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Sovereign Court

I have a question. In the article description for Checkmate coming up in the next issue, is says creatures are drawn from four well known covers. I don't know whether is too early in the morning or what, but what exactly are those four covers? Thanks.

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They are from the covers of the following Dragon issues:

83
86
89
118


Just had a look at those issues. They're the very cool chessboard ones. :-)
Edit: I see that Mike set up links to the covers, too!


there's some new art to go with the new article; we got to see only the unfinished pieces, but they look pretty similar to the old covers.


BOZ wrote:
there's some new art to go with the new article; we got to see only the unfinished pieces, but they look pretty similar to the old covers.

I noticed it says there are six monsters.

Are those king, queen, knight, bishop, rook, and pawn?

Though the spoiler mentions the black king specifically...unless you made one monster and gave the white version of each different powers from the black version of each.


i don't think i can really say just yet... but i think subscribers should have the mag very soon, so someone else can fill in the blanks. :)

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MaxSlasher26 wrote:
Are those king, queen, knight, bishop, rook, and pawn?

Hai. Good guess. :)


**sigh** I just had another attack of bittersweet nostalgia. The chessboard covers are among my favorites of all time. I even recall consulting them for inspiration when I was choreographing a living chess game for our Renn fair. Thank you, editors, for publishing this final homage...


Dennis Beauvais is one of my all time favorite artists.. right up there with Elmore, Parkinson((god rest him)) here is a look see for those interested on the mans other works:

www.denbeauvais.com/

enjoy :)

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Mike McArtor wrote:
89

Gleemax? ;-)


Hill Giant wrote:
Mike McArtor wrote:
89
Gleemax? ;-)

The bastard must have traveled back in time and manipulated poor Denis Beauvois. (Jeez, I hope I spelled that right...)

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