A follow up post from the earlier D’Kathi alien concept design, here are the final artwork commissioned by Christopher Mennell for his Across The Stars science fiction game setting. While it starts out looking and feeling Star Trek with a lot of analogous signature elements, it diverges in many ways and has the potential for imaginative game masters to take it into high concept science fiction.
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25 Years of Star Wars RPG (2014)
Every tabletop RPG blog post ever written and published on this blog. Some RPG actual play reports, some RPG thoughts, some RPG artwork.
Note: All posts herein are arrayed latest first and earliest last.
Vader’s Imperial Sourcebook
Click on the picture above to view a bigger image of Vader reading the Imperial Sourcebook.
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D’Kathi Concept Design
Christopher Mennell’s Across The Stars commission is presently being worked on. Here’s a delightful surprise that occurred over email / Google+ discussions of the project. One of the aliens I have to create an initial form for is the D’Kathi. The image below is my first sketch of the alien’s head. Suddenly, artist Eric Quigley came up with his own painting of my D’Kathi design using Painter and Photoshop. It looks spectacular as can be seen below. Click here to visit Eric’s website.
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BareBones Fantasy: The First Quest
The night before we headed home to Kuala Lumpur from Pasir Mas, Irfan and I decided to try out the BareBones Fantasy RPG. BareBones Fantasy (BBF) is a simple – but intrinsically complete and very customisable – role-playing game engine that allows gamemasters and players to run adventures in the vein of classic Tolkienesque fantasy worlds, with Elves and Dwarves and Halflings and Orcs. I was sent the beta version for my DwD Studios art commission job, so I had a copy printed out the week earlier. It runs on DwD Studios’ own D00Lite system, which only uses the d10 dice either as percentile rolls or total-up rolls. Note: The above is not the actual cover, but something I put together quickly and had printed! Click here to view the skilfully painted cover by Eric Quigley, and to read more about BareBones Fantasy at the DwD Studios’ website. Character generation […]
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D6 Stats of a Star Wars Hat
From Season 2, Episode 17: “Bounty Hunters” of Star Wars: The Clone Wars comes Embo the Bounty Hunter, a male Kyuzo. His signature gear is his wide-brimmed, armoured hat, which he’s able to use as a shield when turned into incoming blaster bolts. Also, he is able to throw the hat to strike a target which then returns to him like Captain America’s shield. Here is my OpenD6 stats for Embo’s Hat. EMBO’S HAT Gear: EMBO’S HAT Type: Awesome Frisbee-Shield Hat Skill: Melee parry (shield against ranged weapons) / Thrown weapons (for throwing attack) Difficulty: Easy (to shield), Difficult (to throw) Damage Resistance: 5D Thrown damage: STR + 1D Note: Returning weapon: When throwing, upon Wild Die of 6, you automatically retrieve the returning hat. Else, you need to roll a second Moderate Thrown Weapons skill to grab it in mid-air if nothing stops it from returning back to the […]
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BareBones Experiment Artwork
DWD Studios came up with a great project suggestion. Somewhat like Wicked North Games’ Azamar: The Paradise Fragment project, I was to create a cover and six interior black and white artwork, which the game developers will create a adventure around them. The adventure will be a supplement to their BareBones Fantasy RPG. The cover has a creature that’s pretty blue about things. How will the rest of the artwork be used in the still-untitled adventure? Watch this space when I announce its eventual release at the end of the year. Here are the rest of the interior images.
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Vicious Crucible of the Eburnean Tower
Here is a large artwork I made for Kallisti Press’s The Vicious Crucible of the Eburnean Tower RPG, to be released later. Strange things are happening in and around the Eburnean Tower. Click on the picture above to see a larger image. You can download for free the first Vicious Crucible game The Vicious Crucible of Verdigris Valley here to check it out!
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Westward RPG Creature Wallpaper
And here is the latest batch of creatures that inhabit not just the deserts, but the lesser illustrated jungle and tundra of Westward… presented in the form of a 1280px by 800px wallpaper! Tentative names from left to right: Ice Fish, Entracter Crab Spider, Death Ogler, Snow Globber. Watch for the Westward RPG core rule book to be released by year’s end!
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Westward RPG Critters – Part 4
Some more bizarre alien creatures were commissioned by Wicked North Games for their space steampunk western role-playing game Westward! While you’re riding a shieldhorse or piloting a steam-powered mech, you might come across these guys in the Badlands of Westward.
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Mecha RPG
Heroic Journey Publishing commissioned a series of artwork for the Mecha Mercenaries supplement for their Mecha RPG. Here are some, but not all, of the mecha arrayed together to form a 1280px by 800px black and white wallpaper for your widescreen monitor. Check out their fantastic Mecha RPG at DriveThruRPG, which is fun, simple to play and very true to its source!
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Void Vultures Photos
The artwork commissioned for Void Vultures has been released for some time, but I haven’t had the time to download and print it out. I created a cover using Inkscape with a pair of creative common-licensed images via Google, printed it and bound it. Here are some photos. I have yet to run the game though. When I do I’ll have a report written here on the blog. Click here to download Rüls of the Void and Derelicts of the Void for free.
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Westward Concept: Tusker
So, let me ask you this: what do you suppose is the medium used to draw the above concept sketch of the Tusker for the Westward RPG bestiary?
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Call of Cthulhu: Stark Raving Mad
Episode 2 Stark Raving Mad For several weeks, Irfan was asking me if I could run the continuation of his first Call of Cthulhu game where he roleplays SFPD Detective D.J. Stark. Finally I had the time to sit down and write prep notes for a short session. Irfan got into Detective Stark’s shoes, trench coat, shirt and tie, and then got right into it. The game started out where the previous session ended: Captain Greta Hack gives the bruised and battered Stark a week’s off after he shot his turncoat partner Lee Wilson and rescued Paige Riordan from the vicious underground creatures. Stark really has a Glock 9mm, not a revolver Returning to his apartment, he was ambushed by one of the foetid, muzzle-mouthed creatures in his kitchen. He felled it with a shot. The rest ran out the corridor and down the staircase. Stark pursued, but he was […]
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Some Sordid Sampling of Sahuagin
I’ve illustrated this piece for a new Troll in the Corner podcast series entitled “Monsters of the Shattered World”, written by Brent Newhall and edited by Quinn Conklin. Their first podcast portrays an adventuring party’s encounter with a shoal of Sahuagins. The artwork is mostly ink work supplemented by digital stars. Why digital? Because my toothbrush has yet to be trashed, salvaged and reused as white paint sprayer. Download Troll in the Corner’s Monsters of the Shattered World #1: The Sea Devils. Check out the bigger image here on DeviantArt.
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Westward RPG Critters – Part 3
This series of creatures I drew for Westward RPG from Wicked North Games is special. I was tasked with proposing and designing these beasts from scratch. Once approved by Wicked North, I started illustrating them with ink and water colours! Of course, the names might be changed by the writers during editing. Keep an eye out for Westward the steampunk western roleplaying game in space, produced by Wicked North Games to be released in the near future.
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Westward RPG Critters – Part 2
Here are four more preview creatures from Wicked North Games’ Westward RPG! Sure it’s a steampunk western set in space, but what sort of strange critters would PCs be up against in the wilderlands of Westward?
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