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Old School Inspirational Art Thread

Started by Tristram Evans, March 09, 2017, 12:10:48 AM

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#165
March 26, 2017, 06:40:41 AM
Quote from: Tristram Evans;953623Having never read the book nor actually encountered the monster in a D&D game despite its iconic status, how do the two interpretations differ?

In powers they differ quite a lot.  The Coeurl of the story of the story is a four-legged pantherine with fingered tentacles, strong enough to tear a man apart, highly intelligent, even educated, effectively immortal as long as it can feed, capable of naturally manipulating radio waves and electricity.  It does everything but displace, though it's ability to negate the energy weapons used against it might conceivably have inspired that.  The Displacer Beast always appears offset from it's actual location, has six legs, tentacles described as weapons rather than having fingers.  Both are intelligent, malevolent, predatory, and solitary, although I've never seen much done with a Displacer's Int score.

As far as I can tell the original, pre-novel short story is out of copyright, so I don't feel bad about linking this pdf.

Taken together with Discord in Scarlet and the Voyage of the Space Beagle novel they both got worked into, the movie Alien ended up paying van Vogt $50,000 out of court to settle a plagiarism suit.  The creatures and characters are all different, but the overall plot is strikingly similar.

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#166
March 26, 2017, 10:12:02 AM
Quotehttp://www.therpgsite.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=765&d=1489636976

This has always been a favorite picture of mine. The  look on the archer's face is perfect. Its the phrase "Roll for Initiative" captured in an image. :)
Remember when Illinois Nazis where a joke in the Blue Brothers movie?

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#167
March 26, 2017, 10:28:01 AM






Remember when Illinois Nazis where a joke in the Blue Brothers movie?

Democracy, meh? (538)

 "The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn't even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it."

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#168
March 26, 2017, 10:32:30 AM Last Edit: March 26, 2017, 11:27:33 PM by Nexus
Man, many of the images in this thread would cause fires of outrage on TBP that would be visible to alien civilizations centuries from now when they looked towards Sol. :D
Remember when Illinois Nazis where a joke in the Blue Brothers movie?

Democracy, meh? (538)

 "The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn't even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it."

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March 26, 2017, 10:40:54 AM Last Edit: May 18, 2017, 03:41:22 AM by Tristram Evans

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March 26, 2017, 10:45:01 AM Last Edit: May 18, 2017, 03:42:11 AM by Tristram Evans

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#171
March 26, 2017, 10:46:29 AM
Quote from: Nexus;953701Man, many of the images in this thread would cause fires of outrage on TBP that would be visible to alien civilizations centuries from now when they looked on towards Sol. :D

The Bisley pictures alone would likely cause a few aneurysms.

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March 26, 2017, 10:48:12 AM








Remember when Illinois Nazis where a joke in the Blue Brothers movie?

Democracy, meh? (538)

 "The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn't even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it."

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#173
March 26, 2017, 11:13:08 AM
Quote from: Nexus;953701Man, many of the images in this thread would cause fires of outrage on TBP that would be visible to alien civilizations centuries from now when they looked on towards Sol. :D

Surely that's bonus;)?
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March 26, 2017, 12:44:18 PM Last Edit: May 18, 2017, 03:42:43 AM by Tristram Evans

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