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<blockquote data-quote="osprey126" data-source="post: 5837050" data-attributes="member: 15170"><p>I complied a list from memory, sorry no links. As I saw other pictures I realized how much good art there was for D&D but I went with my gut and picked the pictures that first jumped into my mind. As I have been a customer for around 30 years there is a bias towards those early images that first caught my interest.</p><p></p><p>1. Gas Spore exploding after being hit with a sword from 1st ed Monster Manual (I picked it up to look at in a Toys R US and it was the page I flipped to. I still remembered that picture months later when I was looking again when I was thinking about what to buy to get into this complex but fun looking game)</p><p></p><p>2. The cover of the Holmes Basic Set - I still have a photocopy tacked to the wall in my computer room.</p><p></p><p>3. The cover of Keep on the Borderlands - I still remember thinking about what I could afford to get off the equipment list that would make my charcter like the elf shooting orcs on that cover.</p><p></p><p></p><p>4. 1st edition Screen collage - It contains all of the images you would need to convey a great adventure.</p><p></p><p>5. Paladin In Hell</p><p></p><p>6 Emirikol the Chaotic</p><p></p><p>7. Green Dragon Breathing on a horde of kobolds</p><p></p><p>8. Party fighting an Owlbear from B2</p><p></p><p>9. Jeff Dee Cover for White Plume Mountain - I conveyed the rought and tumble of a fight, especially the shield spell and dodging the tail spike.</p><p></p><p>10 Cover of Slave Pits of the Undercity - Another Jeff Dee that really shows characters doing something</p><p></p><p>11. Cover to X1</p><p></p><p>12. Cover to PHB 1st ed</p><p></p><p>13. Dragonslayers by Elmore in 3rd ed PHB</p><p></p><p>14. Paladin by Elmore - a mounted knight fighting three orcs with a mountain backdrop - from a poster/product listing</p><p></p><p>15. Savage Frontiers for Forgotten Realms by Elmore - I would love a poster of that or better yet the original</p><p></p><p>16. Intellect Devourer from Expedition to the Barrier Peaks</p><p></p><p>17. Cover of the Temple of Elemental Evil by Parkinson</p><p></p><p>18. Dragon Breathing fire on a group of fighters while a mage hides behind a pillar by Lockwood</p><p></p><p>19. Waterdeep cover with Xanathar and his lackeys</p><p></p><p>20. Ravenloft cover</p><p></p><p>Artists.</p><p>This was a little harder and again leans towards the 70s and 80s</p><p>Larry Elmore</p><p>Jeff Dee</p><p>Jim Holloway</p><p>Erol Otus</p><p>Jim Roslof</p><p>Trampier</p><p>Keith Parkinson</p><p>Jeff Easley</p><p>Brom</p><p>Willingham</p><p>Lockwood</p><p>WAR</p><p>O'Conner</p><p>Clyde Cauldwell</p><p>Fred Fields</p><p>Tom Baxa</p><p>RK Post</p><p>Sutherland</p><p>Darlene</p><p>Eva Widerman</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="osprey126, post: 5837050, member: 15170"] I complied a list from memory, sorry no links. As I saw other pictures I realized how much good art there was for D&D but I went with my gut and picked the pictures that first jumped into my mind. As I have been a customer for around 30 years there is a bias towards those early images that first caught my interest. 1. Gas Spore exploding after being hit with a sword from 1st ed Monster Manual (I picked it up to look at in a Toys R US and it was the page I flipped to. I still remembered that picture months later when I was looking again when I was thinking about what to buy to get into this complex but fun looking game) 2. The cover of the Holmes Basic Set - I still have a photocopy tacked to the wall in my computer room. 3. The cover of Keep on the Borderlands - I still remember thinking about what I could afford to get off the equipment list that would make my charcter like the elf shooting orcs on that cover. 4. 1st edition Screen collage - It contains all of the images you would need to convey a great adventure. 5. Paladin In Hell 6 Emirikol the Chaotic 7. Green Dragon Breathing on a horde of kobolds 8. Party fighting an Owlbear from B2 9. Jeff Dee Cover for White Plume Mountain - I conveyed the rought and tumble of a fight, especially the shield spell and dodging the tail spike. 10 Cover of Slave Pits of the Undercity - Another Jeff Dee that really shows characters doing something 11. Cover to X1 12. Cover to PHB 1st ed 13. Dragonslayers by Elmore in 3rd ed PHB 14. Paladin by Elmore - a mounted knight fighting three orcs with a mountain backdrop - from a poster/product listing 15. Savage Frontiers for Forgotten Realms by Elmore - I would love a poster of that or better yet the original 16. Intellect Devourer from Expedition to the Barrier Peaks 17. Cover of the Temple of Elemental Evil by Parkinson 18. Dragon Breathing fire on a group of fighters while a mage hides behind a pillar by Lockwood 19. Waterdeep cover with Xanathar and his lackeys 20. Ravenloft cover Artists. This was a little harder and again leans towards the 70s and 80s Larry Elmore Jeff Dee Jim Holloway Erol Otus Jim Roslof Trampier Keith Parkinson Jeff Easley Brom Willingham Lockwood WAR O'Conner Clyde Cauldwell Fred Fields Tom Baxa RK Post Sutherland Darlene Eva Widerman [/QUOTE]
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