Monday, 19 March 2018

Chaosium Inc - Newsletter

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). 
"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."
"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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