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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

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Happy news, more eligible countries have been added to the list for XP Network, the new interactive rewards platform built for you to earn XP for community engagement, organized play, and in-store events.. – Argentina – Australia – Brazil – China – Iceland – India – Japan – New Zealand –...

KoDP and its successor games Six Ages are set in the world of Glorantha (and are awesome), but they are not video game adaptions of RuneQuest and do not use the RuneQuest trademark.

RuneQuest Warlords computer game launches on December 9th Our friends at Slitherine have announced that their turn-based strategy computer game RuneQuest Warlords launches on PC on December 9th. Watch the release date trailer here: RuneQuest Warlords is the first-ever video game...

Big things are coming, and you're invited to join the XP NETWORK LIVE BETA! This year marks the debut of XP Network, a new interactive rewards platform built for you to earn XP for community engagement, organized play, and in-store events. Participants receive XP from completing quests and...

We're back with another AMA for the award-winning Beginning Readers Series with the series' creator, "genius poet-artist" R.J. Ivankovic. This episode, hosted by Bridgett Jeffries, will be direct released to YouTube! Submit questions below! Beginning Readers Series AMA with R.J. Ivankovic by...

Any monster. Any setting. Any genre. Any game! Basic Roleplaying: Creatures collects animals, monsters, nonhumans, and nonplayer characters drawn from history, science fiction, fantasy, prehistory, mythology, and the modern world, allowing for any gamemaster to use them in any D100-based game...

Get ready for another Ask Me Anything! Submit your burning questions about Basic Roleplaying: Creatures now! Due out on November 12. Join host Bridgett with creators Neil Robinson and Jason Durall on YouTube in the coming weeks! Submit your questions now: https://buff.ly/G6kdsLw

By Mark Morrison I won’t lie to you. When I saw Jason Durall's sneaky photo of a huge stack of the new Basic Roleplaying: Creatures book making its pre-release debut at Essen, my first thought was “I can’t wait to attack my players with those things.” There’s something irresistible about a...

We had fun at PAX AUS last month, with a fun-filled night of the world's best roleplaying game of mystery and horror! Our Stream of Chaos team (David Naylor, James Coquillat, Alex Caton, Art Hunter, and Jackson Heenan) took the stage to present an evening of terror, laughs, and Mythos mystery...

Returning to Ann Arbor April 16-19 2026 - join us for a weekend of eldritch horror, chivalrous questions, and essential runes! Volunteer Sign-Up: https://tabletop.events/conventions/chaosium-con-us-2026/volunteers/apply Hotel Block: https://book.passkey.com/event/51104317/owner/7978/home...