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The rules of RuneQuest, Chaosium's first role-playing game, were distilled down into a generic, genre-agnostic format known as Basic Role-Playing ( BRP ). These generic rules formed the basis of many, if not most, of Chaosium's later RPGs, such as Call Of Cthulhu , Stormbringer , Nephilim , and Ringworld . Chaosium and Greg Stafford are also responsible for Pendragon , an Arthurian RPG now published by Green Knight Publishing . Other games of note include Mythos , Elfquest , Worlds Of Wonder , Superworld , Hawkmoon , and the frequently forgotten Prince Valiant . Some Chaosium products have been translated into French , German , Spanish and Italian , and were available in France from Jeux Descartes , in Germany from Pegasus Press , in Spain from La FactorÃa De Ideas and in Italy from ''Stratelibri'' and ''Grifo Edizioni''. In the mid-1980s, Chaosium entered into a complex arrangement with Avalon Hill to publish RuneQuest material while Chaosium maintained editorial control over Glorantha-based material for the game (which Avalon Hill would publish). While this agreement reportedly kept the company in existence, it also left RuneQuest moribund, leading to products of questionable quality, long gaps with no products published at all, and, eventually, the death of the game altogether. In the late 1990s, Chaosium effectively split up into various successor companies, each maintaining its focus on a few of the company's products. Green Knight Publishing formed to focus on Pendragon, Chaosium "proper" retained Call of Cthulhu, Stormbringer, and Mythos, while Greg Stafford founded Issaries to publish Hero Quest and focus on bringing new Glorantha related material into print. Also, Wizard's Attic was formed in order to act as a fulfillment house. Several notable RPG authors have written material for Chaosium, including Arduin creator David A. Hargrave . The infamous Arduin spell Stafford's Star Bridge was in fact ''named'' after Chaosium founder Greg Stafford . EXTERNAL LINKS |