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Chaosium announces new CEO and Executive Producer for RPGs in major staff shuffle

June 6, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Chaosium, the publisher of Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest and the brand new Age of Vikings, has a new CEO.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, Mike Mearls, runequest

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

RuneQuest TTRPG Humble Bundle: Go from zero to Red Book of Magic hero

July 13, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Chaosium’s popular Bronze Age fantasy tabletop RPG RuneQuest is on offer as a bundle in Humble. It’ll run until about the 26th of July. Update: The bundle has been extended to the 3rd of August. The offer enables new players to embark on their RuneQuest journey with the Starter Set, which is equipped with everything […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: bundle, Chaosium, humble bundle, runequest

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #162

July 22, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The big event this week is SD Comic Con. I’ll be at the not-for-profit Capital Sci-Fi Con 2022 instead.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dice, Dungeons & Dragons, dungeons & dragons movie, Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel, routinely itemised, runequest

Genre Police: Choose Your Own Adventure(s)

April 3, 2022 by Ben Jackson-Ellery 3 Comments

Last time we talked about new RPGs and how to get players to try them. But how do you even begin to work out what you want to play?

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 7th Sea, alien rpg, Andrews McMeel, apocalypse world, brutal games, Call of Cthulhu, Champions, Chaosium, chill, corporation, cubicle 7, Cyberpunk, cyberpunk red, deadlands, degenesis, dread, Dungeon World, Dungeons & Dragons, Eclipse Phase, edge, everway, Evil Hat Productions, feng shui, Free League Publishing, Gamma World, genre police, Green Ronin Publishing, lancer, Legend of the Five Rings, magpie games, masks, Melsonian Arts Council, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, mork borg, mutant: year zero, Mutants & Masterminds, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, parable games, paranoia, pathfinder, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, posthuman studios, pugmire, R. Talsorian Games, runequest, Shadowrun, shiver, star trek adventures, Thirsty Sword Lesbians, traveller, troika, twilight: 2000, vaesen, Vampire: The Masquerade, warhammer, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Wild Talents, zweihander

Genre Police: New Horizons

March 28, 2022 by Ben Jackson-Ellery Leave a Comment

If you’ve tried lots of systems and your players seem to be slowing down on their want to join you in a new system, it might be because you keep jumping to the newest game on the block.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 13th age, Dungeons & Dragons, pathfinder, runequest, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, world of darkness

Free to Download: Destined preview

December 28, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Design Mechanism publishes the mithral best-seller Mythras and has announced that their next game will be Destined.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, runequest, superheroes, The Design Mechanism

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #132

December 24, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 3 Comments

A summary of RPGs news from the week with freebies from WotC and others, indie news, tips and reviews.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, Andrews McMeel, Arcadia, beadle & grimm, Chaosium, cubicle 7, Dark Souls, diego pisa artworks, Dungeons & Dragons, Dynamite Entertainment, edge, Green Ronin Publishing, kobold press, Legend of the Five Rings, lone wolf, moonmares games, North Wind Adventures, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, petersen games, role, routinely itemised, runequest, runequest starter set, salvage union, snowbright studios, star trek adventures, Steamforged Games, Steve Jackson Games, traveller, UltraPro, vaesen: mythic britain, Verdant Isles: Teatime Adventures, warhammer, weird frontiers, Wyrmworks Publishing, Zozer Games

Chaosium’s freebies help us learn by doing with solo adventure and GM tips

December 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Chaosium has made a free solo adventure for RuneQuest available online. It’s the same adventure as you’ll find in the RuneQuest Starter Set.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chaosium, Monte Cook Games, runequest, runequest starter set

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #126

November 12, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Let’s get exploring this week’s RPG news and new shoes.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: against the darkmaster, bloat games, Chaosium, cy_borg, dots rpg project, Dragon Warriors, Dungeons & Dragons, goodman games, legendlore, magpie games, onyx path publishing, open ended games, Paizo Publishing, R. Talsorian Games, roll20, routinely itemised, runequest, runequest starter set, Steve Jackson Games, strixhaven, tab creations, Vampire: The Masquerade, wizards of the coast, Zadmar Games

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