UncleBear Media has released BANDITRON: These Aren’t the Good Ol’ Boys You’re Looking For. It’s free. It’s awesome. I did the art. Go get it.
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BANDITRON Update
Protean polymath Berin Kinsman of UncleBear Media has announced an October release date for his long-awaited sci-fi comedy role-playing adventure BANDITRON: These Aren’t the Good Ol’ Boys You’re Looking For, formerly known as Bandit Run. It includes character portraits by yours truly and to prove it, here’s a preview.
Our Heroes (and Heroine)
The Dastardly Villains
The Even More Dastardly Other Villains
Circle the entire month of October on your calendar and get ready to download. The art is “world-class” and all indications are that the game text might even be marginally better! Anyway, it’s free so what do you want?
Announcing: Triunity
If you’ve known me very long you know that I, like every geek on Earth, am working on a role-playing system. I call it my garage game; I’ve been tinkering with it for years like an old hot rod.
It’s with immoderate pride that I invite you into the garage to listen to me rev the engine. The system now has a name and, most importantly, a trademarked logo, thus making it legitimate.
Announcing: “Bandit Run”
I’m pleased to announce that I’m illustrating an upcoming product from UncleBear Media.
Bandit Run is a lighthearted adventure for a yet-to-be-announced major RPG title. It’s a parody of the classic Smokey & the Bandit films with a Space Western flavor in which players take on the roles of loveable smugglers and rogues on the run from the corrupt authorities. I’m providing portraits of the various agonists. There’s much more to it but the lawyer behind me is already clearing its throat.
Look for a Q4 2010 release. More details as they develop.
Dove
In my group’s current Cyberpunk 2020 game I play “Dove”. He’s a Solo: a hired gun, assassin, and all-around non-pacifist. Physically, I based him on Brian Cox from Manhunter, then the whole group told me he looks like Scotty from Star Trek. Thanks, guys.
Dove is a product of the European corporate system. That means he’s the best of the best, an alpha predator. If he can get close to his target, guns are clumsy and messy compared to what his hands can do. Give him a gun and it’s one shot, one kill. Playing Dove, I’ve never had to reload during a firefight. He’s a killing machine.
Now where’s the fun in that? Continue reading
My Role-playing Credentials
If you’re like me, and I know I am, you grew up sheltered from the evils of role-playing games. You missed out on the real magic spells that D&D teaches you at high levels, and never felt the thrill of going psycho and taking to the subway, hallucinating a snarling orc as you stabbed a homeless man to death.
TSR‘s lurid full-page comic book ads first exposed me to role-playing games. Dungeons & Dragons! Star Frontiers! Those cruddy dungeon crawl comics! I’m surprised they never had a paladin hawking Hostess fruit pies to kobolds.
They made it look so cool (to an impressionable child of a certain age). I remember one ad where a bemulleted badass stared straight off the page and smirked, “I don’t need to hang out. I have D&D.” God, I know! Hanging out… Pfft. Man, I wished I had D&D so I didn’t have to hang out all the time. Continue reading