From: "John & Christy Thompson" To: "Chaosium Digest" Subject: [Chaos-digest] Chaosium Digest v38.07 Date: Sunday, January 09, 2005 10:17 AM Chaosium Digest Volume 38, Number 8 Date: Sunday, January 9, 2005 Number: 1 of 1 Contents: * General Announcements Editor's Note: Happy New Year all! Sadly, our first issue of the year has to be issued without a submission but we're still here and sending you what new information we have anyway. Make sure to check out the ANNOUNCEMENTS as there's some good info in there. Best wishes to all for the new year. ANNOUNCEMENTS * Greetings All! I apologize for the late announcement, but we are happy and excited to announce that Men of the Sea has left the printer and is on its way to better hobby stores all across the world! As we speak, copies of the book are on their way to distributors in the US and around the world, and we are hopeful that the book will be in most stores before Christmas. But, we KNOW that Men of the Sea will hit Warehouse 23 (http://www.warehouse23.com/item.cgi?ISS1305) any day now. They are accepting Pre-Orders, so if you hurry and order with them now you can still get Men of the Sea in time for Christmas. Men of the Sea is by Martin Hawley and a host of other contributors, who have turned out some of the best material for HeroQuest yet. It includes eight new homelands that span the entire lozenge, from Fronela to the Maslo Sea, Umathela to Kralorela, and many lands in between. Also included are full rules for the many cults of Dormal the Mariner, a wonderful map of the Gloranthan oceans and seas by Phil Dexter, an overview of the world full of colorful details and adventure ideas, and a stunning cover by Boris Sirbey. Go to the Issaries web site (http://www.HeroQuest-rpg.com/products/1305.html) for full details of the contents. We have received the submission for Heroes of Malkion, and Under the Red Moon (the second volume of Imperial Lunar Handbook) is also finally approaching a finished state. And we are expecting three more manuscripts in the next month or two. We will get more information to you as soon as our publication schedule for 2005 finalizes. Cheers, and as always, thanks for your support. Stephen Stephen Martin P.O. Box 272914 Concord, CA 94527 Phone: (925) 680-8897 Interested in the Glorantha Trading Association? Find out more at * TENTACLES NEWS POST Volume 6, Number 2, December 2004 ~~ S l u r p F o l k s ! ~~ Welcome to the December Tentacles News Post, featuring all the latest Tentacles news and views. Feel free to forward this newsletter to friends, allies and sworn enemies. If you do not want to receive this newsletter or have a new email address please send notification to: fabian@tentacles-convention.de ~ A G r a n d e z z a o n t h e H o r i z o n ! ~ Well, it's time once again to kickstart our well-oiled Convention-Production-Machine - there is a Grandezza Feast on the horizon: ~ Tentacles Grandezza ~ The HeroQuest, Call of Cthulhu and Eternal Champion Game Fest 13th-16th May 2005 Castle Stahleck, Germany Make sure you plan your holidays accordingly and expect the usual unusual wicked stuff at the next Tentacles Convention! Make sure you line up for: 'The Return of the Immortal Heroband' featuring Greg Stafford, Sandy Petersen, Charlie Krank, Lawrence 'Loz' Whitaker, Simon Bray and many, many more..., expect fresh Freeform Games like 'And the Wulf came in from the cold' (set in Glorantha), enjoy 3 days of Non-Stop Quality Gaming, participate in tourist scaring 'Trollball Mayhem', eyewitness Random Infoshrine Madness, marvel at the 'Refill Beer Fridge' Feat at 10W2, bask in the wonderful 'Castle Illumination', listen to Live Music and witness 'Otherworldy Dancing Skills' at 10W3, waste yourself in 'The Horror Lottery', playtest spell-checked 'Author Games', surprise yourself with 'No Problem!' - Youth Hostel Management, be stunned by our 'Special Effects', buy refreshing 'Beercards TM', visit the OLAK (Only Local Area Kebabshop), listen to epic tales, tall stories and mythic panels, see the mighty River Rhine and be a guest again in our beloved medieval castle Stahleck to enjoy the company of one of the most wickedly fun and entertaining bunch of people you will ever find in this or any other worlds.... ~ S i g n - u p n o w ! ~ From the 1st January 2005 (1 second after midnight) you can sign-up for: ~ Tentacles Grandezza ~ The HeroQuest, Call of Cthulhu and Eternal Champion Game Fest 13th-16th May 2005 Castle Stahleck, Germany Sign-up here: http://www.tentacles-convention.de/regis.htm The price for residential attendees is 95 Euro* and includes bed, breakfast and dinner. Non-residential attendees pay 25 Euro for the whole event. Residential places are available at this price until 31st March 2005. After this date we will charge a late fee of 10 Euro. (* The Youth Hostel is responsible for the increase in price in line with their normal price increases.) ~ T e n t a c l e s F r e s h B l o o d P r o g r a m m e ~ As an attempt to lure fresh blood and new players into our fantastic games and gameworlds Tentacles decided to set up the 'Tentacles Fresh Blood Programme'. If you are under 21 years of age and never have been to Tentacles you qualify for one of our 10 special price residential places for only 70,- Euro! Just write an Email with the subject "Tentacles Fresh Blood" to: fabian@tentacles-convention.de ~ N e w M a i l i n g L i s t f o r T e n t a c l e s ~ With the help of our steadfast technical adviser Paul Holt we will soon activate professional server-based mailing list software that will remove the need for Fabian to send out each newsletter manually to each list member. Make sure your Email-Address is listed by sending a message with the subject "subscribe" to: tentacles_newsletter_int-request@pcholt.com ~ C o o l T e n t a c l e s G o o d i e s a v a i l a b l e ! ~ Since we just started the fire in our cold Tentacles HQ, make sure to help kindle the flame! A great way to help us is to check out: http://www.tradetalk.de and order the cool Tentacles Goodies available there! Make sure you get one of the oversized Tentacles Group Photos (20x30 cm) for your empty, cold walls! Hey - look at those happy faces! Another great item is the Tentacles Compilation CD! It is a browseable Photo-CD with pictures from Tentacles 2000-2004 + extra goodies! While you there make sure to order our fund-raisers Ybot 4 & Ybot 5 as well! ~ N e w E d i t o r f o r Y b o t 6 ~ We are excited to announce that John Hughes himself is taking over the role as editor for our fund-raiser Ybot 6! John will use his cutting-edge editing and layout skills to manufacture a veritable gem. O mother of beauty! What am I talking about? Have a look at 'Moonrites' - his latest work for the Tribe. More about this project soon.... Happy New Year! Fabian -- ~ Tentacles Grandezza ~ The HeroQuest, Call of Cthulhu and Eternal Champion Game Fest 13th-16th May 2005 Castle Stahleck, Germany * Hi Friends Chaosium hopes your holiday season was great, and you had the pleasure to see lots of friends and family. The Chaosium crew got together for a festive party over the weekend, and we had a blast!! Fergie's wife made a juicy roast, though the meat was somewhat fishy and quite tough. Lynn brought a case of strong beer, but we didn't notice until later the small, shrimp-like things swimming about in it. Dustin and Rebecca brought a large loaf of moist bread, which smelled good but had an aftertaste like a tide-pool. Charlie made an apple pie and two knives were dulled trying to cut the fibrous crust. We hope your party was a much fun as ours!! In other news, Chaosium is happy to announce a few new trinkets for your post-Christmas shopping. We received more copies of the WORLDS OF CTHULHU #1. You may see more information on this great fanzine by clicking here. http://catalog.chaosium.com/product_info.php?products_id=556 Chaosium managed to find more copies of some monographs, including MYSTERIES OF MOROCCO and END TIME. One may view all our monographs titles by clicking the link below. http://catalog.chaosium.com/default.php?cPath=55 As fans ourselves, Chaosium is pleased to announce more copies of the Gloranthan Classics in stock. Fans who wish to visit GRIFFIN MOUNTIAN or PAVIS AND THE BIG RUBBLE should click here, as should persons wanting to possess the impressive CULT COMPENDIUM. http://catalog.chaosium.com/default.php?cPath=47 Stormbringer fans will be happy to learn that Chaosium has more copies of CORUM on hand. To experience heroic adventure across the World of the Five Planes, click here. http://catalog.chaosium.com/product_info.php?products_id=352 As the new year approaches, take time to learn about past eras in the highly informative ATLAS OF THE YEAR 1000, in stock once again. This detailed book is great for fans of CTHULHU DARK AGES. Click here to see more about this tome of global history. http://catalog.chaosium.com/product_info.php?products_id=437 Our very own Fergie did an interview for a fan's website. If you wish to read words from the Shippin' Shoggoth, click http://www.shoggoth.net, or head straight to Fergie's interview: http://www.shoggoth.net/article.php3?story_id=724 Finally, due to the success of the program and the positive comments we have received, we have decided in keep the old southward-going yak around. We will continue to offer free shipping if your order exceeds $120.00. Chaosium does wish every body a safe and exciting New Year, and all the best to our friends and fans around the world. Here's to a great 2005!!! Thanks from the Chaosium guys. Chaosium Inc. 895 B Street #423 Hayward CA 94541 fergie@chaosium.com 510-583-1000 phone 510-583-1101 fax * All gamers and writers who are interested in writing fiction set in Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu RPG universe are invited to write for this new Chaosium anthology. Here is a link to the guidelines: www.eldersignspress.com/arkham.htm This is a Chaosium book, and the guidelines will soon be appearing on Chaosium's website as well. Best, William Jones * From those chaps at FORTEAN TIMES http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/184_lovecraft1.shtml An excellent article on Lovecraft's relation to occultism. _______________________________________________ Chaos-digest mailing list Chaos-digest@lists.chaosium.com http://lists.chaosium.com/mailman/listinfo/chaos-digest_lists.chaosium.com