Working white on black is a very different structure than my usual work. Even my strongly black pieces are drawn black on white. It took me hours to do, and I had to redo some sections a dozen times to be happy with them. "Ioun Stones" Digital B&W bitmap October 15, 2025

Have been making my way through a close read of the Immortals rules. So much great stuff in there, although I'm realizing it could have been better organized. Below - a preliminary concept sketch of the cover, by Larry Elmore. osrgrimoire.blogspot.com/2025/09/immo...

#BECMI #DND Adventures in Gulluvia Supplemental: King Norm I of Mercadia gamingwiththegnomies.blogspot.com/2022/03/adve...

Jeff Easley's illustration of a very angry dragon appears in this 1999 ad for Capcom's Dungeons & Dragons Collection for the Sega Saturn Blending RPG aesthetics and beat 'em up action, both Tower of Doom and Shadow Over Mystara came home from the arcade packed together in a two CD set!

Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara (1996) was a fantasy arcade beat 'em up with light RPG elements by Capcom and a sequel to 1993's D&D: Tower of Doom. Two years have passed since the defeat of Deimos, the big baddie in Tower of Doom, but now a new evil threatens conquest. (a dragon's thread)

There's also this super curious piece: the Dungeon Hack computer game excerpted the warrior from the BECMI cover! It then composited it onto something Jeff Easley had drawn for the 1988 Dragonlance calendar. (The German Magier & Priester supplement also used the original piece in 1998.)

Mystara was my first love in D&D settings, long before Greyhawk. I still remember those maps from the Basic and Expert sets , sprawling kingdoms, hollow world theories, and flying ships powered by magic. It was weird, colorful, and full of wonder. #DnD #TTRPG #OSR

Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom by Capcom debuted in 1993 boldly taking arcade goers on a grand adventure through a licensed adaption of TSR's fantasy world! It seems to have also arrived in Europe the same year and was advertised with a neat multi-page flyer showcasing characters and monsters.

I’ve been getting into Mystara, the first D&D world (using OSE) over the past few weeks and really loving it. The map of the Known World is a big bugger

Today at the Atlas of Mystara: Michele Carpita's Vacros and Cathos v1 from November 2005. Following Andrew Theisen's proposed placements of MSOLO's islands in 1999, Michele mapped out his own ideas in 2005, using two islands featured in the Companion Set but missed out from Dawn of the Emperors.

Next step, statewide or nationwide? #TTRPG #DnD #D&D #OSR #BECMI #Mystara

Day 61, random old school TTRPG art from random book: “Dark Tower”, Judges Guild 1979, Jennell Jaquays , page 66. #ttrpg #dnd #osr #becmi #art #d&d #fantasyart #darktower #dcc #goodmangames

Con Report - Gary Con XVII osrgrimoire.blogspot.com/2025/03/gary...

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Do you like old school rpgs? Do you like hex maps? If so, this!!! mystara.thorfmaps.com

Test of the Warlords - A Rock Ballad! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mziC...

I'm in...well what I consider to be too public of a space to really be loud or talkative, but I wanna try to stream soon. Nothing too intense, just Chronicles of Mystara on steam. Not sure how much I'm gonna be able to get done, but I'm antsy and want to play. i'll reply here with a link when ready.

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Although uncredited, this illustration from AC10 "Bestiary of Dragons and Giants" (1987) was likely done by Roger Raupp (compare the dragons to his illustration of a dragon from ICE's "Elemental Companion" (1989) Raupp was mentioned in the review for AC10 in Dragon #148 #becmi #dnd #rogerraupp

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M5 "Talons of Night" (1987) by Jennell Jaquays features extraplanar travel. One of the outer planes is the World of Thorne, a concept Jaquays revisited in her cover illustration for Dragon #175 (November, 1991) #talonsofnight #jennelljaquays #becmi #becmidnd #dungeonsanddragons #dnd #ttrpgs #osr

The outer plane of Eloysia described in "Five Coins For A Kingdom" (1987) is a fascinating place, with thousands of rocky islands orbiting a small, central sun in three concentric shells. You can read more about it here: osrgrimoire.blogspot.com/2024/12/m4-f... #becmi #dnd #osr

Love this article by Tom Moldvay in "The Dragon" #38 (June, 1980) and also the illustration by Darlene. Moldvay later used these ideas to create the Seven Realms in M3 "Twilight Calling" (1986). You can read more about them, here: osrgrimoire.blogspot.com/2024/12/m3-t... #becmi #twilightcalling

Map of "The Known World" osrgrimoire.blogspot.com/2024/11/map-... #theknownworld #becmi #becmidnd #dungeonsanddragons #dnd #ttrpgs #oldschoolrenaissance #osr

For all you #Mystara nuts, try this site if you haven't already visited it yet. mystara.thorfmaps.com #BECMI #OSR #TTRPG #DND

Mystara fans: Can you help paleologos move CM8 The Endless Stair to Glantri?: www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic... Check paleologos's notes and see if you have any suggestions. #Mystara

There's no school like the old school #dungeonsanddragons #dnd #ttrpgs #oldschoolrenaissance #osr