Loup solitaire RPG?

[shirosan]

Anyone get a look at the new French edition of the Lone Wolf RPG? What I'm most intrigued by is the fact it has new interior art, including stuff from Gary Chalke himself! If anyone's seen it, how does the new art look? The cover is certainly drool worthy enough...

Are there any U.S. or U.K. retailers selling it? I'd buy it just for the art. Even better, is it available in PDF?

 

[alexokai]

Yeahhhh! That's great !
I was wishing to see the work of Gary Chalk back in LW. Is this the latest French version of the LW RPG or is this an old one ?
Do you think the new LW RPG will be like the French version ?

 

[BlackCat]

Yeahhhh! That's great !
I was wishing to see the work of Gary Chalk back in LW. Is this the latest French version of the LW RPG or is this an old one ?

This is the first edition of the LW RPG in French that was published only a few months ago. Of course, it is not available in PDF since Le Grimoire (the French editor) is selling this book in stores.

Do you think the new LW RPG will be like the French version ?

I doubt it. The French version is the translation of the old Mongoose version, so it's not a new system at all like the upcoming new LWRPG.

 

[alexokai]

Thanks BlackCat. I had the hope to see a good art work again.

 

[shirosan]

Thanks BlackCat. I had the hope to see a good art work again.

There are three samples of Gary's work in the new book here:

http://www.projectaon.org/staff/jonathan/gary-chalk/

Really well-done, IMO. I like the way his style's evolved; here's hoping we'll see some of his work in the upcoming revised RPG!

 

[Balgin Stondraeg]

Okay, those are good pictures. Why are they exclusive to a foreign language version of the book? (I'm english and unfortunately have a bit of a mental block as far as learning foreign languages goes - I was very good at mimicking the sound of a foreign language at school but I simply couldn't understand any of them).

 

[BlackCat]

Okay, those are good pictures. Why are they exclusive to a foreign language version of the book?

Because Le Grimoire, the French editor, asked Gary to make the illustrations for the French version of the book, something that Mongoose didn't do for the English one. Gary lives in France too.

 

[shirosan]

Because Le Grimoire, the French editor, asked Gary to make the illustrations for the French version of the book, something that Mongoose didn't do for the English one.

To our eternal detriment...

 

[Greg Smith]

I believe he did illustrations for some Cadwallon (Rackham) too.

 

[alexokai]

Is there any chance of having his work in the new LW RPG ?

 

[Tabris]

It really would be nice to see his illustrations in the new LW gamebooks, both the RPG and the books themselves. However, my understanding was he had a bit of a falling out with Dever?

 

[alexokai]

Yes, I have heard the same. That's a pity ...

 

[Balgin Stondraeg]

It really would be nice to see his illustrations in the new LW gamebooks, both the RPG and the books themselves. However, my understanding was he had a bit of a falling out with Dever?

Yeah, sometime in the late 80's....

 

[Ikar-tas-Kai]

Yeahhhh! That's great !
I was wishing to see the work of Gary Chalk back in LW. Is this the latest French version of the LW RPG or is this an old one ?

This is the first edition of the LW RPG in French that was published only a few months ago. Of course, it is not available in PDF since Le Grimoire (the French editor) is selling this book in stores.

Do you think the new LW RPG will be like the French version ?

I doubt it. The French version is the translation of the old Mongoose version, so it's not a new system at all like the upcoming new LWRPG.

Hello BlackCat and all.

For those who don't know me, I am the resident Lone Wolf expert at Le Grimoire and a significant contributor to the RPG.

• Our RPG is based on early drafts of Mongoose’s second edition, so we have some yet-exclusive infomation
• There is some added value. The most noticeable, apart from Gary Chalk artwork is the new “heroic system”, allowing one to play the RPG with the gamebook rules and some little additions. So far, it only covers playing a Kai Lord, though—we are considering extending it for other classes but by now, our priority is to release the Game Master screen, with an original illustration by Gary Chalk I also heard (Greg, can you confirm?) that Mongoose may be taking the same direction as us, i.e. departing from D20 for something simpler, closer to the spirit of the gamebooks
• We know that a lot of non-French speakers get interested into Gary Chalk’s exclusive art, but would not buy a book they could not read. So, we are also considering releasing a Gary Chalk artbook-we have a longstanding relationship with Gary, who also drew a lot of Warhammer art fo us, on top of new Lone Wolf. Since we are not a company, we usually work with pre-subscriptions, which means that we could release the artbook if enough people say they are interest _and prove it_

You can contact me at ikar HAT empyree DOTH org or by PM. My schedule does not leave me much time for reading the forum anymore (although I already contributed some interesting pieces like a forum exclusive erratum and a compilation of the forum.

As for those who can't wait for some new Gary Chalk artwork, you can buy the Game Master screen It is a 4-panels screen and it will be released in about a month. Granted, the back of it will be in French but, since it is mostly game mechanics, you may even be able to actually use it.

Naj bojo Kai in Ishir s tabo (this is not French).

 

[BlackCat]

• Our RPG is based on early drafts of Mongoose’s second edition, so we have some yet-exclusive infomation
• There is some added value. The most noticeable, apart from Gary Chalk artwork is the new “heroic system”, allowing one to play the RPG with the gamebook rules and some little additions. So far, it only covers playing a Kai Lord, though—we are considering extending it for other classes but by now, our priority is to release the Game Master screen, with an original illustration by Gary Chalk I also heard (Greg, can you confirm?) that Mongoose may be taking the same direction as us, i.e. departing from D20 for something simpler, closer to the spirit of the gamebooks

• 
  
  Ok, I stand corrected: it's a new system.
  
  And Ikar, did you see that, in December, Mongoose is releasing the Lone Wolf Multiplayer Gamebook? I already mentionned on your boards that this was likely the new RPG. Well, the title itself says that it will be close to the gamebooks... :wink:

 

[Ikar-tas-Kai]

Multiplayer seems exagerated: two adventures in one book do not make a multiplyer game -- maybe a multiplay game, yes.

If this is something else, well, I never played The Scarlet Sorcerer and others, but I remember of Défis & Sortilèges and Double Jeu (do you know them?), which seemed to follow the same path. Will there so-called multiplayer books a merging of the concept (Lone Wolf and Scarlet Sorcerer-like)?

 

[BlackCat]

Well, it seems it is indeed the new RPG: http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=30849

 

[Ikar-tas-Kai]

So I guess that is what they were talking about when mentioning “departing from D20”.

Thank you.