Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Fabian's Ravenloft

Blame it on Brendan, but I've been thinking a bit about the Stephen Fabian art in Ravenloft that originally sold my on the setting.

Here's a few of my favorites:




17 comments:

  1. Seeing his drawing style I can only think of his images in the gazeteers for Mystara. I really liked it.

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  2. Yeah, what jbeltman said. There was some really nice Fabian artwork in the gazeteers too.

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  3. Fabian's work with TSR was definitely a highlight during an otherwise (for me) drab set of product offerings.

    Allan.

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    1. Absolutely. Dilertizzi and Brom are the other high points in that era.

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  4. I love the tarokka deck illustrations he did too.

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  5. So good. Taladas, Ravenloft, the gazeteers. Definitely a high point in black and white D&D illustrations.

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    1. I should check out the Gazetteers, I've never really looked at them.

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    2. Maybe WotC will reprint those.

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  6. The middle one reminds me of the BBC Count Dracula (1977, 150 mins) which is the best screen adaptation in my view. Have you seen it?

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    1. I agree; that is the best adaptation. In general, I think British film-makers understand the source material in a way that Americans do not.

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  7. He was one of my favorite TSR artists ever. I really, really loved his style.

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    1. definitely. I also feel like he's a bit un-sung compared to other artists of the era.

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