Do you recall a nostalgic D&D picture/illustration?

[Zander]

There was a sketch of a female fighter type and a skeleton in a trapped room that was filling up with water in the 1st ed DMG (I think).

2E, not 1E. The fighter was male in 1E. The Ministry of Truth made them change it in 2E.

 

[Zander]

I have a soft spot for the racial line-up in the 1E PHB.

 

[Ran]

Hey, this one was kinda of the symbol for me... it really comes to the origin of my gaming life...

 

[Left-handed Hummingbird]

I looove the art of the Basic D&D (red box) PHB. Especially the pencil drawings. Those were amazing to me when I got them (10 years old and could hardly speak or read English).

I was hugely disappointed when I got the AD&D PHB and DMG (1st ed.). The illustrations were crude and naïve in comparison.

 

[Fiery Todd]

There's a picture of an adventuring party rounding a spiral staircase. Just as the reach the landing (in the foreground of the picture), a magic mouth appears and begins to speak...

No, no, no, no...That's my favorite you uncreative hill!

OK, I'm changing then. My favorite is the Grell attack in the Fiend Folio.

The Barrier Peaks cover makes me feel all fuzzy too.

 

[Psion]

Jeff Dee's adventuring party with the mage casting the spell in the D&D expert set.

And the vampire picture by Jeff Dee in White Plume Mountain...

and the Paladin pic by Jeff Dee in the Rogues Gallery

 

[grodog]

In addition to several already mentioned, I really like:

• Erol Otus' map in White Plume Mountain.
• Tramp's greedy adventurers at the back of the 1e MM Treasure Type tables
• Darlene's succubus in the back of the 1e DMG
• Jeff Dee's wide-eyed kid on the Dungeon Geomorphs
• Tramp's manticore and Willingham's medusa-vase loot images in Monster/Treasure Assortment

 

[arwink]

I looove the art of the Basic D&D (red box) PHB. Especially the pencil drawings. Those were amazing to me when I got them (10 years old and could hardly speak or read English).

I'd agree with that. The Elmore(?) B&W illo's in the basic books and the expert books rocked.

 

[qstor]

Empril (sp) the choatic in the 1st ed DMG...


ahh...

Mike

 

[Henry]

Back in the early 1980's Larry Elmore did a wall poster for TSR, and this poster was for sale in the Sears Catalog. My mother ordered it for me for Christmas, and to this day I lament its loss due to wear, tear, and house moving over the years. It had two things that make it stand out in my mind:

1) It had both a male and female in the shot, fighting a dragon. This was in the early 1980's when RPG's were primarily a male activity.

2) The woman was not dressed in a thong and a feather.

It remained on the wall of my bedroom as a kid for many many years.

Sadly, I tried looking for it online, but did not find it at Larry Elmore's gallery. It had a man and woman fighting a Red Dragon, the red dragon loomed over the man, and the woman was in full armor, crouching under a rock, trying to get in position for a sneak attack.