D&D General Correspondence with David Trampier and A History of His 1985 Attempt to Crowdfund a Wormy Anthology

[J.Quondam]

This is a wonderful writeup! THanks for sharing.

 

[Mezuka]

And, good heavens, these days he'd get that anthology funded in a snap.

IIRC, there was a KS project but for some reason I don't recall Trampier pulled out. I was ready to back it. I can't find any info on it.

 

[Mezuka]

An interesting article:

The Strange Case of David A. Trampier

Grognards and other fans of 1st Edition D&D will remember some of the greatest illustrations in role-playing being drawn by David A. Trampier (aka ‘TRAMP’ or ‘DAT’). The…

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[Mirtek]

And, good heavens, these days he'd get that anthology funded in a snap.

IIRC in the last printed Dragon Mag they did some articles looking back at the history of D&D and Dragon Mag and Trampier just one day decided to cut all ties to the industry and "vanish". A fan must have tracked him down some years later but he was told that he had closed with this chapter of his life, no interest to return to the industry and politely asked the fan to "lose his number"

Edit: Mezuka found the story and now I am sad that I had to learn about the finale of it. RIP in David

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[grodog]

Here's a picture of the original artwork, for reference:

Allan.

 

[grodog]

This is also worth checking out: Photo Galleries - Castle Perilous Games

Allan.

 

[RealAlHazred]

As an enormous fan of Trampier's Wormy and other artwork, thank you so, so much for sharing this. I am now even sadder that I won't get to see four more volumes of Wormy! Argh! If only I could journey to a parallel universe to find where these were published!

On a different forum, I started a thread to speculate on how the story would have gone.

 

[Mezuka]

This is also worth checking out: Photo Galleries - Castle Perilous Games

Allan.

I had never seen these Star Frontiers illustrations before. They are beautiful.

 

[LordEntrails]

Thanks to a link from Facebook, this appears to be the most complete of the statements from Scott Thorne of Castle Perilous regarding his experience with Dave. Rolling for Initiative--What Ever Happened to Dave Trampier?

 

[Mezuka]

Thanks to a link from Facebook, this appears to be the most complete of the statements from Scott Thorne of Castle Perilous regarding his experience with Dave. Rolling for Initiative--What Ever Happened to Dave Trampier?

I wonder why he was upset at WoTC. They weren't even in the picture. Unless he wanted nothing to do with anyone owning D&D.

We will never know but maybe WoTC would have been receptive and he would have made some good money from reprints.