Bordering on the Otherworld

Some details from a recently completed artwork commission for Otherworld Miniatures consisting of three themed page borders:

Otherworld Armoury Border (detail)

Otherworld Dungeon Border (detail)

Otherworld Armour (detail)

Otherworld Dungeon Border (detail)

Otherworld Wilderness Border (detail)

Otherworld Wilderness Border (detail)

Otherworld Armoury Border (detail)

The originals are approximately A3 - intended to be reproduced as A4 borders. Unfortunately they don't reproduce too well as small web thumbnails after all they are essentially a big white space with some drawings round the edge - but you can see them in the gallery to get a sense of the final pieces.


Richard great to work with as usual and v There are several references to Otherworld Miniatures range hidden in plain sight throughout the drawings which were fun to do - a big no-prize for anyone who spots them all!

Dungeons & Disney: Charm Animal

Sleeping Beauty: Aurora / Briar Rose by Marc Davis and Tom Oreb

Rachel Weisz as Disneys Snow White | photo by Annie Leibovitz

Cinderella giving orders to the Proletariat mice.

It's a weird thing. The Disney Princesses Snow White, Cinderella and Sleeping beauty all have the innate ability to Charm Animals. Maybe Pocahontas and Mulan do too, but I don't know. Why they have a supernatural ability to control wildlife is beyond me. Snow White charms the animals to clean up the Seven Dwarfs cottage. Cinderella charms them to do her chores. Sleeping Beauty charms them to well, be a composite agony aunt and surrogate boyfriend / dancing partner.

These animals seem to have no chance of a saving throw, and perhaps the Disney princesses 18 Charisma just ensures small woodland creatures become suggestible, if not totally enslaved to their sweeter-than-thou mistresses.


The "goons" from Sleeping Beauty may have influenced 1e Pig Faces Orcs. Is it possible that somewhere in the back of Gary Gygax labyrinthine mind, the image of the pure-as-spring-rain, sweet-as-sunshine Disney princess sat alongside Poul Andersons 3 Hearts and 3 Lions Swan-may to inform what Druids (and Princesses) should be like.

One of Our Fimir is Missing

I snagged a copy of Heroquest for £1.50 at a local charity shop (one that doesn't trawl eBay before making pricing decisions). And lo and behold - it was near complete and in excellent condition - the book are a bit crinkly and the box had one corner split, and had just one Fimir missing. 

Three Little Fimir standing in a row, one fell off and... | image via

There's a One-Eyed Fellow Hiding to the North of Kammendun. 

What I didn't realise is that the card artwork is by Gary Chalk. Amazing stuff, also references the Talisman card artwork - the fountain of strength, amulet of lore and genie particularly.


And not that anyone round here cares what Games Workshop do any more, apparently Fimir have made a comeback with their latest Störm ov Magick or whatever it's called:

Fimir Balefiend | via Liber Malefic

So anyone got a spare Heroquest Fimir for a trade?