#jack of shadows

[smbhax]

Cover illustration by Bob Pepper

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[vintagerpg]

Revenge is a dish best served over and over and over again. This week on the Vintage RPG Podcast, we’re talking about Roger Zelazny’s 1971 novel Jack of Shadows. Gygax included the novel — a high-concept blend of fantasy and science fiction — in Appendix N, but it isn’t one that gets talked about all that often. Perhaps because it is such an unrelentingly ugly book, featuring a protagonist who embraces his dark side and never lets go, to the sorrow of everyone around him, and even unto the end of the world as he knows it. This one is DARK. And yet, because it is Zelazny, still incredibly readable and entertaining. That dude could write.

[wishnianart]

Illustration for the cover of "Jack of Shadows" by Roger Zelazny

I drew and submitted this project just on my birthday. Yes yes, it's today

Its been a while since i posted here last time. Well i was busy studying in university, a lot of boring things, but sometimes this university boredom end with great portfolio work!

[70sscifiart]

Bob Pepper’s 1972 cover for Roger Zelazny’s Jack of Shadows

[oldschoolfrp]

“Shadowjacks.  Based on a character created by Roger Zelazny, these beings can melt into any shadow - and reappear from any connected shadow.”  (Liz Danforth illus from Monsters! Monsters! 1st edition by Ken St Andre, Metagaming, 1976)  Zelazny’s original Shadowjack was the protagonist of his 1971 novel Jack of Shadows, which was named after author Jack Vance, who also inspired the name of D&D’s Vecna.

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Morningstar by Armand Cabrera

[ritaredacted]

I really like Jack. I mean I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could throw him, which is literally no where since he’d eat me, but he’s real fun

[logarithmicpanda]

Jack of shadows is a great book and more people should read it, just saying 👀