TLG welcomes Darlene (TLG PR)

[Troll Lord]

TROLL LORD GAMES PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Stephen Chenault
Troll Lord Games
Phone: (501) 680-6597
Email: troll@trolllord.com
Website: www.trolllord.com

LITTLE ROCK, AR – October 15, 2004 – Troll Lord Games Welcome Darlene to the Team

Steve Chenault of Troll Lord Games is pleased to announce that after a twenty-year absence, Darlene (formerly, Darlene Pekul) has returned to her roots doing RPG illustration, cartography and design work. Darlene’s first project reunites her with Gary Gygax. For Troll Lord Games, she is creating the maps and doing the design work for Castle Zagyg and Hall of Many Panes. The first of eight volumes will be published in the fall.

Darlene is renowned for her Dungeons & Dragons artwork during TSR's infancy, including the classic Greyhawk Map which Gary Gygax still believes is the best gaming map created for this genre. Much of Darlene's work has also been published by The Dragon magazine in its early years.

As an accomplished typographer with a Master’s Degree in Design, Darlene is also creating a typeface for the current publishers of The Dragon Magazine© that builds upon the lettering work she did for the Greyhawk Map. These fonts will eventually

Darlene has designed and illustrated several books, including: "A Monument to the End of Time," (1999) and "The Prophet Code" (2001) both published by Aethyrea Books. Her most recent book illustration work includes goddess images for "The Path of the Priestess" published by Inner Traditions in 2003. Darlene currently lives in the haunted Uwharrie Mountains of North Carolina with her husband, author and historian, Vincent Bridges and their four cats.

 

[Treebore]

The original Greyhawk maps are still some of my favorites. i hope you guys print the new ones on as heavy a paper as the old maps were on.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

The original Greyhawk maps are still some of my favorites.

I'll second that! The original maps have hung on so many of my walls that I had to reinforce the corners with tape they had so many hole in them.

Good to see Darlene coming back, that map teaser alone is enough to make me want these books.

 

[Treebore]

Yeah, my map started tearing along the creases and getting pretty ripped around the edges. So I did something blasphemous, I cut my map up into 8x11 sized pieces and then laminated them. Now I lay down the pieces kind of like a puzzle, and just the areas I need instead of the whole thing. Plus I can use grease pencil or overhead markers to track overland movement.

 

[mythusmage]

Thanks for the reminder.

Back when the first version of the Greyhawk setting came out I noticed that the look of the maps owed a lot to the maps produced for the old SPI's wargames. That being the work of one Redmond Simonson, a graphics designer and sometime cartographer. Since most every wargame publisher except Avalon Hill was doing much the same thing, Darlene was in very good company.

 

[Lizard]

Wow!
Talk about old-school!
I am impressed. Didn't TLG also get Erol Otus into the act?

 

[Troll Lord]

I have my old Greyhawk maps laminated and hanging in our game room. So things have seem some kind of use. We have at least four or five sets of them too as everyone bought that setting back in the day.

Erol Otus has done a cover for us, it is slated as one of the early next year C&C modules.

Thanks for all the good words!

Steve