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Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Orc or goblin rogue? AnnArchive[.]org, 1980s D&D cartoon related art

 Super cool 1980s cartoon based sticker book from AnnArchive[dot]com. What an amazing site with a ton of 1980s pen and ink style art from old adventure books... incredible stuff, thank you Ann and Underdogs folks. 

https://annarchive.com/files2/DnD_Sticker_Book.pdf

Orc or Dark Creeper or goblin rogue? I'm a fan of this orc(?) thief-rogue-bandit looking dude. Apparently his is Zarak, leader of some orcs.  Wow, he looks nothing like the cartoon's green, reptilian, (slightly pig faced" orcs, but I like him a lot anyway... more like a goblin to me. Oh wait, it says near the end "evil half-orc assassin" so that explains it. Oh heck, he's one of the toy lines, yes familiar now I think Al had him even... I see Strongheart at the end of the sticker book too, OK, it all makes sense now. 


Holy cow, they had a Dragonne, and it had Uni in its maw!! Check out the hatching and cross-hatching pen and ink artwork shading techniques, very cool. 


Having a hard time not grabbing every single drawing, so let me paste some cool text from this sticker book. Check it out, Kelek makes an appearance again... and of course Venger and Tiamat are there.

Eric and Diana started to run, with Uni following close behind. The Orcs were no longer in sight—but nor were any of the landmarks which Eric or Diana recognised—except one—the Fire Mountain. Then Eric spotted a dark shape, moving across the sky towards them. It was Venger mounted on the terrible horse Nightmare. Was he looking for them, or was Kelek using him to guard the pieces of crystal which he had hidden? 



OK, maybe last thing, this map is incredible... simple yet evokes the right vibe. Might use a similar for our next campaign:







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