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GHOSTS!

Greg Ruth

Of all the seasonal and year long creatures to be spooked by, for me personally since I was very young and menaced one night by a deranged and nightgown-barefooted granny on our dark neighborhood street, it's always been about the ghosts for me. I'll digest anything on the subject, and have lived 5 years in a certifiably haunted old building in Brooklyn... all of these cornerstones happily in the past. I still adore them as…

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Oath Hammer

Justin Gerard

August 5, 2025 - I recently had the pleasure of working with the tabletop RPG Oath Hammer to create a cover and several illustrations. Today, I'd like to share some of the work for them with you! I love the challenge that these kinds of projects present: complex character interactions, cool backgrounds, interesting lighting and texture opportunities, and most of all, visual storytelling. This image in particular called for a classic group of RPG heroes who have encountered some hostile foliage in a misty forest. I don't think "hostile foliage" was the term used by the art director exactly, but as a homeowner with a yard that backs an equatorial jungle here in Georgia, all foliage is hostile to me. Just before this job came in I had to chop a tree down on the property which had acquired…

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