DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Lore & Legends

Exclusive interviews and more than 900 pieces of artwork, photography, and advertising. An illustrated guide to Dungeons & Dragons’ beloved fifth edition told through interviews, artwork, and visual ephemera from the designers, storytellers. When the re-imagined fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons debuted in the summer of 2014, tabletop role-playing games were on the brink of obsolescence. But within a few short years, D&D found greater success than it had ever enjoyed before, even surpassing its 1980s golden age. How did an analog game nearly a half century old become a star in a digital world? A massive oversized coffee-table volume. For the first time, Lore & Legends reveals the incredible ongoing story of Dungeons & Dragons' fifth edition from the perspective of the designers, artists, and players. This comprehensive visual guide illuminates contemporary D&D -- its development, evolution, cultural relevance, and popularity -- through exclusive interviews, artwork, photography, and advertising, curated and analyzed by the authors of the bestselling and Hugo Award-nominated Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana. Full index, packed with illustrators such as Jeff Easley, Larry Elmore, Tony DiTerlizzi, Tyler Jacobson (5 lines of page references), Keith Parkinson, R.A. Salvatore, Tim Truman...and those are just a few of the names I recognize, not being an expert in gaming artists. - Bud