Here is my finished alternate cover for Mike Evans'
Barbarians of the Ruined Earth (
check out the Kickstarter).
I'm happy with this. I wanted a comic book vibe with action and spectacle and I think I pulled it off. I'm not sure why the giant robot is spitting liquid fire but I thought it was very metal so I kept it.
Ah, but
what is this game you ask?
Barbarians of the Ruined Earth, from here on known as
BotRE, is a post-apocaliptic sci-fantasy RPG in the spirit of
Thundarr the Barbarian. So basically swords, sorcery, and super-science. It is based on
The Black Hack by David Black, which is one of the best and most versatile old-school RPG engines around. If you have played D&D you will recognize many of the tropes of the game system, though it plays quite differently. For example, in
BotRE and
TBH the players do nearly all the dice rolling. The GM only rolls for things like random tables and whatever madness they have going on behind the screen. They GM doesn't touch dice otherwise. Let the players do the work.
So check it out.
