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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ourph" data-source="post: 3229277" data-attributes="member: 20239">I'll give you that he doesn't draw his humans "pretty" or whatever, but I'm astounded that Erol Otus would get the rap of drawing humans and humanoids poorly.The three wizards picture from the 1980 Basic set that Melan mentioned above is one of my favorite pieces of D&D artwork from any time period and I think demonstrates that Erol Otus is incredibly proficient at drawing humanoid figures.<a href="http://jrients.tripod.com/otus/otusbasic.html" target="_blank">http://jrients.tripod.com/otus/otusbasic.html</a>And the alchemist picture from the Expert set is also, IMO, very good.<a href="http://jrients.tripod.com/otus/otusexpert.html" target="_blank">http://jrients.tripod.com/otus/otusexpert.html</a>Concerning the comparisons between the 1eMM and the 3eMM, all I can say is that I prefer the one where the orcs don't look like axe-wielding troll dolls TYVM.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />As for Emerikol showing "what PCs can get away with", who says Emerikol is a PC?  From as far back as I can remember, I assumed Emerikol the Chaotic was an NPC; someone for the PCs to track down after he went on his magical rampage through the City of Greyhawk.</blockquote>