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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vrykyl" data-source="post: 3682279" data-attributes="member: 3644">Larry ElmoreI'm completely biased.The first D&D books that I owned was the early-80s red boxed set with the Elmore red dragon versus fighter cover. I moved on to other sets and, of course, Dragonlance. My imagination into the world of fantasy was viewed through an Elmore lens. Dragons were graceful and deadly creatures and all women were beautiful. The many times he graced the cover of Dragon I spent a long time gazing at the cover art before diving in to check out Roger Moore's latest hilarious editorial.I was such a geeky fan-boy that I met up with Larry at Dragon*Con and later Gen Con as well. I hung around his booth so much we were on a first-name basis long before I worked in the game industry.Many years later I could not believe that I had a chance to work on a property created and illustrated by Larry, something called Sovereign Stone. (I also got to work with my favorite authors, Weis and Hickman.) Over the years, between Sovereign Stone and Dragonlance I have had the amazing chance to hire Larry and give art direction on a number of cover paintings.Perhaps my favorite piece that Larry ever did for me was the art for the Dragonlance Dungeon Master's Screen. I had this vision in my head -- one that was not connected directly to any of the novels or adventures, but was so strong I had to see what he could do with it. We were on the phone and Larry got excited. The sketch came my way in record time and the painting delivered before we expected it.<img src="http://pen-paper.rpgshop.com/images/RPG/SVP4901.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> Larry nailed it. Somehow he got inside my head and gave me exactly my vision from Solace and Crystalmir lake and Flint's rock to the flight of dragons coming in from the right. Okay, so my evil wizards was a bit sexier than I imagined, but it was still a winner.As I said, I'm biased. Larry and I have worked together and become good friends over the years. I'm so happy to see him on the final cover of Dragon. I'm an old codger, I guess, because the magazine got away from me. The new-style covers just have not excited me the way the old covers did.I hear the arguments from the "don't like Elmore" crowd and I respect your opinions, but I'll take static Elmore poses over the others any day of the week. On this last cover, the dragon looks graceful and the woman is beautiful. Yay.Jamie ChambersMargaret Weis Productions, Ltd.</blockquote>

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