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Amazing-looking artist-created D&D bestiary on Kickstarter
Hm, where to begin?
Oh, please do begin.
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A D&D bestiary from J. Cannibal? I’m in!
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Badass. Bought.
I was dumb, carry on.
Ekphrastic Beasts. When you know you could never top 18th (and earlier) century artists of the fantastic and horrifying:
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Touch Me Not is such a great book! Funny enough, I (the writer behind Ekphrastic Beasts) also have a book out on Fulger Limited—the publisher of Touch Me Not.
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For me, the main attraction of early depictions of fantasy humans/beasts is how they allow me a chance to get into the collective head of those earlier cultures: their fears; what aroused them; what was allowed into print; what was kept secret. Granted, such drawings were (as they are now) the creation of ‘nerds’… special outliers; to that extent they may not reflect their times by and large, but they can still tell you something. And mashups of humans and beasts are – for me – the most uncanny creatures.
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Still one of the coolest grimoires in my collection.
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