Included in this pack are four adventures that will take the young heroes to far off places and pit them against fearsome adversaries.

• The Curse of the Sleepy Mist – The evil wizard Geleron has released a magical mist that has put the entire town of Springwell to sleep. Can the heroes of Springwell defeat him yet again and make everything right in Springwell?
• Trixie the Unicorn’s Rescue – The fairies of the Evergreen Forest need help, as their unicorn, Trixie, has been taken prisoner by the evil goblins of the Dark Swamp. Can the heroes of Springwell find her and bring her home to her fairy friends?
• Rescue from Dinosaur Island – A group of explorers left on a boat to the mysterious Dinosaur Island but never returned. Can the heroes find them and bring them back home to Springwell?
• The Pirates of Seaweed Cove – It seems pirates have been attacking ships off the coast of Springwell’s beach, teaming up with Shark?Men from under the sea. Can the heroes stop the pirates and the Shark?Men before everyone becomes too scared to go out on boats?

The pack includes all the maps and tokens you will need for your brave adventures.

In addition, we have also released the rpgKids Game Bundle, which includes both the Core Game and the Adventure Pack I for a discounted price, making it the perfect way for newcomers to join in the rpgKids fun!

Both the rpgKids Adventure Pack and the rpgKids Game Bundle are now available at RPGNow.com.

Gather the kids, bring out the dice and get ready to be the heroes of Springwell!

In that time, the product has gone Electrum at RPGnow, Silver at DriveThruRPG, and been featured on BoingBoing.net. In short, a fantastic year for a little game. We want more kids playing RPGs, more parents sharing their love of storytelling and adventure gaming with their young ones, so we’re doing a special sale.

For the month of September, rpgKids is on sale for $0.99 cents!

Download it today and enter a world of fantastic adventure: the imagination of a child.

Click to see the full-size version.

It is hard to imagine that it has only been a month since the 9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami hit the island nation of Japan. As efforts turn towards the reestablishment of normal life for those affected, it is our hope that this donation can help those in need in some small way.

A very heartfelt thank you to all who participated.

The north of Japan has been hit by an 8.9 magnitude earthquake, making it one of the strongest earthquakes in Japan’s and recent world history. Aftershocks measuring up to 7.1 continued to be felt hours after the initial quake and massive tsunamis have washed over the northern regions of the island, taking cars, boats, houses, lives along the way. Even for a country that is prepared to deal with seismic disasters this is a lot, and help from the world will be needed.

To do our little part, both author Jeremy Puckett and myself, and the good folks at GeekyClean, have decided to put together a bundle.

Buy today the Ronin: JAPAN EARTHQUAKE RELIEF EDITION for only $5.00 and get:

• Ronin: Oriental Adventures in Tokugawa Japan
• Pathfinder playtest documents for Ronin
• A 30% off discount code from GeekyClean.com

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Help the people of Japan; if not through us, consider also a $5 donation via DriveThruRPG.

To everyone that has been a customer, a fan, a friend, a peer, a colleague, a mentor, a critic, a supporter – to you I say thanks. Here’s to many more years.

In celebration, I have put most of the Highmoon Games catalog on sale at RPGnow for 50% off. Sale will last till the weekend, so enjoy.

Highmoon Games on Sale @ RPGnow!

From the author:

Here’s a description in a nutshell:  A very simple RPG consisting of opposed die rolls using a d12, while encouraging kids to think creatively, perform simple arithmetic, and have fun!

The fully bookmarked, 24 page PDF also includes funny and kid friendly hand drawn tokens for both heroes and monsters, character cards and a printable 1? grid.

But that’s not all, because it also includes a full introductory adventure, designed to show all the rules of the game at work, within the context of a fun quest.

You can learn more about rpgKids, as well as see some videos of the game being played, at NewbieDM.com/rpgKids.

Now Available at RPGnow for $2.99.

Now available via RPGnow, it’s the One Bad Egg’s One Eggcellent Bundle, collecting all the OBE products for the sale price of $34.95.

Bonus: The bundle now also includes Galileo Games’ Hard Boiled Empires: Solara, a complete application of the Hard Boiled Cultures product ready for your 4e game!

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I’ll be working with Rogue Games for the duration of the con; you can find us at booth #1539. Drop by, say hi, and check out the great games the Rogues have for you, like Colonial Gothic, Thousand Suns and Shadow, Sword & Spell – Basic.

Aside from that, I will be wandering the hall and enjoying myself to no end. Oh yes, and running games. I’m running two games in particular that are of interest to fans of Highmoon Games:

• ICONS Superpowered Roleplaying – I’m doing a short and fun scenario for Adamant Entertainment’s superhero game, ICONS, Friday 8/6 from 3-6 PM, in which the villainous RULES LAWYER must be stopped before he erases all games from existence. Who can help? Enter THE CONVENTIONEERS! I still have player slots available for this game; if you are interested, see this post and leave a comment.

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• I’m also doing a playtest of the vampire roleplaying game I have been working on, working title: When The Fall… This one will be Saturday night.

These are both projects that will eventually see release through Highmoon Games, so keep an eye out.

Catch you at Gen Con!

Since we already have our line of superheroic one-shots for 4C System called Heroic Moments, we’ve decided to expand it to include ICONS support via Adamant’s Icons Compatibility License.

OPEN CALL

We are looking for the following:

Heroic Moments for ICONS

Complete one-shot adventures set up in the same format as our Heroic Moments line for ICONS Superpowered Roleplaying game (our suggestion: buy a couple samples and study the format). These are very short superheroic set-ups meant to be played in a single session. They provide a situation, a clearly-defined villain/opposition, and a goal. These are not full-fledged adventures. Though the focus of the product is the adventure, a couple bonus items of new mechanics at the end are perfectly fine if they are tied to the situation presented. You will use ICONS Superpowered Roleplaying game for all game mechanics and your adventure must 100% compatible with this game. Heroic Moments are usually between 1500-2000 words long, and payment is $10, payable upon acceptance of final product, for all rights.

To submit your idea, send an email to submissions [AT] highmoon-games.com with the subject line ICONS HM SUBMISSION. In the text area, tell us your idea for the Heroic Moment in a few sentences only: basic situation, how to hook up the heroes, who/what is the opposition, and the goal. If you’ll include new mechanics, mention them as well. If we approve your idea, you would have 2 weeks to deliver the final manuscript for edits. If you do not follow these instructions we won’t look at your submission. If you cannot commit to possibly having a final manuscript in 2 weeks from acceptance of your submitted idea, do not submit at all.

We will be looking for about 10 such adventures in this Open Call.

BONUS: If you can submit your Heroic Moments adventure with stats for both ICONS and 4C System, we’ll up the payment to $15.

4C-to-ICONS Conversions

Someone to convert our current Heroic Moments products for the 4C System to ICONS stats. Payment is $5 for each conversion, payable upon acceptance of final product. Ideally we’re looking for one person to handle all six conversions.

To apply for the conversion gig, send an email to submissions [AT] highmoon-games.com with the subject line ICONS HM CONVERSION and tell me a bit about why you’d be good for this. Please also mention if you would be able to do all six conversions. Based on your info, I’ll give you a test product to convert and if all goes well, then you get the job. Once a product has been handed in for conversion, I expect it to be handed back in its final form within one week. If you end up getting all six conversions, I expect them all to be done within 1 month. If you cannot meet these deadlines, please do not apply.

This Open Call will close on July 18.

All ICONS-licensed products go on sale August 1st.

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For the entire month of June, our whole catalog is on sale for 50% off regular price! Not only that, we’re actually making available all our d20 stock which had been unavailable for months, just for June, and then it’s all gone.

Visit: RPGnow Highmoon Games Store

Sample all our products, from d20 to Pathfinder, from d20 Future to D&D 4th Edition, and even fiction, too! All at 50% off.

Kick off summer today!

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It all started with me writing a post about wanting to play Vampire: The Masquerade again and why. It then turned into a love letter to that game. And from there it erupted into a series of (ongoing) posts exploring how I would rebuild a game about vampires to tackle the essential themes I felt Vampire touched upon but didn’t press hard enough. And thus I’m now Rebuilding Vampire.

That tag will link you to all the posts so far in the series, with the most recent at the top. Feel free to read through and comment if so inclined (I love feedback!).

Is this for eventual publication? I’m operating on the principle of: let me get the game done first and then we’ll see what happens with it. Enjoy the ride.

From March 3rd to 8th, all our products are on sale for 25% off!

RPGnow: Highmoon Games Storefront

Be sure to also check out the amazing number of sales going on as well by browsing the main sales page.

To all the gamemasters out there, thanks for running awesome games for us players.

Rich, dude, this one’s for you for Lady Blackbird. 

As of today, and for the rest of January, DriveThruRPG and a multitude of publisher partners, are offering the Gamers Helping Haiti $20 Donation Bundle. When you “purchase” this product, you donate $20 to Doctors Without Borders, the charity which will be the recipient of all donations collected via DriveThruRPG. As a gift, you get a bundle of products worth over $1400.

Click here to purchase the Gamers Helping Haiti $20 Donation bundle.

This is a win-win situation, as you help out a worthy cause and get some amazing RPG products for your collection. You have until January 31 to get it, so don’t let it pass.

Highmoon Games is proud to have included four products in the bundle for all those who help out:

1. Liber Sodalitas: The Dream Healers (Pathfinder)
2. Shrouded Agendas: The Purifiers (D&D 4e)
3. From Stone to Steel (OGL 3.5 Fantasy)
4. Frost & Fur (OGL 3.5 Fantasy)

The last two will only be available via the bundle and will go back to being “out of print” at the end of January.

Let’s all be a part of Gamers Helping Haiti.

In general, things at Highmoon Games have been slow, as predicted in June. The personal issue I was dealing with, the ailment and death of my mother, pretty much took all my time, energy and desire to create so very little got done. That said, two things happened that helped give Highmoon Games a push and re-energize the company (and me).

In October, Highmoon Games became the new owner of One Bad Egg, the D&D 4th Edition publishing suit founded by Fred Hicks & Rob Donoghue (Evil Hat Productions), Justin Jacobson (Blue Devil Games) and Chris Hanrahan (Endgame). The Eggs decided to close the company but wanted to keep the products available to the public, so they approached me, something I am still very honored about. One Bad Egg‘s products are top notch and have become our best sellers by far, giving Highmoon Games a much-needed sales push that has allowed other projects to be funded. Far more important to me, though, is that these fantastic game aids continue to be available for fans of D&D 4e to enjoy.

After almost a year of trying to get things squared away, in early December we announced that Hal Mangold (Green Ronin Publishing, Atomic Overmind Press) had been brought on-board to do the layout for (the very very late) True20 Ancients: Rome. Matthew Kaiser and Spike Y Jones did an amazing job with the words part, and it had been on hold for far too long waiting for the graphic treatment. Bringing Hal in means that book will look like the fantastic tome it is, and I know True20 fans will be delighted once they have it in their hands. It is still too early to announce a release date, but I know we’re all shooting for a 1st Quarter 2010 date.

Not to be overlooked, Highmoon Media Productions (of which Highmoon Games is part of) celebrated its 5th anniversary in October 2009, something that amazes and humbles me, for I could not have made it this far without the support and patronage of great friends, colleagues and customers like you.

In looking to 2010, expect Highmoon Games to remain a bit quiet; I am going back to university to begin a degree in Nursing, so that will take most of my time and effort. Nevertheless, we will have stuff coming out during the year, like the aforementioned True20 Ancients: Rome (via Green Ronin Publishing), more conversions to Pathfinder of our Liber Sodalitas line, and at least one new issue of Targum Magazine. One of the beauties of running such a small company is that I don’t have to set my schedule months in advance, so new projects could show up by surprise. I guess you’ll just have to keep an eye on us.

It’s time to look to the future. Bring it on, 2010.

As a parting gift, take a look at these illustrations from Shawn Gaston, destined to grace the Pathfinder editions of two Liber Sodalitas products. Enjoy!

The text is identical to the previously-available version; the one thing that changed was the removal of the d20 License and logos, which prompted a small layout rearranging.

Customers who previously purchased the adventure were sent an update download link. Everyone else, here’s your chance for a way into the lands of Testament.

Now Available: No Other Gods (An Adventure for Testament)

Get your copy today!