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In honor of the 4th of July:

Another quick warm-up sketch. This time of a steam-punk-y character in a top hat, and complete with goggles and wax tipped mustache.

Working with Nevermet Press has given me an appreciation for the steampunk genre that I never had before, and this character design seemed a great way to work the bugs out.

There’s likely to be more where this guy came from.

synDCon

I will be attending synDCon on the morning of Saturday 4/2/2011 and will be stationed at the NevermetPress table. If you’re in the DC area, come on out and say hello!

This will be the first gaming con I ever attended, and the first of any kind of con that I attended as a ‘vendor’ (sorta), so to any/all of you pros out there – feel free to give me any tips and or tricks that you think would serve me well.

I’ll look forward to seeing you there!

Edited To Add: Super Lame Heroes

Over at his blog, Parka has started a new contest. It’s all about creating heroes with lame (but still supernatural) powers. I love the idea, and I think that I’m going to enter. That’s where you guys, my faithful minions, come in. I have a little bit of time before the contest deadline, so I thought I would pose the question to all of you – what lame (super) power do you folks think would qualify as the funniest? Leave me a note in the comments below. If I select your suggestion and we win, I’ll give you your choice – an original character portrait, or I’ll paypal you $20. (The winners of his contest get a book valued up to $40.)

So the newest product from Nevermet Press is Brother Ptolemy and the Hidden Kingdom. It’s a product that I’m more than a little proud of. I contributed a series of different images for NPCs and villains, and this is the first time that I feel like I’ve contributed enough to help change the look and feel of a book. To have that first be within something of this caliber is enough to make me puff my chest just a little bigger.

There’s a plethora of storyline, npcs, critters, and items between the covers. I think that it’s exactly the sort of supplement that rides that line that so many try but fail: to be enough information without being setting dependent. Plug this information into any existing campaign easily. Don’t take my word for it though – check out Greg Schuster’s review over at The Dump Stat.

Speaking of reviews – they just seem to keep rolling in – and the bottom line? They all seem to be pretty happy with the content! I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. Dr. Jonathan Jacobs is a driven man and the creative minds at NMP just keep kicking up productivity, creativity, and the quality. It’s an adventure working with them, and one I’m quite happy to be on.

Want to see some of those reviews I just mentioned? Check them out:

• Game Knight Reviews says “Brother Ptolemy makes one heck of a scary villain in my book.“
• Reviews at RPGNow.com give it 5/5 stars!

I’m really looking forward to seeing what the next reviewer has to say!

In the meantime, if you like what you’ve read/heard so far, how would you like a copy for free? Nevermet is running a contest through the month of November. Check out the post related to the contest here. We thrive on feedback, and we want to know what you think. Share your thoughts, and win free stuff!

Ahhh, the joys of the net.

Yes, the book has been available for a while now. What can I say? I’m playing catch up.

Truth is, I couldn’t be more proud of this book if I had written it myself. Like its predecessor, the OGT v2 is a collection of the best articles to come out of role playing blogs over the past year.

Through an extremely impressive efforton behalf of Dr. Jonathan Jacobs, a collection of tremendously dedicated reviewers, writers, editors, and my fellow artists, we have managed to refine, tweak, add to, and re-tweak a collection of entries that could keep any group of gamers in new ideas for quite a while.

Inspiration? No problem. Rules / crunch? No sweat. Philosophy? You betcha.

Go. Check it out. I promise you won’t be disappointed.