D&D General One Piece of Art II (Monsters)- What D&D Art Inspired You to Love a Monster?

[J.Quondam]

Invisible Stalker from the 2e Monstrous Compendium. Tell me that isn't the most amazing art you've never seen!

Brings to mind the phantom fungus picture* in 3.5e MM. "It's completely invisible! You can't even see it with invisibility purge. Oh, and here's a full color picture of it!"


* To be fair, I really digged that picture, and phantom fungus, in general. But yeah.

 

[Malmuria]

Ok, have to go back to Tony Diterlizzi for this one...

I mean come on!
Planescape Campaign Setting (1994)

Story: Honestly I could post any picture from the campaign setting or any of the PS monster compendium. Seeing this art one page after another is what made me and many others fall in love with this setting. It is weird, whimsical, sinister, and smart. It conveys how this setting isn't about kicking the door down weapons drawn.

 

[Charlaquin]

For some reason, the graphic doesn't display for me?

Yeah, I had to fight with it for a while. Is it working now?

 

[el-remmen]

Some of the first visual representations of orcs I was exposed to were from the original Warcraft RTS games. So to me, orcs were hulking green-skinned dudes with tusks. Never cared for the pig-faced style of orcs seen in early D&D. Until I read Delicious in Dungeon.

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This is my absolute favorite depiction of orcs in any media I’ve seen (my current forum avatar is also an orc character from the series). Now I love pig-orcs (porcs?) and this is what they look like in my setting.

Have you read ORCS! by Christine Larsen? I love it.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Yeah, I had to fight with it for a while. Is it working now?

Yep! Whatever you did fixed it.

 

[Mind of tempest]

the one thing I dislike about these threads is that I can't contribute, nothing ever inspired me anymore.

 

[Emirikol]

Castle amber's colossus. Not only did I experience that during my formative D&D-kid years of the 1980s, it went to show the raw power of PLOT in a campaign. The players see it and say, "holy naughty word I hope we don't have to fight that." Then when you play the adventure and realize that there is a necromancer jarred in a little basket on it's back and that it's part of all the things going on in the WORLD OF AVEROIGNE demiplane, it gets the mind going on all the cause-effect surrounding such things.

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[RangerWickett]

I had enjoyed the concept art for Third Edition, but this cover of The Forge of Fury raised the bar for what I wanted from RPG art, and it made me want to run ambush dragons.

 

[RangerWickett]

And this concept art of Lolth is much creepier than her previous depiction as basically a spider centaur.

 

[Mind of tempest]

And this concept art of Lolth is much creepier than her previous depiction as basically a spider centaur.
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is it bad that I have seen far worse things than this?