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James M. asks: when you think about Dungeons & Dragons, the cover of what product comes first to mind and the OSR explodes with posts – and he get more than 150 comments last time I looked. The sheer number of replies is astonishing.
when you think about Dungeons & Dragons, the cover of what product comes first to mind
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That’s my favorite as well.
– John 2010-09-18 21:29 UTC
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I think of the Metzner red box with the Larry Elmore cover art. I also think of the 1st edition PHB with the giant statue.
– Adrian 2010-09-19 00:33 UTC
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I guess the reason the D&D stuff is not so strong is that I got started with the Dark Eye and went from there to AD&D directly. We also switched to 2nd ed shortly thereafter so that those covers left a pretty strong impression, too.
– Alex Schroeder 2010-09-19 08:04 UTC
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Mondbuchstaben asked the same question regarding images that come to mind when we think of the Dark Eye, and listed the one (by *Bryan Talbot*) that I used to think of most often:
http://mondbuchstaben.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/talbot_drache.jpg
Due to that elven archer, the dragon eye, and the table for target size listing a penalty for trying to shoot something the size of a silver coin or *a dragon eye* I kept wanting to play elven archers that made called shot for the enemy’s eye. I also hoped for an instant kill, of course.
Alas, it was not to be. All I remember is that I ended up with a “sword master” AT 17 PA 8 (the Dark Eye has an active defense roll) able to make called shots. But I don’t remember what the effect was.
– Alex Schroeder 2010-09-22 16:13 UTC
