Dee-ities and Demigods

[bcholmes]

Jeff Dee has launched a coupl'a kickstarter projects aimed at recreating his old TSR art. Apparently the originals were left TSR when he left there, and someone tossed it several years later. I don't know about you, but his D&D art sticks in my mind as iconic of a certain era of RPGing.

He started with the Egyptian dieties from the old Deities and Demigods manual, then moved on to one of the adventure modules. Now he's recreating the Norse chapter from Deities and Demigods.

His finished pieces really bring back old memories.

Comments

[orangemike.livejournal.com]

Didn't remember his name; sure remember his art. This was the era when I was writing for TSR, and they were notoriously lax about originals.

[bcholmes]

I didn't know you worked for TSR; that's kinda interesting.

Oh, yeah

[orangemike]

D&D was to blame. Gygax and I got into a conversation in Renaissance Bookshop about something I had created for my own dungeon, and he said, "Sounds like it would make a good article for Dragon. So I turned the Tarot of Many Things into an article, my lady Cicatrice typed it all up (with a carbon) as my Christmas present, and I submitted it. They lost the article, but when they found it again they bought it and sent me a check. I liked this system, and did quite a few more articles (many of them reviews, some not) over the next handful of years.

That was my introduction to writing for pay; and D&D is to blame.