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[Chaosium] Artesia creator Mark Smylie on the newly-released RuneQuest Starter Set
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<blockquote data-quote="Michael O'Brien" data-source="post: 8455795" data-attributes="member: 6807727"><p><a href="https://www.chaosium.com/runequest-starter-set" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.chaosium.com/product_images/uploaded_images/255695226-241468221308137-1788738192294623863-n.jpeg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>We were honored to have the renowned comic book artist Mark Smylie, creator of the epic fantasy series <em>Artesia</em>, contribute several artworks for <a href="https://www.chaosium.com/runequest-starter-set" target="_blank">RuneQuest Starter Set</a>. This is what Mark said on the Starter Set's release earlier this week:</p><p></p><p>"I did a few pieces for Chaosium's <em>RuneQuest Starter Set</em> last year and the boxed set is finally out. <em>RuneQuest</em> and Greg Stafford's setting of Glorantha were an enormous influence on my thinking of the magical/religious structures of the Known World (setting for <em>Artesia</em>), though Glorantha is very much a bronze-age setting and the Known World a late-medieval/Renaissance one.</p><p></p><p>If you have never seen <em>RuneQuest</em> or Glorantha before, the <em>RQ Starter Set</em> was designed as an entry point, though there's also a lot of new stuff in there for seasoned players and GMs (including an amazing write-up of the City of Jonstown). It's also a classic throw-back to the kinds of RPG Box Sets that used to come out in the 80s and 90s.</p><p></p><p>And <em>RuneQuest</em> is likely to be the rules base for the next edition of the Artesia/Known World RPG (if the folks at Chaosium are okay with my proposed rules changes and expansions...)."</p><p><a href="https://www.chaosium.com/the-red-book-of-magic-hardcover" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.chaosium.com/product_images/uploaded_images/red-book-of-magic-cover.png" alt="Red Book of Magic cover by Mark Smylie" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable fr-fir" data-size="" style="width: 531px" /></a></p><p></p><p><em>In addition to his work in the <a href="https://www.chaosium.com/runequest-starter-set" target="_blank">RuneQuest Starter Set</a>, you can also see more of Mark Smylie's art for Glorantha on the cover of RuneQuest's <a href="https://www.chaosium.com/the-red-book-of-magic-hardcover" target="_blank">The Red Book of Magic</a>, along with the covers of Chris Gidlow's ENNIE-nominated C<a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/344349/Citizens-of-the-Lunar-Empire" target="_blank">itizens of the Lunar Empire</a>, and Martin Helsdon's best-selling <a href="http://bit.ly/2OJYWkx" target="_blank">The Armies and Enemies of Dragon Pass</a> and <a href="https://bit.ly/3iRIbQa" target="_blank">Men of the West</a> in the <a href="http://bit.ly/2DZ78XW" target="_blank">Jonstown Compendium</a> at DriveThruRPG.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Michael O'Brien, post: 8455795, member: 6807727"] [URL='https://www.chaosium.com/runequest-starter-set'][IMG]https://www.chaosium.com/product_images/uploaded_images/255695226-241468221308137-1788738192294623863-n.jpeg[/IMG][/URL] We were honored to have the renowned comic book artist Mark Smylie, creator of the epic fantasy series [I]Artesia[/I], contribute several artworks for [URL='https://www.chaosium.com/runequest-starter-set']RuneQuest Starter Set[/URL]. This is what Mark said on the Starter Set's release earlier this week: "I did a few pieces for Chaosium's [I]RuneQuest Starter Set[/I] last year and the boxed set is finally out. [I]RuneQuest[/I] and Greg Stafford's setting of Glorantha were an enormous influence on my thinking of the magical/religious structures of the Known World (setting for [I]Artesia[/I]), though Glorantha is very much a bronze-age setting and the Known World a late-medieval/Renaissance one. If you have never seen [I]RuneQuest[/I] or Glorantha before, the [I]RQ Starter Set[/I] was designed as an entry point, though there's also a lot of new stuff in there for seasoned players and GMs (including an amazing write-up of the City of Jonstown). It's also a classic throw-back to the kinds of RPG Box Sets that used to come out in the 80s and 90s. And [I]RuneQuest[/I] is likely to be the rules base for the next edition of the Artesia/Known World RPG (if the folks at Chaosium are okay with my proposed rules changes and expansions...)." [URL='https://www.chaosium.com/the-red-book-of-magic-hardcover'][IMG align="right" width="531px" alt="Red Book of Magic cover by Mark Smylie"]https://www.chaosium.com/product_images/uploaded_images/red-book-of-magic-cover.png[/IMG][/URL] [I]In addition to his work in the [URL='https://www.chaosium.com/runequest-starter-set']RuneQuest Starter Set[/URL], you can also see more of Mark Smylie's art for Glorantha on the cover of RuneQuest's [URL='https://www.chaosium.com/the-red-book-of-magic-hardcover']The Red Book of Magic[/URL], along with the covers of Chris Gidlow's ENNIE-nominated C[URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/344349/Citizens-of-the-Lunar-Empire']itizens of the Lunar Empire[/URL], and Martin Helsdon's best-selling [URL='http://bit.ly/2OJYWkx']The Armies and Enemies of Dragon Pass[/URL] and [URL='https://bit.ly/3iRIbQa']Men of the West[/URL] in the [URL='http://bit.ly/2DZ78XW']Jonstown Compendium[/URL] at DriveThruRPG.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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