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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rogueattorney" data-source="post: 2611951" data-attributes="member: 17551">I don't agree that 82-85 is D&D's "Golden Age".  If we're going to liken D&D's "ages" to those of comic books, 82-85 would be more like the "Silver Age" of D&D.  It was the 2nd big splash of popularity, with a whole bunch of new blood contributing to it.  Actually, I'd probably put the years at 83 to 87, roughly coninciding with...  the release of the Mentzer versions of Basic D&D, the classic Hickman modules (Ravenloft, Desert of Desolation, Dragonlance), the release of the Greyhawk box, and then ending with (or maybe better put, culminating with) the first few Forgetten Realms products and the Gazetteer series.  The artists associated with this time period would be Elmore, Caldwell, Parkinson, Easley, and to a slightly lesser extent Holloway (he's usually most associated with Paranoia).I think the Golden Age of D&D would be 1975 to 1981, which covers the first mass publishing of the original set, it's explosion of popularity, the introduction of AD&D, the first Basic sets, and pretty much all of the "classic" adventure modules.  The artists associated with this time period would first be Tramp, Wham and Sutherland through about 1979, and then be Otus, Willingham, Roslof, Dee, and DSL.R.A.</blockquote>