Draw My OC: Which Artists Do Tabletop Commissions?

Draw My OC: Which Artists Do Tabletop Commissions?

The best thing about tabletop RPGs becoming more popular and accessible than ever is that it’s far easier to find a group to play with. Artists are filling social media feeds with gorgeous art of their tabletop characters, and it’s natural to want some gorgeous art of your own—but how to find the right artist? What if your fave isn’t doing commissions? Is it rude to ask? What if you don’t know every artist out there and you can’t find exactly the right person to draw your invincible punch-mage?

Fear not, fellow players. We here at Sidequest have rounded up our favorite artists who specifically enjoy designing tabletop characters! They may not always be open for work, so please double-check their websites and social media before reaching out!

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Review: Banner Saga Revels In The Distance

Review: Banner Saga Revels In The Distance

The Banner Saga

Stoic Studio
Versus Evil
PC/Mac/Linux, iOS/Android, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
January 14, 2014

Sidequest was provided a copy of The Banner Saga for the Nintendo Switch in exchange for a fair and honest view.

I played Banner Saga when it originally came out for PC, but I never got that far in it—as much as I love turn-based strategy games, they don’t mesh with PCs for me. I’m a fidgety gamer—I move around, I pace, I bounce on the balls of my feet. Since PC gaming typically requires time spent immobile in a chair, and doubly so for strategy games, it’s the kind of thing I can only engage in sporadically, at best. I like turn-based strategy, though, a lot, so when I heard it was being ported to the extremely mobile Switch, I jumped at the chance to review it.

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Azure Saga: Pathfinder Makes Me Grateful I Avoided Old-School RPGs

Azure Saga: Pathfinder Makes Me Grateful I Avoided Old-School RPGs

Azure Saga: Pathfinder

MassHive Media
PC/Mac
March 13, 2018

Sidequest was provided with a copy of Azure Saga: Pathfinder for PC in exchange for a fair and honest review.

I love RPGs. They’re by far my favorite type of game, especially when they have that mysterious “Japanese” in front of them. When Azure Saga: Pathfinder came across my inbox, hailing its immersive world and classic “old school” feel, I had to try it.

Let’s not bury the lede, here: I was deeply disappointed in this game.

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Battles and Broken Hearts: A Roguemance Review

Roguemance

Lucas Molina
PC
February 14, 2018

Can love truly bloom on the battlefield?

Roguemance, developed by Lucas Molina, presents itself as a “roguelike with romance,” utilizing simple, 8-bit like graphics and a playful premise to provide lovers of RPGs and other similar genres a good time.

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Star Crossed: An Interview with Alex Roberts

Star Crossed: An Interview with Alex Roberts

Having spent unrepentantly large portions of my life shipping fictional characters (from Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler to Dr. Bashir and Garak), I was intrigued to learn about Star Crossed. This tabletop roleplaying game (RPG) is written and designed by Alex Roberts, who has contributed to other tabletop RPGs such as Misspent Youth, Dialect, and Damn the Man, Save the Music!. She is also the podcast host of Backstory, as well as the Project Coordinator for Bully Pulpit Games, who have teamed up with her to publish Star Crossed.

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