So this is an Ad I drew for the comic, the skyscrapper kind.

When Bjorn and I started this, we talked about how Bjorn - though he doesn’t always play one - would probably be an evil wizard in DnD.  A mastermind, and possibly my greatest rival.  We couldn’t pin me down, maybe a druid.

We talked about that at length recently, when we went to a cabin in Vermont for our friend’s bachelor party.  I planned it, it was rad.  But part of it was playing DnD.  I had them roll themselves, and we talked for a long time about why each one of them should be whatever class - I was the archangel that gave them the quest.

The quest was for the groom-to-be and his friends to rescue the bride-to-be.  She had been kidnapped, hours before the wedding, by an evil sorceress known as the Queen of Blades.

Aside: The Queen was actually one of my ancient enemies (I had never revealed to my friends my true form) and I couldn’t destroy her so I trapped her soul in a warforged head thousands of years ago.  But she built a body and conquered Kestria, one of the Seven Floating Cities of Eltorr.  She was a vain woman and wanted her Warforged body to be beautiful, until she could capture a woman about to be wed and essentailly steal her body.

Our heroes one, and the archangel sent them back through space and time just before the ceremony.

Long story short, DnD has such a huge impact on my art, and also my desire to make it, that I had to throw it into the Ad I made for the strip.

Paper and pencil, must mean I’m drawing a DnD Character again! So I’m reading this book from the Black Library’s Horus Heresy Series Angel Space Marines.  The book is called Decent of Angels.  Very cool, if you like 40K.  Anyway, I borrowed a lot of the feel for my character from the main character in the book, both of these guys are named Zahariel, for example. And their both knights.   This quest is going to be cool though.  My buddy Jiles Corey (guy next to me on the left) is DM’ing.  The world is really cool.  It’s nautically themed, achepelligo style world, lots of islands and boats.  Magic is rare.  And there are no humans (and no half-elves as a result).  You may not the little point on the ear of Zahariel.  He’s an elf. An elf fighter! Str 20 baby! (and wisdom 15, whaaat?)  We didn’t alter anything from the actual rules, but Jiles and I talked about how, due to the lack of humans, elves are a little more beefy in this world.  Everyone else is wee folk (because orcs/half-orcs are ferral piratey types and not really part of society). I’m really excited for this character.  He’s not your typical elf in any way.  I’m also pumped to be the party’s defender.  Haven’t done that ever in 4E.  In fact, I think I’ve played almost exclusively controllers.  Except for that ranger.   Anyway, I’m so excited.  I just hope he doesn’t fall off the boat.  That scalemail looks heavy.
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Paper and pencil, must mean I’m drawing a DnD Character again!

So I’m reading this book from the Black Library’s Horus Heresy Series Angel Space Marines.  The book is called Decent of Angels.  Very cool, if you like 40K.  Anyway, I borrowed a lot of the feel for my character from the main character in the book, both of these guys are named Zahariel, for example.


And their both knights.  


This quest is going to be cool though.  My buddy Jiles Corey (guy next to me on the left) is DM’ing.  The world is really cool.  It’s nautically themed, achepelligo style world, lots of islands and boats.  Magic is rare.  And there are no humans (and no half-elves as a result).  You may not the little point on the ear of Zahariel.  He’s an elf.

An elf fighter! Str 20 baby! (and wisdom 15, whaaat?)  We didn’t alter anything from the actual rules, but Jiles and I talked about how, due to the lack of humans, elves are a little more beefy in this world.  Everyone else is wee folk (because orcs/half-orcs are ferral piratey types and not really part of society).

I’m really excited for this character.  He’s not your typical elf in any way.  I’m also pumped to be the party’s defender.  Haven’t done that ever in 4E.  In fact, I think I’ve played almost exclusively controllers.  Except for that ranger.  

Anyway, I’m so excited.  I just hope he doesn’t fall off the boat.  That scalemail looks heavy.

Hey guys.  Been a crazy couple weeks so I’ve been neglecting el Tumbs.  But fear not, I’ve got some scans and stuff coming your way.  In the mean time, check this out. redid that drawing from my work notebook in Photoshop.  I’m thinking of slapping some text on it and printing it on a postcard sized paper and leaving them at the local comic shops.  Around here, local is good.
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Hey guys.  Been a crazy couple weeks so I’ve been neglecting el Tumbs.  But fear not, I’ve got some scans and stuff coming your way.  In the mean time, check this out.

redid that drawing from my work notebook in Photoshop.  I’m thinking of slapping some text on it and printing it on a postcard sized paper and leaving them at the local comic shops.  Around here, local is good.

Source: unnatural20comic.com

I’m working on a campaign for Pathfinder, and I love DMing.  I drew this for fun in my work notebook (oops) to test out inking with a fun little picture.  It was done with a ballpoint pen, nothing fancy. I think it came out really well actually, I think I’ll make a digital rendition of it, so keep your eyes peeled.
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I’m working on a campaign for Pathfinder, and I love DMing.  I drew this for fun in my work notebook (oops) to test out inking with a fun little picture.  It was done with a ballpoint pen, nothing fancy.

I think it came out really well actually, I think I’ll make a digital rendition of it, so keep your eyes peeled.

Source: unnatural20comic.com

This is a sketch page I drew up for the comic, We the Wizards.  Bjorn and I roll with these two guys, the one on the right is actually featured in Bachelorious Malleus Part Two.  He is the Warmaster, and may actually be charged with getting Bjorn and myself into table top gaming way back in the Dizzay. Needless to say, the Warmaster didn’t get a good representation in Bach, so I wanted to redo him and do Cormander right to begin with.  They actually came out better here than in the strip (I think).  I also forgot the scruff for WM, but can’t change that now.  I’ll get the chance to do them more justice in the future, I’m sure. You’ll note that the Warmaster is sleeping.  That happens from time to time - sometimes we drink more beer than we roll dice.  I was going to stick with that, but after reviewing the script Bjorn had written up for it, I realized the Warmaster had a line, so he had to be awake. I really need to roll soon, It’s starting to hurt.
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This is a sketch page I drew up for the comic, We the Wizards.  Bjorn and I roll with these two guys, the one on the right is actually featured in Bachelorious Malleus Part Two.  He is the Warmaster, and may actually be charged with getting Bjorn and myself into table top gaming way back in the Dizzay.

Needless to say, the Warmaster didn’t get a good representation in Bach, so I wanted to redo him and do Cormander right to begin with.  They actually came out better here than in the strip (I think).  I also forgot the scruff for WM, but can’t change that now.  I’ll get the chance to do them more justice in the future, I’m sure.

You’ll note that the Warmaster is sleeping.  That happens from time to time - sometimes we drink more beer than we roll dice.  I was going to stick with that, but after reviewing the script Bjorn had written up for it, I realized the Warmaster had a line, so he had to be awake.

I really need to roll soon, It’s starting to hurt.

Source: unnatural20comic.com