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Celebrate Chaosium turning 50 this year!

February 26, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Chaosium is a heroic stalwart of the tabletop games industry known for Call of Cthulhu, Basic Role-Playing, Pendragon and other games. This year, the company, founded by Greg Stafford, turns 50.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Aquelarre, basic roleplaying, Ben Aaronovitch, Chaosium, Glorantha, Greg Stafford, Rivers of London, runequest, Sandy Petersen

Chaosium announce The Basic Roleplaying Gamemaster Pack

August 2, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

BRP is surely one of the most influential game engines we have and it’s now part of the ORC license.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic roleplaying, Chaosium

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #247

March 9, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s not even the start of the month, but there’s Patreon news thanks to the awesome Terry Maranda.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Arkham Horror, basic roleplaying, Chaosium, NASA, routinely itemised, Steamforged Games

Free to Download: Rivers of London TTRPG releases its solo “The Domestic” adventure

December 17, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Spring, 2016: the Folly, also known as the Metropolitan Police Service’s “special magic branch,” has received word of repeated domestic disturbances at an address on Prince of Wales Road, London—and very odd ones, at that.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic roleplaying, Ben Aaronovitch, Chaosium, free to download, lynne hardy, paul fricker, Rivers of London

The ORC-licensed Basic Roleplaying: Universe Game Engine is out now

April 7, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Written by Jason Durall and Steve Perrin, the rules offer character growth based on what the PCs do in the game and have a pretty brutal combat system in which every action matters.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic roleplaying, Chaosium, Paizo Publishing

Basic Roleplaying reduced in price as Chaosium welcomes OGL refugees

January 10, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood 4 Comments

The PDF is 400 pages long, making the offer attractive, and the Call of Cthulhu publisher will keep it live as long as the New Year, New Game sale persists.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic roleplaying, Chaosium, sales

Rivers of London RPG review: Rich with Ben Aaronovitch’s magic

December 12, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I’m a fan of Rivers of London and have read several books, I enjoyed each one but have not read them all.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic roleplaying, Ben Aaronovitch, Chaosium, lynne hardy, paul fricker, reviews, Rivers of London

Survey results: The tabletop RPGs gamers are most looking forward to in 2022

January 2, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

For years now, EN World has coordinated a survey of its large membership on which tabletop RPGs are the most anticipated for the coming year.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Avatar, avatar legends, basic roleplaying, blade runner, blade runner rpg, broken tales, Chaosium, en world, Free League Publishing, gumshoe, magpie games, monad echo, mothership, Paradox Interactive, Pelgrane Press, pendragon, powered by the apocalypse, Renegade Game Studios, Rivers of London, Shadow of the Demon Lord, shadow of the weird wizard, the world anvil publishing, Tuesday Knight Games, werewolf, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, year zero engine

Monsters hunters in muscle cars: Welcome to Rivers of London America

December 2, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Cops that do magic just seems to have broad appeal. It’s safely in the geek interest zone and manages to lure in people who wouldn’t usually be interested in urban fantasy.

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic roleplaying, Ben Aaronovitch, Chaosium, lynne hardy, Rivers of London

Chaosium to publish a Lords of the Middle Sea RPG

July 23, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Lords of the Middle Sea is set in 2401 and the post-apocalyptic ruins of a flooded North America.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: basic roleplaying, Chaosium, lords of the middle sea

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