The Art of the Dungeons and Dragons Fantasy Game

by Margaret Weis (Editor)

Genres: Fantasy, Art, Dungeons and Dragons, Gaming, Role Playing Games

127 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

Margaret Edith Weis is an American fantasy and science fiction author of dozens of novels and short stories. At TSR, Inc., she teamed with Tracy Hickman to create the Dragonlance role-playing game (RPG) world. She is founding CEO and owner of Sovereign Press, Inc and Margaret Weis Productions, licensing several popular television and movie franchises to make RPG series in addition to their own.
In 1999, Pyramid magazine named Weis one of The Millennium's Most Influential Persons, saying she and Hickman are "basically responsible for the entire gaming fiction genre". In 2002, she was inducted into the Origins Hall of Fame in part for Dragonlance.

Reviews

[Malum · Rating 5 out of 5]

Art from D&D in the mid eighties. This was a bit before I got into the game, but TSR was already using big, colorful pieces and moving a little more toward realism with how the people look that was always my favorite TSR art.

[VKNask · Rating 5 out of 5]

My childhood distilled! I cannot even count the number of times I've perused these pages, probably even before I could read! One of Dad's books that I requested to borrow most often growing up, and the reason I was utterly starstruck getting to meet Larry Elmore at my first Dragon Con circa 2008, this book holds so much nostalgia for me and was really formative for the types of fantasy realms that occupied my imagination for life. Now I want to go do some worldbuilding for my own stories...

[Tankboy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Revisited this blast from my past and suddenly remembered how much forgotten influence both Larry Elmore and Jeff Easley had on my pre-teen drawing style at the time. 🙂

[Thomas Van Boening · Rating 4 out of 5]

Yup. I'm a nerd. I apologize for nothing.

Seeing some older art that was strictly 1980-1990's D&D was a refreshing dose of nostalgia. Sometimes all I like to see are dragons, wizards, knights, and monsters.