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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael O'Brien" data-source="post: 9459605" data-attributes="member: 6807727"><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chaosium/elfquest-classic" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.chaosium.com/product_images/uploaded_images/elfquest-2nd-ed-1989-cover.png" alt="Elfquest Classic Deluxe" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>For immediate release.Ann Arbor MI, September 16, 2024 — Chaosium Inc. and ElfQuest creators Wendy and Richard Pini announced today that Chaosium will produce a classic reissue of the ElfQuest tabletop roleplaying game, first published by Chaosium in 1984 and based on the popular comic book series.Using Chaosium’s Basic Roleplaying system (BRP) as its core, ElfQuest: The Official Roleplaying Gamewas written by Steve Perrin, Sandy Petersen, and Yurek Chodak, based on the characters and setting created by Wendy and Richard Pini. The ElfQuest RPG was published in 1984, and was followed by several supplements. All featured Wendy Pini’s distinctive artwork, beloved by ElfQuest fans for over forty-five years.The Chaosium team working on the ElfQuest Classic reissue will be led by Rick Meints, who oversaw the highly successful releases of 2021’s <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chaosium/call-of-cthulhu-classic" target="_blank">Call of Cthulhu Classic</a>, reissuing Call of Cthulhu first edition from 1981, and 2016’s <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/224590870/runequest-classic-edition" target="_blank">RuneQuest Classic</a>, reissuing RuneQuest second edition from 1978. The Chaosium team will be working closely with Wendy and Richard Pini on the project’s development and presentation.Chaosium President Rick Meints said, “For years ElfQuest fans have asked us to bring the game back into print. Based on all we’ve learned from our previous Classic projects we are ready to add ElfQuest Classic as the next in this series. We all look forward to revisiting, rediscovering, and further exploring the Pinis’ World of Two Moons.”“ElfQuest has from its inception been about the value and strength of family and tribe,” said co-creator Richard Pini. “We can’t think of a better way to encourage community than through people coming together to enjoy the world-building challenges that role-playing offers.”Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the ElfQuest RPG, Chaosium will be launching a Kickstarter campaign in October 2024 to bring back the vintage game in its original box edition format with the later supplements included. All the 1984 Chaosium ElfQuest publications will be brought back to life.Sign up here to be notified when the Kickstarter goes live: <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chaosium/elfquest-classic" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfbobwbcOKmKNPKo8mXGQXP8BIPYyFzUERKAp4oqT0X7QjVPWqW6k7pcT0OyRVI1x-mo0i-IR5YWZvenCLhKukm1EkN0Y1uCfIZD_NW7DZXXwJ-qNo0gXXDsLb-Nu_vQMQjz5N6_q--0E_Ho-ekh3eNMUWe?key=eH-KpJoMa8i2wTKlRLSiiw" alt="Elfquest Classic Deluxe Prelaunch" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a> <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chaosium/elfquest-classic" target="_blank">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chaosium/elfquest-classic</a><img src="https://www.chaosium.com/product_images/uploaded_images/chaosium-dragon-logo-1-.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="width: 212px" /><h4>About Chaosium</h4>Since the company’s founding by Greg Stafford in 1975, Chaosium Inc. has been an innovative force in hobby game publishing, captivating gamers, readers and mythic adventurers worldwide, and winning numerous of awards.The investigatory horror game Call of Cthulhu remains Chaosium’s most well-known line, with a recent Critical Role/Call of Cthulhu collaboration racking up three million views on YouTube. The company’s other award-winning RPGs include RuneQuest, Pendragon, and 7th Sea. Chaosium also publishes boardgames and fiction. Its games are translated around the globe and licensed for everything from T-shirts to computer games.<a href="https://www.chaosium.com/" target="_blank">chaosium.com</a><img src="https://www.chaosium.com/product_images/uploaded_images/cropped-elfquest-logo.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><h4>About ElfQuest</h4>ElfQuest is the ongoing epic fantasy graphic novel series created in 1978 by Wendy and Richard Pini. It tells the adventures of elfin chief Cutter and the Wolfriders — a tribe of feral, forest-dwelling elves allied with wolves — as they strive to find their true place in a dangerous world.A New York Times Best Seller, ElfQuest is the longest-running American fantasy comic-book title. At first self-published by the Pinis, ElfQuest has subsequently been licensed by the “big three” comics publishers: Marvel, DC Comics, and currently Dark Horse Comics. More than 25 million ElfQuest publications have been sold worldwide with translations into over a dozen foreign languages.ElfQuest has been adapted into prose novels and short story anthologies, action figures, role-playing games, music albums, apparel, and most recently a full-cast dramatic audio dramatization.<a href="https://elfquest.com/" target="_blank">elfquest.com</a>ElfQuest and the Warp Wolf logo are registered trademarks, and all other logos, characters, situations, related indicia, and their distinctive likenesses are trademarks of Warp Graphics, Inc. All ElfQuest art © 1978-2024 Warp Graphics Inc. All rights reserved worldwide.</blockquote>

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