Hello, my fellow fantasy buffs!

As this is my first serious attempt at generating a scenario with the
excellent Scenario Builder, it may not have ideal finesse, but the effect
should still be entertaining enough.  

The map and its cities are taken directly from the first issue of a 1970 
underground fantasy comic book called "Fantagore", written by Richard Corben 
(aka "Gore").  Corben was one of the best underground comic book illustrators.
The walls of my room are adorned with posters of his fantasy illustrations. 
While his underground cartoonist peers were mostly involed with the amorphous 
ideas of the political Cambrian Era of "Love and Peace", Gore was into   
medieval fantasy, preferring the atmosphere of the barbaric "Conan" genre
to the Olde English ebullience of Spencerian/Tolkienian fantasy.  
Even with his entrancing narrative style and dramatic drawings, Corben
was still able to convincingly draw hulking muscular dudes and voluptuous, 
scantily-clad chicks which rivaled those created by Robert Crumb.

This scenario reproduces a map drawn as part of the "Razar the Unhero" 
strip which appeared in the first issue of "Fantagore".  Razar appeared 
in a few other issues, but without the map.  The army and city sets are 
the defaults, basically because they fit well with the scenario, and I 
absolutely suck as a graphic illustrator.  Reproducing the map on my PC was
a major challenge, my damned mouse kept sticking.  Do all MS mice suddenly
stick when dragged two inches to the right?  

I wanted the scenario to resemble the map as much as possible.  The terrain
and cities are placed and named according to the map to the best of my ability.  
No ruins were on the original map, but I included some in the scenario 
nevertheless.  The most effective terrain for so hostile a world, I figured, 
should be the Mudflats.  Effective, but the pig-shaped ruins look ridiculous.  
Only twenty cities are included, so this scenario should be used as a rapid
challenge lasting one or two hours.  

In any case, enjoy the scenario.  Feel free to E-Mail comments to me.  
By the way, does anyone know whatever has happened to the more popular 
underground cartoonists such as Corben, Robert Crumb, Tom Jaxon, etc.?

Justin S. Davis
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June 22, 1995




