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donbaloo
10-10-2006, 12:13 PM
Dudes, how long has the art been up on the burningwheel front page, the pic with all the medieval chaos and the phrase "Fight for what you believe..."? I normally just come in through burningwheel.org but noticed today that www.burningwheel.org has that kickass art. How long's that been there?
khelek
10-10-2006, 12:17 PM
It sure as hell was not there last night.
donbaloo
10-10-2006, 12:23 PM
Good...thought I'd been missing a little piece of sweetness all this time...
donbaloo
10-10-2006, 12:36 PM
Sort of reminds me of the scene from the original AD&D Dungeon Master Screens...minus the ghosts and stuff, but still...it invokes that nostalgia a bit. Sweet.
luke
10-10-2006, 01:31 PM
Art by Jordan Worley. Same dude who did the Lifepaths of Man and the Jihad supplement art. He's sort of my signature artist right now for BW.

Glad you like it, it took us months!

-L
Yagathai
10-10-2006, 02:00 PM
But can you find Waldo?
stormsweeper
10-10-2006, 02:18 PM
Can you find the woman? Or the Norman king?

Also, I guess it's now time to power on the Official Burning Wheel Rumor Mill (tm).
luke
10-10-2006, 02:26 PM
There are two women, an elf and a dwarf. There may or may not be a norman king.

-L
stormsweeper
10-10-2006, 02:40 PM
Looking closer, I believe the dwarf is the one wearing a Norman-style helm.
luke
10-10-2006, 02:43 PM
Oh, and as Mike pointed out, everyone's wearing a different helmet/hat.

-L
stormsweeper
10-10-2006, 02:48 PM
Also, trebuchets rule the school.
luke
10-10-2006, 02:54 PM
"That's no moon..."
Durgil
10-10-2006, 03:16 PM
Looking closer, I believe the dwarf is the one wearing a Norman-style helm.
Nah, he's the one with the full mask over to the lower right and the warhammer. I see the two women, but where's the elf? Is he the one in the lower middle part of the picture with the intricate armour?

Very cool! 8)
Merritt Baggett
10-10-2006, 03:18 PM
I love how the guy between 'retailers' and 'burning empires' has this "Dude, who cut the cheese, that's foul!" expression :twisted:
stormsweeper
10-10-2006, 03:27 PM
Looking closer, I believe the dwarf is the one wearing a Norman-style helm.
Nah, he's the one with the full mask over to the lower right and the warhammer. I see the two women, but where's the elf? Is he the one in the lower middle part of the picture with the intricate armour?

Very cool! 8)

I was reminded of this thing, which I had just been looking at up close a few days ago:

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/137/ps269107wq5.jpg

Although I was incorrect as it's actually Anglo-Saxon.
Durgil
10-10-2006, 03:32 PM
I was reminded of this thing, which I had just been looking at up close a few days ago...
...Although I was incorrect as it's actually Anglo-Saxon.
Oh, I see. My bad; when you wrote Norman-style, I was thinking of the plain, old conical helms or spangenhelms.
stormsweeper
10-10-2006, 03:40 PM
After a couple weeks of immersion (and the ensuing jet lag), all of Britain's history sort of jumbles together. I'm just glad I didn't say it was Beaker or something.
TimP
10-10-2006, 03:58 PM
Wow, that's an awesome illustration. I like the sorcerers sustaining Turn Aside the Blade.
Kublai
10-10-2006, 04:41 PM
You can see the elf's ear sticking out from behind the axe.

I think that the guy in front of the Dwarf is supposed to be Drozdal!
Conlai
10-11-2006, 07:21 AM
Oh... Veeery nice. Although I think the former concept was more elegant (being simple), the illustration is really great.
I miss the "clapping hands" emoticon... well, just imagine me clapping my hands.
ChrisG
10-11-2006, 08:59 AM
Sort of reminds me of the scene from the original AD&D Dungeon Master Screens...minus the ghosts and stuff, but still...it invokes that nostalgia a bit. Sweet.

Oh hell yes. That DM screen is at least 80% of the reason I play rpgs today. As a kid I used to love staring and staring at all the detail and imagining the sounds of battle.

I 8> this art.
ShermheadSamurai
10-11-2006, 10:17 AM
...

I was reminded of this thing, which I had just been looking at up close a few days ago:

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/137/ps269107wq5.jpg

Although I was incorrect as it's actually Anglo-Saxon.

For my fellow nerds, the helmet pictured is from a burial mound at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk. It's early 7th century and very cool. http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/ixbin/goto?id=OBJ3920

The whole of Sutton Hoo is a fascinating place -- a King Rędwald (East Anglia 599 AD to about 625 AD) buried in a ship in a large burial mound. Certainly the stuff of legends, and a great gaming hook.

http://www.suttonhoo.org/ has some more information.
buzz
10-18-2006, 11:26 AM
My eyes went all bulgy when I saw the art. Wow!

Dare one ask if this new art is the herald of a forthcoming product(s)?