Greg and Sandy back in charge of Chaosium

Bilharzia · June 04, 2015, 12:25:26 PM

Quote from: Vile;835023Although Moorcock does like Luther Arkwright!

It's pretty clear, and specifically mentioned as inspiration, that you could run a Nomad of Time or Jerry Cornelius style adventure/campaign using the Arkwright RPG, among many other possibilities....

Phillip · June 04, 2015, 12:38:09 PM

Quote from: Necrozius;834739Somewhat related: is there a general consensus among CoC fans about which edition is "best"? I'd like to finally get a hard copy for my shelf; I don't care if it's a version that came out 20 years ago.

I have on hand now 2nd (little different from 1st, as I recall), 5th and 5.5, and like 5th best. At least I think it's 5th; the cover anyhow has a few puny mortals being eyed by Cthulhu or one of his kin. I like the type, layout, and organization, and there's plenty of material within (5.5 adding just a few bits). I don't remember anything distinct about 3rd or 4th, and am not acquainted with 6th or 7th.

Simlasa · June 04, 2015, 01:02:40 PM

Quote from: Bilharzia;835032It's pretty clear, and specifically mentioned as inspiration, that you could run a Nomad of Time or Jerry Cornelius style adventure/campaign using the Arkwright RPG, among many other possibilities....

That's why I've been reading the Luther Arkwright book and thinking of ways to drag in elements of The Airtight Garage of Jerry Cornelius as well.
Great big gobs of inter-dimensional espionage weirdness.

Jason D · June 04, 2015, 04:41:51 PM

Quote from: Simlasa;835019Heeeyyy, Jason D.... I wonder if this news moves Interplanetary any closer towards the likelihood of being an actual thing?

It is moving forward, in one fashion or another.

I will readily admit it got backburnered due to life stuff, but I'm clearing my plate and looking to find it a home and get it published. I've had an inquiry about it from some very good people, so it might end up somewhere other than Chaosium, but in very good hands nonetheless.

TheHistorian · June 04, 2015, 05:10:24 PM

Quote from: Matt;834887They're all just about the same as far as the rules go but the hardcover 3rd edition from Games Workshop is a thing of beauty and includes some neat adventures and articles. It's my preferred version.

Agreed. I have every edition, and for 1E-6E, you're largely choosing which physical book you like best, as the rules changes are incremental. The 3E Games Workshop hardcover is tops, as far as ones that are relatively easy to find. The only one I like better is the 25th anniversary hardcover (which is a 6E ruleset) - you get the original box set cover art (nostalgia!), but on a hardcover. The downside is that it's a tough book to locate.

Matt · June 04, 2015, 08:18:00 PM

I'm partial to Games Workshop's RPGs: Golden Heroes, Judge Dredd, printings of American games, etc.

JeremyR · June 04, 2015, 08:37:03 PM

Quote from: Phillip;835036I have on hand now 2nd (little different from 1st, as I recall), 5th and 5.5, and like 5th best. At least I think it's 5th; the cover anyhow has a few puny mortals being eyed by Cthulhu or one of his kin. I like the type, layout, and organization, and there's plenty of material within (5.5 adding just a few bits). I don't remember anything distinct about 3rd or 4th, and am not acquainted with 6th or 7th.

3rd and 4th were basically 2nd with more rules/source material added to the corebook, mostly just stuck onto the end of the book, rather than incorporated into the sections where those subjects were first introduced. Like you'd have a section of spells early on, then at the back, there would be more spells taken from various adventures and such.

With 5th, they tried to re-design it as a more coherent book, have all the spells in one place, all the monsters. And incorporate more modern day stuff/gaslight stuff (as opposed to separate books). So yeah, 5th is probably the best to have.

Godfather Punk · June 09, 2015, 01:53:49 PM

A 20 minute interview between Yog-Sothoth and Sandy Petersen:

http://www.yog-sothoth.com/articles.html/_/main/the-great-old-ones-return-sandy-petersen-interview

camazotz · June 09, 2015, 02:01:04 PM

Quote from: The_Shadow;834692"Lost our way...new hope...return to making awesome new games"...were things really that bad? Seems like Charlie was doing a decent job rather singlehandedly.

edit: I just looked up the CoC7e Kickstarter page...seems things were that bad.

Just checked there as well....you're not kidding, there are some bitter people there.

camazotz · June 09, 2015, 02:02:09 PM

Quote from: Matt;835106I'm partial to Games Workshop's RPGs: Golden Heroes, Judge Dredd, printings of American games, etc.

The GW edition of CoC 3rd was what got me in to CoC in the first place. Great book, still have it although it's held together by duct tape.

Simlasa · June 09, 2015, 02:51:40 PM

Quote from: JeremyR;835108So yeah, 5th is probably the best to have.

Also, even though I've been using 6th a lot lately I've never liked its layout/appearence... it's trying to do something 'fancy' that just makes it hard to parse visually, IME.

Quote from: Godfather Punk;835809A 20 minute interview between Yog-Sothoth and Sandy Petersen:
http://www.yog-sothoth.com/articles.html/_/main/the-great-old-ones-return-sandy-petersen-interview

Interesting... things were even worse that I'd thought. I'm heartened by Mr. Peterson's recognition that the BRP core hasn't gotten its due attention and that Magic World was kind of left hanging as well.

TheShadow · June 09, 2015, 11:53:21 PM

Quote from: Simlasa;835817Also, even though I've been using 6th a lot lately I've never liked its layout/appearence... it's trying to do something 'fancy' that just makes it hard to parse visually, IME.

Interesting... things were even worse that I'd thought. I'm heartened by Mr. Peterson's recognition that the BRP core hasn't gotten its due attention and that Magic World was kind of left hanging as well.

Yes, Sandy seems like a great bloke and although it's not the priority for Chaosium right now, it looks optimistic for the BRP line. Good to see that Ben Monroe (another top bloke) has got what must be his dream job, too.

Warthur · June 10, 2015, 08:44:22 AM

As a 7E backer myself I wasn't even that worried - sure, things were delayed, but we were getting a steady stream of product coming through via PDF and download and it seemed like things were progressing nicely on the physical rewards. I'm a bit disappointed to discover that printing of the core books was further behind than we'd been lead to believe, but at least now Greg and Sandy are onhand to strap a rocket to the project I'm hoping I'll be getting my physical Kickstarter goodies sooner rather than later.

Future Villain Band · June 10, 2015, 09:28:16 AM

Quote from: Warthur;835897As a 7E backer myself I wasn't even that worried - sure, things were delayed, but we were getting a steady stream of product coming through via PDF and download and it seemed like things were progressing nicely on the physical rewards. I'm a bit disappointed to discover that printing of the core books was further behind than we'd been lead to believe, but at least now Greg and Sandy are onhand to strap a rocket to the project I'm hoping I'll be getting my physical Kickstarter goodies sooner rather than later.

This is where I'm at -- it's not like Chaosium had dropped off the face of the earth, and given the scale of the Kickstarter, I assumed they just were overwhelmed with the scale of the thing.

With that said, after hearing Sandy talk on the YSDC podcast, I'm glad things are going to be moving ahead.

danskmacabre · June 10, 2015, 10:00:19 AM

I'd love to see Magic world cleaned up and re-issued.
Alternatively, getting the Stormbringer/Elric license back would be even better.
I would totally buy into that.

I'm interested CoC 7th Ed, but will hangfire with this pending whatever decision they make about it's future and if it ever gets printed for general release.