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Post your Top 20 D&D Illustrations of All Time!

tuxgeo

Adventurer
Ah well, to each his own. :D

I'm totally drawing a blank on a name of an artist though and I hope you guys can help me out. Who did a number of the illos for the Savage Tide AP for Paizo - the guy that worked on Lord of the Rings?

I really like his stuff, but, my brain is just not functioning.

Warren Mahy.

WETA's Richard Taylor let Warren Mahy specialize on the bad guys -- anything that was nasty or spiky -- while Daniel Falconer specialized more on the good guys.
 

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Hussar

Legend
Giving the Di Terlizzi thing a bit more cogitation and I think I understand why it's not to my taste. The images, to me, look very reminiscent of Arthur Rackham's Grimm's Fairy Tales . Now, that, in and of itself isn't a bad thing. That's some classic art right there. Love it to pieces.

But, to me, it never really fit with what I expected from Planescape. I always thought PS was this sort of Machiavellian setting with lots of politics and ethical dillemas where angels team up with devils to beat the snot out of something that may or may not actually be evil. Which Grimm Fairy Tales are not. Grimm Fairy Tales are morality tales that are pretty black and white in their presentation of what is right or wrong.

So, to me, the art never really matched up with the subject. If PS was a fairy tale setting, then I'd be right behind it. Even the urban fantasy Spiderwick Chronicles make a lot of sense with Di Terlizzi's art - it's modern day fairy tales after all.

I just never really "got" the loving for DT's art.
 

What an awesome thread. Most of the things that leap to mind (for DnD specifically) have already been posted. But I love this one
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BTW the Half-Orc in the seat is Garush, Ftr/Ass (my first AD&D PC)
This one makes me laugh
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How Kobolds should look!
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And for something different, White Dwarf mag covers (when it still covered DnD etc!)
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EDIT: and more art less chat IMO :D
 
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Wednesday Boy

The Nerd WhoFell to Earth
I have my list ready and the pictures but I can't figure out how to upload pictures from my hard drive. (Or can you only upload pictures from links?) Sorry for getting technical. As soon as I figure it out I'll post my list!
 

Klaus

First Post
I have my list ready and the pictures but I can't figure out how to upload pictures from my hard drive. (Or can you only upload pictures from links?) Sorry for getting technical. As soon as I figure it out I'll post my list!
When you click "New Reply", there is a button below the main post window called "Manage Attachments". That will let you upload your picks.
 

Wednesday Boy

The Nerd WhoFell to Earth
1. I love the Fleshwarper PrC so, so much and the illustration of the crazy, stiched together character and his mutated familiar is golden.
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2. This picture alone made me want to play a bugbear. And my GM let me!
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3. The sinister and malevolent grin on the ogre's face tickles me.
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4. Todd Lockwood is an incredible artist and I dig scenes with lots of little bits going on in them.
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5. Another great one from Lockwood. Dynamic fight scenes are always engaging to me and the Dark Elf trilogy helped usher me into D&D.
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6. This one has been on a number of other folks' list but it's a classic. I see it and I think about how I want my party to be in that situation at some point.
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7. Binders were my favorite 3.5 class and the symbolism and arcane tomish look to this picture clicks with me.
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8. A cool picture and one of the first modules I played in.
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9. I remember seeing this picture in an expanded form in the back of comic books that I read prior to getting into D&D.
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10. I really should pick this up because this picture makes me want to play a sinister sideshow campaign.
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11. I used to see this module on the shelf at my comic book store and always wondered what was in that sewer...
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12. Not much to say. I just like it.
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13. This one is funny and TNT at the same time.
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14. I like the artwork a lot but I especially like the story that it tells.
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15. Similar to Lockwoods bar brawl I like many of Reynolds' big scenes that have lots of action happening. This is just one of them.
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16. The unique perspective of this picture is what makes it stand out for me.
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17. Tony DiTerlizzi's Planescape artwork is the greatest. The characters he draws for it reminds me of characters that could have populated the Labryinth, which is always a plus.
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18. This was a character from Gates of Firestorm Peak that inspired me to make a spider Beastmaster Ranger.
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19. This guy just tickles me at how goofy he is. The best part was that I got to model a Shaman after him for a campaign. The worst part was that I got killed in the first session.
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20. My all time favorite D&D artist is my friend Tim, who used to draw the antics that our characters got into. This is our party who went through the old 2nd Ed. Silver Key module and a wereboar we fought in it. He wins hands down!
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Quickleaf

Legend
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[MENTION=53678]Wednesday Boy[/MENTION] This is a test to see if just using IMG tags around the address the image is hosted at on ENWorld works to display the image.

Aaaand, yep it works ;)
 


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