sometimes scmu is lame

Junji Ito

Alvaro Tapia

Dragon segreant (Genie Summers cover for Alarums & Excursions #166, June 1989)

Jérôme Brizard

Charles Vess, ''The Comic Times'', #4, Jan. 1980

Enrique Alcatena, ''Il Mago'', #1, 1991

"Through the millenia, it has known many names: Set, Surtur, Hel, Kutulu, Tiamat. The legends of this being stretch back beyond the memory of humankind. It is the Great Dark One." (Dell Harris cover art for Hellsgate by Julia Martin, supplement for Dark Conspiracy, GDW, 1992)

Virgil Finlay (1914-1971), ‘You Can See..’,  ’'Famous Fantastic Mysteries’’, Vol. 13, #4, 1952 Source

commissions

(Dragon 161, September 1990) The pair jumping together might be a nod to Butch and Sundance, but the composition from this point of view probably owes something to Die Hard and the iconic leap away from the explosion on the roof. The editor's last comment refers to this issue's special feature, "Why is the DM Smiling? Four ways to enliven your fantasy-game campaigns."

Unfaithfully Yours (1948)

DM tip:  If your world includes flying ships, magic carpets, flying brooms, rings of flying, levitation potions, and NPCs mounted on pegasi, griffons, and dragons, then the PCs’ first impression of a big city will be focused on all the activity in the air above.  The most important government, business, religious, and magical locales may be hubs for this traffic.  Also take a tip from Terry Pratchett – unless the magic college is completely invisible, it may be the most noticeable building as flames occasionally belch out of the windows and lightning arcs from the rooftops, and if you watch long enough the tallest tower randomly vanishes and reappears.

“When the Invoked Devastation came upon the Baklunish, their own magi brought down the Rain of Colorless Fire in a last terrible curse, and this so affected the Suloise Empire as to cause it to become the Sea of Dust.”  The Twin Cataclysms ended the long Baklunish-Suloise Wars in mere moments, scattered the survivors of both empires, and reshaped the map of the Flanaess.  The exact nature of these magics have been debated for a thousand years.  (Erol Otus illus and quote from The World of Greyhawk by Gary Gygax, TSR, original folio version 1980)  Previously

Player tip: If you enter a new location and the DM mentions a well, always – always – look down the well first (looks like Kevin Siembieda, from “The Well-Wasters & Water Whips,” Judges Guild Journal 21, June-July 1980)