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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 207178" data-attributes="member: 1106">Yeah, I adore that picture too.  I remember looking into the black socket of the troll in profile and trying to guess what it was thinking.Lockwood is, I think, my favourite 3E artist, and his work is gorgeous - especially in the FRCS.  Interestingly, we were going over the 3E concept art, and a lot of it seems more lively than the finals.  I assume that this is the "demo tape" phenomenon, whereby bands find that their demo tapes have more life or better takes than the final production.  I also feel that the computer colouring saps some of the life out of the sketches in some cases.Most people don't make a song and dance about chaos in their campaigns, so the alignment axis - when removed from context - begins to make a bit less sense.  Good and Evil are usually depicted as primal forces, but not Law and Chaos. True, he's somewhat more of a soldier of fortune and a rogue than a true hero, but if memory serves he occasionally goes into semi-selfless heroics.Perhaps looking at Salvatore in the light of being something of a modern pulp fantasy author puts them on more equal ground for comparison?Yes, and they seem closer to D&D sorcerors with magic from the gods than they are to D&D clerics.Well, from memory Conan picks up a sabre, or a long dagger, or an axe or something, uses it for two or three stories, and then either loses it or finds something better.  He definitely had all the martial weapon proficiencies. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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