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Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan cover (1990) 🔗


Crusaders of Khazan was not only the sole CRPG adaption of the Tunnels & Trolls role-playing game in it's time, but also a rare collaboration between US-based New World Computing and the Japanese CRPG publisher StarCraft. The cover was painted by Akira Komeda, who in his early career seems to have had a bit of a tendency to get overly inspired by famous artists. The cover for Crusaders of Khazan is a proper who's who of fantasy illustrators: A dwarf by Clyde Caldwell, a warrior by Michael Whelan, a kneeling rogue by Frank Frazetta (admittedly this one might come partially or wholly from another source), and I'm sure in time something will turn up for the wizard as well as the towering sorceress they're all facing.

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