Jim Roslof
Bibliography of Illustrations
This is a list of illustrations that Jim Roslof (1946-2011) did for TSR & other game companies. Thanks to misterspock at the Acaeum for help compiling this.
1979
B2 Keep on the Borderlands - front cover (see study here); title page (owlbear battle)
1980
DEITIES & DEMIGODS - Finnish & Greek mythos; Thor (full-page, Norse); Wild Hunt (Celtic); Valkyries (Norse); various others
C2 Ghost Tower of Inverness - front cover; interior art
Q1 Queen of the Demonweb Pits - front cover; interior art
Player Character Record Sheets - front cover
TS002 Rapidstrike - front cover
S3 Expedition to the Barrier Peaks - back cover; interior art
SAGA minigame - gameboard "frame" art work
A1 Slave Pits of the Undercity - interior art
TOP SECRET rulebook - interior art, later reprinted in TS/SI Boxed Set Administrator's Guide
DRAGON #41 - silkie (new monster)
DRAGON #42 - two illustrations for the Mansion of Mad Professor Ludlow module
DRAGON #44 - koodjanak, cryoserpent (new monsters)
1981
DUNGEON! boardgame - box top, board art, game piece art
Dragon #46 - illustrations for Holmes story "The Sorceror's Jewel" (Grognardia tribute)
FIEND FOLIO - interior art (4 illustrations)
A2 Secret of the Slaver's Stockade - front cover
D1-2 Descent into the Depths of the Earth - front cover
X2 Castle Amber - back cover, also used as the front cover for the second printing of the French translation; interior art
I1 Dwellers of the Forbidden City - back cover, interior art
DRAGON DICE - Random Number Generators and Percentage Generators - background art (dragon)
BOOT HILL Referee's Screen - front cover
B3 Palace of the Silver Princess (orange and green covers) - interior art
S2 White Plume Mountain (revised version with color cover) - interior art
D&D BASIC & EXPERT SETS - interior art
VAMPYRE minigame - game board artwork (a headstone near the Catacombs reads "ROSLOF").
1982
DAYS OF THE DRAGON Calendar - one month
MONSTER CARDS: Set 1 - g. weasel, kobold, lizard man, neo-otyugh, red dragon; Set 2 - goblin, hill giant, hippogriff; Set 3 - sylph, wemic
TSR Product Sales Display - dragon artwork on sides
Artists of TSR - portfolio with 12 full-page art prints; two are by Roslof including Thor from D&DG; dragon cover illustration also by Roslof (recycled from FF). Also has an introduction by Roslof inside the front cover
BH1 Mad Mesa - interior art
DRAGON #67 - grugach, valley elf, cooshee (new monsters)
1983
VILLAINS OF VOLTURNUS - ENDLESS QUEST #8 - interior art
B5 Horror on the Hill - front cover
ARES magazine #16 (Winter 1983, TSR) - interior art for "Quest", a Poul Anderson short story sequel to the novel "The High Crusade"
1984
B6 Veiled Society - interior art plus color art for cut-outs
AC3 Kidnapping of Princess Arelina - color art for cut-outs
XSOLO1 Lathan's Gold - front cover
XL1 Quest for the Heartstone - interior art
SF3 Sundown on Starmist - interior art
1985
UNEARTHED ARCANA - interior art inc title page plus iconic illustrations for Barbarian, Cavalier, Thief-Acrobat classes
LAIR OF THE LICH - ENDLESS QUEST #27 - interior art
CM5 Mystery of the Snow Pearls - interior art
I7 Baltron's Beacon - interior art
1986
DUNGEONEER'S SURVIVAL GUIDE - interior art
DUNGEON magazine #1 - interior art
1990
LEGENDS & LORE - interior art reprinted from Deities & Demigods
plus various other DRAGON magazines not listed above (at least 100, 104, 106, 115, 135, 148, 149 and 164)
Goodman Games
Dungeon Crawl Classics #29: The Adventure Begins (2006) - front cover
Dungeon Crawl Classics #43: Curse of the Barrens (2007) - front cover
Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG (2011) - interior art
This list originally posted in this Acaeum thread.
See also:
Jim Roslof page at Tome of Treasures (includes seven pictures of original artwork)
Scans of original artwork previously sold at Noble Knight (click on individual items to see larger picture of artwork)
Other tributes at Grognardia:
http://grognardia.blogspot.com/2010/02/in-praise-of-jim-roslof.html
http://grognardia.blogspot.com/2011/03/rip-jim-roslof-1946-2011.html
http://grognardia.blogspot.com/2011/03/retrospective-jim-roslofs-tsr-covers.html
