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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dave2008" data-source="post: 8847672" data-attributes="member: 83242">I am pretty sure it was intentional.  I remember reading about it (maybe in the art of dragonlance) back in the day. All the artist (with the exception Easley IMO) adhered to it for the dragonlance products and only the dragonlance products. Look at the blue dragon from Keith below and compare it to the blue head from Takhisis by Caldwell I posted previously. Same design (pair of horns, pair of fangs, no nose horn, & strange belly scales), which is different from the MM.[ATTACH=full]268633[/ATTACH]And here is a DL blue by Elmore (though he adds a little horn to the nose)[ATTACH=full]268635[/ATTACH]The dragons in DL were unique and adhered to a particular design that was unique to DL.Here is a red by Easley and it follows the same design as Caldwell's Takhisis (double row of spines, 2 prominent horns, & check spikes)[ATTACH=full]268637[/ATTACH]Red by Elmore:[ATTACH=full]268639[/ATTACH]And let us not forget the "crown of horns" white dragons unique to DL. Here is Elmore's version of the white Takhisis head by Caldwell.[ATTACH=full]268645[/ATTACH]So whether or not they intentionally deviated from the MM, they clearly had a particular design/art direction for DL products that did not carry on to other works by the same artist. These were dragonlance dragons.Again, I remember this specifically being a thing: which ever artist painted a dragon first for DL, set the standard for that dragon.  I don't really trust my memory much any more, but that was my memory!</blockquote>

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