Gringnr
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Ok, here's my fave:The Great Modron March
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Ok, here's my fave:The Great Modron March
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This isn't a great copy of the image but I always loved this one. It isn't even how I liked doing vampires in the setting or in general but the look of the wing-like cape always stuck with me:
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She may not be wearing trousers, but you can't tell whether or not there are pants under that mail shirt.It says "where are my damn pants!"
Gotta love those 2e Githyanki!Edit: for actual content, my two favorite D&D covers of all time:
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Gratuitous elbotumGotta love those 2e Githyanki!
I think this image speaks for itself.
Edit: for actual content, my two favorite D&D covers of all time:
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She may not be wearing trousers, but you can't tell whether or not there are pants under that mail shirt.
Keith Parkinson was my favorite TSR artist. I was SOOO pumped for this module (H2: The Mines of Bloodstone) based on this cover image. Alas, it was 100% hot garbage.
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Oh, snap! Thanks! The original is soooo great!That's not a bad homage, but that ain't Russ.
These gazetteers all had excellent covers.
You posted mine in the first post, so I'm covered. LOVE that image.Here is a game. Post your one and only favorite D&D cover artwork. No runner ups or notable mentions. For all the marblessings, gun to your head, which is your favorite?
For the sake of this thread, qualifying cover artwork is any from official d&d products (hardback, modules, box sets).
I'll go with the ad&d dungeoneer survival guide. To me this just captured the feel of the game for me at that time. The hero just looks like he's having a fucken shitty day! Lol This seemed to be a recurring theme back then. Definitely contrasts with today's cover art where heros are clearly dishing out anass kicking to whatever crossed their path.
I was an enormous fan of Todd Lockwood's 3e art. The later stuff when it was mostly Reynolds, not so much (not at all, actually). Too many spikes.I think I disagree on this point. I thought 3e Art was really good at conveying life. I loved how an art piece from one page could carry over to another and retain it's relevance. For me, the art in 3e was amazing... at least in the core books... and it was one of the things that brought me on board and to switch editions to it.
Welcome to the Pub Telok.
Erol Otus went from my least favorite DnD artist to my absolute favorite DnD artist over the years. I disliked his style as a teen but after art school and a bit of time I came to love it. It's funny how tastes change.
...for better or worse?Erol Otus went from my least favorite DnD artist to my absolute favorite DnD artist over the years. I disliked his style as a teen but after art school and a bit of time I came to love it. It's funny how tastes change.
I'm not sure who here was or wasn't around to appreciate it when the ADnD monster manual first dropped, in 77, but it was cool as shit and changed the hobby forever. Before that, rpg materials were grubby pamphlets with art consisting of line drawing that looked like something out of Napoleon Dynamite's notebook (except for a few Liz Danforth line drawings from the first couple of editions of T&T; those were fantastic and remain classics). And then suddenly there was a big, beautifully bound hardback with a full color wrap-around cut-away landscape, created collaboratively by Napoleon Dynamite and some actual artist capable of depicting figures of living things (yes, I know it's all the same person, but the end result is a peculiar mix of hits and misses). And when you open it you see the interior art was totally off the charts better than anything you'd seen before. And of course it contained hundreds of monsters that remain staples of the creative content of DnD and most other fantasy games nearly 50 years later. So, don't diss the MM - it's probably the most impactful single book in rpg history, and a big part of that was its shelf appeal.
GAH! that f*ck Bargle.. I hate him more than any other fictional character EVER.Here is mine, while I love the cover works too, the black and white art sold me on D&D more than anything else.View attachment 46716