Bryan Smart

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Published audiobook narrator, future #RPG publisher at Altered Worlds Press, and lover of tabletop games, painting minis, comics, and wrasslin’. Oregonian.

A wizard with skull staff, speaking, stands in front of a barbarian seated on a throne. A diploma plaque is on the wall behind the throne. The cartoon’s caption reads: “Behold Vorgar, destroyer of lands, reaper of death, bachelor of fine arts!”
Five thousand sons minis, one with a staff and flaming green eyes.
Cover art for “Cry of the Red Wyrm” an adventure for the Shadow of the Weird Wizard tabletop RPG. There’s a dragon breathing fire down on heroes. It is being blocked by a shield, while an ornate longsword is being held by an armored warrior in the foreground.
The cover to the Gunderholfen OSR megadungeon — a book for old school fantasy RPG gaming. It depicts a sphere of eyes with many tentacles over a strange organic landscape.
Album Cover: The Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker
The album cover for Grace by Jeff Buckley.
Cards, big board world map, and figures — the full layout of the Fortune and Glory board game.
The table layout with AdMech minis deployed.
The cover of Shadow of the Weird Wizard by Robert J. Schwalb.
An art piece drawn on a whiteboard of Hamlet’s hand holding Yorick’s skull from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, but the skull has on a Santa hat. Also, a quote beside it reads: To be or not to be, that is the question.
A still from the movie Conan the Barbarian. Conan is biting a vulture’s neck while he hangs on the Tree of Woe. Superimposed over the image are the words Happy Thanksgiving.
The cover of John C. Hocking’s Conan: City of the Dead. A silhouette of the barbarian in a crouch, sword in one hand and axe in the other, in front of a bright white conglomeration of towers, with one dome that looks like a skull, under a sky field of stars.
A Dune take on the Cracker Barrel logo style meme, with Shai Hulud as the text, and a fremen riding a small sandworm as the logo.
Two Adeptus Mechanics Kastelan Robot minis, one with flamer and fists, the other with all guns, flanking a smaller “human sized” Cybernetica Datasmith figure. All in Mars colors (deep red).
Photo of a finished Warhammer 40k Adeptus Mechanicus cybernetica datasmith miniature.
Cover of Conan: City of the Dead by John C. Hocking. A silhouette of Conan the Barbarian in a crouch, sword in left hand and battle axe in right, on a hill facing a white collection of city buildings, one of them resembling a skull. The silhouette is filled with sparkles or stars.
Cover of TRIP THE LIGHT FANTASTIC A Shadow of the Weird Wizard Quest for Expert Heroes. Glowing fairies. An archer. Adventurers.
The Ogre’s Mouth fanged tunnel from Stonehell Dungeon, a megadungeon by Michal Curtis.
The cover to Stonehell Dungeon supplement one: The Brigand Caves. The art is black and white, one cutlass looking sword crossed over by an additional three sword blades from each side of the frame.
The snake people attack!
A Cybernetica Datasmith model from Warhammer 40k’s Adeptus Mechanicus faction. Featuring red robes, a gun that has blue energy, a gauntlet and many appendages sticking out.
Cover of The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne.
Cover of The Return of the Sorcerer - The Best of Clark Ashton Smith.
Cover to The Fantasy Fiction Formula by Deborah Chester.
The cover of Damn Fine Story - mastering the tools of a powerful narrative by Chuck Wendig.
Batman with a message about equality.
Cover of The Last Wish, the first Witcher novel by Andrzej Sapkowski.
Cover for Conan - City of the Dead by John C. Hocking.
Moss from The IT Crowd, as played by the unparalleled comic genius Richard Ayoade, standing in front of a telephone booth. Or he could be Dr. Who. You decide.
Cover of Story Genius: How to use brain science to go beyond outlining and write a riveting novel* (Before you waste three years writing 327 pages that go nowhere) by Lisa Cron.
Cover of the novel Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny.
A still from the BBC Pride and Prejudice with Darcy writing a letter and this caption: Elizabeth, Are you regime change? Because I want to become entangled with you for decades with no exit strategy. Darcy
Drawing of a glowing gem with skeletons fallen dead in a circle around it. The caption below it reads, “Oh you should for sure pick that up”
The cover image for One Bad Apple, an adventure module for the Shadown of the Weird Wizard RPG. The image depicts a ruined temple exterior with columns tilting in the foreground.
The cover of Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, a NYT best selling novel.
The cover of People of the City, a novel of the Maradaine Elite by Marshall Ryan Maresca.
Tony Iommi riffing
The cover to Stonehell Dungeon Level 1a: Hell’s Antechamber, picturing a dungeon hall with torches in skull sconces and an open tunnel that looks like a daemon’s face with big mouth and fangs for the adventurers to travel through.
Supernatural Horror in Literature Howard Phillips Lovecraft With a New Introduction by E.F.Bleiler
The caption at the top: I feel you brother The image is a comic panel with The Incredible Hulk sleeping in some grass. Hulk says: “Hulk will sleep now, and maybe when Hulk wakes up— everything that has made Hulk tired will be changed!”
The cover to First Lord’s Fury, book six of the Codex Alera series by Jim Butcher.
Cover to Murder Ballads by John Hornor Jacobs.
Cover of The Fenmere Job, A streets of Maradaine novel by Marshall Ryan Maresca.
Cover of Dashiell Hammett’s noir detective novel, The Maltese Falcon.
A book cover: Save The Cat! Writes A Novel. The last book on novel writing you’ll ever need. By Jessica Brody. Based on the books by Blake Snyder.
The cover of the novel James by Percival Everett.
Cover of the Dresden files graphic novel omnibus
A 4 panel comic by Sarah Anderson wherein the grim reaper tells a group not to leave anything unfinished, or they will turn into ghosts. The lasts panel is mini painters looking guiltily at each other.
A party of fantasy adventurers running from a tunnel full of green slime about to engulf them.
The cover to the novel Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay.
Book cover of A Parliament of Bodies by Marshall Ryan Maresca.
A blue circle around a red crown with the words “No Kings Since 1776.”
AEW wrestling ring setup for Summer Blockbuster in Portland, OR.
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sketch on a whiteboard of author Kurt Vonnegut with the quote, “True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
A cartoon of a lady watching TV news. The caption is taken from Yeats’s poem The Second Coming: “Things fall apart / The center cannot hold / mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. Details at eleven.”
A photo of the Empire State Building from the street.
The cover of Secrets of the Weird Wizard. A bearded old man in robes is opening a large double door and beyond him are strange creatures.
A panel from the Hyperborea 2e GM screen.
The cover of Robert J. Schwalb’s Shadow of the Weird Wizard RPG.