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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 310325" data-attributes="member: 63">This is a blanket email/posting that I’m sending out to a lot of artists and venues, so if you’ve already heard some of this info before, my apologies.  Please bear with me.Asgard magazine is the premier fan D&D and D20 gaming magazine, released on a haphazard bimonthly schedule by Natural 20 Press, the publishing branch of <a href="http://www.ENWorld.org." target="_blank">www.ENWorld.org.</a>    Asgard is distributed as a free pdf, and submissions are open to all fans and gamers.  In recent months we’ve had some mild trouble getting enough content to fill an issue, but we’ve never had difficulty finding artists willing to help illustrate its digital pages.  Hopefully some of you will be willing to help continue this trend.All submissions to Asgard magazine are volunteer, but we still strive for quality.  Additionally, even though you won’t be getting paid, if you’re looking to show off your work or build up some good will among the gaming community, helping out with Asgard is a nice way to get some free publicity.  We make sure to provide links to artist’s websites in the magazine, if they’re interested in us doing so.In the past, we’ve usually sent out an open call to artists, listing the articles we need illustrations for.  We then suggest some ideas of what we’d like to see.  Usually we contact enough artists that we can get illustrations for most of the articles in each issue, so we don’t even bother trying to assign specific pieces to specific artists.  Do whatever tickles your fancy (though we do prefer if you can provide clear, crisp images, preferably in color or inks).  The deadline for art submissions for this issue is next Thursday, August 22, 2002.If you’re interested in helping out, choose one or two of the following articles and work up an illustration for them.  If you have any questions or if you desire clarification, feel free to email me.  When it comes time to submitting the actual images, I prefer if you can host them elsewhere and send me a link (my email account is fairly small), but if you need to, you can send them directly to me, at <a href="mailto:RangerWickett@hotmail.com">RangerWickett@hotmail.com</a>.  Please don’t send more than about 200 kb at any one time, or you might kill my inbox.For issue 7 of Asgard, these are the articles we have, along with some suggestions for illustrations.Gold Elves:  An article introducing a new group of highly mercantile Elves, to whom everything is a chance for profit.  Any illustration should emphasize their avarice, perhaps by showing an Elf weighed down with fancy clothes.  For physical features, Gold Elves have pale skin and dark brown or black hair.Axiomatic Weapons:  This article presents near-epic-level magic items, weapons that represent a specific ideal or concept.  The weapons should look powerful and dramatic, and if you could somehow have a person wielding the weapon who looks like he fits the same ideal, it would be great.  The five weapons included in the article are: Aequitas, sword of justice (blade looks like a shaft of light, like a longsword or light saber); Bak-Tozak, double-axe of rage and hate (one flaming head, one frost head); Lograni, hammer of love (it glows a soft red); Raaogar, longbow of fury (a Gnollish bow that looks like an arc of lightning); and Xur, dagger of vengeance (dull metal blade, constantly covered with poison).Dreamscape of Ell:  This article presents rules for an alternative astral/ethereal plane, the dreamscape, and includes a write-up for a sample goddess of dreams, and a prestige class devoted to her, the Shield of Ell.  We already have an illustration for the class itself, but we could use some images of people exploring a darkened, somewhat hazy dreamscape.  It would probably look kinda like when Frodo put on the ring in The Fellowship of the Rings, but not quite as scary.Paladin’s Code:  An article musing on the paladin as a class, and how a few changes can profoundly affect how you might play your paladin character.  The article examines the common virtues for paladins, and lists 8 common types of paladins—the courtier, the crusader, the inquisitor, the votary (priest), the healer, the knight-errant, the expatriate (an expelled but still virtuous paladin), and the militarist.  I’d prefer at least 2 different types of paladins illustrated, reflecting different ideals.  If you want to go a little exotic here, by the way, feel free.  A Native American shaman could be a fine paladin, as could a samurai, or an Egyptian warrior-priest.Swimsuits of the Multiverse:  For the end-of-summer swimsuit special, we’re going to have simple rules for a fantasy beauty contest.  If you’re good at drawing beautiful people (men and women), it’d be nice to see some dashing heroes.  They don’t even have to be in swimsuits, though it’s a plus.  Since this is a D20 magazine, not just a D&D magazine, feel free to have settings other than medieval fantasy.  Hmm.  A Klingon teenager in a bathing suit, perhaps?Martial Artist:  A non-spiritual alternative to the monk.  This one’s fairly open to interpretation, so any type of martial-artist will work (I’d prefer to have several, actually).  If possible, I’d like to see the following particular styles—Iron Hand, Intuitive Archery, Crimson Blade Mastery.  If you don’t know what these styles are (they’re half made-up anyway), feel free to improvise something that looks appropriate.  If it’s cool-looking, we’ll work it into the article.We already have a cover lined up, but we’ll probably also have a few other small articles . . . reviews, an editorial, and a few highlights on the ENnies.  If you can think of some GenCon- or ENny-inspired art, send it in.ENWorld is home to perhaps the largest community of D&D and D20 gamers online, provides up-to-date news on D20 events and reviews on D20 products, and is host to the annual ENnie D20 System Awards.</blockquote>

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