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D&D art, what does it mean to you?

Started by Sacrosanct, August 06, 2014, 05:47:45 PM

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LibraryLass

#60
August 16, 2014, 02:43:02 AM
Quote from: Sacrosanct;780127some do.  The black in 1e doesn't look anything like the one above.  Neither do some of the others.  I liked the variation in 1e the best.  Greens were fat.  The illustrations above?

They all look alike bodywise.  Every single one is "look at my muscly muscles human!"

I kinda have to disagree with you. I mean they've all got fairly powerful builds, yeah, but the white and blue are fairly bulky and stocky, whereas the black and red are lean and catlike, and the green is more tall and erect.
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Black Vulmea

#61
August 16, 2014, 03:29:27 AM
Quote from: Sacrosanct;780127some do.
The 1e black dragon has the short face and forward-projecting horns. The green dragon has the sail. The blue dragon has the horn on its snout. The white has the skull crest. The red is skull ridges.

I believe all these features carried forward.
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Teazia

#62
August 16, 2014, 10:55:13 AM
Todd Lockwood of 3e fame (and the painter of the above dragons IIRC) drew the lounging Orcus of earlier pages.  

So he and by extension his 3e art is Old School.
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Bren

#63
August 16, 2014, 11:50:51 AM
Quote from: Teazia;780187Todd Lockwood of 3e fame (and the painter of the above dragons IIRC) drew the lounging Orcus of earlier pages.  

So he and by extension his 3e art is Old School.
Amusing. And by the same logic, this picture proves that Picasso's Cubism is actually reaistic protraiture.
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#64
August 16, 2014, 02:34:05 PM
Quote from: Black Vulmea;780149The 1e black dragon has the short face and forward-projecting horns. The green dragon has the sail. The blue dragon has the horn on its snout. The white has the skull crest. The red is skull ridges.

I believe all these features carried forward.

Yeah pretty much the same description, although the exact way the forward facing black dragon horns are expressed is frequently different for example.

Man, one thing looking in MM brings back - remember when all the different dragon species had different chances to speak and cast spells?
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crkrueger

#65
August 16, 2014, 02:37:07 PM
Quote from: Bren;780016Ah, thanks. With the exception of a few pieces, I dislike the 3x/3E art. Those two 4E pieces are interesting, though they don't particularly excite my interest to play that. I'll have to surf about to look for some other 4E art.

The second piece looks like a Renaissance-style painting. Which is odd, but rather interesting. So the goat horned folk are Tieflings?

Yeah despite the fact of there being no single Demon or Devil bloodline that has specific goat horns like that, for some reason, all beings descended from the countless expressions of beings spread across two infinite planes have roughly the same horns. :D
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Matt

#66
August 16, 2014, 02:44:56 PM
Anybody remember the picture from either 2nd ed. PHB or maybe DMG with the priestess or sorceress in a sorta Arabian Nights outfit with outstretched arms performing some kind of magic ritual? I think she was blonde. That one always struck me and was evocative to me as I like that Arabian Nights/Harryhausen Sinbad/Arnold Schwarzenegger Conan sort of setting.

Anybody know what I'm referring to and which book it was from? I gave away all my 1st and 2nd ed. stuff circa 1998, I think, when I foolishly thought I was done with RPGs in general. (Oh, what it has cost me to reacquire some of the classics. My biggest regret is giving away my original Traveller boxed set. Still haven't been able to replace it.)

LibraryLass

#67
August 16, 2014, 02:45:47 PM
Quote from: Teazia;780187Todd Lockwood of 3e fame (and the painter of the above dragons IIRC) drew the lounging Orcus of earlier pages.  

So he and by extension his 3e art is Old School.

Huh, didn't know that. Cool.

Quote from: CRKrueger;780232Yeah despite the fact of there being no single Demon or Devil bloodline that has specific goat horns like that, for some reason, all beings descended from the countless expressions of beings spread across two infinite planes have roughly the same horns. :D

Well, they do look a bit like Asmodeus.

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The Ent

#68
August 16, 2014, 03:16:39 PM
Elmore, Easley, Brom and DiTerlizzi. That would be "my" D&D art.

Armchair Gamer

#69
August 16, 2014, 03:48:57 PM
Quote from: Matt;780235Anybody remember the picture from either 2nd ed. PHB or maybe DMG with the priestess or sorceress in a sorta Arabian Nights outfit with outstretched arms performing some kind of magic ritual? I think she was blonde. That one always struck me and was evocative to me as I like that Arabian Nights/Harryhausen Sinbad/Arnold Schwarzenegger Conan sort of setting.

Anybody know what I'm referring to and which book it was from? I gave away all my 1st and 2nd ed. stuff circa 1998, I think, when I foolishly thought I was done with RPGs in general. (Oh, what it has cost me to reacquire some of the classics. My biggest regret is giving away my original Traveller boxed set. Still haven't been able to replace it.)

2nd Ed. DMG, 1989 version, Chapter 7, p. 40

The Ent

#70
August 16, 2014, 04:07:26 PM
Quote from: Armchair Gamer;7802592nd Ed. DMG, 1989 version, Chapter 7, p. 40

You like that pic too, I see :D
(So do I, it's very D&D)

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#71
August 16, 2014, 04:07:50 PM
Quote from: Sacrosanct;780127This is my favorite dragon pic of all time


hhhmmm Goldmoons thighs...

wait... There is a dragon in that picture?!
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#72
August 16, 2014, 05:39:40 PM
Quote from: Armchair Gamer;7802592nd Ed. DMG, 1989 version, Chapter 7, p. 40



Was it not used in the other printing with the black-framed cover?

Armchair Gamer

#73
August 16, 2014, 06:33:58 PM
Quote from: Matt;780293Was it not used in the other printing with the black-framed cover?

  I don't know; I've never owned a copy of that printing. But I remember the picture and happen to have a 2E DMG close at hand.

Raven

#74
August 16, 2014, 06:56:25 PM
Quote from: Matt;780235Anybody remember the picture from either 2nd ed. PHB or maybe DMG with the priestess or sorceress in a sorta Arabian Nights outfit with outstretched arms performing some kind of magic ritual? I think she was blonde. That one always struck me and was evocative to me as I like that Arabian Nights/Harryhausen Sinbad/Arnold Schwarzenegger Conan sort of setting.

Anybody know what I'm referring to and which book it was from? I gave away all my 1st and 2nd ed. stuff circa 1998, I think, when I foolishly thought I was done with RPGs in general. (Oh, what it has cost me to reacquire some of the classics. My biggest regret is giving away my original Traveller boxed set. Still haven't been able to replace it.)

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