Look familiar? Thanks to James at
The Underdark Gazette I now know the familiar DMG illustration by Darlene was actually a copy of one by Aubrey Beardsley. Found it. Extracted some silhouettes:
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Elf |
The last figure is Perseus from a different book. Beardsley's figures look graceful and lithe-- elfin-- to me. I think these could represent High Elves, no? Now, here is a second OD&D monster:
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Nomads |
I know there are other conceptions of nomad-- Mongols, the Sioux-- I'll be on the look out for them too, so your nomads won't have to always be desert tribes.
And here's another human fighter-- he was a blacksmith fighting off fairies, seems appropriate-- or, if I made him squatter and lengthened the beard, could be another Dwarf.
These have all been added to the zip file located in the sidebar.
I like the Perseus elf. Suitably exotic and androgynous.
ReplyDeleteCool. I was thinking, what if these were immortal elves and that guy, Beardsley's got him nekkid, is a berserker, how messed up would that be, to go into battle naked and crazy when that's the only way you could die!?
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