Saturday, July 27, 2019

2019 Summer Roundtable Festival has arrived!

Break out the Patio Lanterns, grab a Muskoka Chair, and pour yourself a Margarita, the Summer Roundtable Festival is Here. Get to know 11 great RPG Publishers, find out why they do what they do, and grab your GenCon Primer, all while watching a lazy summer weekend float on by from the dock.

Get started with your festival by going here!


Thursday, July 25, 2019

AC VIII Wallpaper Work in Progress #13: Alice O'Malley AKA The Azure Arc by Clark Huggins

This week the Artist Enclave is happy to announce Clark Huggins as a new recruit to this year's madness! Welcome to the roster, Clark!

This Chesley nominated illustrator has a rich history of strong illustrations that have made him a go-to in the industry. With a body of work that stretches often into storyboarding, Clark comes to us with a skillset that allows him to tell very nuanced stories and as such is perfectly poised to illustrate the sort of memorable characters that AetherCon loves to bring to its convention audience. This year Clark has opted to illustrate Alice O'Malley AKA The Azure Arc for us! We sure can't wait to share the finished piece, but until then, here's a sneak peek at an early stage! Stay tuned, because the clock is ticking down to some finished illustrations from this year's amazing Enclave!


Monday, July 22, 2019

10 Days to GM REG!

Rev up your GM screens! Fire up your Imaginationators! GM Registration for AetherCon is just around the corner!




Thursday, July 18, 2019

AC VIII Wallpaper Work in Progress #12: Jamburdeena 'Burdy' Mollermoggles by Bruno Balixa

The Artist Enclave is happy to say that we're welcoming back Bruno Balixa to our roster of artists for another year of illustrative goodness!

Bruno has a way of telling stories with his work that tends to make other artists swoon, and we can certainly see why he has become an in demand artist. Using beautifully crafted compositions for his images, he regularly gives viewers an illustration that can speak with great volume. Jamburdeena 'Burdy' Mollermoggles will be Bruno's 4th illustration with us and it looks to be just as interesting as we've come to expect. We hope you go hang out at his portfolio for a bit, and as always we hope you look forward to the second half of our summer as we begin showing the final versions of these early artist drafts. You won't want to miss it.


Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Summer Roundtable Series Week#11: Modiphius Entertainment

We finish off our Summer Roundtable Series this year with SRS Week#11! Join us here today at at 1:30 PM New York/10:30 AM LA/6:30 PM UK/3:30 AM Wed Sydney when Sam Webb, Nathan Dowdell, and Virginia Page of Modiphius Entertainment talk about their most inspirational geographic location, their favourite Monty Python bit, and their RPG pet of choice with Richard Coates of Shiny Games.

Remember we release all of these podcasts on July/27 at the Summer Roundtable Festival!


Thursday, July 11, 2019

AC VIII Wallpaper Work in Progress #11: Jome Mardo Manks by Quico Vicens-Picatto

As our summer goes on, we get just a few more weeks to discuss upcoming artwork! Here at AetherCon we've got even more new artists to announce, and that's pretty exciting. This week we really want to introduce you to Quico Vicens-Picatto.

With this being Quico's first year with us, it will be fun to see what he can explore with his wallpaper – but judging by his existing body of work it won't disappoint. His work displays a lovely classic feel, full of influences from some of our industry greats, but with a great favoring of darker fantasy and horror and things that go bump in the night. We hope you join us later on in the summer when we can unveil “Jome Mardo Manks”, Quico's contribution to this summer's Enclave Wallpapers! Exciting! In the meantime go check out his work and show it some love! And of course come back next week for more artist announcements!


Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Summer Roundtable Series Week#10: Kotodama Heavy Industries

It's SRS Week#10! Join us here today at at 8:00 PM New York/5:00 PM LA/1:00 AM UK/10:00 AM Wed Sydney when Andy Kitkowski and Matt Sanchez of Kotodama Heavy Industries talk about why each chose Japan, what Japanese media most influenced them in their game design, and their funniest 'lost in translation' moment of international RPGing  with Mike Kafes of Mythwits.