Very nice... I'll see about grabbin a copy when it appears..
Chain Lightning, the spell that keeps on giving... an hurting :p

The game will be for sale by Fools Moon as a PDF from RPGNow.com (though hard copies editions are supposed to be available at Cangames in Ottawa in May. This piece is from the Player's Book. Other artists they've grabbed to do art in the books include Mark Languile, Max Blackrabbit, gNAW, and Dooomkitty,

Wow... nice gathering of art. PDF version.. mmm i'll need a faster compy ;)

Hmm. I just looked at the RPGNow site, and it doesn't say *how* I can pay. (I don't use Paypal, which has caused complications on other sites.) And I've heard about this game for so long, I'm more and more tempted to snarf it.

How much will it be, anyway?

You can pay also with credit card and one or two other methods.

As for cost of the game, that I cannot say since I'm not the publisher. Best guess is $12 for the Player's Book, based on what the Grimoire books cost.

Cool beans, the background and her rocks :3

Do you know what kind of system they are using?

>^..^<

Since I help playtest the game, I do. Although it uses mainly d20s, it isn't the "D20 System" that WOC/TSR totes but rather its own system.

In a nutshell you are given a target number typically based on your Ability Stat plus your Skill Rank (+/- any modifiers) and try to roll that number or less. Rolling the base number is a critical success. This means your success will depend on your skill and the Ability required on the situation. For example, the Gaming skill uses Luck for random chance, Charisma to Bluff, and Perception to guess if you are being bluffed.

Characters are created starting with a number of "build points" and you pick a race, a background, and then an archetype. Any left over points can be used to buy special abilities and you can take flaws to get a few extra points. The build point system is more like Ars Magica than GURPS so it means it's simple to use compared with the number crunching that some systems have.

Play-wise, the world is less magic and monster driven than most fantasy realms and feels a bit like Harn, Middle Earth, and Ars Magica (except that there are a few furry races kicking around).

One thing that may annoy a few die-hard elf lovers is that elves are not available as a PC race. Here elves are a little too overpowered in this world to be PCs and most are have a nasty disposition to boot (they treat mortals as toys--or lunch).

Nice SFX. Wonder how many HP you need to walk -- or crawl -- away from a hit by one of those things... ;)

Isn't that the same hairstyle Nylaena wore (in the flashback/flashside scenes in the Dela comic) to mark her out as a Spellweaver?

yep, and that is a nicilan spellweaver in the picture