6x9 B/X

First, I'm psyched that I got to meet Zak S, Mandy Morbid and Joey Lindsey this past weekend, while viewing some of the original artwork that Zak made for A Red & Pleasant Land. Zak complimented my girlfriend on her shoes, Mandy complimented me on my LotFP shirt, nobody lobbed any Unforgivable Curses at us, and a good time was had by all. If you're near the San Francisco Bay Area, you should check out the exhibition at Steven Wolf Fine Arts. It runs through March 7, 2015. They've got a whole room full of Zak's work, and I gained a new appreciation for his style when I saw how many fine details he works in using literal drops, blobs and splotches of paint. My artist girlfriend and artist friend both assured me that they would have made a blotchy mess if they'd attempted the same techniques.

Note: This is hot shit!

I spent most of that afternoon fiddling with my own variation of the Black Book edition of B/X D&D, as mentioned in this informative post by Dyson. I decided that, in addition to nixing the watermarks, I'd like to shrink the books down to the portable, utilitarian 6x9 size that works so well for Lamentations publications. I can't hook you guys up with the finished pdf, obviously, but I thought I should at least share my re-sized versions of  Jeremy Deram's covers. I had to add some space between elements to avoid stretching out the words and images, but I think it came together nicely.

Here you go, internet:

These images should be 1913 x 2925 pixels, perfect for the "old" cover-creating wizard at LuLu.

My RPG Person Profile

I'm currently running (in person):
D&D (a bastard child of OD&D, LotFP and Swords & Wizardry)

Tabletop RPGs I'm currently playing (in person) include:
Lamentations of the Flame Princess, Dungeon World


I would especially like to play/run:
Night's Black Agents

...but would also try:
Trail of Cthulhu, Numenera, Everything Ever

I live in:
The San Francisco Bay Area

2 or 3 well-known RPG products other people made that I like:
Vornheim; An Echo, Resounding;  The Metamorphica; Better Than Any Man

2 or 3 novels I like:
The Once and Future King, Red Dwarf, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

2 or 3 movies I like:
The Princess Bride, Casablanca, Labyrinth

Best place to find me on-line:
Right the hell here

I will read almost anything on tabletop RPGs if it's:
Utilitarian

I really do not want to hear about:
Who you think is playing games the "right" or "wrong" way. Watch some kids play games on a playground, and gaze into the heart of Order out of Chaos.

I think dead orc babies are:
Weak sauce, because my players have to deal with the moral greyness of killing other humans, not inherently evil humanoid races like Orcs.

Games that I'm in are like:
http://www.meetup.com/The-Geek-Collective-of-Gamescape-SF/events/143673822/

Free RPG Content I made for D&D and whatnot is available here:
DeathAndAxes.blogspot.com

If you know anything about the most common predatory species in each terrain type it'd help me with a project I'm working on