All Quiet on the Western Front

Current Draft: 2nd

The blog has gone quiet for a couple weeks since the first draft was completed. The author has taken a mental break for a bit of recovery after the long process, before the hefty revision work begins.  Some major mechanics changes are happening that will affect balance of numbers, though nothing systematic on the dice front, most relating to character creation to bring it more in line with design goals.

Some very limited playtesting has occured, though nothing of significant consequence.

The first large piece for Dreamcatcher has been commissioned, contract will be signed tommorrow delivering a nice two page spread for the book involving Entropy, the artist's choice for most interesting thing in the book to illustrate that fit her tastes and style.

http://hanmonster.deviantart.com/ is the artist, she's very talented and great with color and mood, but this is one of the more dramatic and complex commissions she's had to do.

This artwork is a pretty penny, and hopefully will be made back up in kickstarter, but it'll be great for promotional material for the kickstarter campaign.

Terror In The Night Concepts

Two concepts for Terror In The Night, a husk that lies in wait for sometimes wary children in the safety of their bedrooms and often hiding in closets or under the bed until one comes within reach hence the elongated claws and fingers. The idea is that they can swallow a person whole, though a full grown adult is often too big for them. Both concepts come with the idea of being able to shove and then compress whatever it is going into their mouths into a much more compact mush. The one on the bottom has a muscular sac that contracts and then forces everything into the protruding gut until digested. His jaw is actually not even connected to the skull part of his head, but to the sac itself so that it can easily unhinge to take a bigger bite. The one on top, however, eats more slowly, grinding the flesh on the way in and storing it around the body, his sagging skin becoming more taunt and full. I'll probably go with the first one only I'll push the skin-sagging-on-skeletal-frame a bit more, methinks. Definitely shades of concept art from the first Silent Hill game and the Gatherers from Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

Done with letraset markers, prismacolor pencils, and an ink pen on toned tan sketchbook paper.

Meet the Art Staff

Biography - 
Title: Lead Art Designer
Pen name: Teknicolor Tiger
Name: Cassandra Aponte

The artist is on board for a significant portion of the work for the book, and will help to make sure commissioned art from other artists follows a consistent thematic and fits the setting. Here is a sample of her drawing one of the Husks from the book called Momentary Glance. Other concept artwork will be posted when she begins work on it.