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Routinely Itemised: RPG #328
This week’s TTRPG news: Roll20Con 2025, Diamond bankruptcy latest, Paizo’s new store, Itch.io publisher payments, a rare auction, and the RPG Publisher Spotlight deadline.
Chaosium celebrates 50th anniversary with a ‘Cthulhu in a Castle’ RPG vacation
As part of its 50th-anniversary celebrations, Chaosium has partnered with The Game Theatre for ‘Cthulhu in a Castle’, a luxury RPG weekend in 2026.
Call of Cthulhu: The Oracle is an adventure of prophecy and smog
Poland-based The Lunar is crowdfunding a Miskatonic Repository project, which means content for the TTRPG Call of Cthulhu.
All The Cardinal’s Men: A standalone Call of Cthulhu adventure based on Claudia Christian’s writings
Claudia Christian, of Babylon 5 fame, and Nightfall have collaborated before, notably on Musketeers vs. Cthulhu. It’s happening again, except this time, players work for Cardinal Richelieu.
Chaosium announces new CEO and Executive Producer for RPGs in major staff shuffle
Chaosium, the publisher of Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest and the brand new Age of Vikings, has a new CEO.
Genre Police: Expectation Traps
I recently had a really interesting conversation about how we differ in designing a session of a game.
From Baldur’s Gate to the Big Apple: Samantha Beart talks The Twenty-Sided Tavern
The interactive Dungeons & Dragons-inspired stage show, The Twenty-Sided Tavern, currently captivating audiences in New York City, recently welcomed a very special guest adventurer.
RPG Publisher Spotlight: Keith D Edinburgh
You can find Keith on DriveThruRPG and via his website. As usual, I’ve put the social links at the bottom of the post.
Genre Police: Love The One You’re With?
I was totally blindsided. I’d talked about Mage and advocated for it as a game but never pitched anything specific, compared to sitting in my kitchen as people left for a game and talking about finally running an in-person Cthulhu game. What was I to do?
