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Old 11-02-2006, 01:00 AM
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#7: Interlude: The Chaosium Connections

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A look at the licensees and other interactions in just one corner of the industry.

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Old 11-02-2006, 05:20 AM
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Re: #7: Interlude: The Chaosium Connections

You are missing the most recent one : apparently, the "Skirmisher Game Developer Group" has published the third edition of "Cthulhu Live" very recently.

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Old 11-02-2006, 06:13 AM
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Re: #7: Interlude: The Chaosium Connections

Some more notes:

There are several companies that licenced Chaosium games to be published in languages other than the ones you mention, including Spanish, Portuguese, German and Italian, at least.

Moon Design also published the RQ Classics, reprints of old RQ books in a new format. I don't know if they need a Chaosium licence for this but I suppose they did.

Chaosium published itself licenced products. I'm recalling the cities-oriented books created by Miskatonic press.
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Old 11-02-2006, 02:08 PM
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Re: #7: Interlude: The Chaosium Connections

Excellent article.

One minor quibble: Games Workshop had produced licensed versions of RuneQuest 2nd Edition and Call of Cthulhu before RQ3 in 1985. They also released a hardcover version of Stormbringer around the same time as the RuneQuest 3 books.

Indeed, GW's decision to produce these games in hardcover book format (to take advantage of the fact that books were exempt from VAT in the UK) may have led to the death of the boxed set RPG.
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Re: #7: Interlude: The Chaosium Connections

Cool article, I'm really enjoying this series.

I particularly liked the graph of the family, along with the black hole at the end of 'Wizard's Attic'. Very appropriate.
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Old 11-02-2006, 03:05 PM
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Re: #7: Interlude: The Chaosium Connections

Chaosium also had a connection to Timeline Ltd.'s Morrow Project. In my 3rd Ed. of the MP rules it says at the start of the Role Playing Expansion: "With sincere thanks to the Chaosium and Tadashi Ehara, who made possible the form this expansion takes." The rules that follow look very similar, in part (I haven't played them in years), to BRP.
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Re: #7: Interlude: The Chaosium Connections

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Excellent article.

One minor quibble: Games Workshop had produced licensed versions of RuneQuest 2nd Edition and Call of Cthulhu before RQ3 in 1985. They also released a hardcover version of Stormbringer around the same time as the RuneQuest 3 books.
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Games Workshop produced licensed UK editions of many RPG's, - not only the Chaosium ones listed above (and there were UK editions of Cults of Prax and Cults of Terror as well...) but also TSR games ((A)D&D), FASA (Star Trek), West End Games (Paranoia, and I think Star Wars) and ICE (MERP). There were probably others too that I don't recall... (I suspect Traveller as it always had heavy coverage in WD). (A history of Games Workshop would also be interesting!)

Chaosium also licensed some of their board games to Avalon Hill - including "Elric" and "White Bear & Red Moon (Dragon Pass)) - not strictly relevant to a RPG history, maybe, but worth a footnote as AH are already listed...
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Re: #7: Interlude: The Chaosium Connections

No, Games Workshop didn't reprint Cults of Terror - although Griffin Mountain should be added to the list.

I remember Cults of Prax, MERP and Paranoia.

I can confirm AD&D to an extent - they did softback printings of Monster Manual and Player's Handbook for AD&D 1st Edn (but not DMG or later books IIRC). The Fiend Folio book was at least partly produced from submissions to White Dwarf, but I don't think that it was reprinted by GW. At that point TSR had it's own UK branch.

I don't remember any Traveller material - I think it got into WD because it was early and successful and I don't remember Star Wars being reprinted either.

I think that GW may have reprinted some of the FASA RPGs - Doctor Who and maybe Star Trek but I can't remember for sure.
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Re: #7: Interlude: The Chaosium Connections

And for a bit of wicked obscure trivia, don't forget that Chaosium liceneced/said yes to Even Horozons Press's The Triad Sourcebook for Hong Kong Action Theater.
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Re: #7: Interlude: The Chaosium Connections

In the 80's GW produced a line of licenced Elric minis.

At the moment Reaper seem to hold the Cthulhu minis licence.
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