SEAN ÄABERG - OSR BEFORE I KNEW WHAT THE OSR WAS - 2007
Back in 2007 I was thinking about what i wanted to do as far as my art career went & i realized that i really wanted to do some art for role playing games. At the time i had no idea about the state of the hobby but my friend Clint Marsh over who does Fiddler’s Green @fiddlersgreenzine now was doing a newsletter called “the Shrieker”. (Clint has supplied some invaluable editing help with my TTRPG LowLife which is currently live on Kickstarter.) The Shrieker was a way for Clint to dig up those old RPG memories & I was there for it. I drew a Shrieker for it & I contributed some other things (if I’m remembering correctly). So, as part of my original return to this stuff I drew these DUNGEON DEGENERATES characters which were originally going to be a card series to go with my Monsters, Weirdos & Creeps cards… but it took them another decade to emerge in the Hand of Doom boardgame & now the LowLife RPG. If you’re counting along, that’s 20 years. I based the color scheme off of old Colorforms kits, i loved that you could achieve definition with only two colors (plus black) & I had card & sticker vending machines & counter boxes thoroughly infesting Eugene & Portland. (I think I had some down in the Bay too.) It would have been interesting to see where DUNGEON DEGENERATES would have gone if it developed into a card series… my vision was to make it a sticker & toy series with a playable game on the cards… something I still might do! Anyhow, enjoy these & back the LowLife Kickstarter & help my bring another crazy project to life!