Grumpy RPG Reviews: The Hogfather

Episode 45: The Hogfather

• (Hopefully I have some persistent technical issues resolved now. )
• Baba Yaga is setting up for her annual Life Day Celebration.
• Acererak says the Hogfather is going to attend Baba’s party.
• Sir Terry Pratchett is a successful British author of a comedy series of fantasy novels set in the Discworld.
• Hogfather the novel was released in 1996 and Hogfather the miniseries in 2006.
• Despite being a farcical comedies where Death impersonates Santa, both handle the holiday quite well.
• Acererak says he should have called the Tomb of Horrors by a different name.
• Grumpy asserts Hogfather – novel and miniseries – are among the best of holiday media.
• Terry Pratchett makes a very good case about the “true” meaning of the Holiday.
• The Novel gets a 20 on a d20 and the miniseries gets a 15 on a d20.
• Krumpus shows up and wrecks Grumpy’s holiday plans.
• Note: The Cheerful Fairy is a comically sad character from the Hogfather novel. And I forgot to include Santa Christ on the list of party attendees Acererak rattles off.

Here is Steve Austin's 2011 Krumpus Art;

Credit where credit is due;

"Merry Krampus" Copyright © 2011 Steven Austin.

His website can be found at

www.stevenaustinart.com. This work is licensed under a

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

This illustration was created for the Nevermet Press

Krampus Christmas Carnival of 2012. More details

can be found here:

http://nevermetpress.com/krampus-is-coming-back-in-a-carnival

Other Sad Victims of the Krumpus:

• DriveThruRPG.com, 
• Pinnacle Entertainment Group,  
• Open Design and Kobold Quarterly, 
• ENWorld, 
• Airship Ambassador,  
• Overbury Ink,  
• OM Grey, 
• Dr. Fantastique’s Show of Wonders,  
• GeekNative.com,  
• Troll in the Corner,  
• Game Knight Reviews,  
• Skyland Games, 
• RoleplayingTips.com, 
• Campaign Mastery,  
• Reality Refracted, 
• Tenkar’s Tavern,  
• Mad Brew Labs, 
• Enderra and, 
• Sea of Stars RPG.