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Basic Role Playing
At the core, most Chaosium RolePlaying games use a variation of the Basic RolePlaying System, which started with RuneQuest.Call of Cthulhu, StormBringer, SuperWorld, Pendragon, and others (including, most recently Rivers of London) followed.
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Note that the Chaosium family of games are utterly unaffected by whatever happens with the D&D OGL.
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At some point, almost every gamemaster wants to create their own Mythic World. That’s what the Basic Roleplaying System (BRP) is all about! It is simple, fast, and elegant, using a skill-based percentile system. Combat is fast and deadly, and with a strong focus on non-combat skills that some game systems are challenged to support. Players roll percentile dice against the Gamemaster-led opponents, or even themselves.
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So, if you want to create your own Mythic World and leverage a proven system that is the backbone of some of the most successful games in RolePlaying history, look no further!
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Gamemaster Month
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New Gamemaster Month is the annual month-long seminar in the form of twice-weekly posts, guiding prospective GMs up to and through their first game. Its organised by our friends at Monte Cook Games and begins today!
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As one of the six game companies taking part, our featured system is RuneQuest!
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Want to get Started? Check out the first New Gamemaster Month post here: WELCOME, AND LET’S GET STARTED! – and then select “RuneQuest” as your chosen system.
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Chaosium’s posts were written by RuneQuest creative director Jason Durall, who has been playing and gamemastering for more than 35 years.
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What do I need?
You’ll need a copy of the RuneQuest Starter Set or RuneQuest core rules. These titles are available in print and PDF, and available from Chaosium.com, DriveThruRPG, and wherever you buy roleplaying games.
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Announcing Call of Cthulhu in Ukrainian
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Earlier this year Chaosium formed a licensing partnership with Ukraine-based games publisher Geekach to produce a local Ukrainian edition of the Call of Cthulhu tabletop roleplaying game.
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And now we delighted to say that – under very challenging circumstances – Geekach have released the Call of Cthulhu Quick-Start Rules in Ukrainian as the first product in the line. The Quick-Start Rules also include the classic introductory adventure ‘The Haunting’, a rite of passage for Call of Cthulhu gamers world-wide.
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Currently available as a free download, and print copies will be available soon!
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Оголошення Поклику Ктулху українською
Раніше цього року Chaosium уклав ліцензійне партнерство з українським видавцем ігор Гікач, щоб створити локальне українське видання настільної рольової гри Call of Cthulhu.
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І тепер ми раді повідомити, що – за дуже складних обставин – Гікач випустив Правила швидкого старту Call of Cthulhu українською як перший продукт у лінійці. Правила швидкого старту також включають класичну вступну гру «The Haunting», обряд посвячення для геймерів Call of Cthulhu з усього світу. Наразі доступно для безкоштовного завантаження, а друковані копії будуть доступні незабаром!
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CanCon coming up soon!
Canberra, Australia 21-23 January
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CANCON is the largest Australian convention dedicated solely to tabletop gaming, and it’s coming up soon: 21st – 23rd January, in Canberra, the national capital.
Chaosium will be there running Call of Cthulhu, RuneQuest, and Pendragon.
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Other TTRPGs on offer include D&D, Pathfinder 1 & 2, Starfinder, Numenera, Era: The Consortium, Stargate, Terminator, Star Wars Age of Rebellion, Cyberpunk Red, Vast Grimm, and Goblins of Zarth.
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Come and have fun! Prebooking is open: https://chaosconventions.com/cancon-2023
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Chaosium Con
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The second Chaosium Con is happening in Ann Arbor, Michigan in April 2023 and it is a full day longer! Come along for a weekend dripping with cosmic horror, essential runes, swashbuckling adventure, and chivalrous quests!
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For all the details including ticketing and on-site accomodation check out our Chaosium Con 2023 page:
https://www.chaosium.com/chaosium-con-2023
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What is Ab Chaos?
(…from Ab Chaos #7, May 31 1992)
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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.
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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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Chaosium was founded by visionary game designer Greg Stafford in 1975. For more than forty years, Chaosium has captivated gamers, readers and mythic adventurers worldwide. Its award-winning roleplaying games, boardgames and fiction have been acclaimed as some of the most engaging and innovative of all time.
www.chaosium.com
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Chaosium’s output has been great for years. Forget all the D&D civil war as RuneQuest is where the real RPG action is!
Copy that!
It’s almost like Wizards of the Coast are doing Chaosium’s job for them!