Mark Morrison
@markmwrites.bsky.social
He/Him. Mediocre Old One: Call of Cthulhu RPG & videogame writer, Chaosium Community Ambassador, Pendragon squire, rampant herbivore. My dogs say hi.
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Chaosium wishes Jane Austen a belated 250th birthday. We’re not sure if Regency Cthulhu is entirely what she had in mind, but her wit and verve certainly inspired us....
Regency Cthulhu - Leatherette
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December 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Chaosium wishes Jane Austen a belated 250th birthday. We’re not sure if Regency Cthulhu is entirely what she had in mind, but her wit and verve certainly inspired us....
A lord of the rings band called Flock of Nazgûl
A lord of the rings band called Palantirs for Fears
A lord of the rings band called Galadriel Debarge
December 18, 2025 at 5:58 AM
A lord of the rings band called Flock of Nazgûl
2026 convention shirts just arrived! You can see which games I’m fired up to run in the New Year. How about you?
December 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM
2026 convention shirts just arrived! You can see which games I’m fired up to run in the New Year. How about you?
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Pendragon: The Arthurian Companion contains over 1000 entries covering all the people and places associated with the Arthurian stories.
Each entry is allows you to immerse yourself further into the Pendragon setting!
Get yours today: www.chaosium.com/pendragon-th...
Each entry is allows you to immerse yourself further into the Pendragon setting!
Get yours today: www.chaosium.com/pendragon-th...
December 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Pendragon: The Arthurian Companion contains over 1000 entries covering all the people and places associated with the Arthurian stories.
Each entry is allows you to immerse yourself further into the Pendragon setting!
Get yours today: www.chaosium.com/pendragon-th...
Each entry is allows you to immerse yourself further into the Pendragon setting!
Get yours today: www.chaosium.com/pendragon-th...
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BLOODY AI,a thread:so, I saw a picture online of the Towers of Perugia by a Renaissance artist, Benedetto Bonfigli whose other work I know a little bit. Here is the image 1/n:
December 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
BLOODY AI,a thread:so, I saw a picture online of the Towers of Perugia by a Renaissance artist, Benedetto Bonfigli whose other work I know a little bit. Here is the image 1/n:
We’re just normal men
December 8, 2025 at 4:19 AM
We’re just normal men
The old dog barks backwards without getting up.
I can remember when he was a pup.
- Robert Frost
I can remember when he was a pup.
- Robert Frost
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The old dog barks backwards without getting up.
I can remember when he was a pup.
- Robert Frost
I can remember when he was a pup.
- Robert Frost
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This is what portrait setting on your phone camera should really do, make you look like a world weary baroness of incredible fortune and hidden passion.
December 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This is what portrait setting on your phone camera should really do, make you look like a world weary baroness of incredible fortune and hidden passion.
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48 hours to go in our Black Friday sale. 50% off our Starter Sets, 40% off ALL of our special leatherettes, even brand new releases.
While stocks last...
While stocks last...
Save 50% on Starter Sets and 40% across our complete range of Collector Leatherette Editions in our Black Friday Sale!
Save 50% on all of our Starter Sets and 40% across our complete range of Collector Leatherette Editions. And you get the PDF included in the price! Black Friday Sale ends 11.59 PT Friday December 5th...
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December 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
48 hours to go in our Black Friday sale. 50% off our Starter Sets, 40% off ALL of our special leatherettes, even brand new releases.
While stocks last...
While stocks last...
Last chance to sally forth and sieze a swathe of Companions of Arthur and Pendragon Classic PDFs at 30% off in the @drivethrurpg.com Black Friday sale!
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Your one-stop online shop for new and vintage RPG products from the top publishers, delivered fresh to your desktop in electronic format.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Last chance to sally forth and sieze a swathe of Companions of Arthur and Pendragon Classic PDFs at 30% off in the @drivethrurpg.com Black Friday sale!
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Treat yourself to a whole new world!
Each of our Starter Sets are 50% off for a limited time.
Get yours now: www.chaosium.com/blogsave-50-...
Each of our Starter Sets are 50% off for a limited time.
Get yours now: www.chaosium.com/blogsave-50-...
November 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Treat yourself to a whole new world!
Each of our Starter Sets are 50% off for a limited time.
Get yours now: www.chaosium.com/blogsave-50-...
Each of our Starter Sets are 50% off for a limited time.
Get yours now: www.chaosium.com/blogsave-50-...
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Our friends at the @hplhs.bsky.social are having a Solstice Sale! - Use the code SOLSTICE2025 to save 20% storewide, Nov 27-Dec 1.
The sale includes their spectacular new Call of Cthulhu scenario The Spark Devil, and their amazing Gamer Prop Sets!
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The sale includes their spectacular new Call of Cthulhu scenario The Spark Devil, and their amazing Gamer Prop Sets!
store.hplhs.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Our friends at the @hplhs.bsky.social are having a Solstice Sale! - Use the code SOLSTICE2025 to save 20% storewide, Nov 27-Dec 1.
The sale includes their spectacular new Call of Cthulhu scenario The Spark Devil, and their amazing Gamer Prop Sets!
store.hplhs.org
The sale includes their spectacular new Call of Cthulhu scenario The Spark Devil, and their amazing Gamer Prop Sets!
store.hplhs.org
Our PAX panel on gamemaster tips was a blast. Brian set up a brilliant framework about the moments when you felt your GMing tangibly improved. Mine sure did sharing time with @bwholland.bsky.social @vlxcat.bsky.social
& @dailydael.bsky.social - such a brilliant trio. Level up acquired!
& @dailydael.bsky.social - such a brilliant trio. Level up acquired!
Take your Game Master skills to the next level as our panel of expert GMs share with you the tips and tricks to writing #TTRPG scenarios, running games, and making your game the best it can be! From #PAXAUS 2025.
Leveling Up - PAX 2025
Take your Game Master skills to the next level as our panel of expert GMs share with you the tips and tricks to writing scenarios, running games, and making your game the best it can be! This is a re...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Our PAX panel on gamemaster tips was a blast. Brian set up a brilliant framework about the moments when you felt your GMing tangibly improved. Mine sure did sharing time with @bwholland.bsky.social @vlxcat.bsky.social
& @dailydael.bsky.social - such a brilliant trio. Level up acquired!
& @dailydael.bsky.social - such a brilliant trio. Level up acquired!
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A special treat for Call of Cthulhu fans is coming later this week!
Who is excited for the special Chaosium 50th Anniversary edition slipcase set?
Who is excited for the special Chaosium 50th Anniversary edition slipcase set?
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
A special treat for Call of Cthulhu fans is coming later this week!
Who is excited for the special Chaosium 50th Anniversary edition slipcase set?
Who is excited for the special Chaosium 50th Anniversary edition slipcase set?
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Absolute belter of a RuneQuest session tonight, as the adventurers cleared a scorpion man infestation out of an Earth temple. Gripping, mythic, heroic and hilarious: I’m in love with this game all over again. #weareallus
November 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Absolute belter of a RuneQuest session tonight, as the adventurers cleared a scorpion man infestation out of an Earth temple. Gripping, mythic, heroic and hilarious: I’m in love with this game all over again. #weareallus
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Order from Chaosium.com by the below dates to receive by Christmas!
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🇨🇦: 9 Dec
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🇪🇺: 15 Dec
🇦🇺: 12 Dec
🌍: 1 Dec
There's always risk of delays, so early ordering is better! We do appreciate people buying direct, and remember when you do you get the PDF instantly.
🇺🇸: 12 Dec
🇨🇦: 9 Dec
🇬🇧: 12 Dec
🇪🇺: 15 Dec
🇦🇺: 12 Dec
🌍: 1 Dec
There's always risk of delays, so early ordering is better! We do appreciate people buying direct, and remember when you do you get the PDF instantly.
November 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Just when your investigators thought it was safe to go back into the cellar, or graveyard, or outer space, Basic Roleplaying: Creatures has a nightmare load of non-Mythos or Mythos-adjacent monsters to drop straight into Call of Cthulhu. Just add screaming.
Table Tales: Basic Roleplaying Creatures to terrorise your Call of Cthulhu investigators
Basic Roleplaying: Creatures is out now. It’s a dangerous tome which adds 170 pages of monsters, animals and NPCs to Basic Roleplaying, and therefore to every other Chaosium game built on its fine bon...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Just when your investigators thought it was safe to go back into the cellar, or graveyard, or outer space, Basic Roleplaying: Creatures has a nightmare load of non-Mythos or Mythos-adjacent monsters to drop straight into Call of Cthulhu. Just add screaming.
There are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.
November 19, 2025 at 2:37 AM
There are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.
Me: Hey Gemini, what is the absolute worst possible example for an AI prompt to encourage people to use you?
Gemini: How about outsourcing human connection and gratitude, while abrogating involvement in a child's education?
Me: Nailed it.
Gemini: How about outsourcing human connection and gratitude, while abrogating involvement in a child's education?
Me: Nailed it.
November 18, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Me: Hey Gemini, what is the absolute worst possible example for an AI prompt to encourage people to use you?
Gemini: How about outsourcing human connection and gratitude, while abrogating involvement in a child's education?
Me: Nailed it.
Gemini: How about outsourcing human connection and gratitude, while abrogating involvement in a child's education?
Me: Nailed it.
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goddammit I'm sending Ea-nāṣir another email we're going to get this shit straightened out
November 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
goddammit I'm sending Ea-nāṣir another email we're going to get this shit straightened out
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all the Prometheus, Icarus, Palantir, Erebor, etc. shows that none of these guys - none, and it is almost all guys - have actually done the reading
November 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
all the Prometheus, Icarus, Palantir, Erebor, etc. shows that none of these guys - none, and it is almost all guys - have actually done the reading
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Want to play a Duck? After appearing as a location and then counters in Greg Stafford's 1975 board war game White Bear and Red Moon ("Ducks, Ducks, and More Ducks"), as #TTRPG creatures Ducks first appeared in @chaosium.bsky.social's first edition of #RuneQuest (1978).
November 17, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Want to play a Duck? After appearing as a location and then counters in Greg Stafford's 1975 board war game White Bear and Red Moon ("Ducks, Ducks, and More Ducks"), as #TTRPG creatures Ducks first appeared in @chaosium.bsky.social's first edition of #RuneQuest (1978).
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It even flowed into Australia in the late 90s. Was then a FLGS Clerk who had a mum return D&D books her kid brought.
Rather than arguing, I convinced her King Arthur Pendragon was a better alternative, with players being chivalrous knights.
Rather than arguing, I convinced her King Arthur Pendragon was a better alternative, with players being chivalrous knights.
November 17, 2025 at 5:29 AM
It even flowed into Australia in the late 90s. Was then a FLGS Clerk who had a mum return D&D books her kid brought.
Rather than arguing, I convinced her King Arthur Pendragon was a better alternative, with players being chivalrous knights.
Rather than arguing, I convinced her King Arthur Pendragon was a better alternative, with players being chivalrous knights.
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OPEN DAY NOV 22! We are finally opening our doors! 🥳🙌
Drop in to Melbourne’s first creative space for tabletop games. See what it’d be like to add immersive lighting and sound to your #RPG and #boardgames, or to try #streaming with ready-to-roll cameras & mics.
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Drop in to Melbourne’s first creative space for tabletop games. See what it’d be like to add immersive lighting and sound to your #RPG and #boardgames, or to try #streaming with ready-to-roll cameras & mics.
events.humanitix.com/scryglass-st...
Scryglass Studio Open Day
Get a first look at Melbourne's first creative space for hire dedicated to tabletop gaming.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:39 AM
OPEN DAY NOV 22! We are finally opening our doors! 🥳🙌
Drop in to Melbourne’s first creative space for tabletop games. See what it’d be like to add immersive lighting and sound to your #RPG and #boardgames, or to try #streaming with ready-to-roll cameras & mics.
events.humanitix.com/scryglass-st...
Drop in to Melbourne’s first creative space for tabletop games. See what it’d be like to add immersive lighting and sound to your #RPG and #boardgames, or to try #streaming with ready-to-roll cameras & mics.
events.humanitix.com/scryglass-st...