Update about the impending release of
RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha
Our planned release date is Wednesday April 3rd. We have been working with our fulfillment partners to accurately ship and safely pack the full range of RQG products as follows:
 RQG core rulebook- RQG core rulebook leatherette
- RQG Bestiary
- RQG Bestiary leatherette
- RQG GM Screen Pack
- Full slipcase sets (Rulebook, Bestiary, GM screen pack) in hardcover and leatherette
- Empty slipcases (chaosium.com only)
(nb we previously announced we would not be selling empty slipcases, due to the logistical challenges involved. After further discussion with our fulfilment partners we now are able to.)
Prior to the release, we are providing coupons for individual items and for slipcase sets by email, based on past PDF purchases on chaosium.com.
Please note the following:
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- We are selling slipcase sets (containing core rules, Bestiary, and GM Screen Pack), the individual books, and the empty slipcases.
- We are not selling partial slipcases.
- The empty slipcase will be available at a special discounted price for a limited time.
- We will not run out of slipcase sets any time soon.
- We have no doubt that some of our most loyal purchasers will require custom coupons, if you ordered different products with different accounts, or want to merge items. Custom coupons can be requested by emailing customerservice@chaosium.com.
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| This will still be our most complex coupon process ever, so we ask for everyone to please be patient! |
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Berlin: The Wicked City now available at DriveThruRPG too
Our new Call of Cthulhu release Berlin: The Wicked City is also available at DriveThruRPG. Unveil the mysteries of the Mythos in Weimar Germany!
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Keine Notwendigkeit zu warten!
Buy the Berlin: The Wicked City PDF from Chaosium now and you'll get a coupon for the full price of the PDF off the physical book when we release it later this year. |
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Talking to Terror Australis Writers
Terror Australis: Call of Cthulhu in the Land Down Under is a masterful work of imagination by a team of home-grown Australian Call of Cthulhu creators, many of whom were involved in the original edition of Terror Australis, from 1987 and have extensive Chaosium credits.  We were delighted to have caught up with several of these writers to talk about the book:
- Richard Watts (Call of Cthulhu, Stormbringer, Elric)
- Marion Anderson (Cairo Guidebook, Fearful Passages, Beyond the Mountains of Madness and Horror on the Orient Express)
- Phil Anderson (Horror on the Orient Express, Fearful Passages, Beyond the Mountains of Madness)
- Geoff Gillan (Call of Cthulhu, Pendragon, Elric and Stormbringer)
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Unboxing Terror Australis
Max Writer unboxes the Mythos Horrors you'll find Down Under in TERROR AUSTRALIS, out now in hardback... |
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Call of Cthulhu the Official Video Game now available in Japanese
 Launched on March 28, a localised Japanese edition of Call of Cthulhu the Official Video Game, for PS4.
Available now from the Playstation Store. 🦑 |
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Syrinscape launches SoundPacks for Masks Part Three - London
This, the third in Syrinscape's SoundPacks for running Call of Cthulhu's epic Masks of Nyarlathotep campaign, enables your players to explore 1920s London - with fully immersive background sound and music matched scene by scene to the adventure.
 Locations include beautifully crafted, immersive environments all over London, including:
- busy ports
- train stations
- tram rides
- London streets
- an exhibition house
- London at night, literally choking with fog
- a cultist hideout
- the British Empire Exhibition
PLUS a whole host of truly vile creatures, ready and willing to destroy your minds and devour your bodies and so much more!
Also available!
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| Syrinscape's Ben Loomes takes a walk through the new SoundPack: |
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Achtung! Cthulhu Keeper's and Investigator's Guides Available for 7th Edition Call of Cthulhu
 For WW2 Mythos action, the ENnie-Award winning Achtung! Cthulhu from our friends Modiphius is now fully updated for Call of Cthulhu seventh edition. Plus there's a new scenario, Under the Gun!
Available direct from Modiphius, and from DriveThruRPG. |
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Call of Cthulhu Adventure Pack at Fantasy Grounds
The online tabletop resource Fantasy Grounds has launched the first of their "Adventure Packs" for Call of Cthulhu. This consists of the 2018 Free RPG Day scenario Scritch Scratch, plus convention scenarios The Dead Border, What's in the Cellar?, and Camp Sunny. Great value for $4.99!
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Chaosium comes to SupaNova Melbourne, April 5 - 7
 For the first time, Chaosium will be present at popular culture show SupaNova. We're at the Melbourne, Australia event, taking place at the Showgrounds on April 5-7.
Chaosium is sharing a booth with our friends at TYPE 40, the master prop-makers. |
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 Team Chaosium had a wonderful time at Carcosa Con, Poland. The creepily evocative Cozcha Castle is a wonderful setting for a Mythos gathering; not only is it an authentic castle in every sense of the word, it is also replete with hidden doors, secret passages, and walls bedecked with unsettling portraiture.
Many thanks to our friends at Black Monk Games (publishers of the forthcoming Polish edition of Call of Cthulhu) for staging such a superb and smoothly-running event. It's happening again next year, so start making your plans now! |
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Plots and Plans Abound at Chaosium's Berlin Summit
Just before heading to Poland and CarcosaCon, Chaosium held in a summit in Berlin for some strategic planning. Present from the team in Berlin were Jason, Jeff, Lynne, Mike, MOB, Neil, Rick, and Susan. As a distributed company with team members all over the world, we relish the rare opportunities to get together face-to-face. We look forward to sharing with you the many exciting things planned and put into place at this meeting!
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 One outcome of the Berlin Summit is the welcome news that Lynne Hardy has come on board full-time as Associate Line Editor for Call of Cthulhu. (Until now Lynne has been assistant Call of Cthulhu line editor on a part-time basis). Lynne has extensive RPG industry experience, as an editor and writer for Nightfall Games, Cubicle 7, Pelgrane Press, Green Ronin, and Modiphius where she was line editor for the Achtung! Cthulhu line. She is also the designer of her own ENnie-nominated steampunk game: Cogs, Cakes & Swordsticks.
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The End of an Era on Google Plus:
Chaosium and Glorantha G+ Groups have been migrated to Tapatalk
As you may be aware, Google Plus shuts down on April 2nd, 2019. All G+ groups there including the Chaosium and Glorantha groups will be gone forever! However, if you're a G+ user, do not despair! - we have taken advantage of Tapatalk's free migration offer, and successfully moved all content from the Chaosium G+ and the Glorantha G+ group there. Previous G+ posts are archived and available.
Simply login in with your G+ username and password.
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Connecting with Chaosium
Our primary sites for news, interaction and discussion are Facebook, Twitter and our forums at BRP Central.
We're also on Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube, and Twitch:
Here's to the end of an era on G+: but you will receive a warm welcome reconnecting with the Chaosium tribe on Tapatalk or one of these other platforms! #WeAreAllUs |
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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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John Wick said,"My first RPG was a Chaosium game. My second RPG was a Chaosium game. My third RPG was a Chaosium game. Saying 'I'm excited to be joining the Chaosium team' just doesn't do it. I've respected and admired the company for over thirty years. I'm joining the same company who started me on this journey and I couldn't be prouder."
ABOUT JOHN WICK
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