Bruce Heard wrote:
BMA2 Doomsday Rod. An adventure for native Blackmoor characters. These adventurers hear of a secret weapons cache forgotten by the powerful entities of their land. Contrary to the wisdom of characters in the traditional Known World setting, these fellows want these lethal contraptions to fulfil their dreams of power! The player characters are allowed to get their hands on the deadly weapons, but in so doing trigger a doomsday machine. The characters must use (and hopefully deplete) their newly acquired equipment to destroy the frightening machine. A typical shoot'em up escapade for gunpowder-crazed players!
Hope you like these
Havard
(Oh- I can't ever quite recall where that Reference Guide is, myself. So I usually do a search for "Winds of Sind" since I remember that as the title they initially gave to a Sind Gazetteer. Sure enough, here's the Reference Guide)
Cthulhudrew, I think you may have been the one mentioning Gigeresque art for the Egg which lead me to that idea. You might be interested to know that I will be stealing more of your old ideas for later posts in this thread... ;)
Havard
Looking forward to seeing what else you have.
Speaking of, I have been working on a couple of other covers (one for Slagovich and the City States with the Festival of Goblins and another for Sind with the Sands of Fate- or whatever its called, I keep forgetting.) Got sidetracked with some other Photoshop stuff I've been doing, though. Some of it was animated stuff, and now I'm considering doing some animated Gaz covers. Hmm...
I don't recall mentioning Giger before, but you may be right. It's been a while since we had that discussion. It really works, though.
I might be confusing you with someone else on the Giger issue, but as you say it has been a while since that came up.
Looking forward to seeing what else you have.
I'll see if I can post another one today.
Speaking of, I have been working on a couple of other covers (one for Slagovich and the City States with the Festival of Goblins and another for Sind with the Sands of Fate- or whatever its called, I keep forgetting.) Got sidetracked with some other Photoshop stuff I've been doing, though. Some of it was animated stuff, and now I'm considering doing some animated Gaz covers. Hmm...
Sounds wicked! I think these covers was a great idea, and I am looking forward to seeing what you can come up with. Mine will be limited to Blackmoor products for now. Animated gaz covers sounds wild. Go for it!
Havard
From the Acaeum:
DA5 City of Blackmoor. The only references we have to this are in an ad by Esdevium Games in Dragon #131 (page 85), an earmarked TSR stock # (9219), and an advertisement in the 1987 TSR Fall Catalog (depicting this pre-production cover scan, which uses the artwork from the cover of Dragon #97). Bruce Heard, in charge of the D&D product line at the time, has said that this module was never even designed, let alone produced and shipped. However, contributor Dave Keyser has told us that the module was actually nearly completed, and the material is now currently with a company (Zeitgeist Games) who plans on releasing a "Blackmoor d20" module, in collusion with Dave Arneson. (Thanks to Curt Gould for the pre-production scan, and to Dave Keyser and John Rateliff for help with this info).
I guess I could have reversed the image to make it even more similar to the pre-production cover. To be honest I am not sure why they used that particular image on the cover of City of Blackmoor, but I guess they didnt care much as it was just a place-holder. Im sure there are plenty of more appropriate images out there...
Havard
From a discussion we had back in 2000:
DA6- dealing with an assassination attempt on the life of the Skandaharian leader
I did something similar IMC. Jarl Thorsen One-Thumb, though a ruthless leader of the Skandaharians, is wise enough to understand that a peaceful coexistance between the Skandaharians and Blackmoor might be mutually beneficial. Which not a view shared by his murderous rivals. Saving Thorsen's life is thus in the interest of Blackmoor which needs to be focusing on other enemies like the Afridhi...
Havard
Looking back at Cthulhudrew's notes, this one could probably have been pushed back into the series, but the basic idea is that this module deals with the final defeat of the Afridhi.
The cover art is taken from ZGGs earliest promo image. I am not entirely happy with how it works as a cover and I am working to find a good replacement. Obviously this image features Toska Rusa, the Bride of Zugzul and leader of the Afridhi.
Havard
ZGG's Riders of Hak might give some ideas of what this one might have been like. Illustration by the Grand Master himself, Larry Elmore.
Havard
I figured this region had to be explored before the huge climax of DA10.... :D
Havard
I figured this region had to be explored before the huge climax of DA10.... :D
Havard
I am dying to see DA10.
In fact, can you do a cover for CM10, which would, of course, have been the mega-module:
Army of the Wizard Gargantua
In fact, can you do a cover for CM10, which would, of course, have been the mega-module:
Army of the Wizard Gargantua
Hmmm...do I do requests? Yeah, why not!
I have to think about what image to use for that one though. I have a couple of ideas, but I'm not quite sure if they are right. Suggestions are welcome!Here's the one you have been waiting for:
The idea for DA10 comes from this discussion I had with Cthulhudrew back in 2000:
An interesting possible storyline (of my invention, as it were) is that the
"real" Bork Riesling is actually a cyborg himself (let's call him
"Cybork"). Cybork was programmed to go into functioning if Bork were killed
or otherwise put out of commission, but to believe that he is Bork (as the
cyborgs of DA3 are programmed to do). Cybork became paranoid (combination
of cyborg personality disorder and robotic dislike/distrust of biological
creatures) when Stephen Rocklin led a rebellion against him. It then
reprogrammed two other cyborgs to believe they were Bork (except when in
the presence of Cybork).
What will happen if the real Bork is somehow resurrected or revived from
animation? Then you've got Cybork vs. Bork, each believing/knowing that it
is the real thing.
And:
I figure that, assuming the above scenario, maybe it took place during the original "mutiny" scenario that sent Stephen and crew fleeing the Beagle,
and that preceded Bork's paranoia. Maybe Stephen killed or seemingly killed
Bork- which led to either one of Bork's crew (his first officer, maybe?)
replacing him with Cybork (crew morale was already bad, what would they do
if their leader were dead?) Or else Bork had put the plan in place himself,
in the event of something like that. Unfortunately, no one antcipated that
Cybork might turn out a little less than perfect (IIRC- DA3 mentions that
cybernetic technology is a bit screwy anyway; at least it talks about the
"terminator" function of cyborgs being illegal).
Eventually, the real Bork is healed/resurrected (perhaps with the use of
clerical magic from itinerant PCs from Mystara's future, having been
enlisted by the Fetch of Blackmoor University to help in halting a paranoia
instigated attack on human civilization by Cybork? Darn... this sounds like
a good adventure... DA10: The Godswar, anyone?)
DA10 could also IMO deal with the final confrontation between Bork and Stephen.
Havard
I tried several images, but in the end I think this one was the one that worked best. I took the liberty of changing the name you suggested to Armies of Gargantua.
Hope you like it!
Havard