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Looks like the nominees have been announced at GTS, thanks to the_monkey_king for the heads-up.

Talisman Studios has two nominations this year, Suzerain for Best Roleplaying Game and Shaintar for Best Roleplaying Game Supplement.

( Congrats to all the nominees! )

Taking a cue from gmskarka...

Illustrating
* Suzerain Illustrated #1, the first in Talisman's new line of illustrated novellas. This one is titled The Legend of Five Shadows, a western-flavored horror story written by Michelle Klein (shellefly), with illustrations by Jason Engle and yours truly.
* A few illustrations for the latest open_design project, can't really say more.
* A five-page Untamed Empires comic with Jason Engle.
* 'In Character' portraits 6-15 for a 15-part serial running daily m-f in the Talisman Studios Suzerain journal (a project spawned from my [daily dose] posts here).

Designing
* Relic (Suzerain's Dark Fantasy RPG setting) world map for playtest groups.
* Relic focus map - the prison city of Isirion (sketch & illo below cut).
* A set of Gamescapes tile maps... a western boomtown.
* 13 new logos/titles for upcoming books.

Art Directing
* Mr Vermilion's Carnival, a set of Gamescapes character cards by Michelle Klein (shellefly) and Alida Saxon (seian).
* A set of fantasy Figure Flats - a Gamescapes/Relic crossover by Frank Walls and tbd colorist.
* Suzerain Hero RPG by Aaron Rosenberg (gryphonrose).

Writing
*Isirion primer for Relic playtesters.

( Relic teasers )

If you haven't taken a chance to see the redesigned Flames Rising site, now would be the perfect time. ;)

Thanks to Monica (darkshiver), for putting it all together.

Miles and I were talking and fancied stretching our creative muscles, so we've decided to start posting new Suzerain content daily, Monday - Friday. Each day we'll post an illustration and a piece of flash fiction linked to it. Together they'll offer a little insight to the Suzerain universe. Watch out for hints on stuff that's yet to come!

This week, we're running a feature we're calling 'In Character', which spotlights a new character each day. We hope you enjoy reading about them as much as we enjoyed creating them.

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Yup, the daily dose idea caught on with the studio, so I'll be posting there daily. I'll try to keep up here, so I can still collaborate with all of you too.

Fun stuff.

Here are two characters from The Best Little Hellhouse in Texas, Talisman's next adventure toolkit for the Suzerain RPG, written by Phil Brucato (satyrblade) and Zach Welhouse (nekobasu).

Jason Engle and I are reviewing portfolios for illustrators, cartographers, and 3d modelers. Drop me a link here, or ping me at ace [at] talisman-studios [dot] com for consideration.

Feel free to cross post this post or forward to interested parties.

Talisman Studios is looking for an experienced layout person and an experienced copy editor to help us develop our range of books for the Suzerain and Shaintar roleplaying games. Everybody at Talisman works as a freelance contractor, and we're offering 10% of earnings from the sales of any product you work on, paid monthly. That way, it's reasonably easy to get a fair amount of pay for a job well done, and the money keeps rolling for as long as the book continues to sell, even after years.

This opportunity is non-exclusive, which means that you can take other work as you find it, as long as you fulfill your obligations to the projects you work on in a timely manner and keep an eye on maintaining the highest of quality. At the end of the day, Talisman is all about high quality books and game accessories.

We're proud of that fact, and will expect you to be, too.

Submissions and questions should be made to the publisher at Talisman Studios, Martin Klimes (martin [at sign] talisman-studios [dot] com).

Feel free to cross post this open call or forward to interested parties.

Neen and I would like to wish all of you and your families a happy holiday season, best wishes, and a great 2008!

Peace.

For the Suzerain roleplaying game, second edition.

Free Suzerain adventure: Dr Ballard, I Presume.

Suzerain Web Teaser

Well, we've launched the new Talisman Studios site, with member blogs, a new store, and forums. If you want to see what we've been up to, stop by for a visit.

Here's a teaser for Suzerain, 2nd Edition, coming out later this month.