#jes goodwin

[trve-grimdark]

Chaos concept art (Jes Goodwin)

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Eldar Craftworld by Jes Goodwin

[oldschoolfrp]

CDM2: The Lost Shrine of Kasar-Khan, set 2 in the Complete Dungeon Master series, sequel to The Halls of the Dwarven King. Jez Goodwin -- aka Jeremy, aka Jes -- provided the box art for this fantasy adventure by Simon Forrest, with stats for D&D and Runequest, bundled with floorplans by Endless Plans, many handouts, and a DM screen (Integrated Games, 1985)

[alphamecha-mkii]

Index Astartes: Apocrpha - Dreadnought Design Sketches by Jes Goodwin and Furioso Dreadnought by Richard Wright

[that-figures]

Abaddon the Despoiler. 2001 Citadel FineCast miniature with original packaging. Sculpt by Jes Goodwin.

[wh40kgallery]

Eldar

by Jes Goodwin

[whitefriartuck]

Holy fucking shit I just found a copy of The Gothic and the Eldritch: The Collected Sketches of Jes Goodwin. I do not remember buying it? They have been too expensive to buy for a decade?! How I do I own this book, how did I forget I owned this book?!

[vintagerpg]

UK4: When a Star Falls (1984) is a great example of that often ambiguous UK style. Here it manifests in a strong graphic design, particularly in the maps, but also in the titles and the page header (which feature quotes and visual coding using cropped illustrations for different sections).

It is also very British in other ways. It’s pretty plot heavy and features lots of Fiend Folio monsters (so many Derro!). It also, as the title implies, has an astronomical impetus, which isn’t uniquely British, but does seem to be a recurring theme in the Old World, with Morrsleib the Chaos Moon raining warpstones down on the countryside.

Oh, and this adventure has the single most unique hook put to paper, I think. The party encounters (and hopefully kills) a memory web, which in its death throes then imprints the memories of its last meal on the characters, via a list of fragmentary details, a collage-like illustration and some important geographic data. This is a real maestro game design moment, handing everything the players need to proceed in a singularly weird way. No one who plays it will ever forget it!

The adventure is basically a series of fetch quests. Get the fallen star (from the derros), bring it to the sages (who are dealing with a coup, the instigator of which has sent a memorable agent out to get the star for himself), who then want to send it to to the svirfneblin (did I spell that right?) in exchange for a book. Both subterranean regions feel a lot like the underdark. The various faction motivations feel rich. The whole thing doesn’t really have a climax (aside of a weird battle with red dragons), but that doesn’t matter, it still manages to feel complete. This is the best UK-module so far.

In no small part because of the art by Jeremy “Jes” Goodwin, who would come to define much Games Workshop’s Warhammer universe in the coming years.