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Enter the world of the Dying Earth Roleplaying Game with this Humble Bundle Collection

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Enter a decadent world of wit and danger with The Dying Earth Roleplaying Game. Drawn from the classic tales of fantasy titan Jack Vance, prime inspiration for the settings, moods and spells of Dungeons & Dragons, and designed by roleplaying legend Robin D. Laws. Explore a wondrous, exhausted world. Trade pleasantries with its ravenous and articulate creatures. Match wits with rogues, merchants and arch-magicians, and pray your tongue is the sharper. The entire game line of rules, settings, maps and lore, yours for the merest pittance! Before the flickering sun winks out for good and takes this bundle with it. And should prying fools dare question you, explain that your purchase is motivated not by greed for absurdly good and fleeting bargains, but by pure charitable feeling toward the World Wildlife Fund.

The Dying Earth RPG Humble Bundle Collection has a retail value of $321 and you can get all 29 items for $18.

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Hajime Sorayama and Heavy Metal Magazine Team for “Sexy Robot Covers”

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Heavy Metal Entertainment has announced that legendary Japanese artist Hajime Sorayama, famous for his Sexy Robot paintings and statues, will be contributing artwork for three new covers for Heavy Metal Magazine #312. There is also a gallery within the magazine featuring the full, uncensored artwork by Sorayama, alongside a profile written by Heavy Metal Entertainment’s Publisher and Chief Creative Overlord David Erwin. The three different covers showcase sci-fi inspired robots in different sensual poses; all three editions of the magazine are available to purchase starting December 8th, 2021, when the issue became available in stores and online.

Sorayama previously illustrated the iconic front cover of Heavy Metal Magazine’s November 1980 issue, featuring a stunning female android draped in a red sheet, as well as the back cover for the August 1981 issue. Heavy Metal is happy to reunite once again with Sorayama for this spectacular Sexy Robot artwork. Hajime Sorayama is a celebrated artist on a global scale; his extensive oeuvre centers upon an ongoing pursuit for beauty regarding the human body and the machine, and he has continued to receive high international acclaim.

The “Sexy Robot” series, Sorayama’s signature body of work, started in 1978 and continues into the modern day, serving to establish his world-wide reputation. The Sexy Robot artwork he created for Aerosmith’s 2001 album Just Push Play earned him global renown, and in 2018, Sorayama collaborated with fashion house Dior for its 2019 pre-fall collection in Tokyo, presenting a 39-foot-high gigantic Sexy Robot statue for the show that gained vast attention from all over the world.

Issue #312 of Heavy Metal Magazine not only feature Sorayama’s artwork, but also includes the first two parts of Avenging Demon Princes, a newly translated French space opera, adapted by Jo Morvan from the original novel by Jack Vance, with incredible art by Paolo Traisci. Heavy Metal Magazine #312 also presents the return of The Adventures of Adrienne James, Matthew Medney and Bruce Edwards’ “female Indiana Jones in space” series, with all-star illustrator Santa Fung coming aboard as the artist for the series.

All-new chapters of Ron Marz’s Swamp God series, Steve Orlando’s Starward series, and Ryan K Lindsay and Sebastián Píriz’s Black Beacon series are also featured in the issue.