D&D General Does anyone know which products had Elmore's Dragon Slayers, and Proud Of It! art?

Stormonu said:
Player's Handbook, p 7.

I think that is my favorite piece of 2E art.

<EDIT: I should specify it was the version with the charging knight on it from 1989. The 95's black version and the Revised Premium from 2013 used completely different artwork.>
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Ah, well that explains both why I remember it very well and don't have it in my digital collection (they only sell the revised versions as PDFs as far as I know).
 

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I guess I’m the only one who felt sorry for the baby dragon when leafing through my brand new 2e PHB. I imagined those smug adventurers ambushed the poor thing in its sleep and ran around to every tavern boasting how they saved the kingdom from the biggest, fiercest wyrm you had ever seen!
😅
 

TheHand said:
I guess I’m the only one who felt sorry for the baby dragon when leafing through my brand new 2e PHB. I imagined those smug adventurers ambushed the poor thing in its sleep and ran around to every tavern boasting how they saved the kingdom from the biggest, fiercest wyrm you had ever seen!
😅
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There's a very good chance that the next painting commissioned (under threat of dragon breath) was the adventurers with their heads on wall plaques with momma dragon sneering nearby.
 



Reynard said:
How so? Because there is no wizard on the cover?
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There's NOTHING fantastical on the cover. It's a knight on a horse - it could be the cover of a book about Charlemange, the War of the Roses, King Richard or anything mundane. Nothing speaks to a mythical or supernatural nature. Not even a glowing sword or the likes of a pegasus or griffon as the mount.
 

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I like it. It is very in action with the guy riding out to the attack, sword drawn and ready to swing and he is in a decent setting, not just a figure cut out.

The biggest downside to me is the helmet wings? The closer the inspection the less they work for me. From a distance they are fine though.

No monsters and no magic, but a cool horse and an armored guy with a drawn sword leading the charge. It seems designed to make you identify as the warrior leading the charge.
 

Stormonu said:
There's NOTHING fantastical on the cover. It's a knight on a horse - it could be the cover of a book about Charlemange, the War of the Roses, King Richard or anything mundane. Nothing speaks to a mythical or supernatural nature. Not even a glowing sword or the likes of a pegasus or griffon as the mount.
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It looks just like the fantasy novel covers of the time.
 



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