Weapon Art

I’ve been working on some simple illustrations for an article on weapons in NOD #2. Not the greatest stuff in the world, but I’m pretty happy with it.

Clubs, Staves and Maces

Axes, Picks and Chopping Blades

Pinball Magic-Users

In the days of D-n-D’s infancy, it seems as though fantasy art had three main avenues of presentation – softcover, digest-sized reprints of ’30s pulp stories, the sides of vans and pinball machines.

Last weekend I visited the local Pinball Hall of Fame and snapped a few shots apropos to the blog.

I’ve mastered this one on the Wii, but the real machine eludes me.

Just noticed the alternate name at the base of this machine …

Centigrade 37 – get it? get it?

With a name like Abra Cadabra, you’d think he was a magic-user. Trust me – he’s a thief.

Not pinball, but still …

Future Inspiration

This site has some images that might be of interest to folks playing around with Terminal Space or just interested in the WORLD … OF … TOMORROW!!! [insert echo here].

Floating Botanical Cities!

Mega-Pyramid Cities!
A sci-fi megadungeon just waiting to happen


Lunar Bases!
Don’t mess with the farmer’s robot daughter.


Desert Aqua-Net!
not related to a hair care product from the 1970s

Inspirational Art – Or Just Creepy


I don’t know what the heck these things are, but I know I don’t want to run into them in a dark woodland on a crisp, cool fall day. They are the creation of Scott Radke. If I was running them as an encounter, it would be as the adventurers were walking through an old, tired forest on a narrow path hemmed in by ferns and spikes of dull, beige flowers. Everything would seem normal enough, but then one by one they would become aware of these things, standing amidst the ferns, staring with their tortured eyes. Approaching them would cause them to scurry into the underbrush (and effectively make them invisible and silent). Attacking them would elicit a mind-piercing shriek and cause them to flee in the same way described above. The shriek would work like a Psionic Blast*. If nothing is done, they will appear to follow the adventurers through the woods, just popping up along the path as the adventurers walk. During this time, they will begin to evoke powerful emotions in the adventurers, sorrow, anger, etc – all of the character’s emotional baggage, especially concerning fellow adventurers, will bubble to the top.

* Psionic Blast: A psionic blast works like an ego whip, but instead stuns creatures in 30-ft cone emanating from the psychic’s forehead. A psychic suffers a -5 penalty to activate a psionic blast.

Inspiring Churches and Undersea Gardens

Visit this site for photos of 50 amazing churches – good inspiration for those who need to erect a few astounding temples to forgotten gods in their sandbox.

Visit this site for photos of undersea gardens in Asia – good inspiration for those who have dedicated themselves to treating the aquatic portions of their sandboxes the same as they treat their non-aquatic ones (what the heck was I thinking?)

And visit my site later today for my first downloadable issue of NOD. I hope. It’s going to be a long day.