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Chaosium Digest Volume 31 Number 01
Chaosium Digest Volume 31, Number 1
Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2000
Number: 1 of 1
Contents:
* Announcement of the 1st Quarter, 2000 Chaosium Contest winner.
Editor's Note:
It's been about a month since our last issue for one reason. I have received
absolutely no submissions! I guess that the coming of Spring has turned the
gibbering masses of our subscribers to ... "other" pursuits. Hopefully, the
announcement of our most recent winner and the next prize up for grabs will
inspire a few submissions. Here we go!
The winner of the Winter 2000 Chaosium Digest Contest is THE BALANCE AND THE
GIRL, an ELRIC! adventure by Nikos Moshonas nmoshon@softlab.ece.ntua.gr
published in issues 30.9 and 30.10 on March 18, 2000! The prize is a copy of
Chaosium's upcoming Call of Cthulhu Keepers Screen.
As previously noted, all Call of Cthulhu, Elric! and Nephilim articles qualify
for the quarterly Chaosium Contest. Even though they don't count for the
contest, I still gladly accept Pendragon, Delta Green and Glorantha submissions.
The deadline for the next contest will be June 30th. The winner gets a
copy of the upcoming Call of Cthulhu Keepers Companion
http://www.chaosium.com/cthulhu/rpg/2388.shtml for their winning Cthulhu, Elric!
or Nephilim submission. So, keep those submissions coming!
**Upcoming Chaosium Releases**
APRIL
>CALL OF CTHULHU Keeper's Screen
#2387 $14.95 ISBN 1-56882-149-2
http://www.chaosium.com/cthulhu/rpg/2387.shtml
CALL OF CTHULHU KEEPERS (Keepers of Forbidden Lore) can now keep their
secrets in style. This new three panel Keeper's Screen is jam-packed
with vital GM information presented in any easy to use at a glance
format. The player's side of the screen features awesome Philippe Caza
artwork worthy of its own sanity check. This product includes a new
introductory scenario perfect for beginning investigators and keepers
alike, as well as three 4-page game aids (weapons table with an alien
weapons section, a new 4-page summary of rule book spells,
and some character sheet masters to jump-start your new Call of Cthulhu
game).
>CALL OF CTHULHU KEEPER'S COMPANION
Blasphemous Knowledge, Forbidden Secrets, and Handy Information for
Call of Cthulhu Role-playing.
CHA 2388 $19.95 (1-56882-144-1) 128 pp.
http://www.chaosium.com/cthulhu/rpg/2388.shtml
The Call of Cthulhu Keeper's Companion is an invaluable resource for
GM's. New material includes advice for new keepers, a lengthy study
of Mythos artifacts, a learned discussion of many occult books, an
up-to-the-moment description of every facet of forensic medicine, a
thorough revision and expansion of the game skills (including nearly
two dozen new ones), and the augmented text of the Keeper's Compendium,
somewhat updated--forbidden books, secret cults, alien races, and
mysterious places. Additional short essays and features round out
this book-more than 100,000 words! The best-selling Keeper's
Compendium appeared in 1993, but has been out of print for more than
two years.
>The Yellow Sign & Other Tales
THE COMPLETE WEIRD FICTION OF ROBERT W. CHAMBERS
6023 $19.95 ISBN 1-56882-126-3
by Robert W. Chambers
http://www.chaosium.com/cthulhu/fiction/6023.shtml
This massive collection brings together, for the first time ever and
with much of the material unprinted since the 1890's, the entire body
of Robert W. Chambers' weird fiction work. Chambers is considered a
landmark author in the horror field for his _King in Yellow_
collection, but that is just a small part of his weird fiction
output. The Yellow Sign & Other Stories brings together tales from
five different Chambers collections, and also includes the novel _In
Search of the Unknown_ and an excerpt from the novel _The Tracer of
Lost Persons_. These stories are also connected to the Cthulhu
mythos, for they introduce concepts such as Hali, Hastur, and
Carcosa. Selected and edited by S.T. Joshi.
>CTHULHU FOR PRESIDENT Y2K KIT
Why Settle for the Lesser Evil?
#5115 $14.95 ISBN 1-56882-103-4
It's Campaign season again! Great Lord Cthulhu, high priest of the
Star Spawn and Master of R'lyeh, is once again joining the
presidential race to push forward his own agenda of world domination
under a new world order. This kit includes a mini-poster, bumper
sticker, Elder Party membership card, Cthulhu's complete platform,
and more. Y2K: THE STARS ARE RIGHT!
MAY
>Unseen Masters
Modern COC adventures against hidden powers
2384, $19.95 ISBN 1-56882-120-4
by Bruce Ballon
http://www.chaosium.com/cthulhu/rpg/2384.shtml
Three mini-campaigns set in modern New York City lead
investigators through serial murder investigations, madness, and into
an ancient conflict between bitter rivals. Along the way
investigators will be aided by Mysterious allies, face [the] Cult of
the Sacred Light and the Black Brotherhood, and confront immortal
horrors beyond time and space. These three scenarios can be combined
to form a NY City campaign.
>The Three Impostors and Other Stories
The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen vol. 1
CHA 6030 $13.95 ISBN 1-56882-132-8 pp. 320
http://www.chaosium.com/cthulhu/fiction/6030.shtml
Some of the finest horror stories ever written. Arthur Machen had a
profound impact upon H.P. Lovecraft and the group of stories that
would later become known as the Cthulhu Mythos. This first volume of
Chaosium's Arthur Machen collection begins with the chilling "The
Three Impostors" in its complete form, including the rarely seen
sections "The Decorative Imagination" and "The Novel of the Iron
Maid." Rounding out the first volume are "The Great God Pan," "The
Inmost Light," and "The Shining Pyramid," all are excellent tales.
Introduction by S.T. Joshi.
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