Eldritch Wizardry and nude women! D&D history help, please.

[Ranes]

Great. Thank you very much for those nightmares!!

I forgot to mention, his hands always trembled, as indeed did the unfortunate member of staff who had to serve him.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

I can't answer that. However...

I don't know if they were inspired by EW but Ral Partha used to make a series of wonderfully politically incorrect miniatures that depicted various nude, female, sacrificial victims that I vaguely recall stirred up a little controversy in the hobby press. While I was still at college, I had a part-time job at my FLGS. I'll never forget one customer in particular who seemed unhealthily fascinated by them.

Bedraggled and unkempt with dirty fingers that were always covered in plasters, he would shuffle over to the miniatures bar and ask, in a gravelly voice, "Can I have a look at your victims, please?" Once presented with the tray of assorted figurines, he would painstakingly examine each one closely, grunting occasionally.

Ah, happy memories...

Heh! If I recall properly those were part of the Imports line, actually sculpted by Citadel. (Back when Citadel and GW were seperate entities... I don't think that the two merging was good for either one.)

The Auld Grump

 

[BlackMoria]

No one batted an eye in my neck of the woods. Standard fare when one is familar with Frazetta and other fantasy artists who were not afraid to show 'a little' skin in their art.

 

[Ranger REG]

Did this stir up much controversy at the time? Did TSR eventually pull the product from the shelves?

Too young to recall. I did know there was a stir about Clyde Caldwell's female arts in the 80's.

 

[frankthedm]

Caldwell, good painter.

 

[Hand of Evil]

I remember something but it was not that big, I think something in a Dragon's Letter to the editor and statement on it.

You have to understand, that was the 80s, to complain you had to write a letter, then pay to send it, and then wait for a response. Given time things would die down before it came an issue. Today, the internet is rapid fire and mob inciting.

 

[BiggusGeekus]

I remember this cover getting slammed in the Philidelphia Inquirer when it came out. The module was released and PI suddenly decided it was time for one of their female reporters to buy a copy of the rules and "another product selected at random" (that may not be the exact quote but they did try to get the reader to believe this simply happened to be the first thing they grabbed off the shelves.

Anyway, it was a somewhat typical "investigative" article about D&D.

 

[Particle_Man]

I was buying minuratures for a 10 year old boy a few years back. The minurature was fine but the picture of the semi-nude demon lady on the back sure was not!

 

[Desdichado]

Back in the 70's people were less uptight about nudity in art and movies and such.

Surely you jest.

 

[diaglo]

Surely you jest.

i guess he means the whole no pubic hair in playboy days ended with the birth of the 70's.

or the fact that an X rated movie won best movie.