Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
The
VOIDRUNNER'S CODEX
is LIVE! Explore new worlds, fight oppressive empires, fend off fearsome aliens, and wield deadly psionics with this comprehensive boxed set expansion for 5E and A5E!
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
Promotions/Press
[Chaosium] Mark Smylie is the 2023 recipient of the Greg Stafford Memorial Award for Gloranthan Fandom
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Michael O'Brien" data-source="post: 9158951" data-attributes="member: 6807727"><p style="text-align: center"><img src="https://www.chaosium.com/product_images/uploaded_images/smylie-1.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p><p>The <strong>Greg Stafford Memorial Award for Gloranthan Fandom</strong> was established in November 2018 in memory of Chaosium's revered founder and original creative visionary <a href="https://www.chaosium.com/greg-stafford" target="_blank">Greg Stafford</a>. With the blessing of Greg's family Chaosium will occasionally and irregularly present the award to recognise a <em>significant</em> and <em>exceptional</em> contribution to Gloranthan Fandom in a current year.</p><p></p><p>This month marks the fifth anniversary of Greg Stafford's passing, and we are pleased to present the 2023 award to the artist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Smylie" target="_blank">Mark Smylie</a>.</p><p></p><p>Chaosium community ambassador Nick Brooke said, "Mark’s beautifully-detailed artwork has brought community content authors’ imagined Gloranthan scenes vividly to life on the <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/2/Chaosium/subcategory/74_34170/Jonstown-Compendium" target="_blank">Jonstown Compendium</a>. His most recent contribution is a massive amount of meticulous technical artwork showing all stages of Gloranthan shipbuilding, along with a diverse range of stunning nautical portraits, for Martin Helsdon’s 2023 <em>magnum opus</em> <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/452062/Ships--Shores-of-Southern-Genertela" target="_blank">Ships & Shores of Southern Genertela</a><strong>."</strong></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="https://www.chaosium.com/product_images/uploaded_images/smylie-4.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="https://www.chaosium.com/product_images/uploaded_images/screen-shot-2023-10-11-at-11.32.55-pm.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="https://www.chaosium.com/product_images/uploaded_images/smylie-2.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="https://www.chaosium.com/product_images/uploaded_images/smylie-3.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p><p>Mark’s art can be seen in several other Jonstown Compendium releases including Martin Helsdon’s <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/296535/The-Armies-and-Enemies-of-Dragon-Pass" target="_blank">Armies & Enemies of Dragon Pass</a> and <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/325525/Men-of-the-West" target="_blank">Men of the West</a><strong>, </strong>and Chris Gidlow’s ENNIE Award-nominated <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/344349/Citizens-of-the-Lunar-Empire" target="_blank">Citizens of the Lunar Empire</a><strong>.</strong></p><p></p><p>As with many other community content creators, Mark Smylie’s work has since featured in Chaosium’s own books (see the cover of the <a href="https://www.chaosium.com/the-red-book-of-magic-hardcover/" target="_blank">Red Book of Magic</a> and many illustrations in the <a href="https://www.chaosium.com/runequest-starter-set/" target="_blank">RuneQuest Starter Set</a>, <a href="https://www.chaosium.com/pendragon-starter-set/" target="_blank">Pendragon Starter Set</a><strong>, </strong>and <a href="https://www.chaosium.com/runequest-weapons-equipment-hardcover/" target="_blank">RuneQuest Weapons & Equipment</a>). When not in Glorantha, Mark develops his own Renaissance-era fantasy world of <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?keywords=Artesia&x=0&y=0&author=&artist=&pfrom=&pto=" target="_blank">Artesia</a>, and is working on a <a href="https://www.chaosium.com/basic-roleplaying-universal-game-engine-hardcover/" target="_blank">BRP-derived</a> role-playing game in that setting.</p><p></p><p>On receiving the award, Mark Smylie said:</p><p></p><p><em>I’m surprised and honored to be offered the 2023 Greg Stafford Memorial Award. I don’t know how many people currently at Chaosium know this but my very first art submission to a publisher was to Chaosium in 1983 when I was still in high school, and somewhere in my files I still have a very kind (and well deserved) rejection letter from Lynn Willis and a very brief letter from Greg describing some of the events that were going to mark the end of the Third Age (a letter that made my friends and I realize we really had no clue about the scale of what was going on as this was years before <a href="https://www.chaosium.com/king-of-sartar-ebook/" target="_blank">King of Sartar</a> would see the light of day). </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Greg’s ongoing work on Glorantha, RuneQuest, and Pendragon was an enormous inspiration in my own creative endeavors—in no small part because it was and is always ongoing—and it’s been an honor and joy to be able to contribute artwork to all three in recent years, particularly for Martin Helsdon’s <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/452062/Ships--Shores-of-Southern-Genertela" target="_blank">Ships & Shores</a> book (and let’s face it, really I am getting this award because they can’t give it to </em><a href="https://www.chaosium.com/bloggreg-stafford-memorial-award-for-gloranthan-fandom-presented-for-2019-and-2020/" target="_blank"><em>Martin</em></a><em> a second time) as well as to some of the as-yet unpublished books on Dragon Pass and Sartar that are in Chaosium’s extraordinary pipeline of material that continues to grow Greg’s legacy. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Many, many thanks and I hope my small contributions bring some of that same joy to Greg's and Glorantha’s many fans.</em> </p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="https://www.chaosium.com/product_images/uploaded_images/smylie-10.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="https://www.chaosium.com/product_images/uploaded_images/smylie-9.jpeg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><h4 style="text-align: center"><img src="https://www.chaosium.com/product_images/uploaded_images/screen-shot-2023-10-11-at-10.59.50-pm.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></h4><p>Previous recipients of the Greg Stafford Memorial Award for Gloranthan Fandom are:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://www.chaosium.com/blogjason-durall-is-international-guest-of-honour-at-rq-glorantha-con-down-under-iv-melbourne-australia-nov-2324/" target="_blank">Lev Lafayette</a> (2018), the driving force behind successfully bringing back RQ Con Down Under after a hiatus of twenty years.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://www.chaosium.com/bloggreg-stafford-memorial-award-for-gloranthan-fandom-presented-for-2019-and-2020/" target="_blank">Martin Helsdon</a> (2019), author of the monumental fan work <em>The Armies and Enemies of Dragon Pass</em>, based on Greg's writings.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://www.chaosium.com/bloggreg-stafford-memorial-award-for-gloranthan-fandom-presented-for-2019-and-2020/" target="_blank">Nick Brooke</a> (2020), for his passionate advocacy of the <a href="http://bit.ly/2DZ78XW" target="_blank">Jonstown Compendium</a>, Chaosium's community content platform for Glorantha on DriveThruRPG.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://www.chaosium.com/blogartist-katrin-dirim-is-the-2021-recipient-of-the-greg-stafford-memorial-award-for-gloranthan-fandom/" target="_blank">Katrin Dirim</a> (2021), for her vibrant Gloranthan art, inspired by art styles from antiquity and the middle ages and capturing the essence of mythology.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://www.chaosium.com/blogthe-2022-recipient-of-the-greg-stafford-memorial-award-for-gloranthan-fandom-is-six-seasons-in-sartar-creator-andrew-logan-montgomery/" target="_blank">Andrew Logan Montgomery</a> (2022), creator of the critically acclaimed and bestselling <em>Six Seasons in Sartar</em> trilogy in the <a href="http://bit.ly/2DZ78XW" target="_blank">Jonstown Compendium</a>.</li> </ul><p><em>All art featured on this page is by Mark Smylie and appears in Martin Helsdon's 2023 community content title <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/452062/Ships--Shores-of-Southern-Genertela" target="_blank">Ships & Shores of Southern Genertela</a>, available at the Jonstown Compendium, Chaosium's platform for independent creators for RuneQuest and Glorantha at DriveThruRPG.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Michael O'Brien, post: 9158951, member: 6807727"] [CENTER][IMG]https://www.chaosium.com/product_images/uploaded_images/smylie-1.png[/IMG] [/CENTER] The [B]Greg Stafford Memorial Award for Gloranthan Fandom[/B] was established in November 2018 in memory of Chaosium's revered founder and original creative visionary [URL='https://www.chaosium.com/greg-stafford']Greg Stafford[/URL]. With the blessing of Greg's family Chaosium will occasionally and irregularly present the award to recognise a [I]significant[/I] and [I]exceptional[/I] contribution to Gloranthan Fandom in a current year. This month marks the fifth anniversary of Greg Stafford's passing, and we are pleased to present the 2023 award to the artist [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Smylie']Mark Smylie[/URL]. Chaosium community ambassador Nick Brooke said, "Mark’s beautifully-detailed artwork has brought community content authors’ imagined Gloranthan scenes vividly to life on the [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/2/Chaosium/subcategory/74_34170/Jonstown-Compendium']Jonstown Compendium[/URL]. His most recent contribution is a massive amount of meticulous technical artwork showing all stages of Gloranthan shipbuilding, along with a diverse range of stunning nautical portraits, for Martin Helsdon’s 2023 [I]magnum opus[/I] [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/452062/Ships--Shores-of-Southern-Genertela']Ships & Shores of Southern Genertela[/URL][B]."[/B] [CENTER][IMG]https://www.chaosium.com/product_images/uploaded_images/smylie-4.png[/IMG] [IMG]https://www.chaosium.com/product_images/uploaded_images/screen-shot-2023-10-11-at-11.32.55-pm.png[/IMG] [IMG]https://www.chaosium.com/product_images/uploaded_images/smylie-2.png[/IMG] [IMG]https://www.chaosium.com/product_images/uploaded_images/smylie-3.png[/IMG] [/CENTER] Mark’s art can be seen in several other Jonstown Compendium releases including Martin Helsdon’s [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/296535/The-Armies-and-Enemies-of-Dragon-Pass']Armies & Enemies of Dragon Pass[/URL][B] [/B]and[B] [/B][URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/325525/Men-of-the-West']Men of the West[/URL][B], [/B]and[B] [/B]Chris Gidlow’s ENNIE Award-nominated [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/344349/Citizens-of-the-Lunar-Empire']Citizens of the Lunar Empire[/URL][B].[/B] As with many other community content creators, Mark Smylie’s work has since featured in Chaosium’s own books (see the cover of the [URL='https://www.chaosium.com/the-red-book-of-magic-hardcover/']Red Book of Magic[/URL] and many illustrations in the [URL='https://www.chaosium.com/runequest-starter-set/']RuneQuest Starter Set[/URL], [URL='https://www.chaosium.com/pendragon-starter-set/']Pendragon Starter Set[/URL][B], [/B]and [URL='https://www.chaosium.com/runequest-weapons-equipment-hardcover/']RuneQuest Weapons & Equipment[/URL]). When not in Glorantha, Mark develops his own Renaissance-era fantasy world of [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?keywords=Artesia&x=0&y=0&author=&artist=&pfrom=&pto=']Artesia[/URL], and is working on a [URL='https://www.chaosium.com/basic-roleplaying-universal-game-engine-hardcover/']BRP-derived[/URL] role-playing game in that setting. On receiving the award, Mark Smylie said: [I]I’m surprised and honored to be offered the 2023 Greg Stafford Memorial Award. I don’t know how many people currently at Chaosium know this but my very first art submission to a publisher was to Chaosium in 1983 when I was still in high school, and somewhere in my files I still have a very kind (and well deserved) rejection letter from Lynn Willis and a very brief letter from Greg describing some of the events that were going to mark the end of the Third Age (a letter that made my friends and I realize we really had no clue about the scale of what was going on as this was years before [URL='https://www.chaosium.com/king-of-sartar-ebook/']King of Sartar[/URL] would see the light of day). Greg’s ongoing work on Glorantha, RuneQuest, and Pendragon was an enormous inspiration in my own creative endeavors—in no small part because it was and is always ongoing—and it’s been an honor and joy to be able to contribute artwork to all three in recent years, particularly for Martin Helsdon’s [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/452062/Ships--Shores-of-Southern-Genertela']Ships & Shores[/URL] book (and let’s face it, really I am getting this award because they can’t give it to [/I][URL='https://www.chaosium.com/bloggreg-stafford-memorial-award-for-gloranthan-fandom-presented-for-2019-and-2020/'][I]Martin[/I][/URL][I] a second time) as well as to some of the as-yet unpublished books on Dragon Pass and Sartar that are in Chaosium’s extraordinary pipeline of material that continues to grow Greg’s legacy. Many, many thanks and I hope my small contributions bring some of that same joy to Greg's and Glorantha’s many fans.[/I] [CENTER][IMG]https://www.chaosium.com/product_images/uploaded_images/smylie-10.png[/IMG] [IMG]https://www.chaosium.com/product_images/uploaded_images/smylie-9.jpeg[/IMG][/CENTER] [HEADING=3][CENTER][IMG]https://www.chaosium.com/product_images/uploaded_images/screen-shot-2023-10-11-at-10.59.50-pm.png[/IMG][/CENTER][/HEADING] Previous recipients of the Greg Stafford Memorial Award for Gloranthan Fandom are: [LIST] [*][URL='https://www.chaosium.com/blogjason-durall-is-international-guest-of-honour-at-rq-glorantha-con-down-under-iv-melbourne-australia-nov-2324/']Lev Lafayette[/URL] (2018), the driving force behind successfully bringing back RQ Con Down Under after a hiatus of twenty years. [*][URL='https://www.chaosium.com/bloggreg-stafford-memorial-award-for-gloranthan-fandom-presented-for-2019-and-2020/']Martin Helsdon[/URL] (2019), author of the monumental fan work [I]The Armies and Enemies of Dragon Pass[/I], based on Greg's writings. [*][URL='https://www.chaosium.com/bloggreg-stafford-memorial-award-for-gloranthan-fandom-presented-for-2019-and-2020/']Nick Brooke[/URL] (2020), for his passionate advocacy of the [URL='http://bit.ly/2DZ78XW']Jonstown Compendium[/URL], Chaosium's community content platform for Glorantha on DriveThruRPG. [*][URL='https://www.chaosium.com/blogartist-katrin-dirim-is-the-2021-recipient-of-the-greg-stafford-memorial-award-for-gloranthan-fandom/']Katrin Dirim[/URL] (2021), for her vibrant Gloranthan art, inspired by art styles from antiquity and the middle ages and capturing the essence of mythology. [*][URL='https://www.chaosium.com/blogthe-2022-recipient-of-the-greg-stafford-memorial-award-for-gloranthan-fandom-is-six-seasons-in-sartar-creator-andrew-logan-montgomery/']Andrew Logan Montgomery[/URL] (2022), creator of the critically acclaimed and bestselling [I]Six Seasons in Sartar[/I] trilogy in the [URL='http://bit.ly/2DZ78XW']Jonstown Compendium[/URL]. [/LIST] [I]All art featured on this page is by Mark Smylie and appears in Martin Helsdon's 2023 community content title [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/452062/Ships--Shores-of-Southern-Genertela']Ships & Shores of Southern Genertela[/URL], available at the Jonstown Compendium, Chaosium's platform for independent creators for RuneQuest and Glorantha at DriveThruRPG.[/I] [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
Promotions/Press
[Chaosium] Mark Smylie is the 2023 recipient of the Greg Stafford Memorial Award for Gloranthan Fandom
Top