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Assuming that all has gone according to plan, midnight PST marked the unveiling of the fully refurbished Moon Design web site and the worldwide premiere of the new HeroQuest core rule book. It’s available to order in hardcopy and/or PDF and will be also be available at your DLGS.(As always, the “D” is for “discerning.”)

Glorantha fans will find all sorts of goodies also available on the site, including never-before-fully-available selections from the Stafford Library.

It is fitting that this event should occur on Canada Day. Both Canada and HQ2 are fully generic tool sets giving GMs the rules support they need to collaboratively create RPG stories using the time-honored techniques of authors and screenwriters.

In other exciting HQ news, Moon Design will be making the system available to other publishers through a generous open gaming license. Details are forthcoming to the gaming world at large, but one group has already taken a head start. D101 games has announced the first two open-license supplements, one traditional fantasy, the other hard SF. As of this writing their server is acting up on them, so I’m temporarily linkless. Try Google to see if their site mojo has returned.

Also, check out Darran Sims’ design notes on the new HeroQuest logo, which is on one hand brand-spanking, but also calls back to classic elements of the hallowed Pavis and Big Rubble boxes.

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