I love the style of all the D&D handbook art, especially the older ones.
Then you’d love the Deity’s and Demigods first edition I have that now has additional artwork and autographs from a couple of the original artists. My husband always asked why I kept those old things around… then just happened to bump into them during a fundraiser xD
Was there always 2 guys stealing the eye gems and I just never noticed?
Such a bold move. You invade a temple, play the lizard-person priest, and then try to defile a statue to a demon god? When a portal to the abyss shows up with said demon god’s champion coming through, no one better act surprised!
I always thought that was an efreet statue representing the efreet on the cover of the Dungeon Master’s Guide.
As in the party dispatches some lizard men worshipping an efreet and the run into him in the lower levels of the dungeon.
I think it’s a statue of Moloch, an archdevil in DnD lore who ruled a layer of Hell in ADnD.