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But seriously:
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Incline Classic D&D/AD&D/OSR Art
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The problem with Elmore is that his characters are instantly dated. Pornstaches and big 80s hair don't hold up well.
Elmore's art IS what D&D looks like to me. His stuff was so perfect that it defined the game in my head as a kid.
I came across this a few weeks ago in advertising online. If you're interested in ordering prints or whatever... https://larryelmore.com/store/
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Classic, still funny. :D
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Classic, still funny. :D
Cartoon appearing in Dragon Magazine #22 February 1979
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It's well-known that the Displacer Beast was inspired by the alien creature in the classic A.E. van Vogt short story "Black Destroyer", but it seems that a less-famous D&D/AD&D monster --- the Grell from the Fiend Folio --- was inspired by a creature from a Jack Williamson story. Specifically, the Grell was inspired by cover art created by Rowena Morrill for the 1980 collection "Three from the Legion", which was soon re-issued by another publisher under the slightly different title "The Legion of Space":
Does anyone have an old school painting of an armory, pile of weapons or such? The only ones I can find online are modern/soy digital art and I'm looking for something more traditional. Any help appreciated.
From Dungeon Crawl Classic rulebook.
Not 100% sure that's what you want, but since I had those on hand, I posted them
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Needed to resort to a reverse-image search to discover this is from a book called Write Your Own Fantasy Games for Your Microcomputer, released in Britain in 1984:
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I remember Larry Elmore's "SnarfQuest" running in issues of Dragon magazine.
Needed to resort to a reverse-image search to discover this is from a book called Write Your Own Fantasy Games for Your Microcomputer, released in Britain in 1984:
This was a favourite book as a youngster and what got me into programming early. You probably already worked out this, but the book is out of print but Usborne made them available as a PDF here:
https://usborne.com/au/books/computer-and-coding-books
Awesome! What's the story of this guy, where is he from?
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