RTimes & Transcript Published Monday August 15th, 2011 Critics of bloody violence and excessive sex on TV have long had HBO's vampire drama "True Blood" in their cross hairs, but now the popular series has another group of wary citizens - witches, real ones. The series' fourth season has focused on Marnie Stonebrook (Fiona Shaw), a seemingly harmless medium and leader of a Wiccan group who becomes the physical conduit for Antonia, a long dead witch who is hellbent on vengeance against vampires who persecuted and burned her at the stake. Marnie winds up as the mouthpiece for Antonia's spell to drive the bloodsuckers of fictional "True Blood" town Bon Temps into the daylight. And that sort of deadly revenge, say some modern-day witches, is what gives witchcraft a bad name. "I'm absolutely disappointed with the portrayal of Marnie," said one witch - and professor of biology at a college in New England - who goes by the magickal name Taarna RavenHawk. "When Marnie gives [...]

Published Saturday August 13th, 2011 By JOHN GAUDIOSI Reuters RALEIGH, North Carolina - Since director James Cameron's Avatar raked in $2.8 billion at global box offices, Hollywood has flooded theaters with wave after wave of 3D movies, but some industry watchers wonder if theatergoers are now drowning in it. While a few of this summer's 3D movies crossed the $1 billion global box office mark, there's been a backlash from the media and moviegoers over the poor quality of some 3D films that are converted into the medium instead of filmed in it. Cameron believes Hollywood needs to make some changes to win back fans. He and partner Vince Pace have been busy working on their Avatar sequels and collaborating with filmmakers like Michael Bay (Transformers) and Kevin Tancharoen (Glee: The 3D Concert Movie) to help bring better 3D experiences to theaters. Those films have used the Fusion 3D camera system that Cameron and Pace designed for Avatar. Cameron talked to Reuters about the current [...]

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Jason Momoa stars in remake of Conan the Barbarian Published Tuesday July 26th, 2011 by CHRIS LACKNER POSTMEDIA NEWS SAN DIEGO - At a pop culture convention brimming with superheroes and superpowers, Conan stands alone. No mutant healing factor or radioactive spider bites required: Conan the Barbarian is a hero who has never needed anything more than his wits and a trusty broadsword. Jason Momoa stars as Conan in the remake of of Conan the Barbarian. First introduced by pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard in 1932 and brought to life in the 1982 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Conan is about get a big-screen reincarnation in the form of the Hawaiian-born Jason Momoa. Momoa is one of the biggest stars of this year's annual ComicCon, and he owes it all to embracing his inner savage. Momoa was a highly-anticipated presence on HBO's panel for Game of Thrones, the acclaimed series in which he played the primal warrior king Khal Drogo. His work on Thrones has [...]

We're about 6 weeks away from our 10th annual gaming convention titled "Persistence of Vision" in honour of the fact that we've been doing this wonderful event for ten great years. We've had incredible sponsor support, and a following of fantastic players from near and far. This year Sandy Carruthers, the originator of the Men in Black series, will be joining us at Lady Dovelle's behest, and new game company sponsors such as Numbskull Games and Blue Panther LLC have joined in with long time sponsors such as Chaosium, Midnight Syndicate, Nox Arcana, Osprey Publishing, Out of the Box Publishing and many more, to support YOU, our gaming fans. Local comic and game store Strange Adventures has once again risen to the occasion with Read's / Mad City Comics to support Impossible Realities. A GRAND THANK YOU to all our sponsors, volunteers and players for making Impossible Realities such a fine event to attend, play, and meet new and old freinds! See you September 9th [...]

The U.S. celebration of Father's Day happens next weekend! We thought we would help with those tough Father's Day gift-giving choices by hosting a sale on our website. Starting now and lasting through this weekend, all items on the Chaosium website will be sold at 30% off the standard retail price! This includes such recent releases as these: • Call of Cthulhu Keeper's Screen • The Chronicles of Future Earth • Cthulhu Invictus Companion • Basic Roleplaying Hardcover • Eldritch Evolutions • Curse of the Chthonians • Blood & Badges The sale also includes products from a growing cadre of licensees including Miskatonic River Press, Goodman Games, Fantasy Flight Games, Alephtar Games, and Cubicle Seven. We also still have some copies of the limited edition Masks of Nyarlathotep Hardback. So browse around, and pick a couple of things for dear ole' Dad. Remember, the sale ends in the wee hours of Tuesday, April 21st, 2011. Then, it's Summer! Chaosium Site Upgrade Notes Chaosium e-minions have [...]

From Chaosium's ageless vaults comes a whisper from the past. Curse of the Chthonians FOUR ODYSSEYS INTO DEADLY INTRIGUE—Things aren't always as they seem. Is the little Rhode Island carnival just a place of innocent playfulness, or does it house dark secrets? Is the newest exhibit at the Museum of Natural History a crude representation of an elephant, or is it a thing from out of the depths of time? Who would kill for a ceremonial dagger? What mere vision is powerful enough to kill a wizened rabbi? Curse of the Chthonians contains four detailed scenarios for the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game, plus an examination of the Kabbalistic science of Gematria—which seeks to derive secret or mystical meaning from the very letters that form the words of Scripture and occult texts. This is a second edition of a book of deadly adventures originally released in 1981 and never reprinted. We resurrected the text and added art and page decoration. Here is the CURSE OF [...]

The Legacy of Arrius Lurco A Campaign for Cthulhu Invictus—Several years ago a wealthy patrician, one of the owners of the Reds chariot racing faction, vanished in Crete. Weeks later he was found wandering, with no memory of where he'd been or what had happened to him. Arrius Lurco returned home and tried to resume his life, but then the nightmares and erratic behavior began. What starts as an attempt to recover his lost memories soon becomes an epic struggle pitting investigators against sinister cults, inhuman minions, and the awesome powers of a Great Old One. The Legacy of Arrius Lurco is a full four-part campaign for Cthulhu Invictus, set in Rome, Achaea (Greece) and Cyrenaica (Crete). The campaign features new professions, cults and secret societies, monsters, spells, weapons, poisons, alien technologies, and mythos tomes. An epic adventure filled with mystery and horror, hope and betrayal, action and intrigue is about to begin. Black Bag Jobs Black Bag Jobs contains six self-contained missions for your [...]

We just received a new edition of pur popular core roleplaying game. BASIC ROLEPLAYING HARDCOVER EDITION We are quite happy with the hard boards and the production quality of the Call of Cthulhu Keeper's Screen. Being faced with the prospect of reprinting the core Basic Roleplaying rulebook, we decided to improve the book's quality and durability, and now offer the BASIC ROLEPLAYING hardcover edition. CTHULHU INVICTUS COMPANION AS ROME’S INFLUENCE SPREADS across the known world, so too spreads the worship of its gods. Roman leaders know that converting the people of conquered regions to the state religion makes them easier to control. But some gods have been worshipped longer than Rome has existed, and their supplicants won’t easily change allegiances. The CTHULHU INVICTUS COMPANION is a collection of three scenarios for Call of Cthulhu, pitting investigators against cults from different regions of the ancient Roman Empire. The CTHULHU INVICTUS COMPANION PDF version. CRUSADERS OF THE AMBER COAST It is the year 1206 AD. and Crusaders [...]

This edition of the Chaosium Newsletter offers a slew of titles demonstrating the versatility of the BASIC ROLEPLAYING system. UNCOUNTED WORLDS It's been some time since the first issue of this free, downloadable fanzine was released. Now, editor Nick Middleton has put together the next issue. Get UNCOUNTED WORLDS #2! CHILDREN OF THE WORM CHILDREN OF THE WORM is an adventure pack for The Chronicles of Future Earth, set in the city of Korudav. It deals with a strange alliance between a clan of Troglodytes and a gang of bandit Che Kwa, the red men of Kadram, the havoc they’re wreaking and the secret they’ve uncovered. THE CHRONICLES OF FUTURE EARTH PDF Here is a PDF VERSION of The Chronicles of Future Earth. The Earth we know is gone, forgotten in the depths of time. In its place is a world of mystery and danger, steeped in a thousand centuries of history and legend, where humankind brushes shoulders with beings and creatures strange and monstrous. [...]