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12/31/2025 - Ab Chaos #295 – Coming in 2026! Greg Stafford's long-anticipated Gloranthan novel, A Pyre for Gods and Heroes 01/03/2026 - Ab Chaos #296: In case you missed something, here's everything we released in 2025!

Wow, it sure has been a busy 50th Anniversary year for the Chaosium team! In case you've missed something, here's a reverse run-down of everything new we've released in 2025, on the Chaosium website, at DriveThruRPG, in retail distribution, and a few other unlikely places, such as Steam and D&D...

As many Glorantha fans will know, Chaosium founder Greg Stafford long harbored aspirations to be a published novelist, and worked on perfecting his “Harmast’s Saga” novel over many years – decades even – stopping and starting several times. Greg would sometimes read and share his...

In the Gloranthan calendar, Sacred Time comes at the very end of the year. It marks the joyous time when communities gather together across the world to celebrate building the cosmos anew for a new year. Like our own New Years Eve here on planet Earth, is a time of divinations, omens, and...

Glorantha, 411 S.T. A generation ago, the sun stopped in the sky. By the time it began moving again, the world had been changed. A new god had been born. A new empire risen... In the barren hills between Dragon Pass and Prax, those who reject the new ways live scattered and hunted. Soon, they...

Our community manager Bridgett Jeffries is interviewing GMs from our Cult of Chaos gamemaster program and creators for our community content programs at DriveThruRPG - the Miskatonic Repository (Call of Cthulhu), Jonstown Compendium (RuneQuest-Glorantha), and Companions of Arthur (Pendragon)...

Removal of Masks Significant Streams is a feature on the Chaosium news blog where we highlight actual play streams, podcasts, and YouTube channels featuring Chaosium games that we think are worth checking out. Removal of Masks is an actual play group from Ireland and England who are playing...

"The Arthurian legend holds a different significance for us entering the twenty-first century than it held for Chrétien, for Malory, for the authors of the versions called the French Vulgate…. No doubt it held a different significance again for those who told the old Welsh and other Celtic...

"This great book contains robust, resonating myths and legends. Both are wonderful but they are not the same things. Myths are the stories on which we base our lives. Legends are a colorful distraction from the grim realities the myths reveal." — From Michael Moorcock's foreword for Pendragon...

To all members of the tribe, our heartfelt thanks for your support in this year, and for joining us in our 50th anniversary celebrations. We wish you the compliments of the season, and all the best for 2026! – from the Chaosium team: Dustin Wright, Mike Mason, Rick Meints, Jeff Richard, Neil...

Our community manager Bridgett Jeffries is interviewing GMs from our Cult of Chaos gamemaster program and creators for our community content programs at DriveThruRPG - the Miskatonic Repository (Call of Cthulhu), Jonstown Compendium (RuneQuest-Glorantha), and Companions of Arthur (Pendragon)...

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Get ready for another Ask Me Anything! Submit your questions about The Sauvage King, the coming supplement for the Pendragon roleplaying game. Host Bridgett Jeffries will be talking to Pendragon line editor David Larkins and The Sauvage King co-author David Zeeman. The AMA will appear on...

Welcome to Community Creations Spotlight! Here we spotlight Chaosium community creators creating awesome content! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sM7Y7xm1LjQ?feature=share "Death has come to Camp Shady Pines... and it's not done yet!", says Mav Haenze. Check out this GOLD bestselling Call of...

By Mark Morrison With all my gaming groups I’ve always tried to run a special themed game as the last one of the year. There’s something about getting together just before the holidays that brings on a special mood: eating great snacks, exchanging small gifts, reflecting on how much we’ve...