Recent content by Michael O'Brien

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Take your Game Master skills to the next level as our panel of expert GMs share with you the tips and tricks to writing scenarios, running games, and making your game the best it can be! This is a recording of a live panel from PAX Australia, shot in early October 2025. Chaosium's Brian Holland...

Freed from the shackles of the Lunar Empire, the people of Sartar stand at the dawning of a new day. Lands of RuneQuest: Sartar is coming in 2026! In the meantime, start your explorations of the signature setting of Bronze Age fantasy with the award-winning Lands of RuneQuest: Dragon Pass! Get...

Physical proof copy of Chris Gidlow's CREDO has descended from the heavens today (well, arrived by air courier): it's glorious! Prepare thee for an Anno Domine 2026 release.

Chaosium X Cards now on Redbubble Everyone’s wellbeing is more important than any game. The X Card system created by John Stavropoulos is one way to help players and game masters feel safe and comfortable when roleplaying together, especially in convention and game store settings where people...

Create the perfect setting for research, downtime, or maybe a surprise encounter for the investigators! Syrinscape's Call of Cthulhu: Miskatonic University SoundSet brings this famed institution to life with incredible sound & music. Syrinscape's Ben Loomes says, "This Soundset is indispensable...

UK Chaosium fans—good news! We've had a big restock in our UK warehouse, and a long list of titles are now available again to order from Chaosium.com. Remember, when you order direct the PDF is included in the price (same deal applies for our warehouses too) RUNEQUEST Cults of RuneQuest...

If you're at PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia PA this weekend don't forget to stop by the Mothman Theatre on Friday night for One Hour, One Shot, where a group of AP performers showcase how easy and fun Chaosium's Pendragon TTRPG is to play! With Desiquest's Jasmine Bhullar, and Ify Nawadiwe...

I love these t-shirts by Moilleadoir at Redbubble. Across two genres I love. (That's me with award-winning fantasy author and talented Call of Cthulhu writer Jane Routley, at Chaosium Con Australia in 2024. Neither of us was aware what the the other was going to be wearing. Moilleadoir was an...

Order from Chaosium.com by the below dates to receive by Christmas! USA: 12 Dec CANADA: 9 Dec UK: 12 Dec EU: 15 Dec AUSTRALIA: 12 Dec REST OF THE WORLD: 1 Dec Please be aware that postal delivery speeds are not guaranteed; there is always risk of delays, so early ordering is better! We...

By Mark Morrison Basic Roleplaying: Creatures is out now. It’s a dangerous tome which adds 170 pages of monsters, animals and NPCs to Basic Roleplaying, and therefore to every other Chaosium game built on its fine bones. Our most popular game happens to have a lot to do with bones, mostly...

Yes, the ducks are there because Drakar och Demoner, the original Swedish version of Dragonbane, was based on Chaosium's BRP/Magic World (with Chaosium's blessing). Ducks have been part of the Swedish TTRPG landscape ever since.

Want to play a Duck? After appearing as a location and then counters in Greg Stafford's 1975 board war game White Bear and Red Moon ("Ducks, Ducks, and More Ducks"), as TTRPG creatures Ducks first appeared in RuneQuest first edition. This was way back in 1978, as something that could be a...

Nyarla-ho-ho-ho-tep Art by Gahan Wilson