Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Just opened my Arts & Arcana deluxe set now, after falling asleep early two nights in a row.
Just opened my Arts & Arcana deluxe set now, after falling asleep early two nights in a row. Nicely packaged by Amazon, no corners bumped this time. It's in a massive, heavy box. The extras are in a parchment envelope affixed to the inside of the lid.
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Holmes Basic set advertisement on page vii, the 'Who Needs to Hang Around?' overalls kid
ReplyDeleteHolmes dice on page 37, plus a 20-sider shaded yellow/red
ReplyDeleteGreg Bells original cover for Greyhawk on page 38 😮
ReplyDeleteRare pic of Sutherland on page 43
ReplyDeleteYou'll Be Amazed ad for Dungeon/Holmes Basic on page 67
ReplyDeleteSutherland's original art for the Basic Box on page 70.
ReplyDeleteDisplacer Beast by Chris Holmes on page 71
ReplyDeleteIncluded on the full page of the Holmes Manuscript, along with the full entry for Dervish, which didn't make it in the rulebook.
ReplyDeleteAnother Holmes Basic Set ad on page 84, this one showing the infamous chits
ReplyDeletePages 158-159 show the dungeon from the AD&D coloring book, a redraw of the Zenopus dungeon map
ReplyDeleteI was very surprised how much of the art I hadn’t seen. particularly ads, industry sales circulars and concept art. If you have read Playing at the World by Jon Peterson there isn’t a ton of new info. However A&A is morere succinct in its summary.
ReplyDeleteI ordered the basic copy, I like to see the variety of monster illustrations. Too bad were shark didn't make the cut.
ReplyDeleteThaddeus Moore in the text there is quite a bit more detail about how the art came together than there was in PatW.
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