Golden Circle Link: Shadow Walkers

gabriel_ss4u · June 08, 2009, 07:31:54 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;50082one option for gaining extra points wherein you draw a trump of your character, or provide trumps of the elders or other things, to the GM.
I must have a collection of literally hundreds of trumps.

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Ahhh... holding back on us... eh Pundit?
Where's your scanner?
Let's get those trumps scanned in and share the awesomeness of other Trump Artist's renditions of characters we love, love to hate, and one's we've never even heard of.

Will you do this sometime soon?

RPGPundit · June 10, 2009, 06:20:29 PM

Not planning to, no. Many of them aren't original art, anyways, they're images downloaded from the net and made into trumps.

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weilide · June 18, 2009, 05:40:48 PM

Quote from: Croaker;306560What???

I feel like I missed something. Anyway, thanks, Schattensturm. Both boulet and I here are french And even if we weren't, bashing on people just because of their country is just plain stupid

Quick question for the Francophones: has NPiA been translated into French? I've been brushing up on that language this summer and it would be fun to take a crack at the book as practice.

gabriel_ss4u · June 18, 2009, 10:42:06 PM

Surely you jest weilide.
Amber is as big in France as it is in America... if not possibly bigger. (But I doubt it).
The French I believe see Zelazny's love of Paris in Amber, and it is a natural with an older country used to Machiavellian machinations.

Yes, I think it was translated into French 1st of other languages, but if anyone knows when, let's hear it.
(could be on wikiAmber I'm sure)

boulet · June 18, 2009, 11:39:41 PM

The collection of Amber books I first read was in French, pocket books with cover illustrations by Florence Magnin. Les 9 princes d'Ambre for example. I think they sold well. I'm trying to remember how I heard about them. I believe it was in college from a fellow gamer who was completely enthusiastic about Amber DRPG. That was before 1994 when the game got translated. It was one of the first, if not the first game I owned in English.

ETA: Corwin and his love of Paris was cute, but it didn't play any role among my friends and I getting fond of the Amberverse.

weilide · June 19, 2009, 12:42:46 AM

Ah hah! Thanks. I see the US Amazon has slightly different French editions as well. Interesting cover art on both versions.

Croaker · June 19, 2009, 11:59:14 AM

Yes, amber sold well here, and the RPG was a success.
Thing is, IMO, this has much more to do with Florence Magnin's work than with paris. Personnally, I surely didn't care at all for this, nor do my friends afaik

jibbajibba · June 19, 2009, 01:56:49 PM

Quote from: boulet;309279The collection of Amber books I first read was in French, pocket books with cover illustrations by Florence Magnin. Les 9 princes d'Ambre for example. I think they sold well. I'm trying to remember how I heard about them. I believe it was in college from a fellow gamer who was completely enthusiastic about Amber DRPG. That was before 1994 when the game got translated. It was one of the first, if not the first game I owned in English.

ETA: Corwin and his love of Paris was cute, but it didn't play any role among my friends and I getting fond of the Amberverse.

Another artist another set of hopes dashed . I have been looking for really high quality Amber trumps for an age (well about 20 years..) I even asked my cousin, an artist, to do them as a comission but he hasn't the will time or inclination. Sigh Wonder what Travis Charest charges for a dozen full colour A5 illustrations these days ....

Schattensturm · June 19, 2009, 03:01:15 PM

Quote from: jibbajibba;309374Another artist another set of hopes dashed . I have been looking for really high quality Amber trumps for an age (well about 20 years..) I even asked my cousin, an artist, to do them as a comission but he hasn't the will time or inclination. Sigh Wonder what Travis Charest charges for a dozen full colour A5 illustrations these days ....

Check out Boris Sirbey's trumps. I like (most of) them a lot.

http://www.sirbey.com/Version2/tarot.htm

SunBoy · June 20, 2009, 03:35:27 AM

Really? He doesn't really ring my bell.

weilide · June 20, 2009, 09:30:40 AM

Trumps are so, so hard to do well. Those done in an Anime or otherwise cartoony style always yank me right out of the mood, so when I can I like to note other works of art that might be interesting. I did recently come across one that I thought would be great as a mysterious trump for PCs to discover, possibly from the Chaos side of things.

gabriel_ss4u · June 20, 2009, 09:09:18 PM

Quote from: jibbajibba;309374Another artist another set of hopes dashed . I have been looking for really high quality Amber trumps for an age (well about 20 years..) I even asked my cousin, an artist, to do them as a comission but he hasn't the will time or inclination. Sigh Wonder what Travis Charest charges for a dozen full colour A5 illustrations these days ....

TC is really expensive, I hear he charges higher than most.
I have a 1/2 drawn sketch of Grunge and it cost me $100

finarvyn · June 21, 2009, 09:43:45 PM

I actually like the trump images (form the orignal post). They're different. If I run some sort of "back in the olden days" campaign, I might make use of them.

The Le Tarot French trump deck didn't grab me as much. Most of the cards seemed pretty generic, but with character names attached to them.

gabriel_ss4u · June 22, 2009, 12:28:46 AM

yeah, if they were done better, I would have gotten them too.
I do like Mike K's work, I even tracked him down after the 1st rule book came out and asked about him doing character sketches, but that was along time ago, and he wasn't cheap either.

Narf the Mouse · June 22, 2009, 01:12:39 AM

Maybe pool up money and hire a high-end artist?