Welcome to the most amount of goodness I can assemble in this week of festivals. To all of those who observe any holiday this week I hope you are having a good one and that I might add a little spice to that favorite beverage you may be enjoying right now :)
First off-wow!
Black Gate - Art of the Genre Review: Jeff Dee’s new Kickstarter Project
Again...wow!
(from the post)
Last month I was intrigued to see that former TSR artist Jeff Dee had started a project on Kickstarter to recreate his classic images from the Egyptian pantheon in Deities & Demigods.
In this fashion Jeff, who hadn’t seen work from TSR in nearly 30 years, got to go back and recapture some of AD&D’s faded glory.
You see, in those early days of TSR things were changing fast, money was coming in like water into a sinking ship, and nobody really had any idea what they had. That being said, all of Jeff’s original works for the company were unceremoniously tossed in a dumpster to make room in the files for newer artwork, so original copies of his stuff no longer exits.
Read the whole revelation:
http://www.blackgate.com/2011/12/17/art-of-the-genre-review-jeff-dees-new-kickstarter/
I SEE LEAD PEOPLE: Survival Horror as a Role-Playing Genre
(from the post)
Over the years I have played just about every genre or at least made a go of it. Some of them, like fantasy adventure or pulp pretty much flow like water with game play coming simply and with little effort from players and GMs alike. Others are a bit tougher to pull off effectively and require a higher level of ability and/or commitment from the players and GM. Games involving deep plot, mystery and horror are definitely among this latter sort. Still, I have managed to play them on both sides of the GM's screen but one sub-genre seems a bit a bit trickier to pull off than the others - survival horror.
From October, but a good read and one I had marked and just got back to myself.
The whole bit resides at:
http://leadpeople.blogspot.com/2011/10/survival-horror-as-role-playing-genre.html
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