What piece of art do you associate with each RPG?

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This is Car Wars to me:

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D&D has too many images to pick one.

Traveller:
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That driver just never inspired me. The tag line is great but the Pillsbury dough boy driver just fails for me.
 
View attachment 237 This is the definitive D&D image to me:

For Classic Mentzer D&D, I actually think first of:

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Because while the Level 1-3 Basic Set is where everyone starts out, in playing the game (recently April 2015 to May 2017) we actually spent far far more time with the Levels 4-14 blue Expert rulebook as the primary reference. I'd say it's really the heart of the game.

Plus, the PCs actually have a chance to survive meeting a small red dragon! :grin:
 
It's Kong! From the game's backstory.

To be fair, it's probably accurate to what a lot of us looked like.
I'm unfamiliar with the backstory you speak of.
 
When I think of Traveller, I think of van Rijn...I mean Jamison...
 

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And purple bell bottoms for The Fantasy Trip.
 

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It's not an iconic image, like the cover of Alpha Dawn, but it's one that often comes to my mind when I think of Star Frontiers.

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That was from one of the Voltunus Modules wasn't it?
 
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this one, whenever i think of krynn or minotaurs.i had it on a dragonlance calendar and saved that particular one for posterity.
 
This was the David Trampier illustration that encapsulated everything I thought Dungeons & Dragons was supposed to be when I first got a copy of the AD&D phb when I was 12.
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Now I'm picturing your early games as a mad blend of Dungeoncrawling and The Rocky Horror Picture Show...
 
Gee I wish I knew how to resize some of those images I just sent thru...
 
You would have to resize them yourself or find a smaller version. The only options here are to post a full-size or thumbnail, but the uploaded image is the same size regardless.
 

I picked up the Warlock of Firetop Mountain two weeks before I got the Moldvay D&D Basic Set, so those two things are forever linked in my mind. I was meticulously mapping out the book on paper. I was so impressed that it was an actual consistent setting as opposed to the Choose Your Own Adventure books where every choice seemed to completely change the nature of the story. My parents played D&D and saw me working away at my gamebooks, so they decided I was ready for the real thing and got me the Basic Set.


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I’m not sure I’ll ever play Talislanta but damn, I love the rock album cover, Euro comix aesthetics of the setting.
I never read it back in the day, and I have only had a chance to skim it so far, but I can already tell some ideas from this game are going to make it into something I run.
 
I’m not sure I’ll ever play Talislanta but damn, I love the rock album cover, Euro comix aesthetics of the setting.
P.D. Breeding-Black is a fantastic artist!
 
I never read it back in the day, and I have only had a chance to skim it so far, but I can already tell some ideas from this game are going to make it into something I run.
Grab the first edition book just to see how it all began. I want to say the first twelve pages or so are the game mechanics and the remaining fifty something are appendix covering archetypes and items. I bought it when it came out as I was already a Bard Games fan. I rarely get to run it but it's just a fun world to read about.
 
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