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Toth!

Nothing says Saturday Morning to me quite like his drawings.

Chris Schieffer- Artist and Friend of the Lair

One of the biggest challenges next to writing gaming stuff is finding good, affordable art from a reliable artist. I haven't had a real bad time of it as opposed to some of the horror stories Ive heard from others, but I have had my share of dealing with artists and their flakiness, angst and drama. However I'm really happy to report that I haven't suffered any of that while working with Chris Schieffer. Chris is new on the "Professional" RPG art scene but not at all new to gaming. Our relationship started on the net and progressed into conversations on the phone and skype and have resulted in him doing several pieces for Evil DM Productions. He's just getting started as a "Pro" and is in the midst of getting a gallery and website up. In the meantime if you are in need of some affordable artwork for you RPG or other products drop Chris a line.

chrischieffer@gmail.com

Here is a look at what he can do.

Bible Battles on History International this Saturday

In light of our usual Friday night festivities, Saturdays here at the Lair are pretty relaxed. This Saturday night we'll most likely be curled in our furs watching a little History channel (International).

This looks particularly cool.

Bible Battles
In one of the most hostile lands on the planet, an ancient people called the Israelites forged an army and carved out an empire. Their ancient military exploits are described in one of history's most famous religious texts--the Old Testament of the Bible. But by reading between the religious lines, military historians unlock the soldiers' secrets of the Bible by examining the weapons, strategies, and the commanders, some of whom are not always thought of as warriors, like Abraham, Moses, and Deborah. In this 2-hour special, we explore the biblical world from a military perspective from the time of Abraham until David's ascension to the throne. Blood often flows more freely than holy water in the days of the Old Testament, and the military secrets of the Bible have yet to be revealed...until now

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Batpulp!

Batman/Doc Savage team-up? I'm there.

1946

I've been working quite a bit lately with Simon of Beyond Belief games as we get Legends of Steel-BoL edition ready for release and he started talking to me about "Guns of Laredo" this is a Western RPG he's been working on using the BoL rules. Guns of Laredo (GoL) will be set in a fictional west more akin to the spaghetti westerns of the 60's and 7

0's than to the usual "John Ford western" or even the historical west. Simon's approach appealed to me as i have always been a fan of the adult western series paperbacks that flooded bookstores in the 80's ( Edge, Ruff Justice, Adam Steele, Lonestar, the Gunsmith, the Renegade,etc.).

I then started talking to Simon about my ideas for a pulp rpg set in the post war era rather than the typical pre-war 1930's.

As the discussion evolved it became more and more apparent that the early post WWII years would be an awesome time to run a pulp game in. In fact

many of the same tropes you find in your standard 1930's pulp era still apply, with the added bonuses of the dawn of the atomic age and a whole rewrite of the world map taking place.

The world at that particular time was a great big jumble of chaos, and a group of "Adventurers" with a set of balls could set themselves up for life by running guns, smuggling refugees, hunting Nazis, thwarting Commies and maybe even uncovering the seeds of a possible alien invasion.

And so was born my next foray into the BoL system which I am naming 1946.

I figure between Louis L'Amour adventure stories, the Republic serials, and all the Manly men mags of the period I'll have plenty of fodder for thought.

Legends of Steel _BoL Edition out soon!

The Legends of Steel campaign setting together with the Barbarians of Lemuria rules engine, promises to be the quintessential "rules light" Sword & Sorcery RPG package.

LoS/BoL is currently going through the final edits and layout and should see initial PDF release before the end of August.

Some places where my gaming research takes me

http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/08/06/cahokia/index.html

http://ferrelljenkins.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/the-garrard-temple-model/

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Solomon Kane

Until the "Official trailer comes out (or you tube removes this), this is all we have. I'll take it.
Thanks Chris.

Quick ass gaming!

Even though I'm well entrenched in the world of Barbarians of Lemuria, I still have the hankering to BUY MORE GAMES.
Luckily you guys have been using the handy dandy link to RPGNow over there on the side of the blog.
Because of your kind support I just picked up a couple of offerings from an outfit called Hex Games.

The first is a lite generic system called QAGS (I'm all about "lite" systems at the moment). The other one is called The Adventures of Sindbad.

Both are on sale at the moment. I can't tell you too much more about them other than they look fun. They have a Pulp looking Sci Fi expansion called Rocket Jocks which I might pick up if these first two make a good impression.

I'm hoping for the best. These guys look like they have a lot of fun putting out these games. I hope to report good stuff to you all in a few days!

Thanks again guys for using my RPGNow link!


Update: as a first-This may or may not work, I'm gonna try and Twitter my thoughts on Qags.as they come to me.

Funny

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