New Halcyon Art and Ascala Updates

Hello. C J here. I’ve got some new art for the card game Halcyon. I’m doing the food items first and here are some samples of the art style for the game. I’m also including some samples of what the text for the recipe and food item cards will look like. I want a lot of meat and some beverages for the food deck. Halcyon has a number of cultures it depicts and I want generic fantasy food rather than the comprehensive list of real life food Regency will have. Regency is hard to make and harder to draw by far so I’m doing this one for a couple of years to recover from making the core rules for it.

I’m also going to start doing some more art of Ascala in my line art style. I see no reason why Ascala shouldn’t be playable in both game lines. I’m going to stick with the characters I already have but add in some more about the city’s culture and magic. Also I have some characters for Ascala that I’ve named that haven’t seen print yet. Prophet, also known as The Digital Prophet Project, is a female sound mage. Balath is a mage black Regal Dragon, the four legged kind, who owns part of one of their manufacturing corporations. Allister Youngsun is William’s immediate superior and they are a mix of rivals and best friends. Ascala also has a lot of buyable magic items that I haven’t put into art yet.

C J Mcpherson

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