Top 10 Dragon & White Dwarf Covers of the 80s

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I'm not sure if it's the best, but it's certainly the one that changed everything for Games Workshop:

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This was the cover for Greyhawk Wars too!
How 'bout that...the cover for Justice Inc. was reused even more egregiously for another pulp game recently.
 

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One of my best friends and I would trade screenshots while we were playing Skyrim. I did this with one of his screenshots as a surprise for him. I was in a hurry, so it's not a great job, and not my ideal version of the logo, but I still like it.
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They were pretty much all great, but this is is the most '80s Metal White Dwarf cover:

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Not that it's a great cover, as it's a bit static, but it's pretty good for an October Halloween issue; mainly I remember it well because I still have it. It's tucked away with my FASA Star Trek materials because it has a really good, surprisingly long article on FASA Star Trek campaigns.

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I can't help it: the covers that stay with me always were the ones with ladies.

Some memorable ones (not necessarily good, just stuck in my mind since adolescence):

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I remember #108...I think it had armor class rules for partial armor. Am I right? I like that cover with the wary woman warrior on edge but oblivious to the threat lurking right in front of her.
 

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This one has a certain mythic quality to it.
 

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I like this a lot, first because I like silliness but also because it was rare to see a Dragon cover that embraced whimsy and didn't take itself too seriously.
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Feels like Narnia meets Oz.
 

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If you're gonna play D&D with the standard tropes and races, then these are dwarves done right.
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I kinda like the quiescent quality of this one.
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I assume circulation was too high and they were trying to dissuade potential readers from buying their magazine...nothing else explains this cover.
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It is so hideous I almost perversely like it.

Me too. I'd almost buy it just because it's so grotesque and oddball.

Makes you wonder what got rejected.
 

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Did Boot Hill ever make the cover of The Dragon? Or Star Frontiers? Top Secret?
 
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