The Excellent Travelling Volume #4 - On Sale Now!

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Art Cards

The Clan of Flowering Life, Art Card #03

Art by Zhu Bajie

Art Card #02

Art by Jeff Dee

Some time ago - back in 2010 - I decided to try some promotional material. For U-Con 2010 I had a promotional postcard (or art card, if you prefer) made up with some art by Paul Ballard. On the reverse was a blurb and a code that gave a 10% discount on any purchase. IIRC, nobody actually redeemed the card. So much for promotions!

Art Card #01

Art of Paul Ballard

But I decided to persevere, mainly because I just like that sort of thing, and had another one done with art by Jeff Dee. This I had intended to include with parcels and was sized to fit my common package size. A few went out but I discovered there were issues with packaging the figures and the card so neither was damaged by shipping. It turned out the cards just got in the way.So I stopped doing that.

Then James Maliszewski started publishing his little fanzine for the Empire of the Petal Throne RPG: "The Excellent Traveling Journal". After receiving my copy I realized that the art card fit inside the center of the booklet. I had fifty copies left and I arranged with James to get them inserted into the first fifty copies of the fanzine ordered.

The plan is to include similar cards in each issue, if I can manage it and for as long as James is willing. Card #03 is pictured at the top. That card is away at the printers now and Zhu is already working on the next one. :-)

Dyson Does it Digitally...

There is a new Character Sheet for "Empire of the Petal Throne" players available over at Dyson's Dodecahedron.  You can see it pictured in the background above (picture from his blog, used w/o permission, but hopefully he won't mind!) Also shown are the original rules for "Empire of the Petal Throne" and two issues of a new publication by James Maliszewski, of Grognardia fame: "The Excellent Traveling Volume". The first issue (now sold out) was rather nice. I'm still waiting on my copy of the second issue. Make sure to order yours soon - he only prints about 200 copies and they go fast!

Dyson's Character Sheet is a PDF download and, as he says, it could be "prettied up". Hopefully, if there is enough interest, he will do just that! :-)