New Adventure - Yuletide Journey

A new Christmas-themed Hero Kids adventure is now available:

The Yuletide Journey adventure takes place in the days before Rivenshore's annual midwinter Yuletide feast.   But the village has not heard from the festival's annual guest, Odin, who is the protector of the Brecken Vale.   The kids set out on a journey to Odin's home in the northern mountains, and along the way they meet new friends, overcome dangerous challenges, and face fearsome enemies.

•  Adventure with six encounters and two new maps
•  Includes two new elf heroes; Woodswalker and Druid
•  Includes a new monster, the Ettin Brute, as well as the Dire Wolf and Wolf

Here's the link to DriveThruRPG:

Hero Kids - Adventure - Yuletide Journey

Playtesting Yuletide Journey with the kids

Just did a playtest of the new Christmas-themed Hero Kids adventure: Yuletide Journey.   Violet took two heroes through the adventure and Dash insisted on coming along. But he's way too young, and wandered off half way through before he did any real damage...

In keeping with the normal polytheistic and pagan setting of Hero Kids, this adventure presents kids with Christmas as a midwinter Yuletide festival, and Santa is taken back to his pagan roots as Odin (who delivers presents for kids who leave out food for Sleipnir, his eight-legged horse).

This adventure is relatively light on combat encounters (there are two), focusing more on role-playing and adventuring.   But it does include two new elf heroes (who will be part of the upcoming Hero Cards III expansion), two new pieces of equipment, and a new monster, the Ettin Brute.

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Bundle of Holding: Family-Friendly RPGs!

I'm honored to have Hero Kids included in the latest Bundle of Holding - Family-Friendly RPGs - that has just launched.  The bundle features these great games for just USD$4.95:
Hero Kids, Mermaid Adventures, and The Princes' Kingdom

If you pay USD$14.95 (or more), you also get these games:
Project Ninja Panda Taco, School Daze, and Adventures in Oz

10% of the sales go to a couple of worthy international charities; Save the Children and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

Bundle of Holding - Family-Friendly RPGs

Christmas-themed adventure coming...

I'm working on a new Christmas-themed Hero Kids adventure, which is the perfect excuse to watch The 13th Warrior (for literally the fiftieth time...).

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Platinum seller, thanks to you!

Thanks to you, Hero Kids is now a Platinum Seller on DriveThruRPG.

This means that it is among the top best-selling RPGs on the site, in the hallowed company of games like Numenera, Fiasco, Pendragon, Eclipse Phase, Legend, Vampire, Legend of the Five Rings, and more...

DriveThruRPG - Platinum Metal Products

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New adventure - Fire in Rivenshore!

A new Hero Kids adventure is now available:

The Fire In Rivenshore adventure takes place when a fire breaks out in Rivenshore.   The kids are asked to help battle the blaze and find its source.   After rescuing Roger in the burning tavern and battling looters, the kids discover that a bullied street urchin (Bree) is responsible for the fires.   But do they choose to arrest her or let her go?
•  Adventure with five encounters and seven new maps
•  Includes a full set of Brigands and Bree the Firestarter (both monster and player versions)

Fire in Rivenshore is designed by Brian Benoit from Roving Band of Misfits and mixes a heap of adventuring and role-playing with the combat encounters.   It even comes with a new playable hero, the Firestarter!

Here's the link to DriveThruRPG:

Hero Kids - Adventure - Fire In Rivenshore

This adventure includes a bunch of new maps, including the common-room and upper floor of the tavern, as well as a number of town maps for Rivenshore.   As ever, the new encounter maps from Fire In Rivenshore are modular, so you can mix and match them to create your own adventures.

Hero Kids from out of town?

Meanwhile, behind the scenes our art-elf (actually Eric Quigley!) is beavering away on more heroes for Hero Kids...

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