D&D General One Piece of Art VII (Spells): What Piece of Art Inspired You to Love Spells?

[Voadam]

By Wayne Reynolds, page 36 of the Spell Compendium, Body of War spell.

All right, my eldritch knight has a straightforward plan for the next round/level. I am going to polymorph into a D&D Battlemech and wade in. I might not have the hp to really pull this off, but that is the plan and I am making this happen.

 

[Emirikol]

There was a 1e counterspell reflection by a lich I found amusing.

 

[James Gasik]

This one from Dungeon #43, showing a poor adventurer suffering from the aftermath of a Reduce spell always stuck with me. I miss the days when that spell was good, lol!

 

[Emirikol]

From 1975 Blackmoor 0D&D suppl

 

[Dax Doomslayer]

From the Secret of Bone Hill

 

[Mad_Jack]

Artist: David A. Trampier
Source: DMG (1979)
Spell: ?????

I always assumed, due to the way the horse's legs were drawn, that he was riding a Phantom Steed...


My favorite spell art was one of the original illustrations of the Magic Missile spell from back in the BX days - a wizard with a glowing arrow floating by his side, pointing at an adventurer... (I think it may have been Bargle casting it at the cleric lady).

 

[Muso]

The very first spell in my first D&D manual: magic missile

 

[Mad_Jack]

The very first spell in my first D&D manual: magic missile

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Yeah, that's the picture I was talking about in my post...

For some reason, the fact that it's actually shaped like an arrow instead of some generic magic ball of light or fire was pretty cool.

 

[Muso]

Yeah, that's the picture I was talking about in my post...

For some reason, the fact that it's actually shaped like an arrow instead of some generic magic ball of light or fire was pretty cool.

I agree. Bargle was a great mage, so he had personalized spells