Two Spot Illos Commissioned For Old School Essentials. On The Left, Strangleweed Drags A Hapless Elf

Space Whales being bugged by Space Dolphins in their pursuit ships.

Cthulhu, the bloated 6-eyed version based on Lovecraft's sketch.

Spot illo for the Casting The Runes rpg, which is inspired by the writing of M. R. James. The artwork was an attempt to mimic the style of illustrations from Edwardian period. This particular illo depicts the creature described in Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book.

'There was black and tattered drapery about it; the coarse hair covered it as in the drawing. The lower jaw was thin—what can I call it?—shallow, like a beast’s; teeth showed behind the black lips; there was no nose; the eyes, of a fiery yellow, against which the pupils showed black and intense, and the exulting hate and thirst to destroy life which shone there, were the most horrifying features in the whole vision. There was intelligence of a kind in them—intelligence beyond that of a beast, below that of a man.'

'Diggers' - small nocturnal burrowing creatures native to the planet Jarran. A cross between a mole rat, a snapping turtle and a glow worm, the pits on their foreheads are bio-luminescent. They're used for signalling to each other, for reasons not yet known.

A Beetle Stag. This is a D&D creature that I created for my blog and you can read about it here.

Pinguino!

I updated my blog today with a new monster: the Tanglemouth. This one was actually inspired by something from another rpg - namely, the tangler grenade from Star Frontiers.

As always, this critter is statted and described in the style of the 1E AD&D Monster Manual and you can read about it here.

A Stone Spitter. Spot illo for a post on my RPG-related blog. Creature stats and a description can be read here.

A Hiver messing around with some tech. Spot illo for the Star Frontiers zine Frontier Explorer (which occasionally featured Traveller rpg material).

An Ironbeak, a D&D creature that I created for my blog. You can read about it here.