Bryan H. Rombough

Quake LAN Party , Leeds UK (1999)

We’re back from Gencon and had a blast! Our live episode features updates on the future of RPPR, discussions of Gencon 2026, and a lively game of AD&D Trivia. I found a copy of this infamous trivia game and challenged the RPPR cast to see which team is the best at AD&D trivia. For some weird reason though, every answer on the cards was wrong, so we had to ask the audience which answer was right.…

Similar to Simon Stålenhag and the Tales from the Loop RPG, the art of Johan Egerkrans forms the basis for Free League’s RPG Vaesen. Specifically his collection of the same name (2017), which focuses on creatures from Scandanavian folklore. 

If I were to make an illustrator spectrum, I’d plot Egerkrans somewhere between Tony DiTerlizzi and Mike Mignola. He shares the former’s ability to make his subjects appear both whimsical and dangerous simultaneously. You can see something of Mignola when Egerkrans’ shifts into stylized minimalism. I love his palette (so much golden light, as though this fairy world exists in a perpetual autumn sunset) and his willingness to forgo detail for drama (those slivers of red light in the illustration of the drake are straight delicious). All the art is beguiling, and unified by a sort of light and airy Daniel Cohen-style field guide approach to the subject. Catnip for me, basically.