Chaosium
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Chaosium Inc. ( ) is a publisher of tabletop role-playing games established by Greg Stafford in 1975. Chaosium's major product lines include RuneQuest, set in Stafford's fictional world of Glorantha; Call of Cthulhu, based on the horror fiction stories of H. P. Lovecraft; Pendragon, based on Thomas Mallory's ''Le Morte d'Arthur; and 7th Sea'', "swashbuckling and sorcery" set in a fantasy 17th-century Europe.
Key facts
- Publisher.name
- Chaosium Inc.
- Publisher.image
- Chaosiumlogo.png
- Publisher.founder
- Greg Stafford
- Publisher.country
- United States
- Publisher.headquarters
- Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Publisher.publications
- Games, Books
- Publisher.genre
- Role-playing games, Board games, Fantasy fiction, Horror fiction, Weird fiction
- Publisher.numemployees
- 16
- Publisher.website
- chaosium.com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Oakland Coliseum
- Award
- ENNIE Awards
- Country
- United States
- Founded by
- Greg Stafford
- Headquarters
- Albany
- Official website
- www.chaosium.com
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- inception
- 1975-10-31
- product or material produced
- wargame
- social media followers
- 31800
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- History
- 1975–1980
- 1980s: Growth and licensing with Avalon Hill
- Late 1990s–early 2010s: Financial struggle
- Mid 2010s: The return of Stafford and Petersen
- Late 2010s to present: Expansion
- Fiction
- Magazines
- Reception
- References
- External links
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