James Maliszewski

The Warrior

Here's a preview of some of the finished artwork for my sha-Arthan project. This is the illustration for the warrior class by Zhu Bajiee, who's done much of the artwork that's appeared in my Tékumel 'zine.

Layout Tests

Pay no heed to the specifics of the above images. Instead, take a look at the general layout. This is something my layout guy and I have been batting back and forth recently. I'm hoping I'll have some actual text to share with you relatively soon. Four of the basic character classes are nearly done. Once I have finished art to accompany them, we can play around with more meaningful layout examples. For now, though, I simply wanted to show off some possible looks for the final version.

Take 2

Better?

sha-Arthan Scion

Another preliminary sketch to share with you, this time of the scion class. They're adventurous social climbers and dispossessed nobles.

(And, yes, the name of the setting continues to evolve, By the end of the development process, it might change several times)

Font Test

This is simply a mock-up. Don't pay much mind to anything beyond the title font. Is it legible? Does it convey anything to you? 

sha-Artan Sorcerer

Here's a rough sketch of one of sha-Artan's character classes – the sorcerer.

sha-Artan

This is a brief heads-up to let everyone know that, starting next month, I'll be posting here more regularly and sharing snippets, both large and small, of a science fantasy setting I'm creating. Called sha-Artan, it's the fruit of my years of refereeing Empire of the Petal Throne and generally thinking about science fiction settings masquerading as fantasy settings because no one in the setting understands the technology of "the Ancients" anymore. 

The most immediate influences on...

Happy New Year

Now that 2020 is safely gone, here's to a better 2021. I want to thank everyone for their encouragement as I return to blogging after so long an absence. Thanks to your support, we've reached the first goal I set, enabling me to commission a single piece of original art to accompany a future post. I'd like to do more, of course, but that'll take time and more patrons.

To that end, if anyone has any suggestions to spread the word about the blog and its content, I'd love to hear them. I'm...

Thank You

Thanks to everyone who has chosen to become a patron; your support is greatly appreciated. It's my hope that, as time goes on, and more people become aware of the return of Grognardia and the writing I am doing there, the roster of patrons will grow and I can become a little more ambitious with my plans. 

For the moment, my goals are quite simple: first, to continue posting new content on a variety of RPG-related subjects to the blog each week; second, to develop the Urheim adventu...