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<blockquote data-quote="Rabulias" data-source="post: 5898907" data-attributes="member: 16651">Trivia Dept: Waaaay back in 1984, when Dave Trampier was trying to get a Wormy anthology published, I asked him about that piece, and he wrote back:&quot;There's an interesting story behind the DM-screen (so to speak). That felt-marker &quot;painting&quot;, which I titled &quot;D&amp;D Momentum&quot;, (since D&amp;D was gaining momentum at the time, and the composition is structured to keep the eye moving in a circular motion, and also as a wordplay on &quot;moments&quot; because the piece is a collage of moments). Anyway, that piece was the last assignment I undertook before I left TSR's employ in late 1978. The interesting thing is that the previous summer, Tim Kask and I talked Gary into making a Dungeons and Dragons pinball machine. That piece which you see on the DM's Screen was designed as the backglass for a pinball machine. (I even designed a playing field for the machine before I drew the backglass, though I've no way of knowing if it would have been mechanically feasible.) Somehow, the pinball idea got scrapped sometime after I'd quit, and they decided to use the piece for a DM's screen. Although they did a nice job on the reproduction, the original piece was closer to a square in proportions -- a good hunk of the dragon's wings got cut off.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rabulias, post: 5898907, member: 16651"] Trivia Dept: Waaaay back in 1984, when Dave Trampier was trying to get a Wormy anthology published, I asked him about that piece, and he wrote back: "There's an interesting story behind the DM-screen (so to speak). That felt-marker "painting", which I titled "D&D Momentum", (since D&D was gaining momentum at the time, and the composition is structured to keep the eye moving in a circular motion, and also as a wordplay on "moments" because the piece is a collage of moments). Anyway, that piece was the last assignment I undertook before I left TSR's employ in late 1978. The interesting thing is that the previous summer, Tim Kask and I talked Gary into making a Dungeons and Dragons pinball machine. That piece which you see on the DM's Screen was designed as the backglass for a pinball machine. (I even designed a playing field for the machine before I drew the backglass, though I've no way of knowing if it would have been mechanically feasible.) Somehow, the pinball idea got scrapped sometime after I'd quit, and they decided to use the piece for a DM's screen. Although they did a nice job on the reproduction, the original piece was closer to a square in proportions -- a good hunk of the dragon's wings got cut off." [/QUOTE]

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