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I’m going to admit that are many occasions when I buy gaming supplements for no other reason than the artwork, and that certainly proved true with my purchase of The Book of Marvelous Magic. Written for the Basic D&D System by Frank Mentzer and Gary Gygax in 1985 [and oddly there are a LOT of 1985 products produced by Gary upon his brief return to TSR from Hollywood and before his ouster in August of that year], this 76 page magical item compendium lists over 500 new magi items.Now in 1985, Unearthed Arcana was produced for the AD&D system, so...

I must admit I've always been intrigued by GW6 because it was a Gary Gygax written adventure I own but have never played.  I can only assume this is that case because of the level requirement, 18+, which in 1st Edition D&D is very hard to come by.  I remember speaking with E. Gary Gygax once and he indicated his archmage Tenser was only 17th level, if that puts things into perspective, so Isle of the Ape is something that kind of stays on the shelf to be looked at but not participated in. Artistically, the cover was done by...

Back in 1988, when the Forgotten Realms was in its infancy on the open market, TSR produced the 96 page Lords of Darkness adventure anthology. It is set in various places around the Forgotten Realms, and has a nice intro by Ed Greenwood. All adventures focus on the dead, and the cover is a sublime Jeff Easley, who is an undead master as far as I’m concerned. Interior work is done by artist Karl Waller who provides some really slick b/w illustrations that capture the horror adventures find when dealing with the dead.Adventures included in the anthology focus on particular...

I’m not really sure when I played my first module, although I think it was at my first D&D Club meeting in 8th Grade. My only clear memory of actual adventure, while I sat in that library on Wednesday evenings after school, was trying, and failing, to enter the Steading of the Hill Giant Chief. So, I might assume that G1,2,3 [well, at least G1] was my first ever module, and I think that is interesting because it places my induction into gaming modules at the epicenter of what campaign modules should be. Having spent the past two and a...

Yes folks, it's true, as I run The Folio Kickstarter and continue to tweak that module series, I'm constantly pouring over old TSR classics as I try to gain a better perspective of construction and artwork.  Today, I had to share 11 interiors that are fantastic examples of classic D&D artwork.  I hope you enjoy, and please share! 'Storoper' - Assault on the Aerie of the Slave Lords - Bill Willingham 'Lizardmen' - Against the Cult of the Reptile God - Tim Truman 'Princess Rider' - The Secret of Bone Hill - Bill Willingham 'The Trip' - The Lost Caverns...