Friday Art Attack

Although I've usually liked WAR's stuff, I'm not really a fan of the 4e iconics.  The Dragonborn race was an idea of... mixed merits, let's say.  It wasn't all bad, but I don't think it was great either, and I'm not sure how well it really went over.  Do they still have Dragonborn in 5e?  Or did they at launch, I mean?

I've always been a huge fan of early pre-age of sail shipping in fantasy.  The combination is sometimes "anachronistic" at least in terms of historical eras that it resembles, because I sometimes take a more Medieval approach to life on land and a later approach to shipping technology, but whatever.  It's fun.

The Darkness at Sethanon book cover; a great book by Raymond Feist.  Unfortunately, his whole series is now in "unedited" "director's cut" format, and the versions that I originally read aren't available anymore very easily (and sadly, my copies of all by the last of the first four Riftwar books inadvertently moved to Portland with my neighbor and got lost.)

I'm not quite sure what's going on here, but hey, it's cool, right?

4e concept art for the aboleth, which wasn't a major redesign visually from what it had been.  But, still, it's a bit more snaky and tentacly than it used to be.

A snake demon of some kind from Paizo.

Speaking of demons (and 4e) here's some fighting some characters.  I actually think that green guy is a PC, not a demon.  Sigh.

Some Eberron artwork; those big mural-style covers that they used to have during the 3.5 era.  Good stuff.  This is fighting some abominations underground, it looks like.

And here, some Paizo iconics fight a bulette.  One of my very early exposures to D&D was the Official AD&D Coloring Book, and those guys got attacked by a bulette on the second plate (or was it the third?) so they've always kind of stuck with me as an iconic weird thing.  I also used to have the weird little plastic toys that the bulette was supposedly based on, which came in a big back along with a rust monster, and a few other weirdos.

I had kind of forgotten the last few updates I did in this series to include a scenery picture.  I love Colorado in the fall.  From the Elk Mountains, not too far from Gunnison.