#sword and sorcery

[a-space-opera]

#Thistle #シスル #Laios Touden #ライオス トーデン #Laios #ライオス #Marcille Donato #マルシル・ドナトー #Marcille #マルシル #Dungeon Meshi #ダンジョン飯 #Delicious in Dungeon #Tragones y mazmorras #Calabozos y tragones #Fantasy #anime #Fantasy anime #Sword and sorcery

[pacific-chrome]

#ai artwork #ai generated #ai girl #ai image #ai art #fantasy art #ai artist #fantasy #ai sexy #ai babe #ai created art #ai art gallery #ai art generator #ai #sexy content #sexy fantasy #fantasy character #fantasy original character #dnd art #knight #medieval art #medieval #darkfantasy #castle #sword #sword and sorcery #painting style

[prokopetz]

Could I ask where dungeons of the kind in D&D came about? Like they’re a cultural icon now, but I don’t understand their origins very well

The dungeon crawl is a pretty standard trope in 1960s and 1970s sword and sorcery fiction and its near ancestors. A lot of ink has been spilled about how Dungeons & Dragons has become so creatively insular that it's basically emulating itself, and while there's some truth to that, the claim that dungeon crawls are part of that is a misconception. That bit is lifted more or less directly from the contemporary literature which original flavour D&D was inspired by – modern commentators tend to miss that because nobody reads sword and sorcery anymore. If you look at Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance, Robert Howard, you'll see dungeon crawls aplenty; Conan the Barbarian* went on not a few!

Of course, that just kicks the can down the road a bit: if Dungeons & Dragons got the dungeon crawl from 1960s and 1970s sword and sorcery fiction, where did they get it from? That's a question I'm less qualified to address, since literary history isn't my area. I know there are several students of early to mid 20th Century popular fiction following this blog, though; perhaps a qualified party can weigh in?

* Yes, I'm aware that Conan the Barbarian was 1930s; I'm including him in the "near ancestors" of 1960s sword and sorcery fiction

#gaming #tabletop roleplaying #tabletop rpgs #dungeons & dragons #d&d #history #ludology #media #literature #sword and sorcery #fantasy

[pikala]

The forest parts and the sword glows. Do you take it or leave it be?

#artists on tumblr #digital art #illustration #fantacy #fantasy swords #fantasy story #sword #forest swords #forest speaks #forest spirit #forest #forest sounds #sword and sorcery #enviroment art #forest aesthetic #forest art #magic #magic sword

[omercifulheaves]

Art by William Stout

#sword and sorcery #william stout

[swornsword]

#sword and sorcery #sword & sorcery #fantasy #dark fantasy

[armouredelf]

#whats ur favourite class? mine is knight #armouredelf #elf #elven #fantasy #high fantasy #knightcore #larp #medieval #ren faire #warrior girl #girl with sword #greatsword #big sword #chainmail bikini #chainmail #larper #sword and sorcery #red sonja #conan #knight

[venusmage]

🔥 🐍 🔥

#medusa #gorgon #artists on tumblr #illustration #dnd #dungeons and dragons #character design #digital art #fantasy art #sword and sorcery

[arcadebroke]

#ベルセルク #Berserk #1997 #anime #90s anime #art #design #my gif #剣風伝奇ベルセルク #Kentaro Miura #三浦 建太郎 #sword and sorcery #fantasy #dark fantasy #1990s #90s #gif #gif set #my gifs #anime gif #anime gifs #Yasuhiro Imagawa

[pitofpain]

𝕸𝖎𝖉 ✞ 𝕰𝖛𝖎𝖑

#dark art #dark fantasy #dark illustration #occult #dark aesthetic #wizard #gothic #darkness #sword and sorcery #esoteric #dark fanfiction #nightcore #illustrative art #illustration #illustrator #digital art #digital illustration

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Red Sonja - art by Tony DeZuniga (2005)

#tony dezuniga #red sonja #fantasy art #sword and sorcery #comic art #robert e. howard #2000s #2005

[a-space-opera]

#Laios Touden #ライオス トーデン #Laios #ライオス #Marcille Donato #マルシル・ドナトー #Marcille #マルシル #Dungeon Meshi #ダンジョン飯 #Delicious in Dungeon #Tragones y mazmorras #Calabozos y tragones #Fantasy #anime #Fantasy anime #Sword and sorcery

[vintagegeekculture]

In 1908, early Fantasy fiction pioneer and chessmaster Lord Dunsany published his best story, "The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth."

Arriving on the tail of a recently arrived comet, the evil sorcerer Gaznak raised his impossible fortress. The only way to get through it is with the sword Sacnoth, which can only be obtained by killing the dragon-crocodile Tharagavverug in the swamps surrounding it. The hero ventures into the impossible fortress, and the mere name of the sword Sacnoth is usually enough to make the wizard Gaznak's forces, like camel-riding warriors and undead women, recoil.

Many historians, like Fritz Leiber, call "The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth" to be the first Sword & Sorcery story ever written.

#lord dunsany #sword and sorcery

[prokopetz]

I'll see your anime boobsocks and raise you whatever is going on on the covers of those 1970s sword and sorcery fantasy paperbacks to make the barbarian hero's loincloth so perfectly outline his testicles.

#media #literature #art #tropes #fantasy #sword and sorcery #genitals mention #this is not specifically about boris vallejo

[vosus]

Visions Through an Orb: Orb III

Mark Jarrell

markjarrellart.com

#mark jarrell #cosmataeon #dark fantasy #fantasy art #sword and sorcery

[howardia]

“She was a luscious Hyborian, round, fair, with a mask of gold between her thighs–but she was corrupt. Overlorded by a dæmon; which so evidently lumbered over her, casting the shadow of a reptilian beast.”

#robert e. howard #sword and sorcery #art #conan the barbarian #hyborian age