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How to entertain a cat and an iguana, and an imp in a cage. (Denis Beauvais cover for Dragon 104, December 1985). I love when wizards have anachronistic items in their workshops (look on the shelf just to the right of the crystal ball).
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How to entertain a cat and an iguana, and an imp in a cage. (Denis Beauvais cover for Dragon 104, December 1985). I love when wizards have anachronistic items in their workshops (look on the shelf just to the right of the crystal ball).
Measure twice, cast once (Richard Tomasic, "Dragonmirth," Dragon 113, September 1986)
A wizard's laboratory with a view. Looks like the local dragon is bothering the fleet again. (Thierry Ségur, Casus Belli 31, February 1986)
An interesting feature of some Casus Belli covers is the art behind the art. The central scene is bordered by a different space or a completely unrelated image. In this example the main painting appears to be surrounded by the artist's studio, with drafting tools on a slanted desk and other art pinned to the wall. One of the wizard's imps has escaped the frame of her scene to fetch a Coca Cola bottle in the lower left.
Didier Guiserix's electrifying scene on issue 31 covers up a picture of a cat in the background. For issue 32 the elf sits in front of a medieval fantasy scene to which she belongs, but she seems to be perched on a rusty steel drum related to the near-future sci-fi scene in the border.
Wizards of the Commodore 64
Wizardry, aka Spell of Destruction, game coded by Steven Chapman (The Edge, 1985)
Wizard Warz coded by Paul Clansey (Go!, 1987)
Wizard's Lair coded by Richard Clark (Bubble Bus, 1985)
Documenting the hidden mysteries of the universe (Russ Nicholson, Warhammer Fantasy Battle 3rd ed, GW, 1987)
A wizard's laboratory where unstable chemicals are mixed alongside the sparking wires of 20th century technology (Didier Guiserix cover for Casus Belli 25, April 1985)
Dungeon 5, May/June 1987: "A powerful air elemental lays waste to the underground fortress of a mighty wizard. Robin Wood has captured the first meeting of the sorcerer with his nemesis in this month's cover painting." Note the artist's name worked into the decorated floor.
Rich Stump's AD&D adventure "Hirward's Task" presents an interesting situation for adventurers -- a wizard's laboratories still populated by his human and kobold underlings, whom the wizard wants protected and unharmed, but who are jumpy and quick to defend themselves due to some rampaging loose monsters.
The distillation of magical essences (Stephen Fabian, originally from the AD&D 2e Tome of Magic, TSR, 1991; reprinted here from the Ravenloft supplement RQ3: From the Shadows, TSR, 1992)