Sunday, August 2, 2020

TSR Settings as 70s Paperbacks

For no good reason, I decided to reimagine two classic D&D settings as 70s mass market trade paperbacks.

Art by Ken Kelly


Art by Sanjulin

12 comments:

Kyana said...

Looks nice. Can you try Planescape or Spelljammer?

CLAVDIVS CAESAR said...

I'd love to see this done for Planescape and Spelljammer.

Jensenator said...

Great stuff - what fonts did you use?

Dungeons and Possums said...

You got me good on Twitter with this!

Trey said...

@Kyana and Claudius - Those likely forthcoming, later this week.

@Jensenator - The Dark Sun cover uses Marvin (which I could find in digital font, so I cobbled the word together from printed sources) and Serif Gothic. The Ravenloft cover uses Ravenscroft (which is a digital adaptation of Rubens) and a Franklin Gothic (I think, it was just something suitably san serify I had at hand).

HDA said...

Yes!!

Trey said...

@Possum - I'm a tricky one!

Anne said...

That Ravenloft one is esp good looking!

Neal said...

Dark Sun has always seemed ripe for sword and planet gaming. Your cover just proves it further thanks.

Dariel said...

That works! Specially for Dark Sun.

JB said...

Shouldn’t that say “ravished by sorcery?”

In all seriousness, I love these so much...brings up all sorta of warm fuzzy memories of combing through used bookstores in Montana for summer reading material on Flathead Lake.

I would buy both of these in a heartbeat if they were actual books...totally in my wheelhouse for genre, tone, and artwork. A very lurid groove. I dig it.
; )

Dale said...

These are great! More please!
Marvin Visions Typeface: https://www.readvisions.com/marvin