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Hawkins
Great Reader
USA
2131 Posts |
 Posted - 05 Mar 2012 : 18:24:23
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4 years to the day after we lost Gary Gygax, we lost another pillar of geekdom. Possibly the biggest influence on Star Wars other than George Lucas himself.
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Errant d20 Designer - My Blog (last updated January 06, 2016)
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back. --Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
"Mmm, not the darkness," Myrin murmured. "Don't cast it there." --Erik Scott de Bie, Shadowbane
* My character sheets (PFRPG, 3.5, and AE versions; not viewable in Internet Explorer)
* Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Reference Document (PFRPG OGL Rules)
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My game design work:
* Heroes of the Jade Oath (PFRPG, conversion; Rite Publishing)
* Compendium Arcanum Volume 1: Cantrips & Orisons (PFRPG, designer; d20pfsrd.com Publishing)
* Compendium Arcanum Volume 2: 1st-Level Spells (PFRPG, designer; d20pfsrd.com Publishing)
* Martial Arts Guidebook (forthcoming) (PFRPG, designer; Rite Publishing)
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Mournblade
Master of Realmslore
USA
1287 Posts |
Posted - 05 Mar 2012 : 23:09:17
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I was just looking for a place to post this. He was 82. That means he was 47 when he was working on Star Wars or thereabouts.
Godspeed Ralph McQuarrie. And Thank you!
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 06 Mar 2012 : 01:05:27
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This is sad news indeed.
I've so many of McQuarrie's original STAR WARS imagery plastering both my home and office walls. And I've made regular use of his early C-3PO designs for some of my STAR FRONTIERS campaigns.
There'll be a sense of something missing now, when I look upon those images again. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36863 Posts |
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Mournblade
Master of Realmslore
USA
1287 Posts |
Posted - 06 Mar 2012 : 19:44:14
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Originally posted by The Sage
This is sad news indeed.
I've so many of McQuarrie's original STAR WARS imagery plastering both my home and office walls. And I've made regular use of his early C-3PO designs for some of my STAR FRONTIERS campaigns.
There'll be a sense of something missing now, when I look upon those images again.
I am using that same c3po image for my mish mash mass effect alternity game. I love it.
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 07 Mar 2012 : 01:46:16
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Originally posted by Mournblade
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Originally posted by The Sage
This is sad news indeed.
I've so many of McQuarrie's original STAR WARS imagery plastering both my home and office walls. And I've made regular use of his early C-3PO designs for some of my STAR FRONTIERS campaigns.
There'll be a sense of something missing now, when I look upon those images again.
I am using that same c3po image for my mish mash mass effect alternity game. I love it.
Cool idea!
I've also been tempted to use the same imagery for the soulmechs of DRAGONSTAR, but I've yet to find any players willing to game in that setting. |
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"So Saith Ed" -- the collected Candlekeep replies of Ed Greenwood
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36863 Posts |
Posted - 07 Mar 2012 : 04:38:55
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Originally posted by The Sage
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Originally posted by Mournblade
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Originally posted by The Sage
This is sad news indeed.
I've so many of McQuarrie's original STAR WARS imagery plastering both my home and office walls. And I've made regular use of his early C-3PO designs for some of my STAR FRONTIERS campaigns.
There'll be a sense of something missing now, when I look upon those images again.
I am using that same c3po image for my mish mash mass effect alternity game. I love it.
Cool idea!
I've also been tempted to use the same imagery for the soulmechs of DRAGONSTAR, but I've yet to find any players willing to game in that setting.
I'd be willing, but there's the small matter of being on the other side of the world... You need to move.  |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36863 Posts |
Posted - 07 Mar 2012 : 10:55:51
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Originally posted by The Sage
Leave the SageCave...
Are you mad!?!?! 
Build a new one, here in Florida! You'd be able to get all the releases a lot more quickly, getting to GenCon would be more of a possibility, and Florida is a heck of a lot closer to the Lady K's family than Down Under is... |
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Bakra
Senior Scribe
628 Posts |
Posted - 07 Mar 2012 : 14:41:38
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
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Originally posted by The Sage
Leave the SageCave...
Are you mad!?!?!
Build a new one, here in Florida! You'd be able to get all the releases a lot more quickly, getting to GenCon would be more of a possibility, and Florida is a heck of a lot closer to the Lady K's family than Down Under is...
If you ignore the hurricanes, pythons, Tampa Bay Rays and Disney World fanatics it would be a great place to live. Now Texas would be a better place for you. Heat, dust, water shortages, alligators,guns, feral boars and a crazy governor ....nevermind. I heard Kentucky is a good place to build caves. |
I hope Candlekeep continues to be the friendly forum of fellow Realms-lovers that it has always been, as we all go through this together. If you don’t want to move to the “new” Realms, that doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with either you or the “old” Realms. Goodness knows Candlekeep, and the hearts of its scribes, are both big enough to accommodate both. If we want them to be.
(Strikes dramatic pose, raises sword to gleam in the sunset, and hopes breeches won’t fall down.)
Enough for now. The Realms lives! I have spoken! Ale and light wines half price, served by a smiling Storm Silverhand fetchingly clad in thigh-high boots and naught else! Ahem . .
So saith Ed. <snip>
love to all,
THO
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36863 Posts |
Posted - 07 Mar 2012 : 19:14:19
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Originally posted by Bakra
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
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Originally posted by The Sage
Leave the SageCave...
Are you mad!?!?!
Build a new one, here in Florida! You'd be able to get all the releases a lot more quickly, getting to GenCon would be more of a possibility, and Florida is a heck of a lot closer to the Lady K's family than Down Under is...
If you ignore the hurricanes, pythons, Tampa Bay Rays and Disney World fanatics it would be a great place to live. Now Texas would be a better place for you. Heat, dust, water shortages, alligators,guns, feral boars and a crazy governor ....nevermind. I heard Kentucky is a good place to build caves.
Actually, this particular part of Florida is rarely hit by hurricanes -- that's part of why Cape Canaveral was chosen for NASA's location. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 08 Mar 2012 : 01:27:52
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
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Originally posted by The Sage
Leave the SageCave...
Are you mad!?!?!
Build a new one, here in Florida! You'd be able to get all the releases a lot more quickly, getting to GenCon would be more of a possibility, and Florida is a heck of a lot closer to the Lady K's family than Down Under is...
That's true. Florida is a great deal closer to Brazil, and it would make possible the likelihood of more frequent jaunts to that South American locale.
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Jakk
Great Reader
Canada
2165 Posts |
Posted - 27 Mar 2012 : 00:44:24
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Excellent... now I have "Going to Brazil" by Motörhead stuck in my head, which is far, FAR better than the muzak from work that was jammed in there before... my boss's boss is a Justin Bieber fan, and let's just say that I'm not. Oh, and thank you. 
Edit: Back on topic: Sad news, I agree; I have a book of his concept art that was published some time ago.
Wooly: What's this about a concept-art Stormtrooper action figure?  |
Playing in the Realms since the Old Grey Box (1987)... and *still* having fun with material published before 2008, despite the NDA'd lore.
If it's comparable in power with non-magical abilities, it's not magic. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Ralph McQuarrie dead at 82 =(
