mordrin wrote:If it's eventually going to go on Ebay, I think a good deal of pre-work should be done, otherwise many will never know about it until too late.Posts should be made on forums, emails sent to top RPG game stores, maybe emails/forum posts to prominent fantasy artists...Also contact Ebay about maybe giving it a nice front-page feature.
grodog wrote:FWIW, I've know Rob Kuntz and Gary Gygax for some years (Rob for longer than Gary), and DCSIII's characterization of Gary. That doesn't mean that his POV isn't valid, it just doesn't square with the Gary I've known personally and via Rob since the late 1980s.
seeyouinescrow wrote:For all interested in seeing that original DMG artwork...well, check this out!AOL Lifestream : Login
dathon wrote:seeyouinescrow wrote:For all interested in seeing that original DMG artwork...well, check this out!AOL Lifestream : Login Cool... But why did you state in a previous post the DMG cover would upset some people? Did you just mean make us crazy with wide eyes for the painting? So what's everyone's estimate on this one? It will easily break all records for any item related to D&D ever put for auction but by how much is the question...
FoulFoot wrote:Wow. I think "congratulations", rather than "curse you seeyouinescrow", are in order. My only reservations about the issue would be moral ones -- that Dave knows how much more money he could make on it if it went up on eBay. I assume that he does, but still wishes to sell it to you. And so I wouldn't waste any more guilty feelings on it, Jeff.You're being tasked with an immense responsibility -- caring and preservation of one of the great, signature items of early D&D. You sound like you're up to the task, and that you're just the sort of person who Dave would want this item to go to.My best wishes, to both of you.Foul
seeyouinescrow wrote: That's actually good to hear...I was really hoping that was the case...I could tell DSL's feelings were obviously quite personal, and deep seeded...
Sotterraneo wrote:seeyouinescrow wrote: That's actually good to hear...I was really hoping that was the case...I could tell DSL's feelings were obviously quite personal, and deep seeded... I have seen Dave Sutherland's artwork and it is not good.
seeyouinescrow wrote: You "have seen" Sutherland's artwork..well, some of us grew up with it. To say what you said tells me already that you feel that "your" opinion of an artist should be taken as truth? That being your belief...shows me you really don't even understand the true nature of art.....also sounds contemptuous..much the way DSL described GG...hmmm. Funny thing...his artwork was so "not good" that he was only able to land 2 of the 3 AD&D 1st hardbook covers...frankly Trampier to me is not my style...would have been better if DSL got all 3 as far as I'm concerned, anyway....
mordrin wrote:Posts should be made on forums, emails sent to top RPG game stores, maybe emails/forum posts to prominent fantasy artists...Also contact Ebay about maybe giving it a nice front-page feature.
Sotterraneo wrote:But I still I'm convinced that as soon as TSR could afford to have better artists, the former ones were - sadly but understandably - let go.
JonOakes wrote:Actually, I think you should buy it, and then, work out a schedule where you ship it around to all us members in the forum so we can hang it in our dens and take pictures of it, show it off to our friends and charge admission for other old grognards to see it.