Fur and Brimstone - Concept Art

It's been a while, and I really haven't done much with the FnB concept due to RL issues that come up back in October and have been a constant distraction since, but this project is still on my mind.

I figured I'd make a couple posts this weekend that help give an idea of what's been going on.  Early on I felt that it would be really helpful if I had something visual to keep me focused on the project.  I follow a number of awesome artists online, and every once in a while I'll see them post that they are accepting commission work.

So I set out looking to see if I could (One) find any artwork that felt like it was related, and (Two) come up with an idea of what I would like to have commissioned.

Here is one of the few pieces I found that clicked with me:

A Dream of the Beast, by Jetera

I also tracked down some pose refence sheets and some backgrounds to build a sketch of what I wanted to eventually submit for for a commission work:

Imagine one figure being a winged demon and the other a mutant animal warrior, and the background a darker cityscape.

So that's something I'm hoping to get done sometime this coming year.

Fur and Brimstone

So, one of the things I've been working on - as time and inspiration permit - has been "Savaging" Palladium's TMNTaOS/AtB, or at least creating something that was a respectful tip of the hat to Erick Wujcik and Kevis Siembieda's games.  The main difficulty has been paying homage to the BIO-E system of building/customizing your "Mutant Animal", arguably the heart of the game.  I'm currently on version two of the system, which looks promising.

The second was building it around a Plot Point setting instead of having it be a sandbox for playing mutant animals.  I also wanted to keep it in modern times, as opposed to going straight to post-apocalyptic AtB.  Initially I figured on going with the escaped animals trope a-la "The Plague Dogs", or maybe working for a PMC (Private Military Contractor) tentatively titled, "Dogs of War".  Neither of these really worked for me.

That's where this articles title come in, "Fur and Brimstone".  A couple nights ago the image of a mutant alley cat fighting a winged demon popped into my head.  Then I remembered that animals are supposed to be sensitive to the paranormal, and I figured that I had a pretty good idea for a campaign: Supernatural beings are infiltrating the world, the human hunters have been nearly wiped out, and humanities last chance rests on a handful of Mutant Animal Demon Hunters. (or something like that)

I want the mutant animal creation system to be able to stand on its own so anyone can play what they want, but I also want there to be some sort of skeleton to support it like the TMNT comics supported the original TMNTaOS RPG.

Once I have more, I'll see about posting it.