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

Olgar Shiverstone · Dec 19, 2012

jmucchiello said:
Mid-80s Dragon cover with a female ranger crouching down and her sidekick a racoon with a backpack. The backpack always killed me. Elmore, I think.

This one? #94. More of a lemur than a raccoon, methinks.

Wicht · Dec 19, 2012

Thanks for that Olgar. Now if only I could find a place to find a print of the same.

Olgar Shiverstone · Dec 19, 2012

Elmore sells prints of a lot of his work at larryelmore.com. Not sure if that's one of them, though.

Hussar · Dec 20, 2012

Wow, that's some impressive threadomancy.

But, to answer the OP (very late) - I'd also go with a lot of the Jeff Dee stuff. And Erol Otis. And, to be honest, a lot of the Elmore stuff as well. When he didn't do cheesecake, he did some fantastic stuff. I was a bit of a Dragonlance geek way back when too.

There was also a really cool image way back in the old loose leaf 2e Monster Manuals. It was on one of dividers that came with the set. It showed a group trying to get past a beholder type guardian critter (spectator maybe) by feeding it a big hunk of steak. Very cool image. Can't find it though on Google and I have no idea who did it.

Two things I always miss about that early stuff. One, PC's getting their asses kicked. The monster manual entries and even the DMG and PHB often showed the monsters munching on a PC. That's missing from a lot of the current art. I also miss the whimsy. A lot of that older stuff was pretty silly. There's nothing wrong with silly. We need more silly in the game.

jmucchiello · Dec 20, 2012

Olgar Shiverstone said:
This one? #94. More of a lemur than a raccoon, methinks.

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Hey, I remembered it 10 years ago as a raccoon. I got the email for this and I'm wondering when the heck did I post that. Oh, 10 years ago. No wonder I don't remember.

It's still my favorite cover, though.

Hussar · Dec 20, 2012

I have a sneaking suspicion that threadomancy was cast by a spam bot, but, I could be wrong.

Still a fun topic though.

Olgar Shiverstone · Dec 20, 2012

LOL. I just noticed the year was 2002 -- when I was reading the posts yesterday, the day/dates fit and I somehow parsed 2002 as 2012! [MENTION=813]jmucchiello[/MENTION] nothing like getting a 10-year-old reply, eh?

Mishihari Lord · Dec 21, 2012

It's an old OP but still a relevant topic. For me it's probably the Wormy episode near the end of the run where the Storm Giant cuts loose with lightning against a baddie defending a shrine (?) and brings the whole place down. Dave Trampier was so talented: he could go from humor to truly epic adventure within a page and have both work. I miss his work.

cildarith · Dec 21, 2012

Hussar said:
There was also a really cool image way back in the old loose leaf 2e Monster Manuals. It was on one of dividers that came with the set. It showed a group trying to get past a beholder type guardian critter (spectator maybe) by feeding it a big hunk of steak. Very cool image. Can't find it though on Google and I have no idea who did it.

This one?

http://www.acaeum.com/ddindexes/modpages/modscans/fr1.html

Looks like a Keith Parkinson piece, but that is just a guess.

steeldragons · Dec 21, 2012

This.

or, as others have said, just about any Elmore from this period fills me with nostalgia.
This.

For some reason more than any other of Tim Truman's works, this immediately takes me back to sitting on my bedroom floor, reading through 1e books.
and this.

As has already been said lots of times, pretty much anything by Jeff Dee but I've always remembered this pic.
And, finally, pretty much anything from Willingham. But this is a lifelong fave.