Saturday 12 November 2016

Chaosium Newsletter

The latest news from Chaosium.....

#33 the straight scoop from the well of chaos...
Available now from our friends The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, Dark Adventure Radio Theatre's Brotherhood of the Beast is their first-ever radio play adaption of a classic Call of Cthulhu supplement!

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre's The Brotherhood of the Beast is an epic tale of globe-trotting adventure inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft, presented as a 1930s-style radio drama.

One of Chaosium's most thrilling game supplements — Keith Herber's The Fungi From Yuggoth — has been adapted into a fully dramatized 3 disc super episode. And, inspired by the game upon which it is based, this production features four different endings!

Brotherhood of the Beast is available now as a 3 CD set or digital download. And see below about the incredible Deluxe Edition, featuring six pounds of props!

Hardback Print Edition (+ free PDF) available NOW from chaosium.com
The Coming Storm is the first part of an epic HeroQuest Glorantha campaign taking the Red Cow Clan through the opening days of the Hero Wars. This book provides everything you need to run a classic clan-based Sartarite campaign.

Note: if you previously bought the PDF version of the Coming Storm from our website, we'll credit your early purchase so you can get the physical copy + PDF for the same price as those who buy when the hardback version becomes available. Look out for the coupon we'll send you by email.

Maybe the Stars will be Right in 2020?
Cthulhu ends 2016 Presidential Bid 

Long before the candidates were even nominated we commissioned this as part of Chaosium's long-running 'Cthulhu for President' schtick. At the time we never dreamed it would end up being for real...

(BTW Chaosium itself is strictly non-partisan: we only endorse Cthulhu. If 'President Cthillary' had won, we'd have cheerfully made something along the same lines satirizing her election too!)  







Get your official presidential portrait of the King in Orange now at our Redbubble store, while the Free World is still Free!

CALL OF CTHULHU KEEPERS NEEDED FOR DRAGONMEET

Dragonmeet, 'the UK's friendliest games convention' is coming up in London on December 3rd.
If you'd like to GM a session of Call of Cthulhu (7e or Pulp) please register at this link. If you're a Keeper for games for a four hour time slot with at least four players, you get a free GM's ticket too!
Chaosium is a sponsor of Dragonmeet and we'll have a full range of products for sale, just in time for Christmas! You can book advance tickets to attend Dragonmeet here: 
http://www.dragonmeet.co.uk

Licensee Focus

 

The Brotherhood of the Beast - Deluxe Edition

Dark Radio Theatre's The Brotherhood of the Beast was written with prop aficionados and gamers in mind. The story feels like a Call of Cthulhu game unfolding as you listen, and to add to the fun, the Deluxe Edition features 54 props to pore over as the adventure unfolds! As characters in the show find clues, you'll find them too.

Full eight-column newspaper pages, large-format maps, letters, pages from unspeakable tomes and much more: you'll be immersed in the action with the kind of crazed verisimilitude only the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society can offer.

Six pounds of props! (note the human arm for scale...)
All the props come bundled in Nate Ward's vintage Miskatonic University shoulder bag (while stocks last) with an internal accordion file to keep them all straight. An included Listener Guide lets you know when to pause the audio, protects you from spoilers, and dishes up a role-playing audio adventure you'll never forget. The Deluxe Edition contains the full 3 CD version of the show, plus more than six pounds of props! 
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(...from Ab Chaos #7, May 31 1992)

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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.

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