To my great surprise – I didn’t expect it so soon – Green Ronin sent me two copies of the Game of Thrones Rule Book I’ve worked on, A Song of Ice and Fire.
Being credited in video games is pretty cool, but having your name printed on the pages of a heavy, chunky, glossy RPG manual is a completely different thing.

For a start, when I was a kid and was introduced to the colourful, nerdy world of role playing games, the first thing I thought was “wow, when I grow up I totally want to have my drawings published on a RPG manual. It will never happen though”.
There you go, Past Me, it actually happened!

Second, books are a lot easier to brag about with friends. They sit on shelves, and you can discretely wave at them until someone realises there’s a new thing amongst your collection, and you can go – very casually – “Ah yes, that’s just the new Game of Thrones game, I worked on it”.

Also, books smell awesome, especially glossy ones. I won’t go into the books vs. tablet debate, but that’s precisely the reason why I’ll stick with paper as long as I can. Sorry trees, it’s not my fault you smell so good.

Anyway, these are some of the pages.
I was pleased to notice one of my drawings was used as the back cover art. The excellent Cover Art is Michael Komark’s.
The prints are slightly darker than the originals and they lost some mid-tones, next time I must remember to tweak the brightness before submitting.
As for the rest, it all looks so good I’m almost considering going back to Role-playing. I just need to cut my sleeping hours to three-four a day.

by Paolo Puggioni

6 Responses

1. Maranza says:

   June 20, 2012 at 12:32

   Massima stima elevata al cubo.

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2. fuzzy says:

   June 20, 2012 at 13:11

   You’re way cooler than my coolest friend, man.

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3. Vic says:

   June 20, 2012 at 14:22

   che-figata-!

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4. Bruko says:

   June 21, 2012 at 00:14

   woah, this is so huge!
   Well done, you!

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5. Toby Deveson says:

   June 22, 2012 at 09:58

   Brilliant news! Can’t wait to see them.

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6. Paolo Puggioni says:

   June 22, 2012 at 12:31

   Thanks friends!:)

   @Toby You just have to come over you lazy bum.

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