Fantastic Adventures and the Disgruntled Gong Farmer Website

With the launch of the redesigned cover for Fantastic Adventures and the Disgruntled Gong Farmer (please see the previous post for more details), the companion website has been redesigned to reflect the look of the new cover.  The illustrations, logo, fonts and colouring of the new cover have been incorporated into the website.

The cover art for Fantastic Adventures and the Disgruntled Gong Farmer.  The party of newly forged first-level characters, who have survived the rigors of ‘The King’s Challenge’ character funnel, are enjoying drinks and good company at the ‘Happy Halfling Tavern’; a central meeting place in the village of Greenleaf.  The adventuring party is made up of a cleric, a halfling, a dwarf, a warrior, a wizard and an elf; representing six of the seven Dungeon Crawl Classics core character classes.  Resting in the arms of the warrior is the mechanic spider, who befriended the characters in ‘The King’s Challenge’ character funnel.

The four human classes in Dungeon Crawl Classics are the warrior, the cleric, the wizard and the thief.  Missing from the above illustration is the thief.

The rigors of character funnels forged lasting bonds of friendship among the surviving characters; sometimes these bonds go beyond friendship, as illustrated by the couple above.  As I touched on in my previous posts, showing diversity and representation in my illustrations are important to me; thus, I drew the warrior and wizard as people of colour.  The warrior represents a person from an African heritage and the wizard representing a person from a Latin American heritage.

Dungeon Crawl Classics follows the principles of ‘race as class’ for demi-humans.  Thus, dwarves, elves and halflings are their own classes.  The above illustration represents the three demi-human classes found in the core DCC rulebook.

Ruen, the sensitive barmaid, is serving the dwarf his drink.  Ruen is the spitting image of her father Roth, who stands nearly 7’ tall and weighs over 300 lbs.  While monstrous humanoids are typically portrayed as brutish and violent in most RPG adventures, Ruen and Roth are the opposite to this.  Despite their intimating appearances, Ruen and Roth are kind and gentle; possessing hearts made out of pure gold.