Let's start with some happy retro-futurist sci-fi work to begin with. I don't really like cities, but I'd live here. Maybe. If I could easily still get to the mountains and the desert that I love. Looks like the coast is just a mile or two in the distance, though.
A mean looking servitor daemon, at least in Dark Heritage or Fantasy Hack.
A couple more Tomorrowland-like pleasant retro-futurist images.
One curious development in D&D in the last decade or two is the proliferation of very bizarre "iconic" characters illustrated in the art. These aren't as bad as some; a platinum blonde halfling chick, a 4e-style tiefling, and a dwarf.
Actually, I don't know that that's any more bizarre than what we had on the opening artwork for the Cook Expert set, for that matter. But it certainly is a development in the game. Paizo in particular have milked it.
Who said realistic paleoart of dinosaurs and their "ilk" can't be both realistic and cute at the same time?
Part rat, part baboon, part man, all nasty. Another potential interpretation of the broad servitor daemon stats.
Everything about this character is odd. I'm not even sure what race he's supposed to be; some kind of dwarf, wearing weird overlapping turtle armor? Pretty cool image, though.
I sometimes throw some images of painted minis in along with the art. These Warhammer ghosts of some kind or another with a real grim reaper-like vibe are pretty cool.
One of the iconic greater daemons from Warhammer, the Keeper of Secrets with an unusual alternate hairstyle, maybe.
Some wolfman stuff.
The Vikings didn't really live up north far enough to have polar bears. The idea of them being from the frigid north is not really accurate. Scania, the Norwegian fjords, and Denmark all have fairly mild climates in spite of their latitudes because of the warm water currents in the nearby oceans. The climate and ecosystem is actually very similar to that of the Pacific Northwest. Think of Seattle and Vancouver more than Hudson Bay.
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