What drawings? That’s a secret. At least for another couple of weeks.

But Munchkins MAY be involved. Or not.

Anyway, the drawing was coming along great. “Man, oh, man,” I wished to myself. “It’s kinda a shame I’m not home, because I could scan the sketch, and e-mail it to (Person Who May Or May Not Be Steve Jackson) to let him see how well it’s coming out! What a fine addition to (Game Line That May Or May Not be Munchkin) this will be…and yet, here I sit by a Very Large Lake, about as out of touch, technically speaking, as you can get in or around South Central Wisconsin in the year 2008.”

That’s when I remembered - HEY! I have an iPhone! Woot!

Took a couple of pictures. Attached them to a message, and sent ‘em off. Zoom! Zoom, zoom!

Here’s the final image, by the way.

Holy Spit, I love the 21st Century. Jet packs and flying cars be damned…

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Nearly 200 submissions later, entries are now closed for the Win This Booty-ful Art contest.

The Lovely and Talented Judith whould pick a winner tonight or tomorrow. Winner will be announced Thursday.

It’ll be tough. There are some good ones.

- John

My French publishers speak English much better than I will ever speak French.

My Italian publishers speak English much, much better than I have ever been able to speak Italian.

My German publishers speak English infinitely better than I will ever speak German, even if I live to be 100.

That said, hilarity sometimes ensues when I need to do special Munchkin cards for our overseas partners.

To wit: two German Munchkin Booty promo cards were requested. Here’s my favorite card description EVAR, from one of them:

Piratten/Pirats

Illu: Several rats dressed as pirates (with patches, peg leg, a kiwi on the shoulders, dagger between teeth, just like the pirates you know, but they are rats)

OK. I know they don’t mean “kiwis,” but “parrots.” Still, the idea of a Munchkin Pirate Rat with a Kiwi on its shoulder amused me. So I sketched it up anyway.

Let’s have a competition. Tell me what the name of this card would be. The winner will receive the original art of the drawing you see in glorious technicolor above!

All entries must be posted on the DorkTower.com feedback page, or at the Dork Tower LiveJournal Syndicated Feed page that this note appears on. Deadline is Monday, August 25, midnight Central Standard Time. The winner will be picked by the Lovely and talented Judith.

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Speaking of the German promos, here’s the card wot I eventually drawded:

I believe the German version of Booty will be available at Essen, along with this little thing called Munchkin Quest.

“It may be typical of the pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd to disparage a fellow countryman’s memory of war from the comfort of mom’s basement, but most Americans have the humility and gratitude to respect and learn from the memories of men who suffered on behalf of others.”
- From John McCain’s website

The “Dungeons & Dragons crowd”?

What an…odd (yes, odd - “odd” is definitely the word) thing to bring into the national political discourse…

However, it DOES fit in nicely with Dork Tower from last May 12…

- John