How does a company that had raised over $750,000 on Kickstarter in two years come to have less ten grand in the bank? When Stafford and Petersen returned, Chaosium had less than $10,000 in the bank. Fellow genius Sandy Petersen, the original designer of the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game, returned with him, and the pair made the fulfillment of the company’s Kickstarter orders its number one priority. On June 2nd, 2015, Chaosium announced that founder Greg Stafford had returned to the company as president. Files had been sent to the printer, but unfortunately, not funds needed to pay for printing. We look forward to receiving printer’s proofs in due course.” This too would prove to be a lie. In March of 2015, nearly two years after the end of the campaign, backers were told, “Following on from our previous update, the printer has the final files and has begun the printing process. PDFs of the core books were released in 2014, and many promises were made about printing and shipping. A new deadline was announced, which was similarly blown through. The expected delivery was October 2013, a deadline which came and went. This was the company’s second six-figure Kickstarter the previous Horror on the Orient Express campaign having raised $207,804. Fans of the game and other non-Euclidean horrors all gibbered in ecstasy, both with the sense that they had contributed in making a beautiful game by backing the Kickstarter, and in anticipation of the sanity-shattering volumes that would soon be in their claws. The campaign smashed through stretch goals, which mandated the creation of a further four books. So when Chaosium began a Call of Cthulhu 7th edition Kickstarter in 2013, it did very well, bringing in over $500,000 from thousands of backers. The company, while never a giant in size, punched above its weight and had a devoted fan base. The company went on publish the seminal horror RPG, Call of Cthulhu which is based on the works of HP Lovecraft. The company was founded in 1975 by gaming mastermind Greg Stafford, creator of the world of Glorantha and the Pendragon RPG. is one of the grand old ladies of the role-playing game industry. How does a half-million dollar Kickstarter fail? And why would another company step in and spend six figures to raise it from the dead?Ĭhaosium, Inc.
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