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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

Half a day to grab The RuneQuest/Glorantha based King of Dragon Pass mobile game

August 20, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Made by Herocraft, the King of Dragon Pass has new content built from Glorantha’s mythology.

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: android, Glorantha, humble bundle, ios, runequest

What was the first RPG?

August 29, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The first evening of tabletop roleplaying, as we would recognise it today, was run by Dave Arneson in 1971. The campaign setting was Blackmoor, and the game system was a modified version of Chainmail. Gary Gygax and Jeff Perren created Chainmail, both members of the Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association, after being inspired (in part) […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Avalon Hill, blackmoor, Dave Arneson, Dungeons & Dragons, Gary Gygax, Glorantha, Greg Stafford, Tekumel, TSR, tunnels & trolls

Glorantha’s Khan of Khans conquers Kickstarter

January 27, 2017 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The nature of the beast means there’s no such thing as a ‘safe Kickstarter’ but Khan of Khans is complete, just waiting for the Kickstarter campaign to finish before going to the printers, it has more than 300% of target in funds and is being managed by Chaosium. Check out the campaign page here. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/448333182/khan-of-khans-family-game […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: card games, Chaosium, Glorantha, Greg Stafford, kickstarters

The Design Mechanism is born so RuneQuest can live

July 17, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The quick background to this post is that British heavyweight Mongoose Publishing split with Issaries who own the RuneQuest franchise. Parts of various projects live on under new names but what of RuneQuest itself? Lawrence Whitaker and Pete Nash; with plenty of Eternal Champion and RuneQuest titles to their name, have created a new company; […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Glorantha, HeroQuest, mongoose, runequest

Mongoose renames the renamed RuneQuest II to Legend

June 16, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

In May Mongoose and Issaries announced a split. This would mean Mongoose parting ways with both the Glorantha RPG and RuneQuest. There was a wriggle though – the core rules to RuneQuest II belonged to Mongoose. Mongoose announced that they’d be releasing a RPG using the RuneQuest II rule set and would be calling it […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Glorantha, mongoose, runequest

Free to Download: A River Runs up it

June 15, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A River Runs up it is a free adventure for Glorantha the Second Age. It can be downloaded from Mongoose Publishing or below. The adventure was written by Bruce L. Mason – who also produced the whole PDF. Many thanks Bruce! Author’s summary Caught up in an elf’s quest, can the player characters reach a […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, Glorantha, mongoose

Mongoose split with Issaries; loose RuneQuest and Glorantha

May 24, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

UK based Mongoose Publishing, which powered into the limelight with an aggressive d20 based expansion and then pegged themselves in up high with some savvy business deals, have announced that they’re splitting from publishing partner Issaries. Isarries brought the RuneQuest and Glorantha RPG licenses with them to the Mongoose party. Those licenses leave along with […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Glorantha, lone wolf, mongoose, runequest, traveller

Free to Download: Signs and Portents 81

June 11, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Mongoose have published their latest issue of Signs and Portents. This is a free to download ezine which highlights news from world Mongoose (from moon Mongoose?), reviews, insights and blurbs from new releases. The Google Viewer below contains the entire issue or you can download from their sites. After the viewer is a couple of […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, Glorantha, judge dredd, mongoose

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