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. --