News — TSR

Dragon Magazine #92 has one of those covers I just can’t get enough of. In fact, artist Den Beauvais can’t get enough either as he’s asked me on a couple occasions if he can paint a similar cover for Gygax Magazine. Now as much as I’d like that, I just got Den to paint the cover for Issue #4, so he might have to wait to few issues before I can have him back again! Anyway, Den’s work on this piece is superb, from the crumbling bridge and wizard [Tolkien], to the half-naked damsel getting wyvern snatched [Frazetta], to...

DON'T FORGET TO CHECK OUT AOTG'S CURRENT KICKSTARTER TO YOUR RIGHT!  AND, WE NEED JUST 20 MORE BACKERS TODAY TO HAVE AN ORIGINAL ARTWORK GIVE AWAY!  COME JOIN US AND ROLL THE DICE ON ART!   Today I’m going to take a look at one of my favorite module series by one of my favorite artists [and currently a client if anyone needs a commission].Yes indeed, I4 Oasis of the White Palm is the second installment of the Desert of Desolation series written by Philip Meyers and Tracy Hickman. It is for characters 6-8th level, but I always...

I was at my yearly game retreat last March and one of my friends had a copy of the third printing, of the initial release, of Gamma World by TSR in 1981. Since the game had been designed in 1978 by James M. Ward and Gary Jaquet, it had a certain old school feel, but it wasn’t until I actually picked up a physical copy and held it in my hand that I realized all the artwork for it was done by Dave Trampier.That simple fact alone makes this version of the game highly important to the hobby in...

Ah Spelljammer, or as my old DM Mark used to call it ‘Sefron in Space’ after my character who left the forgotten realms for a time to travel around the spheres. Whatever it is called in your own mind, Spelljammer always has carried a special place in my heart for what it was, what it could have been, and what it is today.During those days in my middle college years, I didn’t have much money, and so Mark had ended up buying the Spelljammer Boxed Set, and his little brother Curt chipped in for the accessory Rock of Bral....

I often try to remember when I first got my hands on a copy of Fiend Folio. Truly, I have no recollection of that day, although I’m sure it was in some made gaming binge rush to outpace my DM Mark on how many core books we had. Whatever the case, it was mostly an afterthought to my gaming days, and honestly, like Erol Otus’s work at the time, I wasn’t really a fan of the art.Later, however, once I’d aged, actually studied art beyond the passing fancy, and had the beginning stages of nostalgia for the bygone days...