Re: New DnD products from LEGO and... Converse?

On 4/9/2024 11:55 PM, Justisaur wrote:

 That explains why I like 1e art, Trampier and Otis particularly.  Some of it is humorous, some of it looks thrown together, some like a psychedelic trip, much of it weird, but some just has a je ne sais quoi rawness that really grabs me.
 Just how I like to run a game.
 

I have to say a lot of my inspiration comes from British artists, especially in the old Fighting Fantasy books (which were much easier to get than DnD when I was a kid). Some of that art has that specific British fantasy grittiness that for some reason went away after the early 90s and only resurfaced a bit when the OSR came around. Russ Nicholson especially, and he previously did work on White Dwarf and the Fiend Folio.