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  1. Michael O'Brien

    Press [Chaosium] Congratulations to our 2025 ENNIE Awards Winners

    Congratulations to our 2025 ENNIE Awards winners! Pendragon: Map of King Arthur's Britain - Best Cartography (Silver) Call of Cthulhu: Dead Beats (Miskatonic Repository)- Best Community Content (Gold) H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness for Beginning Readers - Best RPG-related Product...
  2. Michael O'Brien

    Sale [Chaosium] We've joined with Humble Bundle to help celebrate the 2025 ENNIE Awards

    We've joined with Humble Bundle to help celebrate the 2025 ENNIE Awards with a bundle of award-winning and nominated tabletop RPGs! There are 27 titles from nine publishers – ours are: Cults of Cthulhu (Gold - Best Supplement 2022) Alone Against the Static (Gold - Best Writing, Silver Best...
  3. Michael O'Brien

    Celebrating 50 Years of Chaosium!

    Chaosium--the longest running TTRPG company in the world, and publisher of Call of Cthulhu, Pendragon, and Runequest, is celebrating 50 years of publishing with a display at Gen Con which showcases the company's history. In 2025 Chaosium turns 50, making it the oldest ongoing roleplaying...
  4. Michael O'Brien

    Press [Chaosium] Chaosium at Gen Con 2025 - Everything you need to know!

    Coming to Gen Con 2025? Visit Chaosium and Celebrate With Us! Chaosium returns to Gen Con in 2025! Once again, we have two prime locations - our main booth 511 in the exhibit hall has a full range of products across Call of Cthulhu, Pendragon, BRP, RuneQuest, 7th Sea, and the all-new Age of...
  5. Michael O'Brien

    Press Friday of Gen Con is Call of Cthulhu Day for The Glass Cannon Network

    Friday of Gen Con is Call of Cthulhu Day for our friends at The Glass Cannon Network, with a 1920s Call of Cthulhu Show at the Con (Westin Grand Ballroom V, 2pm) followed by Call of Cthulhu Live! at Indy's historic Athenaeum that same night. They say their 1920s Call of Cthulhu show at Gen Con...
  6. Michael O'Brien

    Release [Chaosium] Out now on D&D Beyond! Cthulhu by Torchlight – Battling the Cthulhu Mythos with Swords and Spells

    The Cthulhu Mythos invades fifth edition DUNGEONS & DRAGONS! Ready your players with subclasses, feats, and spells powerful enough to stop even the hungriest shoggoth. Cthulhu by Torchlight is a D&D BEYOND exclusive and playable with the new Core Rules. Cthulhu by Torchlight adds a new...
  7. Michael O'Brien

    Release [Chaosium] Now on Roll20! Encounter the King in Yellow in 1980s Japan: The Sutra of Pale Leaves

    Now on Roll20 VTT: The Sutra of Pale Leaves - Twin Suns Rising. Encountering the King in Yellow in 1980s Japan. Forgotten for centuries, the Sutra of Pale Leaves has resurfaced in 1980s Japan—a time of excess, conspicuous consumption, and enormous technological changes. The module contains...
  8. Michael O'Brien

    Release [Chaosium] The Pendragon Core Rulebook - Magnum Opus Edition will be available for the first time at Gen Con!

    Visionary game designer Greg Stafford always said that the Pendragon roleplaying game was his magnum opus. In its Arthurian bones, Pendragon is much the same as it was when it debuted as a box set 40 years ago, in 1985. The game featured many innovations and ways to inject roleplaying games...
  9. Michael O'Brien

    Release [Chaosium] Age of Vikings: 'If you’ve got a Viking story in you, this is the game to tell it with'

    . By Mark Morrison Age of Vikings by my dear friend Pedro Ziviani is my new favourite roleplaying game. It’s out now from Chaosium. It’s also, in a way, my old favourite RPG. Back in the 1990s Penny ran a wonderful RuneQuest Vikings campaign, which I remember with such fondness that when it...
  10. Michael O'Brien

    Coming [Chaosium] Save the Date - Miskatonic Repository Con returns for 2025 (Oct 17-19)

    "Eldritch energy, collaborative madness and unspeakable creativity - on line, free, a celebration of independent creators, twisted minds, and everything bubbling up from the Miskatonic Repository, past and present". T.A. Newman, chairman of the Council of Shoggoths, announces the date of this...
  11. Michael O'Brien

    Press [Chaosium] Call of Cthulhu's Mike Mason will be a special guest at PAX AUS (Oct 10-12)

    Call of Cthulhu creative director Mike Mason is a headline special guest at PAX AUS this October! Taking place at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre in Melbourne (Oct 10-12), PAX AUS is Australia's biggest gaming festival.
  12. Michael O'Brien

    Press [Chaosium] Chaosium Announces Studio Agate as the New Developer for 7th Sea

    Ann Arbor MI, 15 July 2025 – for immediate release Today Chaosium announced that Studio Agate will take over the development and creation of the legendary role-playing game 7th Sea, marking the beginning of a new era for the iconic game originally envisioned by John Wick. Rick Meints...
  13. Michael O'Brien

    Press [Chaosium] Rick talks ElfQuest on the ElfQuest Discord Server (July 20th)

    Chaosium's Rick Meints, coordinator of the ElfQuest Classic Kickstarter, and head of Chaosium's Nostalgia Dept will be joining the ElfQuest Fan Holt Discord Server on July 20th to share the latest on the EQ RPG and answer questions about gameplay, Chaosium's Basic Roleplaying system, and more...
  14. Michael O'Brien

    Press [Chaosium] Vote for Chaosium creators in the 2025 ENNIES - voting is now live!

    The ENNIES are one of the best known tabletop roleplaying game awards. The nominees are selected by a panel of industry experts and voted on by fans – and voting is now live! We're excited that releases by Chaosium creators are up for awards in six different categories! But now it is up to you...
  15. Michael O'Brien

    Release [Chaosium] Out now for the Rivers of London RPG: In Liberty’s Shadow - A Guide to Case Files in the USA

    Rivers of London: In Liberty’s Shadow - A Guide to Case Files in the USA is a sourcebook for Rivers of London: the Roleplaying Game, based on the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch. The book also contains an exclusive piece of microfiction by Aaronovitch, “Ask, And Ye Shall Receive.”...
  16. Michael O'Brien

    In 1920s Edinburgh, our all star cast are the only thing standing in the way of diabolical cults and cosmic monsters from beyond space!

    Horror! Madness! Secrets! Call of Cthulhu returns to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, live on stage at the National Library of Scotland! Join our star team of investigators on 21, 22, 23 August at 2pm. In 1920s Edinburgh, they are the only thing standing in the way of diabolical cults and cosmic...
  17. Michael O'Brien

    It’s the Great Pendragon Joust!

    By Mark Morrison It’s the Great Pendragon Joust! This was a group event at last weekend's Chaosium Con Australia to get eight people playing Pendragon at the same time. The second round was the four winners; the third and final round was between the last two jousters. The victor went to...
  18. Michael O'Brien

    Press [Chaosium] Congratulations to our 2025 ENNIE Awards Nominees

    Congratulations to our Chaosium team members, creative partners and community content creators who have received nominations in this year's ENNIE Awards. The ENNIES are one of the best known tabletop roleplaying game awards. The nominees are selected by a panel of industry experts and voted on...
  19. Michael O'Brien

    Press [Chaosium] What reviewers are saying about Cthulhu by Gaslight

    The 'Unnatural Selections' series is our regular round up of notable Chaosium reviews worth a look. The 'Unnatural Selections' series is our regular round up of notable Chaosium reviews worth a look. Cthulhu by Gaslight takes the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game to the fog-shrouded streets of...
  20. Michael O'Brien

    Release 'In Death': BRP Design Challenge Finalist launches on Itch.io

    We were delighted to hear today that In Death, one of the top ten finalists in our 2024 BRP Design Challenge, has officially released on Itch.io. Created using the Basic Roleplaying Universal Game Engine rules and released under the ORC license, In Death is a tabletop roleplaying game about...
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