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Wednesday 13 May 2015

Grant Morrison's "18 Days"

Today, just a short blog entry.  I was recently given this book by Jong WK (RPGsite regular and former Shadowrun-writer and fellow Uruguayan gamer). It was a wonderful present, and I thought I'd mention that if you are into Arrows of Indra, you should probably check this book out for some serious inspiration.  Particularly if you want to have more of  Kirby-esque style to your Arrows of Indra campaign.  It's a fantasy/sci-fi version of the Mahabharata war (the 18 days being how long the war at Kurukshetra lasted), which is to say the exact same period of time the setting of the Bharata Kingdoms is based on in Arrows.  The story bible provides details for many of the exact same characters that are briefly mentioned in AoI.

Plus, check out some art:







The book is totally full of some truly amazing artwork.  So, if you're an AoI fan, you should probably check out "18 Days".

RPGPundit

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7 comments:

  1. When are you going to review the heavily hyped White Star RPG?

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    1. When it gets sent to me. Tell the author to send me a review copy.

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  2. 18 days has also been running for the past year and a half or so on youtube as a flash cartoon. It started out with a lot of flashbacks and telling what lead up to the war, and now they are at about day 3 or 4.

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    1. I wasn't aware of that! Thanks for pointing it out!

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  3. Pundit, you ever read a fairly obscure comic called Devi (from the shortlived Virgin Comics). It's possibly the most beautiful comic I ever read (and that includes and beats out things like Alex Ross' Kingdom Come and Jim Lee's X-Men) and it looks like the same artist worked on 18 days.

    It was a pretty cool, superheroic take on Indian mythology.

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    1. Not familiar with it, no. I don't tend to stray much from Marvel or DC when it comes to comics.

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  4. Doesn't pretty much anything beat out "clenched teeth & cheek implants" Lee and "wax mannequins" Ross the beauty category?

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