UPDATED: Sláine - the role-playing game

I've updated my original post about the Sláine roleplaying game...all new material is in red 

I wasn't aware that there was such a thing as a Sláine role-playing game until very recently. Here's what I've been able to discover so far...

Sláine the roleplaying game - Mongoose publishing

cover art by Greg Staples

Sláine the roleplaying game - Mongoose publishing - MGP8002 - Tir nan Og

cover art by Paolo Parente (from prog 1091)

Sláine the roleplaying game - Mongoose publishing - MGP8003 - part 1 of the epic Horned Lord and Moon Sow campaign

cover art by Dermot Power

Sláine the roleplaying game - Mongoose publishing - MGP8004 - The Fir Domain

cover art by Jason Brashill (from prog 1024)

Sláine the roleplaying game - Mongoose publishing - MGP8005 - part 2 of the epic Horned Lord and Moon Sow campaign

cover by Dermot Power

Sláine the roleplaying game - Mongoose publishing - MGP8006 - The Sessair

cover artist is Mark Gibbons

Sláine the roleplaying game - Mongoose publishing - MGP8007 - part 3 of the epic Horned Lord and Moon Sow campaign

cover art by Paolo Parente

Sláine the roleplaying game - Mongoose publishing - MGP8008 - part 4 of the epic Horned Lord and Moon Sow campaign

cover art by Clint Langley (from prog 998)

Sláine the roleplaying game - Mongoose publishing - MGP8009 - The Falians

cover artist is Julian Gibson

Sláine the roleplaying game - Mongoose publishing - MGP8010 - The Finians

cover by Simon Bisley

Sláine the roleplaying game - Mongoose publishing - MGP8142 -

reissue for use with the Runequest rulebook instead of the D&D original

cover art by Clint Langley

All other reference to Pat Mills on the blog can be found here

All other reference to Glenn Fabry on the blog can be found here

All other reference to Sláine on the blog can be found here

All other reference to Clint Langley on the blog can be found here

All other reference to roleplaying on the blog can be found here

Sláine - the role-playing game

I wasn't aware that there was such a thing as a Sláine role-playing game until very recently. Here's what I've been able to discover so far...

Sláine the roleplaying game - Mongoose publishing

Sláine the roleplaying game - Mongoose publishing - MGP8002 - Tir nan Og

Sláine the roleplaying game - Mongoose publishing - MGP8003 - part 1 of the epic Horned Lord and Moon Sow campaign

cover art by Dermot Power

Sláine the roleplaying game - Mongoose publishing - MGP8004 - The Fir Domain

Sláine the roleplaying game - Mongoose publishing - MGP8005 - part 2 of the epic Horned Lord and Moon Sow campaign

cover by Dermot Power

Sláine the roleplaying game - Mongoose publishing - MGP8006 - The Sessair

Sláine the roleplaying game - Mongoose publishing - MGP8007 - part 3 of the epic Horned Lord and Moon Sow campaign

Sláine the roleplaying game - Mongoose publishing - MGP8008 - part 4 of the epic Horned Lord and Moon Sow campaign

cover by Clint Langley

All other reference to Pat Mills on the blog can be found here

All other reference to Glenn Fabry on the blog can be found here

All other reference to Sláine on the blog can be found here

All other reference to Clint Langley on the blog can be found here

All other reference to roleplaying on the blog can be found here

Roleplaying comics (12) - Thrud issue 5

From January 2007 comes the 5th and final issue of Thrud.


Subtitled 'Bungle in the jungle' this issues sees our hero travel deep into the jungle to battle a sun god (Hotlwotlbotl, geddit, geddit?), lizard men, a man who is part Jaguar plus all the usual assorted jungle creatures.


Front and rear covers are shown below.

Roleplaying comics (15) - Derek the troll

Sticking with the theme of reprints from White Dwarf, now is probably a good opportunity to give an honourable mentioned to the just-published 'Derek the troll' comic by Lew Stringer.


There are more details here
http://lewstringercomics.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/derek-troll-launches-this-saturday.html


but basically Derek first appeared in Warlock magazine and then White Dwarf.


I've just got my copy of 'Derek' and can attest to the high production values of this new reprint from Lew. More please!

 Derek the troll comic by Lew Stringer

Derek the Troll postcard

Roleplaying comics (14) - Thrud bits and bobs 2

Two final postcards from Carl Critchlow advertising his self-published Thrud comics.

Roleplaying comics (13) - Thrud bits and bobs

ok, so to (very nearly) finish up with Thrud we'll have a quick look at some Thrud 'extras' that are out there.


The first is the volume that Titan books published in September 2013 (see below)

This reprints all 5 of Carl's comics plus you also get:

• Thrud shorts - reprints from 'Valkyrie Quarterly' role playing game magazine
• some White Dwarf reprints
• a coloured Bloodbowl strip from The Citadel Journal
• 2 pages of Thrud sketches from Carl's sketchbook

Here are 3 promotional postcards that Carl issued

Last Thrud post is tomorrow, sob!

Roleplaying comics (11) - Thrud issue 4

From June 2005 comes Thrud issue 4, this story is called 'Thrud Rex' and sees our pea-brained hero temporarily become king of the fabled city of 'Shazza-n-Gazza', since time immemorial a shimmering beacon of high culture in an otherwise savage landscape. Needless to say Thrud's reign is short, brutal and destructive.


Front and back cover art are shown below.

Roleplaying comics (10) - Thrud issue 3

Thrud issue 3 from June 2004, front over and a typical page of interior art mixing Carl Critchlow's incredible detail with slapstick humour.

The story is entitled 'Lava Louts' and sees Thrud do battle with both the dreaded 'Black Currant' (seen falling off his horse below) and a lava god. Chaos, and beer, ensure. A fantastic read.

Roleplaying comics (9) - more Thrud

Back in the early 2000's Carl Critchlow revived his barbarian hero for a series of comics, eventually running to 5 issues.


This is issue one from June 2002 and is called 'Carborundum Capers' and features some of Carl's most excellent puns - the magician To-Me Ku-Pa anyone?


Front cover

Back cover

This is issue 2 from January 2003, the story is called "Ice 'n' a Slice" and features beer, woolly mammoths, ice pixies and Luddi-Ell (the great ice wyrm).

Front cover

Interior art

Roleplaying comics (8) - Thrud the barbarian graffik novel

Bit of a change of direction here as we look at comics that came from a roleplaying background but which weren't actually roleplaying comics themselves. Make sense?


That leads us to the one, and only, Thrud the Barbarian, Carl Critchlow's hilarious tale of a pin-headed, muscle-bound oaf and the (mis-)adventures he gets up to. I always though this was quite the best thing about White Dwarf magazine. This is 48 pages of Thrud lunacy (reprinted from White Dwarf) and is well worth seeking out.

More Thrud to come!




Carl's website is here


http://www.carlcritchlow.com/

Roleplaying comics (7) - Legend maker

So here's an oddity, it's called 'Legend Maker' and this is the first issue. 24 pages in full colour.

It's sub-titled the first role-play adventure game comic which, as we've just looked at Diceman, isn't quite true. The artwork is functional at best.

Luckily for us there's someone out there who loves this comic, all 4 issues of it (plus 8 issues of the associated 'mini adventure comic').

http://legendmakerarchive.blogspot.co.uk/



Front cover

 

Back cover

Interior art  



Roleplaying comics (6) - You are Maggie Thatcher

Humorously subtitled a dole-playing game this Hunt Emerson and Pat Mills 86 page take on the politics of the mid-1980s (book published in October 1987). Hunt's trademark art makes this a fantastic book even without the added benefit of a Pat Mills game to play your way through. Recommended. 

Book is designed by Rian Hughes.

The front and end-papers would make a frankly terrifying wallpaper for your computer.

The creators (as drawn by Hunt Emerson) 

Roleplaying comics (5) - 2000AD's Diceman issue 5

Issue 5 cover by Hunt Emerson

'Space Zombies' art by Mike Collins, concept Pat Mills, story/game by Simon Geller and lettering by Richard Starkings

Art by Hunt Emerson, game by Pat Mills

'You are Dice man in murder one' - art by Steve Dillon, story/game by Pat Mills and lettering by Tom Frame

and that was the end of the series, there were however, as we shall see, more roelplaying comics yet to come.

Roleplaying comics (4) - 2000AD's Diceman issue 4

Cover by Brendan McCarthy

Only two games in this one, first up is 'Dice man in bitter streets' drawn by Steve Dillon, story/game by Pat Mills and lettering by Tom Frame

Secoon story is 'Slaine in the ring of Danu', pencilled by Mike Collins, art by Mark Farmer, story/game by Pat Mills, lettering by Mark King

this was reprinted in the Slaine gaming book at the end of the year.