It's the first bit of O.L.D. art! The race lineup!

[Morrus]

This'll be the O.L.D. art preview thread. I just got this in minutes ago. Obviously, ignore the artist's labels, and the background will need height lines, but this is the general gist of it!

 

[GMMichael]

Awesome! I'm a sucker for medieval fantasy - so I'll definitely keep my eye on the O.L.D. releases! Good to see the racial diversity too - which is to say that I'm glad they're not just taller or shorter versions of Anglo-Saxons.

Two questions if you please:
- Is the female grand elf wielding a 9mm?
- How do the ogres get that robust, foresty hue to them?

Keep it coming!

PS - I'd love to see what the female ogre's great (giant?) sword can do!

 

[Morrus]

Awesome! I'm a sucker for medieval fantasy - so I'll definitely keep my eye on the O.L.D. releases! Good to see the racial diversity too - which is to say that I'm glad they're not just taller or shorter versions of Anglo-Saxons.

That's one of the art direction guidelines:

1) Equal male/female
2) Diversity of ethnicity
3) Varied body types; not everybody is a supermodel

- Is the female grand elf wielding a 9mm?

It's a flintlocky type thing. Grand elves use gunpoweder, muskets, and the like. We did a short fiction piece about it:

[video=youtube;FE3BxQQ0rxU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE3BxQQ0rxU[/video]

How do the ogres get that robust, foresty hue to them?

Rolling in moss? Eating their vegetables? I have no idea!

 

[Morrus]

Here's the full lineup in all its glory!

 

[tuxgeo]

- Is the female grand elf wielding a 9mm?

At a guess, something like .44 or .45 caliber (i.e. fraction of an inch).

It looks like a muzzleloader to me; she has a powderhorn at her waist, so she likely loads each cylinder by hand -- not with a "cartridge," but with a cap, some powder, and then a ball -- with each loading to be sealed in place with wax or something like it, so the powder doesn't get wet before firing.

Edit to modify: Not "cap-and-ball." I was wrong: "cap-and-ball" came later.
Morrus said "flintlocky," so it's not a revolver. Pour gunpowder into the muzzle, ram a ball of shot against it, ram a leather patch into the muzzle to hold the ball in place; then load more gunpowder into the "lock" atop the barrel, and close the lock over it. Pulling the trigger strikes the flint against steel, right at the "lock"; this ignites the powder in the "lock," which touches off the powder in the barrel.

 

[Morrus]

An updated version! I like this one more!

 

[barrowwight]

The female dwarf and small folk look much improved to me. So when do you plan on officially releasing,publishing O.L.D.?

 

[Morrus]

The female dwarf and small folk look much improved to me. So when do you plan on officially releasing,publishing O.L.D.?

They're scheduled for Fall 2015. A goodly while yet!

 

[barrowwight]

I'm really looking forward to both.

 

[Morrus]

Some more art has arrived.