Dragons of The Space Gamer #26 (Metagaming, January/February 1980): by Rusty Shelton, Robert Manns, Mike Ebert, and Robert Manns again
Elvira Moonbathing (1987)
Encounter in a fantasy landscape of foggy swamps and rocky spires (Robert Phillips cover, The Space Gamer 26, January/February 1980) This was the final issue published by Metagaming; Steve Jackson took over with issue 27.
Demon’s day off (Oleg Zacharov cover, Alarums & Excursions zine #90, January 23, 1983)
ALT
Outpost in space (Victoria Wheeler cover for The Space Gamer 56, October 1982, featuring “Unnight,” a world-setting by Stefan Jones for FGU’s Space Opera)
“November’s full moon is also known as the Beaver Moon, according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac” (space.com)
Illuminated by dragon fire, adventurers and Githyanki battle for a stolen vorpal silver sword (Peter Clark cover art, Dungeon 43, September/October 1993, featuring Steve Kurtz’ plane-travelling adventure “Into the Silver Realm”)
CACTI
My main project recently has been terrain, including these cacti based on the original How to Make Wargames Terrain version. Just need a shade and drybrush on the spines, and then a lot of varnish.
Currently protecting the Haribo.
Classic Oldhammer death world cacti
Go for the gobble! A Fistful of Turkeys from Some Turkey Games (ad from Interplay: the Metagamer dialogues No. 1, Metagaming, May-June 1981.) Metagaming actually released this game after Steve Jackson left to start his own company, with the font and format directly parodying Steve Jackson Games style, and apparently referencing the “No Turkeys!” tagline in early SJG Space Gamer ads.
Over the river and through the woods, and into the traps where the trolls catch their dinner (Bob Klasnich cover for Dungeon 37, September/October 1992, featuring a scene from Willie Walsh’s AD&D adventure “The White Boar of Kilfay”)
The oni of the Miyashima bridge (John Fraze’s cover painting for Dungeon 33, January/February 1922, featuring the AD&D adventure “Mad Gyoji” by Colin Sullivan)
TSR’s Mini Games were their answer to the microgame movement, pocket-sized board games with folded paper maps and a small sheet of counters (ad from back cover of White Dwarf 30, GW, April/May 1982)
“Name and shame” is fine but there’s something more satisfying about letting someone simply be forgotten when they deserve to be forgotten. The only problem is – it works. I’ll forget that someone was the one who did that thing they did.
I just edited a post to remove the original creator of the setting on which a game was based. I still like the art, and the artist isn’t to blame. (And thanks to @dukeofriven for the reminder in a comment)
Darkover: The Ages of Chaos, a game of psychic conflict – “On a beautiful alien world, a race of telepathic humans control elemental energies which can destroy their planet” (Eon, 1979; with Michael Whelan box art)