Ice Storm

From the upcoming Frostbitten & Mutilated (formerly Black Metal Amazons of the Devoured Land)

Place these on the random encounter table in polar regions:

Ice Storm--The weather is piercing, impossible, moving forward is hard labor at best. Every PC must roll succeed on a Strength check or movement is impossible for 10 minutes x the number of points the check was failed by. Anyone not in some kind of shelter beyond normal cold-weather gear must save or take 1 hit point of damage for every 10 minutes in the cold.

Ice Storm+ Encounter--As above plus roll again--something's coming.
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Zak Smith vs Adrian Smith, Final Round

Alright, third try at doing an homage to this Adrian Smith piece from Realms of Chaos for my book Black Metal Amazons of the Devoured Land.

(You can click all these to enlarge)

So, to review. Here's Adrian's original, pencil on paper:

Here's my first attempt, pen and ink, full color:

Adrian clearly rips my jaw off and feeds it to me

Round two, black ink only:

Nice bits but still a clear victory for the alphabetically hegemonic Smith.

And now the last round, acrylic paint on paper, win or lose I'm not doing it again after this:

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Paintings: Black Metal Amazons of the Devoured Land

Slowwwly but surely working on pictures for Black Metal Amazons of the Devoured Land coming sometime (never ask, if we knew we'd tell you) from Lamentations of the Flame Princess. 

These are finished paintings yet or very good photos, but they get the idea across. Acrylic paint on paper. Click to enlarge...

Avalanche

Mad Queen Rindr of the Maggot Sisterhood

Amazon of the Maggot Sisterhood

Amazon of The Thirteen

Belphegor, the Beast

Ulvenbrigad Amazon

Drowning Demons

Malicia Orgen of the Thirteen

Frost Giant of the Hatemountain

The Necrobutcher

Troll

Amazon of the Frostbitten Moons

Witch of the Thirteen

Amazon of the Maggot Sisterhood 

Jex Amon of the Frostbitten Moon Amazons

Nidhoggrr, The Glistening One

King Ovv

Misshaped Frog

Cromlech, the Crow

The Noctambulant

Ratatoskr, the Slandering Marmot

Zak vs Adrian Smith, Round Two

click to enlarge

A few months ago, I posted about doing an homage to an Adrian Smith illustration from one of the old Realms of Chaos books--and about how I fucked it up. 

This is my second attempt--I won't write anything about it today, you can decide for yourself what's working and what isn't.

Here's the (still completely superior) original:

Here's my first attempt:

Four Projects, Three Castles

Project One:

Remember Red & Pleasant Land? Winner of 2 gold and 2 silver Ennies the Indiecade judges' award and an Indie Rpg Award?

Well that went ahead and won another award: the Three Castles Award. This one is very special to me personally not just because it has a nifty trophy...

...but also because the judge panel is fucking amazing this year and consists of names I've known ever since I was a wee lad and first started thinking about going into dungeons to kill dragons:

Dennis Sustare--as in Chariot of Sustarre, the most badass druid spell in AD&D--who invented the class
James M Ward--who did Metamorphosis Alpha--the first sci-fi RPG. And who I've heard from multiple sources is literally the best GM in game history.
Zeb Cook--Whose name I know best from the cover of the Oriental Adventures book I read over and over and over and over and over as a child.
Steve Winter--Who did a lot on FASERIP, including the best superhero sandbox ever.
and Steve Perrin--As in fucking RuneQuest.

That's an amazing slate and I'm honored that the people who added druids, laserguns, ninjas, rebel superheroes and die mechanics that actually make sense to RPGs even read Red & Pleasant Land much less decided to give it an award--especially considering the other nominees this year were hella impressive.

Let's hope in a couple decades she writes a game and I get to be on a panel giving her an award.

PS if you don't have one and are going to Gen Con, LotFP, the publisher will be there. Though copies do go fast.

Project Two:

Those of you wondering about Black Metal Amazons of the Devoured Land or Amazons of the Metal North or whatever we're calling it--we're working on it:

The girls modeled as the amazons for the paintings I'm doing, here are some pics from the shoot:

Project Three:

Maze of the Blue Medusa (Yes, I plan to do a book for every color in the goddamn rainbow) is now physically manifest and I am pleased to breathe a sigh of relief and note that neither man nor machine has ever devised a finer-looking megadungeon. Not empty boasting, check it:

Also, if you want to play it at GenCon, hurry up and sign up. The games are being run by Ken Baumann,  Satyr Press' publisher and actual real-life tv actor and he's been hilarious and clever in every game I've ever played with him and cracks everyone up.

Here's an actual-play report. And a thorough review.

There will be copies at GenCon but like they will probably be gone in seconds because they're heavy so each vendor can't really carry that many so you might best just order one.

There might be a few expensive signed copies available, too, maybe. If you're into that sort of thing. And if you get an early flight. Stay tuned to this blog for details.

Project Four:

Some stuff about Project Four:

-Project Four is secret, because it will be the subject of a major and official announcement by a big game company.

-Project Four is going to make all the right people incredibly upset when it's announced. Before they even read it.

-Project Four is taking up all my time right now which is why I haven't been posting much.

-Project Four has two main creative people on it, both doing writing and art: me and a woman whose work I've admired for years.

-The necrophilia was her idea.

-Project Four is weird and experimental.

-While writing Project Four I checked into a hotel. Next to the bed was a bible and a copy of Keith Richards' autobiography. I consulted both a great deal.

-"Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased"

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