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Josh Sawyer Q&A Thread

Humbaba

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Hey. Someone needs to do it.

We need to ask him questions along the lines of 'how do you feel about the bland, awful world you've created?'

Over and fucking over.

It's gotta be fucking soul crushing to live with the knowledge that once you were given the chance to finally create something of your own it ended up being trash. He's been punished enough.

Hey, is he still in the industry? Technically working on making more awful RPGs? Then fuck him.

Good god man, it's just product, he didn't kill your wife.

He wasn't given the chance to create something of his own. He was forced to create something a hair's breadth's distance from a bog-standard fantasy setting that he's been fairly vocal about not liking. Eora is undeniably a failure of a setting (and for some reason Deadfire doubled-down on a lot of those failures), but his current project is almost certainly one for which he has much more creative control. We'll see how that turns out.

But if he hates it so much why did he go through the trouble of making a tabletop RPG out of it?
 

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Hey. Someone needs to do it.

We need to ask him questions along the lines of 'how do you feel about the bland, awful world you've created?'

Over and fucking over.

It's gotta be fucking soul crushing to live with the knowledge that once you were given the chance to finally create something of your own it ended up being trash. He's been punished enough.

Hey, is he still in the industry? Technically working on making more awful RPGs? Then fuck him.

Good god man, it's just product, he didn't kill your wife.

He wasn't given the chance to create something of his own. He was forced to create something a hair's breadth's distance from a bog-standard fantasy setting that he's been fairly vocal about not liking. Eora is undeniably a failure of a setting (and for some reason Deadfire doubled-down on a lot of those failures), but his current project is almost certainly one for which he has much more creative control. We'll see how that turns out.

But if he hates it so much why did he go through the trouble of making a tabletop RPG out of it?

  1. Tabletop RPG - Fergus forced him to allegedly. I think that's the longstanding rumor anyway.
  2. I don't have a wife, I have RPGs. And what he's done is the equivalent of raping a man's wife, killing her, defiling her corpse, and then giving her back and saying she's better than before.
 

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  1. I don't have a wife, I have RPGs. And what he's done is the equivalent of raping a man's wife, killing her, defiling her corpse, and then giving her back and saying she's better than before.

Maybe if you show him compassion he will redeem himself eventually? Can't make a better game if he's been bullied into an heroing.
 

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Guy comes across as straight as an arrow, just a loser in the matters of love. :M
 

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Hi Josh! I heard you mention in an interview that you have/used to have an interest in illustration. What illustrators do you enjoy/are inspired by, and (if it’s not too much to ask) would you mind sharing any drawing you’ve created?

Yeah, growing up it’s all I ever thought I would do. My dad is a bronze sculptor and that got me interested in art in general. When I started playing RPGs, I got more into fantasy art and illustration. The TSR staff artists of the 80s and early 90s – Larry Elmore, Jeff Easley, Fred Fields, Brom, Keith Parkinson, Clyde Caldwell, Robh Ruppel – were my heroes. Also a lot of the regular contributing artists that TSR used for Dragon and Dungeon magazines as well as interior illustrations: Valerie Valusek, Stephen Fabian, Jeff Dee, Jim Holloway, Tom Baxa, Jennell Jaquays – the list goes on.

I think a number of historical illustrators were also very inspirational: Pauline Baynes, Arthur Rackham, J.C. Leyendecker, Alphonse Mucha, Albrecht Dürer, Bernie Wrightson, and Maxfield Parrish, to name a few.

These days I think my tastes are a little broader. I still love fantasy illustrators – Karla Ortiz, Wes Burt, Eduoard Guiton, Emily Cheeseman, and Jana Schirmer are some of my faves – but I also appreciate more traditional illustration from artists like Wes Allsbrook, Christoph Niemann, and Emily Carroll (usually listed as a comic artist but I’ll put her here anyway because she’s great).

I should also say that although most of the 2D artists I’ve worked with are more concept artists than illustrators, I’ve had incredible fortune in working with an almost innumerable list of phenomenally talented people. The artists on my current project, Hannah Kennedy and Soojin Paek, really are extraordinary.

I can’t draw that well anymore – if I ever did. I stopped around my sophomore or junior year of high school for a variety of reasons, so the things I do look pretty amateurish. I only work digitally now, in part because it’s much more forgiving.

This is a portrait I did for my Ars Magica character, a Tremere certamen specialist named Venzi Lüin. I tried doing it in the style of a Banner Saga character and I think it turned out okay.

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From the same campaign, a Cathar perfect, Bertranz de Tolosa.

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This is an incomplete sketch of a Disfavored soldier from Tyranny. To be clear, this was done like way, way before any actual concepting had been done – maybe before it was even called Tyranny. I was trying to capture the exaggerated style of Eduoard Guiton, whose Cadwallon art was really captivating to me.

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