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"The
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Since the earliest version
of BrikWars was posted as a simple ascii-graphics text file to the rec.toys.lego newsgroup at the end of 1995, the rulebook
has made huge strides forward in polish and presentation over the
years with each successive edition. The tenth-anniversary edition, BrikWars
2005, was the most art-intensive volume yet (until it was topped by the artwork of BrikWars 2010). |
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BrikWars
2005 (Cover) digital, 2005 |
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"The
Skully Grail" - digital,
2006 |
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Despite
the endless hours I put into the full-color paintings, everyone's
favorite illustrations, seemingly without exception, are the
little black-and-white doodles I jot in for the less central
sections. Go figure.
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After
doing hundreds of trading cards for other companies, it seemed
like a shame that I hadn't given BrikWars any at all. So the
2005 book got new stat cards as part of the support material.
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Photoshop
work accounts for a lot of the filler material, either retouched
scans of older paintings, or digital photos processed and
heavily modified.
Yes,
I do wish I had a shop where I could forge my own BrikWars-themed
d10s out of solid gold, but for the purposes of rulebook illustration,
a paintover in Photoshop does the trick just as well. My hope
is that nobody realizes just how many of of BrikWars' "photos"
are really just Photoshop hacks.
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