San Francisco 1906 / The Book of Changing Years
Pelgrane Press is publishing The Book of Changing Years as a companion to TimeWatch RPG. It’s a collection of time travelling tales, where TimeWatch agents wrestle with mysteries trying to maintain and protect their timeline from various hazards and outside tampering. I did a few full-page pen-and-ink illustrations set in future Paris, 1906 San Francisco, early Roman battle field and Cretaceous period Earth.
Burger Games publishes a new and long awaited module Salaisuuksien kirja (The Book of Secrets) for Praedor, the undeniable flagship in the fleet of Finnish role-playing games.
For me, Salaisuuksien kirja was an exploration into new kind of inking style. Using parallel lines of varying width instead of cross-hatching even in the darker areas was, of course, inspired by Franklin Booth. Most of art I did for the project pre-dates that of The Eye of the Stone Thief (2015) and Dracula Unredacted (2015) where I used the same style.
I’ve added some new illustrations in the black-and-white gallery.
Dracula Dossier was a Kickstarter project by Pelgrane Press that was effectively a role-playing scenario or a campaign built around a slightly altered version of Bram Stoker’s classic gothic novel Dracula (1897).
In addition to a wealth of source books, Pelgrane Press published an unredacted version of the novel, which I was happy to illustrate. I was kind of worried as the A3 originals were squeezed into paperpack size. Yesterday, I just flipped through the printed book at my local friendly game store, and the pen-and-ink illustrations turned out great!
I’ve added some of the illustrations to the black-and-white gallery.
Moon Design Publications has released a new rulebook for HeroQuest focussing on the mythical world of Glorantha. For my part, it contains illustrations commissioned for their earlier Glorantha publications. Still, it is nice to be (and stay) in print.
Pelgrane Press has released Eyes of the Stone Thief, a megadungeon module for 13th Age Roleplaying Game. There is even a trailer for the module here.
In 13th Age, living dungeons slither up through the underworld and invade the surface lands. The Stone Thief is the most ancient and cunning of its kind; a vast monster that preys on the cities and structures you love, swallows them, and remakes them into more deathtrap-filled levels inside itself. Now, it’s hunting YOU.
I was commissioned a dozen or so illustratrations. Initially, they were monochrome, but later PP decided to add color to the module, so I ended up coloring quite tightly inked drawings. Some of the illustrations have now been added to black-and-white and color galleries.
I’ve finally switched to WordPress. It’ll take some time to haul the old content over to the new framework.
Uhrwerk-Verlag publishes Space 1889 planetary guide for Venus for which I did 24 pen-and-ink illustrations. Some of them are in the updated gallery.
Some character sketches for a desert campaign.
Uhrwerk-Verlag publishes a German version of the classic Space 1889 sci-fi RPG. I did a fair portion of the interior illustrations, some of which can be seen here and here in addition to the updated gallery.
Idle Intellectuals Games is about to launch Hereafter, a grim post-apocalyptic RPG. “Humanity in Hereafter is locked in a collision course with extinction, and your character is no exception. The only question is how you will make peace with your fate.” I was permitted to post some illustrations before the publication. They can be found in bw gallery.
