I always assumed Tanis was a ranger, until I got a copy of DL Adventures and he was statted up as a fighter. And Riverwind as a ranger. From their descriptions in the Chronicles I thought it was the other way round. (Particularly as Tanis is explicitly said to have a high wisdom.)
D&D General One Piece of Art- What D&D Art Inspired You to Love a Class?
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WarDriveWorley
Hero
I literally have never noticed that till you pointed them out. lol.. No clue
WarDriveWorley
Hero
Same which is why I used him as inspiration.
Jacob Lewis
Ye Olde GM
Going slightly off-script here...
Source: Icewind Dale (PC video game)
Artist: Jason Manley
Class: Paladin
Technically, its a licensed D&D game, so this should still count. There's actually several dozen portraits like this made specifically for this series. Many of them done by two artists. The quality varies; some are much better (or much worse) than others. This one, however, has always been my favorite. Most characters I play in any CRPG is based on this portrait (and several others from that game).
Source: Icewind Dale (PC video game)
Artist: Jason Manley
Class: Paladin
Technically, its a licensed D&D game, so this should still count. There's actually several dozen portraits like this made specifically for this series. Many of them done by two artists. The quality varies; some are much better (or much worse) than others. This one, however, has always been my favorite. Most characters I play in any CRPG is based on this portrait (and several others from that game).
I first saw this picture less than a week after the 1e Players Handbook was published. It's not like I look at on a regular basis, but it has been instantly recognizable to me for 44 years now.
And it wasn't until today that I realized that the shield is held wrong. The long axis should be near perpendicular to the arm, not parallel and the point should be pointed down, not up.
So here I am, looking at a barbed, ice, bone, and horned devil, and now all I can think is that shield looks weird.
Sacrosanct
Legend
Also, his remake he did of that one is pretty good too
toucanbuzz
No rule is inviolate
As a DM, I don't often play. But damn if this Dark Sun art didn't make you want to play a Mul Gladiator, what else could... It captured everything Dark Sun sought to be. The exotic feel, struggle, raw strength, brutality, alien nature, desert world.
Ralif Redhammer
Legend
Daniel R. Horne didn't do that many Dragon covers, but those he did are just outstanding.
Iosue
Legend
My five year old daughter wanted to play D&D, so I paged through my copy of Mentzer showing her the pictures, asking what kind of character she wanted to play. She immediately stopped when we came to that picture and said, "That."
I related this to my sister, who told me that my niece had done the same thing when shown the book at age 6.
Mad_Jack
Legend
Clyde Caldwell's art has inspired a number of my characters and/or npcs over the decades, but one of my favorite pieces of D&D art was by Jeff Easley on pg. 50 of the 2nd Ed. DMG - the properly-muscled female fighter holding the ogre by the nose ring after having sliced his club and shield to bits... (Couldn't find a good image of the whole pic)
I made a character based on her in one game and statted her out as an npc in another.
I've always imagined that the fight only lasted two rounds as she casually chopped his gear off of him, and the ogre never got in a single swing before she destroyed his club...
And there is no argument you could make that would convince me this woman isn't capable of that level of epic badassery...
I made a character based on her in one game and statted her out as an npc in another.
I've always imagined that the fight only lasted two rounds as she casually chopped his gear off of him, and the ogre never got in a single swing before she destroyed his club...
And there is no argument you could make that would convince me this woman isn't capable of that level of epic badassery...
DrunkonDuty
he/him
Always loved that one too. The grip on his nose ring, the boot in his groin, the sword at his heart. I like to think he fell in love with her after this.
CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing
Lockwood's painting of Redgar fighting a red dragon is what made me love the Fighter class so much in 3rd/3.5 Edition. I've never really thought much of the Fighter class before or since, but that's probably not the artwork's fault.
Omand
Hero
Just one thing, that is Tordek the Iconic Dwarf Fighter fighting the dragon, not Regdar.
The beard and the axe (and the text at the bottom of the picture) give it away.
Cheers
CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing
I always got Redgar and Tordek confused. Usually Redgar is depicted as either dead or unconscious; I should remember that.
Sacrosanct
Legend
I guess most of your characters had really low ACs...
Voadam
Legend
Bracers of Defense are awesome for executing AD&D unarmored fighter concepts.I guess most of your characters had really low ACs...
Mad_Jack
Legend
I guess most of your characters had really low ACs...
Hey, I'm an old-school fantasy movie fan - my version of "plot armor" is to let folks describe their armor pretty much any way they want:
Warduke, Red Sonja and even the '80's-version Kurgan from the first Highlander movie are all wearing "chainmail", and you can write in "breastplate" on your character sheet even if those are literally all it covers... Got a giant shoulderpad and spiked kneeguards? "Half-plate" it is...
