D&D General One Piece of Art- What D&D Art Inspired You to Love a Class?

[Ralif Redhammer]

Daniel R. Horne didn't do that many Dragon covers, but those he did are just outstanding.

I'm not sure any picture made me love a class, but I have fond memories of many Dragon Magazine covers, and this was one near the end of where I stopped getting them. And it's a heck of a Ranger picture.

Daniel R. Horne's “Saving the Best for Last"

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To be fair, while the sample chapters of Dragons of Deceit didn't strike me as particularly good, it's only been out a couple of months I'd be surprised if they needed to reprint it yet. Some of the older Drizzt novels have been out of print for a fair while i think.

 

[Iosue]

Artist: Larry Elmore
Source: Mentzer Red Box, 1983
Class: Cleric

I usually play Male Heroes, except when I play a Cleric!

My five year old daughter wanted to play D&D, so I paged through my copy of Mentzer showing her the pictures, asking what kind of character she wanted to play. She immediately stopped when we came to that picture and said, "That."

I related this to my sister, who told me that my niece had done the same thing when shown the book at age 6.

 

[Mad_Jack]

Clyde Caldwell's art has inspired a number of my characters and/or npcs over the decades, but one of my favorite pieces of D&D art was by Jeff Easley on pg. 50 of the 2nd Ed. DMG - the properly-muscled female fighter holding the ogre by the nose ring after having sliced his club and shield to bits... (Couldn't find a good image of the whole pic)
I made a character based on her in one game and statted her out as an npc in another.

I've always imagined that the fight only lasted two rounds as she casually chopped his gear off of him, and the ogre never got in a single swing before she destroyed his club...
And there is no argument you could make that would convince me this woman isn't capable of that level of epic badassery...

 

[DrunkonDuty]

Always loved that one too. The grip on his nose ring, the boot in his groin, the sword at his heart. I like to think he fell in love with her after this.

 

[CleverNickName]

Lockwood's painting of Redgar fighting a red dragon is what made me love the Fighter class so much in 3rd/3.5 Edition. I've never really thought much of the Fighter class before or since, but that's probably not the artwork's fault.

 

[Omand]

Lockwood's painting of Redgar fighting a red dragon is what made me love the Fighter class so much in 3rd/3.5 Edition. I've never really thought much of the Fighter class before or since, but that's probably not the artwork's fault.

Just one thing, that is Tordek the Iconic Dwarf Fighter fighting the dragon, not Regdar.

The beard and the axe (and the text at the bottom of the picture) give it away.

Cheers

 

[CleverNickName]

I always got Redgar and Tordek confused. Usually Redgar is depicted as either dead or unconscious; I should remember that.

 

[Sacrosanct]

Clyde Caldwell's art has inspired a number of my characters and/or npcs over the decades,

I guess most of your characters had really low ACs...

 

[Voadam]

I guess most of your characters had really low ACs...

Bracers of Defense are awesome for executing AD&D unarmored fighter concepts.

 

[Mad_Jack]

I guess most of your characters had really low ACs...

Hey, I'm an old-school fantasy movie fan - my version of "plot armor" is to let folks describe their armor pretty much any way they want:

Warduke, Red Sonja and even the '80's-version Kurgan from the first Highlander movie are all wearing "chainmail", and you can write in "breastplate" on your character sheet even if those are literally all it covers... Got a giant shoulderpad and spiked kneeguards? "Half-plate" it is...