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Backing up all those pics now. I could've have kicked myself for not saving them when I saw the blog went down.
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I'm playing Kingmaker, and my GM asked me to illustrate Zuddiger's Picnic for him. I tried to stick to the "woodcut coloured with watercolours" style, and bound the finished result into a PDF. If you download it should be laid out properly like a book, with a front and back cover and two-page spreads.
Feel free to print out, share with your gaming group, or modify it as needed. :)
Very nice!
Very nice indeed. Unfortunately it is a bit too late for my group though :( They got their copy two weeks ago.
I'm playing Kingmaker, and my GM asked me to illustrate Zuddiger's Picnic for him. I tried to stick to the "woodcut coloured with watercolours" style, and bound the finished result into a PDF. If you download it should be laid out properly like a book, with a front and back cover and two-page spreads.
Feel free to print out, share with your gaming group, or modify it as needed. :)
I have downloaded this and will be using it in my campaign. Phenomenal work on this Silkenray!
Beautiful!
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I'm playing Kingmaker, and my GM asked me to illustrate Zuddiger's Picnic for him. I tried to stick to the "woodcut coloured with watercolours" style, and bound the finished result into a PDF. If you download it should be laid out properly like a book, with a front and back cover and two-page spreads.
Here it is.
Feel free to print out, share with your gaming group, or modify it as needed. :)
Really nice, thanks
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This is a high res version, clocking in at 131 Megs, but I have to say they are 131 quality megs.
Here's the artist URL: Natalie Phillips. She's a true artist, and one of my players.
This is a high res version, clocking in at 131 Megs, but I have to say they are 131 quality megs.
Here's the artist URL: Natalie Phillips. She's a true artist, and one of my players.
I keep getting an error message for your link.
I keep getting an error message for your link.This is a high res version, clocking in at 131 Megs, but I have to say they are 131 quality megs.
Here's the artist URL: Natalie Phillips. She's a true artist, and one of my players.
Likewise.
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Oh. My. God.
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Wow. These last two submissions (Silkenray and Dudemeister) have been amazing! Now the hard part is figuring out which one I want to steal for my group!
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Wow. These last two submissions (Silkenray and Dudemeister) have been amazing! Now the hard part is figuring out which one I want to steal for my group!
A few pages from each. If I had Kingmaker to do over again, I'd start dropping pages from Zuddiger here and there starting as far back as The Stolen Lands. It was too just-in-the-nick-of-time to have it show up just as all hell breaks loose in A Thousand Screams. Instead, have it introduced bit by bit all along. Random pages found tucked here and there in the house of a madman. The only readable page left of a burned book in a forbidden library. Kids could be singing bits of it as the jump rope. A reference in Irovetti's palace. And if you are planting multiple multiple pages, who says they have to all come from the same edition? It'd be REALLY cool to have a couple of false pages or pages that were miss copied from the original show up and players have to figure out what the real one is. Zuddiger could almost be the glue that holds the AP together.
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WHOA.
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Myself, as we quickly approach my group needing the book.
Ages ago, my group befriended an NPC obsessed with rare books. I intend to have them find several. Since the real book was said to have been destroyed I intend to have someone offer up a partial copy of the original book. (Using the 6 pages Anthony has posted) as well as letting them fine a number of copies claiming to be real to make a few coin. (These being silken ray an didemeisters)
Ah, this thread remembers me Anthony's art each time I open it. It's such a pity he did not complete his work.
I really like Dudemeister's submission though! She has a good style and I also like the rest of her artworks.
Congratulations to everybody who worked on the Picnic!
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Great work!
Silkenray or Dudemeister any chance you would be able to make the word/indesign/whatever file available the pdf was created from? I would like to translate it to german for my group and pdf it again...
Kind regards
There's a chance, although those files would be quite large, I'll have to ask the artist. I'll send you a PM in a week or so if it's possible.
Kind regards,
DM_aka_Dudemeister
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Wow! I just saw the two newest editions (by Silkenray and Natalie). They're both amazing!
My group is currently going through the glades in Thousandbreaths now - I'll probably show them both versions, I don't want to choose between them.
Thanks for posting these!
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Oh...my...god...
I love both these versions. Wish I could draw, I would offer you up one of my own. For now, you'll just have my eternal gratitude! :)
And +3 internets for both!
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Great work!
Silkenray or Dudemeister any chance you would be able to make the word/indesign/whatever file available the pdf was created from? I would like to translate it to german for my group and pdf it again...
Kind regards
Absolutely. I don't have anywhere I can put it, but if you PM me an email address I'll send them to you. :)
Out of curiosity,
Thanks one way or the other!
Thank you, Good sir!
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Here is yet another version of the book.
Foolishly, I didn't check this thread in time to find the masterpieces already here, or I would have used those instead of attempting my own, but I may as well share.
Oh I like it!
I like that there's all these different versions. Lets me hand out multiple copies to the players obviously transcribed from Zuddiger's original, before dropping the original one into their laps later.
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Thank you so much; all stealing is welcome! I left the last page blank to paste the map in. I just put Natalie's watercolor there and it looks astounding.
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That's definitely up there with the others, Blaaarg. Amazing work.
WRT dropping in the map: we're nowhere near SoaTS yet, but I've found that with the earlier PDFs (on Windows at least), if you click on a map and control-C copy the image, you can then paste it into an image editor like The Gimp and it pastes just the base image, without the text overlay. It's been really handy for creating 3D Virtual Tabletop maps of the various set-piece battles in the modules, grabbing the underlying art without the location names/keys and map titles.
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I'm playing Kingmaker, and my GM asked me to illustrate Zuddiger's Picnic for him. I tried to stick to the "woodcut coloured with watercolours" style, and bound the finished result into a PDF. If you download it should be laid out properly like a book, with a front and back cover and two-page spreads.
Feel free to print out, share with your gaming group, or modify it as needed. :)
Perfect. Exactly when and as I needed it.
Thanks!
some awesome artworks here! thanks all, definitely going to use some!!
I'd love to use those but I need to translate the text into Portuguese for my group. If any of the artists could provide a textless version of their art I'd be tremendously grateful.
I ran across a fifth version of the book on Flickr, by an artist called J. Madrid. Here's the URL: https://www.flickr.com/photos/125221271@N08/albums/72157645110298687
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I ran across a fifth version of the book on Flickr, by an artist called J. Madrid. Here's the URL: linkified
That's the version that Blaaargh posted, up-thread.
That's actually the one I've decided to use for my game, although I made some minor edits to it... I changed the aspect ratio of the image on the first page (it looks taller/skinnier than the other images) and I photoshopped the sword onto the side of the protagonist on the "Unfortunately, some of the locals were already disturbed" page.
My players have just finished VV and since they had been finding pages scattered around in the first three adventures they decided to look for the book...now they're back from Varnhold and the book has arrived...I wish to thank you all for the artwork, my player were so happy and intrigued (they already knew something about nimphs because of indepth reserarch on the hair lock found in the second adventure)...and extremely worried!
They paid it like 3k...hahaha!!
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My players start book six tomorrow night and I wanted to take the time to thank everyone for the amazing creative effort here. It was super hard to choose which version to use. Kudos to all of the artists.
Ultimately I went with Blaaarg's illustrations and the beautiful watercolor map from Natalie's work. I'm running in Roll20 and these are going to make fabulous handouts. I'm very pleased.
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The only concern I would have is that the players would focus on it too much.
But there's really no spoiler that I can think of and it makes it matter more.
I'd try to get it so that it felt like the player's idea though... maybe ask each of them of their best childhood memory or favourite thing they owned as a kid. ("What's was the thing you remember most as a child? Like, describe your best friend, did you imagine your teddy bear fighting dragons or do you remember your parents reading you a book? Or maybe it was something bad? Anything like that...") It might work in your favour or you might have to force it a little more... maybe the group finds a copy in the mite cave and you describe it to someone as a book they remember their parents reading to them as a child.
If any do bite and have a favourite book as a kid don't pull it out and hand it to them right away, but bring it the following session. And, if possible, bring something for everyone that they mentioned so that the book doesn't feel SUPER important.