Thanks David, have you looked over at 1KM1KT? You'll find a bunch of people to talk to about free RPGs. Over there you'll see me as Onix.

So if you're not laughing because you're trying to insult, then why do you go on to insult? If I "lack artistic skill" show me up. Do something better.

Your comment is muddled. Probably because you don't want to run afoul of the "Be nice" policy here at Instructables. You're trying to hide the fact that you're being insulting behind regressions.

As far as your judgement, your feelings are not shared by all. Most, "like a future, dungeons and dragons" is uninformed. I don't ask for reviews often but the Free RPG Blog was kind enough to review the game for us and they felt it was good enough to pass muster.

In the future, when commenting, follow the "Be nice" policy and research your assertions before putting things down on the record for all to see.

We do what we can on a shoestring. We welcome contributors so if you have something in mind that you feel would make a difference we're open.

I'm not sure which pictures you're referring to. There are several artists and we used differing methods. When the bulk of the artwork was done originally we were mostly using pen and markers as GIMP didn't exist yet. Some of the artwork is more than fifteen years old. I do more writing these days than I draw. If you want to submit artwork, be my guest.

Satisfied? No, a project like this can never have enough artwork. It does take a lot of effort to build up to what we have so I can't easily toss it all away and start over.

Art takes time, I understand that. The Artifact project started in 1995, I can wait.

I appreciate your interest, let me know how it goes!

I'm not too worried about someone making suggestions, arjay might need to work on his tact but as long as his heart is in the right place, I'm fine.

Even if it's not, don't they say that if you have haters you must be doing something worth paying attention to, so no worries. :)

When you type no one can hear your tone and tone can effect the meaning of your message greatly. Whenever you read what you wrote, your brain fills in the tone that you meant to use so the meaning appears obvious. I've run afoul of this before too.

Another person reads it and because there is no tone in their mind, the text becomes menacing. Even innocent expressions in everyday speech written in text can take on very insulting meanings. For example, and I'm not trying to beat you up here, I'm just trying to explain our reaction, the "HAHAHAHAHA.... oh man," is forceful and a bit jarring. There was no implied joke and all caps means you're yelling the laugh (which is weird). When read with no tone, it has a mocking feeling. It's not that we're trying to mis-read what you wrote, it's a common problem in internet communication. It's why emoticons were invented.

Also, your quick clipped style of typing may be a desire for efficiency or it may be showing hostility. A person that knows you personally may be able to read your writing and guess your feeling correctly but a person that doesn't know you can't. Writing to friends is one thing, when writing to strangers on the internet you have to be very careful about your choice of words and expressions.

We're all cool here now.

Things like using 2 instead of to or too. Using 133t (like spelling skillz instead of skills) can be efficient but also conveys an attitude that can be grating.

I know what you mean. I like perfection but I also like getting things done. Those two are often at odds with each other. Perfection can also be relative. A picture or rule that I write now might seem perfect to me but in two years I've grown and can see the failings. What I did hasn't changed but my experience and perspective does.

By all means feel free to take it for a spin!
We're running a play by post over at 1KM1KT check it out.
We have run play by posts privately on the News forum and there are a couple of GMs that can run them there.