Win a one-of-a-kind sketch from Tony DiTerlizzi


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And yes, Paizo staff is eligible. ;)

Episode 7 of the Open Design Podcast offers a cornucopia of fresh gaming goodness this Thanksgiving.

Wolfgang Baur and I spent a half hour chatting it up with world renown fantasy artist/children's book creator/movie producer Tony DiTerlizzi. He visited our Open Design Podcast to talk about The Spiderwick Chronicles, and to give advice to artists looking for greater exposure and advice to publishers looking to improve their communications with artists. He also explains how playing D&D helped him and his co-writer Holly Black craft a world in such fine detail that they blew the minds of film folk in Hollywood. Hey, does that mean we’re all developing talents that could get a film made? Personally, I do believe so.

We have a contest to win a sketch of a quickling from the pen of Ditty Lizard himself - hope he doesn’t mind that new nickname… it pleases me. Listen in to learn how to enter our random drawing contest.

Mike Mearls invited Wolf and Ed Healy up to WotC HQ to talk about game advice, what it’s like being Mike (his job experience anyway), and hints at a new board game based on a much beloved D&D game setting. He also gives a shout out to the Pathfinder RPG. Gamers loving gamers. So sexy...

Regular Features:
* ‘Ask the Kobold’ with Skip Williams

In episode 6 we ran a Halloween costume contest. Check out the entrants in our latest show page's slideshow.

Guest Bios:

Tony DiTerlizzi is a fantasy artist, childrens’ book creator and motion picture producer. DiTerlizzi co-created The Spiderwick Chronicles, and was an executive producer on the 2008 film adaptation of the series. He won a Caldecott Honor Medal for his adaptation of The Spider and the Fly. In the gaming industry, he best known for his work in Magic: The Gathering and on the Planescape product line for Dungeons & Dragons.

For years, Mike Mearls was one of the most prolific freelance writers in the gaming industry. His name appears on numerous game products, including a variant Player’s Handbook entitled Iron Heroes. In 2005, he joined Wizards of the Coast as a staff designer. Most recently, he is Lead Developer for Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition.


Hey, how am I supposed to win this contest if you tell everybody about it?


Mairkurion {tm} wrote:
Hey, how am I supposed to win this contest if you tell everybody about it?

[Lorre]Sorry, Master. I wasn't thinking![/Lorre]

::Shuffles off in behunched shame::


I can't stay mad at anyone who references Peter Lorre.

Liberty's Edge Contributor, RPG Superstar 2012

There will be a "dearth" of entries for this contest!

<Waits for a dead horse to show up>

Liberty's Edge Contributor, RPG Superstar 2012

Seriously, though, this is one sweet contest.


Isn't, though?

Psst, Taig.

Spoiler:
They changed the email, did you hear? It's now dontsendmeaditerlizzi@kq.com

Liberty's Edge Contributor, RPG Superstar 2012

Mairkurion {tm} wrote:

Isn't, though?

Psst, Taig.
** spoiler omitted **

Thank goodness you let me know. I'll have to send a second e-mail--this time to the right address. :)


That's what friends are for, man.


Check out the quickling sketch Tony D is giving away!

If you enjoyed his interview and/or if you like the sketch, leave him a comment. World famous artists have feelings too.

Okay, I have no evidence that that's actually true. They may very well be heartless automatons laying dormant atop hillocks of crumpled cash, dreaming of ways to use the human race for food.

Liberty's Edge Contributor, RPG Superstar 2012

The Jade wrote:
They are heartless automatons laying dormant atop hillocks of crumpled cash, dreaming of ways to use the human race for food.

I knew it!


I like it, but I don't like how he made it clear that he won't be drawing more of this kind of stuff for the foreseeable future. Here's to a forceable future, instead!


Mairkurion {tm} wrote:
I like it, but I don't like how he made it clear that he won't be drawing more of this kind of stuff for the foreseeable future. Here's to a forceable future, instead!

Love it! You should share that wordplay on his blog. lol


I went a less rabid route on his messageboard. Don't want to scare Tony off.


diterlizzi... just my favorite artist EVER!


When I think of Faerie, I think of Froud, Vess, and DiTerlizzi.


Hugo Solis wrote:
diterlizzi... just my favorite artist EVER!

Follow that link just above and let him know us gamers stayed true! :) Maybe we can lure him back to RPG monster drawings.


Mairkurion {tm} wrote:
When I think of Faerie, I think of Froud, Vess, and DiTerlizzi.

Right there with you. I also like all of the old classics.


Great idea, Jade. We need to flood that place with the love. Come back, Tony!


Mairkurion {tm} wrote:
Great idea, Jade. We need to flood that place with the love. Come back, Tony!

When we talked gaming and Gen Con I could tell he was getting nostalgic. He WANTED to do that 2nd ed monster sketch.


His blog has been strewn with nostalgia for years. When he and Holly were doing videos promoting their books before the movie came out, they talked about D&D on more than one occasion. It's time for Tony to come home. And since there's not a TSR anymore...well, he should probably just hook up with a good friend like ol' Wolfie. (Still, would it hurt to send him the new bestiary?)


Mairkurion {tm} wrote:
His blog has been strewn with nostalgia for years. When he and Holly were doing videos promoting their books before the movie came out, they talked about D&D on more than one occasion. It's time for Tony to come home. And since there's not a TSR anymore...well, he should probably just hook up with a good friend like ol' Wolfie. (Still, would it hurt to send him the new bestiary?)

I ask you this. Would it hurt to send me the new bestiary? I think we should find out.


Jade, you don't have the new bestiary yet? How can you comment on it on your renowned podcast without a copy? And further, how can you hope to live a happy life, knowing that you have been deprived of one of life's chief joys? Why, my wife just got me to remove it from my bedside table.


Jade? Ya gadda get him to draw me a leprechaun babe! Ya gadda!


Mairkurion {tm} wrote:
Jade, you don't have the new bestiary yet? How can you comment on it on your renowned podcast without a copy? And further, how can you hope to live a happy life, knowing that you have been deprived of one of life's chief joys? Why, my wife just got me to remove it from my bedside table.

I think we should chop down Mairkurion and make a bestiary outta him for Jade!


Whoa...whoa, there, Spanky. Did you know you can now send the Jade a gift pdf copy of the Bestiary? Save the woodland creatures! Hustles out of thread and into the nearby woods.


Mairkurion {tm} wrote:
Jade, you don't have the new bestiary yet? How can you comment on it on your renowned podcast without a copy? And further, how can you hope to live a happy life, knowing that you have been deprived of one of life's chief joys? Why, my wife just got me to remove it from my bedside table.

I can comment because i saw the Bestiary first printing, before the final with cover, along with the other Paizo guys at Gen Con. We were all mad for the thing, fighting each other off to peruse its magical pages.

That said, please won't you give?


Spanky the Leprechaun wrote:
Jade? Ya gadda get him to draw me a leprechaun babe! Ya gadda!

How would you like her?


Tony joining up with Wolfgan or Monte would be dreamy...


The Jade wrote:
Mairkurion {tm} wrote:
When I think of Faerie, I think of Froud, Vess, and DiTerlizzi.
Right there with you. I also like all of the old classics.

Okay, the freaky leprechaun seems to be gone.

Of course, Rone, they all pay homage to the old classics! But just since you brought them up, who all do you have in mind? Rackham? Cruikshank? Dore?


Mairkurion {tm} wrote:
The Jade wrote:
Mairkurion {tm} wrote:
When I think of Faerie, I think of Froud, Vess, and DiTerlizzi.
Right there with you. I also like all of the old classics.

Okay, the freaky leprechaun seems to be gone.

Of course, Rone, they all pay homage to the old classics! But just since you brought them up, who all do you have in mind? Rackham? Cruikshank? Dore?

Absolutely. For a gift, I bought a book of old faery art and there were so many more paintings than I ever knew existed. I'll ask for the title of this stunning collection.


I just read the comments on Tony's site left by Heath and Mairkurion. Good stuff, man. After that, he must be feeling a lunar tide tug toward that small wooden box on his bookshelf... you know... the one holding all those pretty little dice. Go on Tony... you know you want to. One more game session... what can it hurt?


I gushed. Tony Di is one of my heroes.

Contributor

The Jade wrote:
Mairkurion {tm} wrote:
Great idea, Jade. We need to flood that place with the love. Come back, Tony!
When we talked gaming and Gen Con I could tell he was getting nostalgic. He WANTED to do that 2nd ed monster sketch.

In his blog in the past year, Tony spent a solid week doing updated sketches of various Planescape critters and characters. Awesome, amazingly nostalgic stuff. His updated image of Kylie the Tout was really cool, and I think he did an updated Factol Rhys as well. :)


Todd Stewart wrote:
The Jade wrote:
Mairkurion {tm} wrote:
Great idea, Jade. We need to flood that place with the love. Come back, Tony!
When we talked gaming and Gen Con I could tell he was getting nostalgic. He WANTED to do that 2nd ed monster sketch.
In his blog in the past year, Tony spent a solid week doing updated sketches of various Planescape critters and characters. Awesome, amazingly nostalgic stuff. His updated image of Kylie the Tout was really cool, and I think he did an updated Factol Rhys as well. :)

Thanks, Todd! I'm am so going to scour that blog now.


Lilith wrote:
I gushed. Tony Di is one of my heroes.

I'm so glad. :) We knew we weren't the only ones.


Todd Stewart wrote:
The Jade wrote:
Mairkurion {tm} wrote:
Great idea, Jade. We need to flood that place with the love. Come back, Tony!
When we talked gaming and Gen Con I could tell he was getting nostalgic. He WANTED to do that 2nd ed monster sketch.
In his blog in the past year, Tony spent a solid week doing updated sketches of various Planescape critters and characters. Awesome, amazingly nostalgic stuff. His updated image of Kylie the Tout was really cool, and I think he did an updated Factol Rhys as well. :)

That's exactly the stuff I'm talking about--along with some pics of generic monsters! Yeah!


The Jade wrote:
Spanky the Leprechaun wrote:
Jade? Ya gadda get him to draw me a leprechaun babe! Ya gadda!
How would you like her?

NEKKKKKKID!!!


Spanky the Leprechaun wrote:
The Jade wrote:
Spanky the Leprechaun wrote:
Jade? Ya gadda get him to draw me a leprechaun babe! Ya gadda!
How would you like her?
NEKKKKKKID!!!

I knew you wouldn't let me down. ;)

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