My First Comic, Upcoming Work, and Surviving a Watercolor World
What? That title *needs* a subtitle? It *was* a subtitle!
Hi all,
Comic artist PJ Holden (Judge Dredd, Monsterology) has a project on his blog right now called Null Space where he posts one-page comics created in collaboration with a host of writers. And last week, that writer was me. My first comic, Unforgivable, is up and takes about 3 seconds of your time to read. But PJ also posts the script, and in my specific case, an earlier draft he did and then decided to redraft. So it’s also a nice insight into the process of taking a comic from words to pictures. Please check it out and leave a like or a comment there, and then go and read some more of the Null Space offerings!
Lots happening here. Keeper of the Drowned by ENnie winning designer Brian Suskind (Kobold Press, Draco Studios) will be the next adventure published by Lazy Wolf Studios for Thrones & Bones’ Norrøngard campaign setting. Written for the Black Flag Roleplaying system (but playable by any D&D 5e compatible system), it’s a loose follow up to last year’s Banner of the Bull. Furthermore, subsequent adventures in the sequence are in development from Kelly Pawlik (Kobold Press) and Richard Pett (Wizards of the Coast, Kobold Press). I’m very excited about this sequence of stories and hope you will be too. And they keep things happening in Norrøngard while I’m off developing a new adventure in the far-from-there country of Nelenia. (Keeper of the Drowned is actually done and about to solicit for play testers, btw. So ping me or drop by the Discord if your gaming group is interested.)
Meanwhile, something this morning made me happy and something this morning made me sad. I saw two upcoming crowdfunding projects that appealed to me, and I signed up to be notified about both. The first, Surviving Strangehollow, is a 5e campaign setting developed by multiple powerhouse designers (Ed Greenwood, Shawn Merwin, Erin Roberts, James Heack, among others) based on the wonderful watercolor creature art of Emily Hare. The other was a toolset that says it’s going to be fully customizable to let you “build your own DnDBeyond” for any game system. This is something that appeals to me, as while I love DnDBeyond, it’s so far ahead of any other site or system’s character tools as to be an impediment to getting my players to try other games! I very much want these kind of tools to be in development everywhere for every RPG. So, yay, right? But then I read the creator’s statement on their policy towards the use of AI generated images, and well, I promptly deleted my request to be notified. Not gonna touch that with a 10 foot pole, but I am happy to support a project based on the hand-painted work of a real watercolor artist. You should too.
That’s it for now. Happy weekend everyone!
Loved the comic and yeah really insightful behind the scenes