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Forever DM who had more D&D books than people to play the game with. This is an appreciation of all the artists who contributed to the 50 year legacy of Dungeons and Dragons.

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Total Arty Kill @gentlemanical.bsky.social · Jul 27

Martine Fačková - Vecna (2023-2024)

Unused Vecna: Eve of Ruin art
@wanderwyrm.bsky.social was wondering about it.

Red energy crackling through them, Vecna, the Lich, stands with arms outstretched before robed acolytes and a red fog filled with misty skulls.

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Total Arty Kill @gentlemanical.bsky.social · Feb 27

Brian Valeza - Vurmas the Floating Outpost (2020)
Explorer's Guide to Wildmount interior art.
#DnD #CriticalRole

Vumas a floating outpost in arctic waters. Three massive boats tethered together in a snowy, waterway surrounded by massive ice cliffs.

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Total Arty Kill @gentlemanical.bsky.social · Feb 25

Justine Jones (2025)
Dragon Delve Alt cover art.
#DnD

In homage to the 1980's, a florescent pink, blue and orange dragon perches atop a purple rock.

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Total Arty Kill @gentlemanical.bsky.social · Feb 24

Greg Staples (2025)
Dragon Delve Cover art.
#DnD
The cover for the next anthology book was released at MagicCon Chicago.

3 adventurers stand at at the edge of a forest with an orange sky. Superimposed overtop is a Red Dragon head breathing fire. This dragon is surrounded by a Green, White, Black and Blue dragon.

Total Arty Kill @gentlemanical.bsky.social · Feb 19

Helge C. Balzer - Gibbering Mouther (2025)
Monster Manual 2024 interior art.

Errol Otus - Gibbering Mouther (1980)
The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan interior art

The 2025 version of a Gibbering Mouther. An orange ameboid / amorphous blob covered in eye stalks and gaping maws of teeth.

The original 1980 design of a Gibbering Mouther by Errol Otus. A black and white image of an amorphous blob made up of eyes and mouths full of teeth. When still it can be mistaken for a lump of dirt.

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Total Arty Kill @gentlemanical.bsky.social · Feb 19

Jeff Easley - The Lich (1993)
Van Richten's Guide to the Lich cover art.
#DnD

A cloaked undead master of magic casts a spell raising the dead out of an ancient graveyard.

Total Arty Kill @gentlemanical.bsky.social · Feb 14

Aurore Folny - Cultists (2025)
Monster Manual 2024 interior art.
#DnD #MonsterManual

A death cultist and his followers summon Orcus, the Demon Lord of Undeath.

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Total Arty Kill @gentlemanical.bsky.social · Feb 13

Martin Mottet - Star Falls (2024)
Quests From the Infinite Staircase interior art.
#DnD

A Griffon sits in a nest with their hatchlings atop a rocky outcropping and watches a shooting star fall to Toril.

Total Arty Kill @gentlemanical.bsky.social · Feb 10

Aurore Folny 2025
Hold Back the Dead module cover art.
#DnD

The Lich Szass Tam from Thay leads an army of undead as they attack the heroes from the 1980's D&D cartoon who defend Ironspine Keep.

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Hawklorddragon @cimerians.bsky.social · Feb 9

Dragon magazine cover by Jeff Easley 1998
#dndart

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Total Arty Kill @gentlemanical.bsky.social · Feb 9

Zuzanna Wuzyk - Owlbear (2025)
Monster Manual 2024 interior art.
#DnD #MonsterManual #Superbowlbear

Intially created by misguided mages, owlbears have spread throughout the multiverse.

An Owlbear, a creature combining the avian eyes, thick feathers and a tearing beak with the might of a bear rears up in a forest.

Total Arty Kill @gentlemanical.bsky.social · Feb 8

Olivier Bernard - Gelatinous Cube (2025)
Monster Manual 2024 interior art.
#DnD #MonsterManual

A cube of acidic ooze stands atop a staircase in stone ruins. Floating inside the cube are the bones of adventurers and animals along with their treasures.

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Total Arty Kill @gentlemanical.bsky.social · Feb 6

Martin Mottet - Ancient Black Dragon (2025)
Monster Manual 2024 interior art.
#DnD #MonsterManual

An ancient black dragon with acid dripping from its mouth slowly advances through brackish water amongst the ruins of a town.

Total Arty Kill @gentlemanical.bsky.social · Feb 3

Chris Rahn - Tarrasque (2025)
Monster Manual 2024 interior art

A massive abomination, a quadruped with a long tail, orange reflective carapace, and two large horns on its head topples a tower and smashes through a city as its populace flee in terror.

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Total Arty Kill @gentlemanical.bsky.social · Jan 30

This hurt my feelings for just a second!

Screen snippet where asweet simple orange fantasy creature is above a well deserved comment about a different orange piece of crap. It appears to tell the fanstasy creature to fuck off.

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Total Arty Kill @gentlemanical.bsky.social · Jan 30

Axel Defois - Flumph (2025)
Monster Manual 2024 interior art
#DnD #MonsterManual

An orange Flumph, a gentle jellyfish-like creatures, with a flat disk of a head and long eye-stalks and tentacles, floats through the Underdark.

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SkaavArt / Julia 🍃 @skaavart.bsky.social · Jan 30

‼️JOB OPPORTUNITY ‼️

We need a few more artists for our DnD book!
Join our team of 70 creatives!

- Environment artists
- Portrait artists

Info and application form below. ♥️

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Total Arty Kill @gentlemanical.bsky.social · Jan 30

Cristi Balanescu - Haunting Revenant (2025)
2024 Monster Manual interior art.
#DnD #MonsterManual

What appears to be a Bavarian style house has a gaping maw with sharp wooden teeth and the second floor windows appear to be eyes as a spirit has manifested as the building itself!

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Total Arty Kill @gentlemanical.bsky.social · Jan 27

Nestor Ossandon Leal - Otyugh (2025)
2024 Monster Manual interior art
#DnD #MonsterManual

An Otyugh, a bloated monstrosity, with an oval-shaped body, three elephant-like legs, a rock-like hide, and a pair of long tentacles that are covered in rough thorny growths and tipped with leaf-shaped pads bearing rows of sharp spikes attacks adventurers in a sewer system.

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Michelle Kelly @michellicopter.bsky.social · Jan 27

Information gathering here for a potential project:

Please give me a wave if you are a person of colour who plays ttrpgs and is interested in playing ttrpgs with your kids (or kids in your family who see regularly)

If you're not these things please share for reach okay thanks

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Total Arty Kill @gentlemanical.bsky.social · Jan 27

Mathias Kollros - Blob of Annihilation (2025)
Monster Manual interior art
#DnD

An immense purple oozed with a giant's skull embedded in it overwhelms a street with houses on it.

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Total Arty Kill @gentlemanical.bsky.social · Jan 27

Katerina Ladon - It's Alive (2021)
Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft interior art
#DnD

In a laboratory, Dr. Viktra Mordenheim, Darklord of Lamordia animates a headless stitched together body as three disembodied heads in large jars watch.

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Joshua Raphael @jsraphael.bsky.social · Jan 26

Illustration of the Red Dragon Wyrmling for the new D&D Monster Manual 2025!
AD: Josh Herman and Fury Galuzzi

Loved painting this little troublemaker, a very fun assignment.

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Shouting Crow @shoutingcrow.bsky.social · Jan 15

Do you design TTPRG zines that are explicitly designed to be printed on a home printer or even photocopied at the library? Can I give you a metaphorical soapbox to stand on while I interview you?

(I'd appreciate reposts on this one, I'm trying to reach more than just my inner circle)

The words "print it yourself, tabletop roleplaying game zine culture" are printed in a medley of typesets on a textured paper. One looks digital, another stamped, and the third is handwritten.

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Total Arty Kill @gentlemanical.bsky.social · Jan 22

Tyler Jacobson - Demogorgon (2015)
Out of the Abyss cover art.
#DnD

Demogorgon, the Prince of Demons, a creature with two baboon heads and tentacles for arms, rampages through an underdark settlement (Menzoberranzan).