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HIGHMOON MEDIA PRODUCTIONS TO PRODUCE TRUE20 ANCIENTS

May 12, 2008 (MIAMI BEACH, FL & SEATTLE, WA) — Highmoon Media Productions has reached an agreement with Green Ronin Publishing to produce the new True20 Ancients line of sourcebooks, bringing the critically-acclaimed historical Mythic Vistas settings to the True20 Adventure Roleplaying game. Highmoon Media Productions will act as a design studio for Green Ronin, performing the conversion to True20 of all the game material—done by True20 fan-favorite author Matthew Kaiser—as well as producing the finalized version of the product. 

True20 Ancients will bring to the True20 game all the material previously found in Testament: Roleplaying in the Biblical Era, Trojan War: Roleplaying in the Age of Homeric Adventures, and Eternal Rome: Roleplaying in the Age of Gods and Emperors, with some new material added in. The new line will reorganize the information and present it by cultures, making it easy for True20 fans get all the pertinent information for a specific culture in one package.

“I have been a passionate fan of Testament since its release, as well as of Trojan War and Eternal Rome,” said Daniel M. Perez, owner of Highmoon Media Productions. “Green Ronin did a fantastic job with these books, which is why I actively support them via Ancient World Adventures Magazine (formerly Targum) and why I sought to do this project as well. I am delighted that Chris Pramas accepted our proposal and entrusted us with this endeavor. I can’t think of a more fitting project to mark our entry into the world of True20 publishing than True20 Ancients.”

“I’m a big fan of historical gaming,” said Green Ronin President Chris Pramas, “which is one of the reasons we did the Mythic Vistas line in the first place. No one has been a more ardent supporter of that material than Daniel Perez, which makes him the perfect choice to develop True20 Ancients for us. This is great news for fans of True20 and historical gaming.”

True20 Ancients: Rome will be the first book in the line, followed by True20 Ancients: Israel & Canaan, and by the rest of the ancient world cultures presented in the original settings afterwards. True20 Ancients will be available in PDF from the Green Ronin webstore and vendor sites at RPGnow.com and DriveThruRPG.com.

Find out more about True20 Ancients at www.highmoonmedia.com/true20ancients

ABOUT HIGHMOON MEDIA PRODUCTIONS
Highmoon Media Productions is a Miami Beach-based e-publisher of gaming products, including Ancient World Adventures Magazine (formerly Targum), a magazine supporting Ancient World campaign settings. Highmoon Media Productions also produces The Gamer Traveler Podcast and The Digital Front Podcast. Learn more about Highmoon Media Productions at www.highmoonmedia.com.

ABOUT GREEN RONIN PUBLISHING
Green Ronin Publishing is a Seattle-based company known for its dedication to quality books and games. Founded in 2000, Green Ronin has won more awards for excellence and innovation than any other game company in the new millennium, and took home the coveted ENnie Award for Best Publisher an unprecedented three years running. With great licenses like Thieves’ World and the Black Company, groundbreaking games like Mutants & Masterminds and Blue Rose, and a roster of top flight designers and illustrators, Green Ronin Publishing is a leading light in the hobby game industry. Learn more about Green Ronin at www.greenronin.com.

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Highmoon Media Productions Media Contact
Daniel M. Perez
daniel@highmoonmedia.com

Green Ronin Media Contact
Nicole Lindroos
nicole@greenronin.com

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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!

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