Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
The Blood War engulfs the heroes of Baldur ’s Gate in the latestDungeons & Dragonscomic series , Infernal Tidesby Jim Zub , Max Dunbar , and Sebastian Cheng , fromIDW Publishing . draw devilish inspiration from theBaldur ’s logic gate : Descent into Avernusstoryline from Wizards of the Coast , Infernal Tidescasts the indomitable fire warden Minsc and his companion , the miniature giant space hamster , Boo , into the ceaseless fight between formidable legion of the Nine Hells and fiendish force from the Abyss . Sworn defenders of judge and enemies to immorality , the mighty Minsc and the valorous Boo are joined by a defy group of adventurers as they journey across the Sword Coast and beyond , to combat a rising and sinister threat that threatens all of the Forgotten Realms .
For untold years the Blood War has raged across the warped landscape of Avernus , the first layer of the Nine Hells , as helter-skelter monster from the Abyss traverse the Styx River to besiege the devils ’ orbit and engage the regimented and hardy armies of Hell . It is within the linguistic context of the Blood War that theBaldur ’s logic gate : Descent into Avernusadventure for the 5th edition of “ the humans ’s great roleplaying secret plan , ” as well as IDW’sInfernal Tidesseries , is arrange . describe by Christopher Perkins , Dungeons & DragonsPrincipal Narrative Designer , as " Dungeons & DragonsmeetsMad Max : Fury Road , ” Descent into Avernustakes adventurer from the unforgiving and seedy street of Baldur ’s Gate to the depths of Hell to take arms against demons and devils , bidding hellish warfare machines , and swear a fall - saint - turn - overlord of the Nine Hells . Infernal Tideswriter , Jim Zub , and series creative person Max Dunbar were intimately involved in the development of theDescent into Avernusstoryline with Wizards of the Coast’sDungeons & Dragonsteam as story adviser and concept artist , respectively , and their fiendish expertise and crucial part to the roleplaying sourcebook are on exhibit in the IDW Publishing serial publication .
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The mirthful book author and artist , Jim Zub is the generator of every IDW Publishing tie - in mirthful featuring the Dungeons & Dragons brand since the launch of the game ’s democratic 5th variant in 2014 , includingLegends of Baldur ’s Gate , Shadows of the Vampire , Frost Giant ’s Fury , andEvil at Baldur ’s Gate , as well as Oni Press’sRicky and Morty Vs . dungeon & DragonandRicky and Morty Vs . keep & Dragon II : Painscape , with Patrick Rothfuss and Troy Little . When Wizards of the Coast started body of work on the ambitious Avernus dangerous undertaking , theDungeons & Dragonscreative team turned to the experience of Jim Zub .
In conversation with Screen Rant , the Divine speculate , “ After work on the cartoon strip for a few years and make up a strong workings family relationship with the Wizards of the Coast D&D crew , write up developer Adam Lee reach out out to ask if I ’d be interested in doing a ‘ story push , ' an in - house brainstorming seance for the book that would eventually becomeDescent Into Avernus . ” to boot , Jim worked with artist Max Dunbar on IDW’sLegends of Baldur ’s Gateand the two were instrumental to the creation of iconic puppet and curiosities in Avernus and to the thematic development of theDungeons & Dragonsadventure . Jim Zub say of his carbon monoxide gas - plotter Max Dunbar , " the artist drawing the stunning varlet graphics and encompass forInfernal Tides , was also a part of designingDescent Into Avernusand his construct artwork found its fashion into all kinds of cool parts of D&D canyon . When he asked about include some pasture animals to establish shell in one of his concept opus , that animate being became the now infamous ‘ Abyssal Chicken . ’ ”
Jim Zub foreshorten his tooth onDungeons & Dragonsand his2019TEDx Talkabout the enduring influence of the roleplay game on his career , “ Raised by Draco , ” highlight a life well - spend . Of his impressible years , Zub explained , " My older sidekick Joe take short ton of swords & sorcery and sci - fi novel and he informed a circumstances of my fandom early on . When he and my sometime cousins started playing D&D , I was the youngest player at the table and it light a creative fire inside me to entertain people and say stories . I would n’t be a writer today without D&D. ” Beginning his art calling in the animation industriousness in Canada , Zub picked up his first paying gig recoloringConanstories forDark Horse Comicsand what was “ supposed to be a summer job at the UDON studio apartment rather turned into a server of different jobs over nine years - coloring , representative , writing and finally jut direction and editorial . ”
With a handful of IDW form of address , collect inDungeons & tartar : day of Endless Adventure , and his workplace with Oni Press traverse the past six years , Jim Zub is the most prolificDungeons & Dragonscomic writer in the industry and his swords and sorcery credentials stretch out to Marvel’sConan the Barbarian , Pathfindercomics based on the Paizo roleplaying secret plan , and BOOM ! StudiosMunchkincomics . When asked where a writer at the avant-garde of the musical style finds his muse , the author replied , “ For me , D&D is n’t huge armies smashing into each otherLord of the Rings - fashion , it ’s kooky , foreign and character - centric . I need it to sense a flake like everything could go off the rails , like the DM does n’t have complete ascendance of where the adventure is give-up the ghost – because that ’s what happens when you diddle D&D. ”
The characters Minsc and Boo were originally believe in the 1998Baldur ’s Gatevideo game series developed by BioWare and were get to IDW’sDungeons & Dragonscomics by Jim Zub . Incorporating the stately ranger and his hamster ally into an adventure political party of his own making , was a ambition for the writer . “ Getting the chance to create newfangled canon character for D&D is an absolute thrill . I did n’t want to have the classic party residual ( fighter , rogue , wizard , ecclesiastic ) since that rarely happens in my own tabletop game . A ranger , hazardous mage , paladin , and two rogues feels like the kind of group dynamic I ’d see at a real gaming tabular array . ”
In IDW’sDungeons & Dragons : Infernal Tides , Minsc and his compatriots encounter themselves caught between war factions in the Blood War as the planar conflict spill into the streets of Baldur ’s Gate . Perplexed by secrets hide in an infernal mystifier boxwood and hounded by agents of the archdevil , Zariel , the heroes set out for the fortress - library of Candlekeep to unlock the mystery . But with each unraveling of the cypher , forces from the nether region of Hell endanger to sweep up them all down into the sempiternal Blood War .
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