Talon Dunning

Talon Dunning is an artist and illustrator whose work appeared in several supplements for the West End Games version of the Star Wars Roleplaying Game in 1997 and 1998. His credits include:


 * Hives of Scum and Villainy (contributing designer, uncredited)
 * Tapani Sector Instant Adventures
 * Hideouts and Strongholds
 * "Love Is A Warm Blaster", Star Wars Adventure Journal #17 (unpublished)

History with West End Games
Talon's relationship with West End Games began in 1996 when his high-school friend, author Paul Danner, was assigned to work on the Star Wars RPG supplement, Hives of Scum and Villainy. Both avid roleplayers, when Danner was instructed by his editor to include "more NPCs," he called Talon and requested permission to use several of the characters he had created for their own Star Wars games in recent years. Talon, who was living in Alabama at the time, agreed and sent Danner copies of most of the characters he had created for his games, as well as several starship, droid and equipment designs. Danner subsequently used several of Talon's characters and designs in his book, including Norrin Vaxx, Var'Rotha Fin'Rotha, Sha'Dria, Sil Vaturha, Vallikor En-Vahdi (as well as his species, the Ipharian-Da'Lor), Arissa Fawn, Lynnori and Denell Kel'Vannon as well as the "Nullifier" Diffusion Armor. In addition, the two starships detailed in the book, "The Chaser" (originally called, "The Tequila Sunrise") and "The Starbound Misfit (the first YT-1930)," were based on Talon's designs. Finally, several of the book's character illustrations were based on the sketches of those characters that Talon had provided.

For contractual reasons, however, Danner was unable to list Talon as a contributing designer in the book's credits. Disappointed by this, Talon asked his friend to make up for it by promoting him to his WEG editors. As a result, Talon was given his first professional assignment, drawing for the supplement, Tapani Instant Adventures.

Unfortunately, just after finishing the art for one of Danner's stories in the Star Wars Adventure Journal, West End Games announced its bankruptcy and lost the Star Wars license. Neither the story nor the art for it were ever published, nor was Talon ever compensated for the work he had done.

Samples of Talon's Star Wars art, as well as his work for other roleplaying games, can be seen on his website,.