Highmoon’s Ponderings

Note: Though this isn’t a Highmoon Media Productions product, I did write for it, so I’m sharing the news and helping to promote it.

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It’s the Most Wonderful Time Of The Year… For EVIL!The miserly villain Doctor Scrooge hides behind legal technicalities as he steals from the pockets of the impoverished… explorer-gone-mad Jacques Frost preys upon the peoples of the north with his resurrected prehistoric murder monsters… the immortal Baroness Blackheart quests for the Elixir of Life, threatening to destroy all foundations of happiness for mankind… meanwhile Antiochus the Defiler and his spectral Seleucid Squad attack anything sacred or holy…

… and it’s up to Nick Saint — Codename: Secret Santa! — his Reindeer Men, their Chanukah allies, and you to save the holidays from their vile clutches!

Spirit of the Season is a holiday treat from the minds of Evil Hat Productions and Atomic Sock Monkey Press. Featuring characters and new rules compatible with both Spirit of the Century and Truth & Justice, Spirit of the Season is your ticket to two-fisted holiday pulp adventure!

Inside you’ll find:

• A bevy of ready-to-roll heroes for holiday-themed one-shots and beyond
• Five dastardly villains you can harry your characters with no matter the time of year
• How to create pulp-style characters using Truth & Justice
• New rules material for Spirit of the Century including Mystic Spellcraft and Companions Reloaded
• Two heaping handfuls of plot ideas for kicking off two-fisted holiday pulp

For those who downloaded the free version during Christmas season 2007, this upgraded version contains over 20 pages of new material, including the aforementioned Mystic Spellcraft rules—as well as Empathy-driven minion stunts for heroes!

Written by: Chad Underkoffler, Fred Hicks, Daniel M.  Perez
Art by: Christian N. St. Pierre

Now Available in PDF from RPGNow!
$4.99

Also available in print from Evil Hat Productions.

Highmoon Media Productions is celebrating Ireland Day with a special day-long sale.

Our Bardic Lore line is on sale for 50% off!
http://www.rpgnow.com/index.php?cPath=216_4013?affiliate_id=17008

The rest of our catalog is on sale for 20% off!
http://www.rpgnow.com/index.php?cPath=216?affiliate_id=17008

And we are releasing a new Heroic Moment for the 4C System themed for St. Patrick’s Day.
http://www.rpgnow.com/index.php?cPath=216_4403?affiliate_id=17008

Enjoy the day, and celebrate all things Irish. Erin go bragh!

E. Gary Gygax
July 27, 1938 - March 4 (GM’s Day), 2008

The internet is aflutter with the news: Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, founder of Gen Con, virtually the father of the entire Role Playing Games hobby, has passed away today, March 4, on GM’s Day. I am still a bit stunned over the news, to be perfectly honest.

I saw Gary at last year’s Gen Con and never took the opportunity to go and say hi and thank him for so many wonderful times thanks to the games he pioneered. I will not get that chance now. I am immediately reminded of when I was first introduced to Dungeons & Dragons, when I first held that red box in my hands, when I read that book and suddenly my life was changed forever. Gaming has been an integral part of my life for 21 years now, and it is all thanks to that little game Gary and Dave created. It is common knowledge that Gary loved to hear other gamers’ stories about their D&D games (and that alone should be enough to grant him sainthood); if there is something here that dispells a bit the gloom of the day is that now Gary will be able to know ALL our stories, and I think he will enjoy that a lot.

My condolences go to his entire family. Every single gamer out there who has ever rolled funny-shaped dice and cast magic missile shares your grief today.

To you, Gary, G-dspeed. So long and thank you for the games. Now, go play, and make the man proud.

Today, March 4, is GM’s Day, a day in which we express our gratitude to all the GMs out there who day after day put so much of themselves to make sure the games rock (yes, that includes you facilitators of those hippie GM-less games as well).

To celebrate, Highmoon Media Productions is joining the store-wide sale at RPGnow/DriveThruRPG offering all our products for 25% off from March 4 - 6!

Congrats to all the GMs out there. May you have an AWESOME GM’s Day!

There will be a short hiatus on the podcast; between being sick and voiceless for a couple of weeks and the Thanksgiving holidays, I’ve fallen a bit behind.

There will be a new episode during the second week of Dec. Thanks for your support and understanding.

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