Cool art that inspires a thousand words for an adventure
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Mr. Plow Jingle
Homer: Call Mr. Plow,
That's my name,
That name again
Is Mr. Plow.
Plow King Jingle
When the snow starts a-fallin'
There's a man you should be callin'
That's KL5-4796,
Let it ring!
Mr. Plow is a loser,
And I think he is a boozer,
Barney & Linda: So you better make that call to the Plow King!
Mr. Plow Rap
Homer: Boom-chi-cha-boom-chi-cha-boom-chi-boom
I'm Mr. Plow, and I'm here to say,
I'm the plowin'est guy in the USA.
I got a big plow and I'll move a lot of things,
Like your cow if you have one...
Mr. Plow Jingle (Spanish version)
Senor Plow no es macho,
Es solamente un borracho...
Homer: Call Mr. Plow,
That's my name,
That name again
Is Mr. Plow.
Plow King Jingle
When the snow starts a-fallin'
There's a man you should be callin'
That's KL5-4796,
Let it ring!
Mr. Plow is a loser,
And I think he is a boozer,
Barney & Linda: So you better make that call to the Plow King!
Mr. Plow Rap
Homer: Boom-chi-cha-boom-chi-cha-boom-chi-boom
I'm Mr. Plow, and I'm here to say,
I'm the plowin'est guy in the USA.
I got a big plow and I'll move a lot of things,
Like your cow if you have one...
Mr. Plow Jingle (Spanish version)
Senor Plow no es macho,
Es solamente un borracho...
kafka; I have that module, and, as much as I hate to admit it, I bought it expressly for that cover. Needless to say I was dissapointed with the content of the actual module (IIRC, that behemoth of a warmachine is merely a rumor). But the cover art did inspire a whole lot of adventure material
Sorry about the earlier post Kafka
I've been a fan of Jim Burns' art since I was a kid, even before I played traveller. A lot of his work just screams traveller to me. He illustrated a book a long time ago called 'Tour of the Universe' one of the illos was the interior of a starport - I've since always imagined that starports look like that. Unfortunately I can't find it on the web to show you.
Below are some of his works which explain why I think of Traveller when I see his art which always suggests a story to me.
I've been a fan of Jim Burns' art since I was a kid, even before I played traveller. A lot of his work just screams traveller to me. He illustrated a book a long time ago called 'Tour of the Universe' one of the illos was the interior of a starport - I've since always imagined that starports look like that. Unfortunately I can't find it on the web to show you.
Below are some of his works which explain why I think of Traveller when I see his art which always suggests a story to me.
P
Pickles
Guest
That picture! The original of the one on the Citadel 15mm Traveller miniature boxes! I bought a collection of SF short stories just because it had that on the cover ...
Andrew Boulton
The Adminator
Works rather nicely...
Nice mockup Andrew...now that would sell!
A copy of one of his paintings also turned up in Saddam Hussein's 'love palace' as a wall mural. You can just see it in the background of one of the press photos- the foreground are a couple of US Marines relaxing in a sofa under an (original) Rowena fantasy painting. It was quite funny watching him do a critque of the copy of his painting that Saddam had commissioned.
Ravs
<sigh> I'm very jelous. I can't remember any of the text, but the artwork will always stay in my mind. I went to see Jim Burns speak at an SF&F illustrator's conference earlier this year. I hadn't realised that he had done a lot of the conceptual art for 'Bladerunner'. There's a picture in Tour of the Universe of an ambulance ship flying inside some great dinosaur like creature, he flipped it upside down and made the police spinner out of it.Originally posted by ElHombre:
And I still have a copy of 'Tour of the Universe'.
A copy of one of his paintings also turned up in Saddam Hussein's 'love palace' as a wall mural. You can just see it in the background of one of the press photos- the foreground are a couple of US Marines relaxing in a sofa under an (original) Rowena fantasy painting. It was quite funny watching him do a critque of the copy of his painting that Saddam had commissioned.
Ravs
Great art all around. Love that huge whatever in the first post. Isn't there an old JTAS adventure involving the PCs in an attempt to stop an autonomous logging crawler that turns out to be a AFV?
Jim Burns has the cover on a book of David Brin's short stories. That picture always screamed Traveller to me.
Referring to Kafka's original post, there were a few illos, covers, and pictures that 'suggested' adventures to me. One that jumps to mind was in one of the MT core books, just a small illo along the margin of a page.
It showed a smallish starship of needle-wedge configuration. The ship sported a dorsal turret with something 'odd' protruding from it. The ship's aft-port 'wing' was blackened with a healthy chunk was missing. The whole scene was in distant orbit over a planet.
I always wanted to use that illo as a hook for a campaign/lenghty adventure. The players would find or would be given a holograph of the scene and that would send them off to investigate.
Have fun,
Bill
Jim Burns has the cover on a book of David Brin's short stories. That picture always screamed Traveller to me.
Referring to Kafka's original post, there were a few illos, covers, and pictures that 'suggested' adventures to me. One that jumps to mind was in one of the MT core books, just a small illo along the margin of a page.
It showed a smallish starship of needle-wedge configuration. The ship sported a dorsal turret with something 'odd' protruding from it. The ship's aft-port 'wing' was blackened with a healthy chunk was missing. The whole scene was in distant orbit over a planet.
I always wanted to use that illo as a hook for a campaign/lenghty adventure. The players would find or would be given a holograph of the scene and that would send them off to investigate.
Have fun,
Bill
Arthur Denger
SOC-12
Having not being permitted to watch the original Star Trek on TV as a child (my parents always thought science fiction to be suspect), the cover illustrations done by Jim Burns, Vincent DiFate and Chris Foss were my introduction to the sf genre. And, as in the above case, all too often those dust jackets were far superior to the content of the books they wrapped! So what? If an interesting cover will keep readers buying novels so the bookstores can still stock an sf department, then it's all good.
I often wonder how the original LBBs would have sold had they been illustrated. For me, the sparse (or altogether absent!) illos served only to pique my curiosity and imagination. Maybe that is some of the magic which was later lost in subsequent editions of the game.
I often wonder how the original LBBs would have sold had they been illustrated. For me, the sparse (or altogether absent!) illos served only to pique my curiosity and imagination. Maybe that is some of the magic which was later lost in subsequent editions of the game.
Darkhstarr
SOC-12
Nice, but I kept thinking of Dune & 'The Robots of Death' from Dr. Who.
Thinking of DiFate, I've always liked his art. I got lucky years ago & found a Moonbase diorama based off his artwork on clearance. I keep it in a plastic case I made along with some of my remaing Traveller ships.
Thinking of DiFate, I've always liked his art. I got lucky years ago & found a Moonbase diorama based off his artwork on clearance. I keep it in a plastic case I made along with some of my remaing Traveller ships.
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Pickles
Guest
We Want Pictures!
zander0820
SOC-1
Nice!
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