Quote from: Dr Rotwang!Gaaaah!  

I'm a teetotaller.  Send that coffee back!

How about coffee and :donut: or :oreo:

Regards,
David R

But I digress.

Quote from: Dr Rotwang!Somethin' about fights in the snow...I dig this:

That's one of my all-time favorite fantasy RPG pics. It made Kostchtchie one of my favorite demon lords.

Mostly about magazines but I can't help it. I love this piece by Eric Pommer.

Can't resist, one more. Atlantis Found by Jeremy McHugh.

Quote from: Dr Rotwang!Somethin' about fights in the snow...I dig this:

Yeah.

This cover had a impact on all our D&D games for a while. One of my friends made every one of his characters carrying a hammer based on that picture right there.

It got cooler with every new character he made who carried the damned thing.

Quote from: HinterWeltCan't resist, one more. Atlantis Found by Jeremy McHugh.

Okay, this is the kind of cover I'm talking about. Very nice.

And richforest, your first post, welcome aboard

Regards,
David R

This should work.

Thanks for the warm welcome, David.

Ok, here's another one, and it's a cover picture that we also actually used in play.



Dark flying castle? Check.

Bunch of guys haul-assing to get away from there? Yep.

Dragons pouring out of the place? Yeah...

I remember finding that Art of the Dragonlance Saga book in our local public library. I pulled out the ol' graph paper when I got home and mapped that flying castle on the cover. I still to this day am not entirely clear on what it is "officially" (some kind of tomb??). Anyway, I used it as a HQ for a badass dragon highlord type. Thinking back on it, we used a ton of Dragonlance images and ideas from that art book. But we never actually used any of the official adventures or D&D campaign materials. I know I sketched out dragon jousting rules for Basic D&D after looking through that book right there. Anyway, I did read the novels much later, after we'd already tapped out all the gaming we wanted from that art book. From what I hear, our ignorance at the time spared us some pretty awful railroading in the canon adventures.

Rich

I've also used covers esp from old sci/fan mags/books. Here's a link to one such cover that was the springboard to much adventure goodness. There are also many other covers to choose from :

http://www.ericsiegmund.com/analog/issues/1967_09.html

Man, it's been years since I saw some of those covers.

Regards,
David R

Quote from: richforestI remember finding that Art of the Dragonlance Saga book in our local public library. I pulled out the ol' graph paper when I got home and mapped that flying castle on the cover. I still to this day am not entirely clear on what it is "officially" (some kind of tomb??) Anyway, I used it as a HQ for a badass dragon highlord type..

Strange. This picture was the inspiration for an adventure set on Jorune. It was also the first time I ever begun an adventure in medias res. I couldn't resist. The players beginning the adventure fleeing before a determined Skyrealm.....

QuoteThinking back on it, we used a ton of Dragonlance images and ideas from that art book. But we never actually used any of the official adventures or D&D campaign materials.

IMO whatever I could have come up with based on the artwork would have been better than the official published adventures...

Regards,
David R