Lots going on over here at Skortched Urf’ Studios! I just put up Free20: Forbiddance over at OBS.  Forbiddance is our first free PDF ever released.  (But not our last!) Chris Field put it together for his Otherverse Games imprint.

On the PDF front I am currently working on The North Side Spiders and Fantasy Firearms II in addition to a couple projects for Otherverse.  I hope to get one of them out in a day or two with the other a few days later.

Fantasy Firearms II Cover image.

North Side Spiders Cover.

Still waiting to hear word on the new, improved, kinder, gentler GSL.  What an epic fail this whole 4E thing has been.  I honestly WANT to support it.  I would love to.  But not under the current terms.  I’ll go the Kenzer/Goodman/Adamant rout and release under regular copyright if the new GSL isn’t seriously improved.  I would love to convert some of our lines too.  WOTC has really dropped the ball on this one.  (Unless they are actively trying to discourage thrid party support of 4E; if that’s the case they are succeding, just making a public relations hash of the matter.)

I am pretty stoked about my friend wanting to pick up his pencil and start illustrating again.  I have talked to him before about doing stuf for me, and there have been a couple of ‘false starts’ but he seemed very excited about the stuff I sent him. I am going to hook him up with an old copy of Photoshop to use.  (I have CS around here somewhere, since I upgraded to CS3 I can spare it.)

I noticed Adamant has put some stock art to very good use.  Check out Venture 4th: The Linotaur and you will see the race seems based around an illustration from this offering from Anthony.  Very cool concept!  What got my attention was the cut-and-paste on page three where they used two of my stock art images (also done by Anthony) to make a second illustration.  (Here and here.) Very well done, streatching the artwork.  A little creative Photoshopping can go a long way for savvy publishers. Two thumbs up!