventures where the Cthulhu Mythos is not what it seems. It's by Call of Cthulhu stalwart Brian M. Sammons (Doors to Darkness, Atomic Age Cthulhu, Eldritch Chrome). The campaign funded in just four hours, and is well into stretch goals with two weeks remaining: check it here!

Licensee Focus   Cthulhu Invictus now available in general release Our friends at Golden Goblin Press successfully Kickstarted Cthulhu Invictusfor Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition. And now it is available in digital format for general release, for cosmic horrors in Ancient Rome: alea iacta est! Licensee Focus Coming soon from our friends at Q-Workshop... Designers and Dragons Updates its History of Chaosium RPG Historian Shannon Appelcline has updated his Designers and Dragons history of Chaaosium, to take into account recent developments since 2015. Shannon writes, "This is actually my second attempt at an update for Chaosium. In the summer of 2015 there was an event so historic at Chaosium that I felt I needed to produce a revised history, which I did on July 9th, 2015. The joke was on me: twenty-one days later there was another big overhaul to the company, which put it on the path to a major revival which is continuing today." Read the updated history here, also coming out in a new German edition soon! What is Ab Chaos? (...from Ab Chaos #7, May 31 1992) Ab - Latin "from" Chaos - (1) Any condition or place of total disorder (modern vernacular); (2) the disordered state of unformed matter which preceded creation (since Milton, Paradise Lost); (3) the dark, empty space which preceded creation (Greek Mythology); (4) the [formerly] Californian roleplaying game company. Ab Chaos is an informal newsletter for Chaosium fans. Through our history we have tried to serve the players and gamemasters through craft and art as well as (and sometimes at the expense of) marketing and moneymaking. We appreciate your loyalty, and offer this communication to those who are curious about us, beyond the mere "product". It is planned to be informal and irregular. We are, after all, not the Orderium.

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The latest Call of Cthulhu and Glorantha from Chaosium....
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#68 the straight scoop from the well of chaos... Five new ways to be killed by Sandy Petersen... Here's your opportunity to "get killed by Sandy Petersen"... Chaosium's newest Call of Cthulhu release PETERSEN'S ABOMINATIONS is out now in hardback! Hatched from the twisted imagination of the Call of Cthulhucreator himself, Sandy Petersen, this is a new collection five modern day scenarios, each designed for one or more sessions of play. Produced in full color, with cover art by Victor Leza, and sumptuous cartography by Andrew Law and Stephanie McAlea. Get ready to enter the mind of the creator of Call of Cthulhu and enjoy the nightmare! Available now from Chaosium: we have stocks in our US, UK and Australian warehouses. Full-color hardcover, comes with the PDF included! https://www.chaosium.com/petersens-abominations-hardcover Unnatural Selections: reviews of note 13th Age Glorantha & The Glorantha Sourcebook Andrew Logan Montgomery's Otherworlds of Fiction, Magic & Gaming blog recently reviewed two new Chaosium releases with considerable depth, insight and perspicacity—in his own words, Andrew's reviews "run deep". The books he covered are 13th Age Glorantha and The Glorantha Sourcebook, both currently available from Chaosium in PDF (hardbacks coming later in the year).  13th AGE GLORANTHA REVIEW http://andrewloganmontgomery.blogspot.com.au/2018/03/13th-age-glorantha-review.html "13G gets an enthusiastic thumbs up... It is clear the authors love Glorantha, and their giddy enthusiasm is on every page. It is infectious. RuneQuest always felt to be like a "precise Glorantha," while Heroquest was an "erudite Glorantha" (with scholarly focus on myth, narrative, etc). 13G is a hot-blooded passionate Glorantha." THE GLORANTHA SOURCEBOOK REVIEW  http://andrewloganmontgomery.blogspot.com.au/2018/03/the-glorantha-sourcebook-review.html "For my money this was the best overview of Gloranthan mythology we have seen... vividly told, beautifully illustrated, and inspirational... Drawing on long out-of-print sources, and including new materials, this belongs in the collection of new Glorantha fans and old timers alike." Andrew proclaims that Glorantha has always had a special place in his heart ("had I not encountered it in my junior high school D&D Club I doubt I would have gone on to get a Masters in mythology and epic literature"), and he invites the reader to "grab a cup of coffee, pour a glass of wine, and settle in for the latest dive into one of gaming's most extraordinary and influential worlds". We can only encourage you to do so! New at the Miskatonic Repository Check out these awesome community content releases, recently added! CALL OF CTHULHU SCENARIOS The Knife - Michael LaBossiere (pay what you want - suggested price $0.50) "...pits the intrepid investigators against a serial killer. Is the killer a mundane murderer or something more?" A Light in Darkness - Matthew Puccio ($4.99) "A dark, survival horror scenario for Call of Cthulhu, set in the Pacific Theatre during World War II." The Man Downstairs - Adam Gauntlet ($4.00) "The tenants at 224 Lenox Avenue, between W 121st and W122nd, New York City, have a neighbour they have never met, and never knew existed until a few weeks ago, yet he has always been there..." The Kirkwood Farmhouse Massacre - Fred Love ($1.99) "Something terrifyingly evil awaits among the ruins of the old Kirkwood farmhouse. It'll take a cunning team of investigators to uncover the truth behind the gruesome murders that took place there in 1924." Drawn from the Dark - Michael Nagel ($8.95) "An anthology of adventures from both the 1920s and Modern eras." CALL OF CTHULHU RESOURCES Mike's Free Mythos Maps Collection #1 - Michael LaBossiere (free) "A collection of twenty maps suitable for 1920s and contemporary Call of Cthulhu adventures." INDIGO: A Time Travel Organisation - Carl Matthews ($5.00) "Inspired by HPL's The Shadow Out Of Time, INDIGO is a new organisation for Call Of Cthulhu." Miskatonic Repository Samurai Weapons of Feudal Japan - Carl Matthews ($1.00) "If you are playing a game set in feudal Japan, what is more iconic than the weapons available to the samurai?" Miskatonic Repository Samurai - Occupations and monsters adapted to Feudal Japan - Carl Matthews ($5.00) "Several occupations for Samuari, and monsters adapted to the Sengoku Period of Japan, for Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition." Goliriad the Speaker: An Eldritch Abomination For Mountains and Caves - Tristan Jusola-Sanders ($0.99) "...stats and evocative descriptions of one Deity-level threat and two servitors" The Kirkwood Farmhouse Investigation - Fred Love (free) "A companion piece to The Kirkwood Farmhouse Massacre - use this document to provide extra clues and context before unleashing the terror that awaits in the old Kirkwood farmhouse." And since our announcement that all languages are now welcome at the Miskatonic Repository, it's great to see it happening already: Kara Büyü - Setting Dökümanı (Turkish) - Ekin Ergün ($2.49) "A Turkish setting for Call of Cthulhu" Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu guru MIKE MASON was the guest on the latest episode of the MU Podcast, and he discussed the Miskatonic Repository—what it's all about and how you can get involved. Licensee Focus   Our friends at Darker Hues Studios have just informed us that their licensed Call of Cthulhu supplement HARLEM UNBOUND has been acquired for the library collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution Anacostia Community Museum and The Newark Museum. These acquisitions are an acknowledgement of book's "artistic, scholarly and educational value". How cool is that? A further cool and somewhat Lovecraftian factor is that you must go to a special collections area to request the book and have a librarian bring you a tome to read there. We're sure they'd want a copy for the Orne Library's Restricted Collection at Miskatonic University too—speaking of that... Get ready to enter the Miskatonic University Restricted Collection, very soon! A quick note from Susan, our board games line editor:  Exciting news—our next board game is close!  Last year, after some 25 years away, Chaosium got back into boardgames. This first foray brought together German board game wizard Reiner Knizia and "the Grand Shaman of Games" himself Greg Stafford, for the family game Khan of Khans set in the mythic world of Glorantha.  Very soon we'll be back with a Kickstarter for our first Lovecraftian board game since 1987! I'm excited to be working with Reiner again, exploring the world of horror in a fast-paced, fun-filled, push-your-luck game.  Set in the treacherous and terrifying Restricted Collection of Miskatonic University's Orne Library, the game features grimoires, elder signs, academic politics and madness — and that endlessly renewable resource, graduate students!  When the time comes we hope you'll join us on our journey by supporting this Kickstarter and make the Miskatonic University game a reality! Kickstarter Launch Date: late April! Recent Releases from Chaosium... Now available in PDF. Get the full price of the PDF back as a discount when the hardback is out! Available in Hardback (with PDF included)...

What is Ab Chaos? (...from Ab Chaos #7, May 31 1992) Ab - Latin "from" Chaos - (1) Any condition or place of total disorder (modern vernacular); (2) the disordered state of unformed matter which preceded creation (since Milton, Paradise Lost); (3) the dark, empty space which preceded creation (Greek Mythology); (4) the [formerly] Californian roleplaying game company. Ab Chaos is an informal newsletter for Chaosium fans. Through our history we have tried to serve the players and gamemasters through craft and art as well as (and sometimes at the expense of) marketing and moneymaking. We appreciate your loyalty, and offer this communication to those who are curious about us, beyond the mere "product". It is planned to be informal and irregular. We are, after all, not the Orderium.

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