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. [...]

3 Round WH40K Tournament This is not your usual 40K tournament! Players will be testing themselves not only against each other but also against the odds! Each player will be fielding two separate lists, a strike force and defense force. The first two games of the tournament will see players’ taking turns attacking and defending. The final game will have a twist to be revealed just before it takes place. Following your codex bring two army lists with the following force organization requirements: 800 pts – Defensive force – 1 HQ and two troops mandatory 1200 pts – Strike force – 1 HQ and one troops mandatory Keep in mind that the defense force will be defending the objective and benefits from terrain placement while the strike force will need to be able to cover ground and take the objective from the defender. Registration 9 Am to 9:40 AM Tournament starts at 10am Mega Battles It would not be a proper IR convention without a [...]

Icon | Manager hopes this will attract new readers Published Thursday February 24th, 2011 By DON MACPHERSON macpherson.don@dailygleaner.com Beware, citizens, Godzilla is coming to Fredericton, and he's going to stomp on a downtown business. Stephen MacGillivray Photo Jason Arnold, manager of Strange Adventures comics and curiosities store on York Street, jokes around as he looks at an image of the front of the new Godzilla comic, which has Godzilla's foot crushing his store. Strange Adventures, a comic book and gaming store at 68 York St., will be featured on the cover of a new Godzilla comic, slated for release next month. Manager Jason Arnold said IDW Publishing, the publisher of the Godzilla comic, informed comics retailers of a new promotional idea. Shops that ordered 500 copies of Godzilla #1 could get a special edition of the issue featuring the reptilian monster's foot smashing the stores to pieces on the cover. Strange Adventures owner Calum Johnston, who lives in Halifax and operates another Strange Adventures store [...]

Saturday, March 12 at 8:00am at Chinese Commerce Centre, Saint John, NB A full Day of Gaming for $10 Tentative Schedule: 9:00-1:00 Living Forgotten Realms (level 4-7) – Tony Spence ...(6 players) Living Forgotten Realms (level 1-4) – ? (6 Players) Heroclix (300 pt Modern Age) – Rick Hawkes (xx players) Warhammer 40K (3 round 800pt defense, 1200pt Strike force) – Mike Laaper/Patrick Mulligan (xx Players) D&D 4th edition (The Emperor’s Game) – Raymond Saulnier (10 players) – setup at 8AM Circus Imperium – Joe Hatfield (6 Players) Console Fighting Games – Adrian Silva (all day) – (xx players) 1:30-5:30 Living Forgotten Realms (level 11-14) special adventuring company module- David Hudson (6 players) Living Forgotten Realms (level 1-4) – Pam McNeish (6 players) Formula D – Kale Harding (7 Players) AD&D 1st edition (Rats for Hire) – Donna Nutter (6 players) Monsters & Other Childish Things – Chris Fougere (? Players) Circus Imperium – Joe Hatfield (6 players) 6:00-10:00 Vampire the Masquerade (Camarilla LARP) – [...]

Adrianne Palicki cast as the new Wonder Woman Times & Transcript Published Friday February 18th, 2011 Adrianne Palicki will play Wonder Woman in David E. Kelley's new TV pilot for NBC, Entertainment Weekly reports. And considering her gorgeous looks and incredible height (she's 5'11"!), the 27-year-old seems like the perfect choice to play the super Amazon. Kelley's script for the Wonder Woman pilot has received underwhelming reviews, but Palicki's casting could be the show's saving grace - after all, she's already received plenty of critical praise for Friday Night Lights and the lauded-but-short-lived Lone Star. Still, the actress has her work cut out for her, as she'll actually be playing three separate roles on Wonder Woman: billionaire business mogul Diana Themyscira, Diana's ho-hum assistant Diana Prince and, of course, the titular superhero. A few more roles still need to be cast before the pilot goes into production, but Wonder Woman is considered one of NBC's best bets for the Fall 2011 season.

Calling all Star Wars fans ... lightsaber club now in Fredericton Published Friday February 11th, 2011 As Yoda might say, skilled with a lightsaber, he is. THE DAILY GLEANER/JAMES WEST PHO Lightsaber club: Brad Doucette demonstrates his lightsaber skills during a recent sparring round. In Brad Doucette's world, Star Wars is huge and he wants to share his passion with others. Last October, he and like-minded friends started to meet in Queen Square, where he demonstrated his lightsaber skills. He has studied how to use one since he was a child. When it was too cold to meet outdoors, they started to meet indoors and a club, called East Coast Sabers, was formed. Every Monday night since then, over 30 club members, who range in age from 11 to 36, meet to practice their techniques. Some come with their own lightsabers, others borrow them from Doucette, who owns many of them. "I show them all about the lightsabers, how to use them and how they [...]