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I know this probably won't get answered 'til after Gen Con, but it never hurts to put it out there.
Are there plans for a rival adventuring party in Savage Tide? Or is that more the role filled by Vanthus and his pirate crew (as recurring villains and foils)? Just curious.
Ooh, side question--will Eva Wildermann be doing character portraits for the Savage Tide game, and if not, will you be setting up one specific artist to do all (or the majority) of the portraits? Eva's art was really kick-ass, and having consistent character art helped give the AoW a more unified look and feel. I'd hope to see that with Savage Tide as well.
Thanks in advance for any info you can give!
Are there plans for a rival adventuring party in Savage Tide?
Yup.
Ooh, side question--will Eva Wildermann be doing character portraits for the Savage Tide game, and if not, will you be setting up one specific artist to do all (or the majority) of the portraits? Eva's art was really kick-ass, and having consistent character art helped give the AoW a more unified look and feel. I'd hope to see that with Savage Tide as well.
We do indeed have a set art team for Savage Tide, but it's not Eva. Though we love all three of the AoWs artists, we wanted the STAP to have a different feel, and as such have chosen to give the whole thing to Ben Wootten and Warren Mahy (who you might know best from their concept art for movies like <i>King Kong</i>). Needless to say, we're pretty excited.
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There will indeed be a rival adventuring party in Savage Tide. They're introduced in the first adventure, but the PCs won't really get to know them all that well until the third adventure.
You can certainly expect to see more of Eva's work in Dungeon; in issue #139 she illustrated the latest Maure Castle level.
For Savage Tide, our artists are Ben Wootten and Warren Mahy; they'll be tackling all of the art for this adventure path. And never fear; they're pretty awesome as well! Check out the preview in issue #138 for a big stack of their concept sketches for the campaign.
We do indeed have a set art team for Savage Tide, but it's not Eva. Though we love all three of the AoWs artists, we wanted the STAP to have a different feel, and as such have chosen to give the whole thing to Ben Wootten and Warren Mahy (who you might know best from their concept art for movies like <i>King Kong</i>). Needless to say, we're pretty excited.
Given the quality of the art seen in the Dungeon 138 Savage Tide preview - I think you've made a very good decision!
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Thank you guys for the info!
Another rival adventuring group, eh? I'll have to read up on that. While I'm pesonally getting a little tired of them every time, my groups seem to love them a lot, so as long as they keep eating 'em up, I'll keep roleplaying 'em.
Any chance of it being a semi-friendly rivalry, like in AoW (with the whole Tirra thing or, I guess, any PC successfully Bluffing Khellek into thinking they're fellow Seekers), as opposed to the "we hate you 'till almost the very end", like in SC? Are they mentioned, even casually, in the STPG? And do you get to fight 'em on boats? Are they the traitors on your own boat from adventure #3?
Sorry. Got a million questions I know you guys can't answer yet.
I enjoyed a lot of the Savage Tide preview art, and I have faith in the editor's design choices (they seem to get better and better every year, for the most part). I certainly understand the desire to make every AP "look" different. And I'm glad to see Eva's getting a lot of work as of late (including the class act art from the latest Dragon)!
We do indeed have a set art team for Savage Tide, but it's not Eva. Though we love all three of the AoWs artists, we wanted the STAP to have a different feel, and as such have chosen to give the whole thing to Ben Wootten and Warren Mahy (who you might know best from their concept art for movies like <i>King Kong</i>). Needless to say, we're pretty excited.
Wow that is impressive. I saw a lot of the artwork for the recent <i>King Kong</i> movie and it was very well done, especially the dinosaurs. If it's at all possible, you're gotten me more excited about the STAP. You guys must be doing something right there at Paizo to get big-wigs like that.
Wow that is impressive. I saw a lot of the artwork for the recent <i>King Kong</i> movie and it was very well done, especially the dinosaurs. If it's at all possible, you're gotten me more excited about the STAP. You guys must be doing something right there at Paizo to get big-wigs like that.
I figure it's due to a high Bluff skill or high Diplomacy skill . . . I'm torn between which one is the case.