Delve! Zine Update and other things...

March Madness has struck in Team Bingham land.  Lots of things going on at work, in the day to day happenings, and with my RPG life.  I’ve been busy working on various art commissions for folks.  I’m excited to get a chance to do some work for North Wind Studious on a module for Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers of Hyperborea.  Jeff Talanian has put together a very interesting setting that has a dark, pulpy horror feel to it.  I think it fills a nice middle ground between what James Raggi is doing with Lamentations of the Flame Princess and Trey Causey is doing with Weird Adventures.  I know there are quite a bit of “weird fantasy” systems and settings popping up, but that is a good thing in my book, especially since they are all covering the spectrum of weird fantasy.
I have been working slowly on Delve! Zine.  It is most definitely a project on my to do list.  I just ported it from MS Word over to Publisher to get it into the right format for printing.  I just ordered some linoleum blocks to block print the covers.  The Card stock for the covers has arrived and I have a cover design worked up.  I am still fleshing out the content for the first issue.  There will be a short adventure involving an unscrupulous advisor to a local lord that has made a pact with various devils to achieve his aims.  He has since become a corrupt, inhuman plague bearing psychopath.  So new monsters, new magic items and spells for this one as well as art (being an artist gives me the freedom to include as many pieces as I can manage).  Also, I am going to do some background on my home campaign, the Moinar Marches.  That will be a regular feature.  And maybe something on my house rules and maybe some more stuff.  I don’t want to keep kicking the can down the road; I really want to get this out in the wild and off my hard drive.  Since distribution is going to be somewhat of an issue for me (living in Italy has some challenges that way), I’m probably going to make these available through Noble Knight Games but that is still to be determined.  Well, that’s the update for the moment.  Keep rocking the dice gang!   

Comments

  1. Gothridge ManorMarch 9, 2012 at 4:14 AM

    Looking forward to it Johnathan. And it sounds like you have a lot going on.

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  2. Mallius VaneMarch 9, 2012 at 5:22 AM

    Perhaps you could get in touch with Leisure Games in the UK (I believe Angus Abranson has close contacts there) to see about stocking it as this would mean shipping within Europe would be reasonably priced.

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  3. XyanthonMarch 9, 2012 at 5:26 AM

    Ah, that would be cool too. I was thinking about contacting Troll and Toad as well. I believe they just set up operations in London recently...

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  4. PorkyMarch 9, 2012 at 5:56 AM

    "... I really want to get this out in the wild and off my hard drive."

    I know this feeling. I just wish I had your talent for the art, for a more total approach. If you don't already know which devils the pacts have been made with exactly and you've still got a space to fill, maybe you could work up a small table, even one for the pacts themselves. I can't remember ever seeing anyone do one of those.

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  5. XyanthonMarch 9, 2012 at 6:18 AM

    Porky, great idea! I've still got a little bit of work to do but I would like to do up some random tables.

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