Editing Old School Roleplaying (section)

== But that ART Though ==
Not to end this article on a low note, let's talk about '''Old School Fantasy Art'''.  Every fa/tg/uy, and I mean ''every single one'' of you owe it to yourselves to check out the kind of fantasy art that poured out of the 70's (and the late 60's and early 80's too, shut up).  Highly detailed images of wizards hurling lighting into hurricanes, photo-realistic dragons breathing fire down on struggling knights, hideous zombies calling upon their dark masters, and mystics scrying the future from within nebula-stained crystal balls.  This is the kind of beautiful imagery that graced the covers of fantasy books, metal albums, and (the aforementioned) roleplaying games alike.  It looks like what you imagine when you daydream about mythic fantasy, but somehow even more detailed.  It filled many, many tiny neckbeard's eyes with a starry wonder.  It certainly made plenty of less-than-stellar RPG books fly off the shelves!

Just take a look at [[Advanced_Dungeons_&_Dragons|the AD&D cover art!]]

And what of that metal music, hidden behind those album covers?  Just as powerful.  Even today you feel the sweeping grandeur of climbing mountains, the harrowed fury of slaying demons, and the painful tragedy of lost cosmic powers.  From ''Black Sabbath'' to ''Blue Öyster Cult'', and hundreds of other Metal and Prog-Rock bands beyond, that music fueled the imaginations of yet more OSR artists, game designers, and storytellers.  Get yourself some.

Parents took one look at these pictures, one listen to this music, and started the motherfucking [[Satanic Panic]].  It was dark, it was unbridled, it was ''powerful''.  So go get any drink you please, put on any album ''Rainbow'' made in the 70's, and track down the gallery of an Old School Fantasy Artist.  I promise that you won't regret the feeling you'll find.