When you think of fantasy tabletop game art in the 1980s, you think of Bill Willingham, who did some
When you think of fantasy tabletop game art in the 1980s, you think of Bill Willingham, who did some of the best art in the D&D Expert and Basic Set (e.g. the baby blue and bright slim red books with Erol Otus cover art). But did you know that Bill Willingham actually wrote some adventure modules himself? For Villains and Vigilantes, a game that has the distinction of being the first superhero tabletop RPG, though it was vastly overshadowed by Champions a few years later. But even in the early 80s, it was still put-putting along, and it had Bill Willingham going for it: he not only wrote the module but provided great comic-style art to introduce concepts in them. I wonder why more adventure modules done by artists haven’t tried that.Bill Willingham liked the characters in his tabletop adventure modules so much that, when he created his own creator owned comic, Elementals, he brought the baddies from this module to it. -- source link
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