Indelible Ink Stuido - some painting what I gone and done...

Ah! I never picked up any of the Doomstones campaign books… Having heard they were originally designed for D&D and kinda clunky ported to WFRP am glad I didn’t! 🤔
The artwork does ring a bell now tho. Was thinking meant the 1st Ed rulebook.
 
Brother Meredith said:
Ah! I never picked up any of the Doomstones campaign books… Having heard they were originally designed for D&D and kinda clunky ported to WFRP am glad I didn’t! 🤔
The artwork does ring a bell now tho. Was thinking meant the 1st Ed rulebook.
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Yep. His blog is interesting. He mentions dnd stuff being segued in other WH writings. He seems to have been the greatest cheerleader for Ogres since 1987 - for player characters in WFRP, for their integration into The Empire rather than just WHFB mercs (ie ravening hordes 2e list). He was told to write stuff on them and trolls, it remained in limbo (under Phil Gallagher management), Graeme quote's: '... my proposals were met with a defending silence' -he thinks Bryan Ansell read it and it was put on back burner where it remained, but then he left GW in 1990.
 
Lovely covers by Jez Goodwin on the original boxed sets for The Complete Dungeon Master Series!
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WFRP 1 Easter Eggs: Doomstones 2

The second adventure in the Doomstones campaign, Blood in Darkness was adapted from The Lost Shrine of Kasar-Khan, an AD&D adventure in The Complete Dungeon Master series. It was re-statted for…
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Some interesting comments on it’s creation: https://www.theartofpaulbonner.com/blogs/news/besieging-goblins-by-paul-bonner
GW really missed an opportunity relegating Bonner to B&W artwork and spot illustrations. Look at the original use of this piece in Warhammer Siege, not event a full page spread! His cover art for Freebooterz is amazing and really shows off what he was capable of.
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Yep totally agree. He is still a fantastic artist, still producing the goods from what I've seen on social media. A lot of these old GW artists still do, keep honest to their style etc. We're so lucky to have seen their stuff back in the day when there was a certain amount of creative freedom for both artists and writers...until the cynical corporate World and moneyed turned heads and blanked genius I guess.
 
Well... that is a another discussion. Just seems strange that he was obviously a talented artist and able to work in colour, but got frustrated enough working for GW (even back then) that he moved on. There was likely more going on internally than we are aware of, maybe related to the Kirby buyout when a lot of artists left the studio but hard to tell the precise timing.
Jordan did a nice interview with him (
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), but avoids digging up too much dirt. ;)
 
I think what happened, and to Games workshop/citedel in general, isn't too much different then companies like Atari. It went from a small-ish but growing job of weird talent who mostly did stuff cause they though it would be fun, to a company that made alot of money, but have strict control over the talent to a point alot of the creative ones left to positions where the felt better valued (even if they had to create that themselves).

Anyway.. Great paintjobs as usual ^_^
 
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