Ebook: Dungeons & Dragons art & arcana: a visual history

Foreword / by Joe Manganiello -- Introduction -- Read magic : about this book -- Detect magic (original edition) -- Pyrotechnics (1st edition) -- Explosive runes (the crash of 1983) -- Polymorph self (2nd edition) -- Bigby's interposing hand (the fall of TSR) -- Reincarnation (3rd edition) -- Simulacrum (v. 3.5 and DDM) -- Maze (4th edition) -- Wish (5th edition).;This collection of Dungeons & Dragons artwork provides a chronicle of the game's past, present and future. As the years passed, the game evolved from a "Satanistic" basement game for weirdos to celebrate a resurgence as a mainstream cultural phenomena. The look of the game evolved, and this visual archive explores the familiar imagery as well as one-of-a-kind rarities. -- adapted from foreword, introduction and back cover.