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Old 08-10-2018, 12:50 PM   #21
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But the "Thorz wants you" art doesn't ring any bells for me at this point...so it's probably been too long! ;-)
That "The Thorsz wants YOU" comes from the headline to a TSG ad for Death Test; iirc.

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Old 08-10-2018, 12:53 PM   #22
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I do vaguely remember the ad copy, now that you mention it -- but I don't think there was any drawing in the ad I saw...
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Old 08-10-2018, 12:57 PM   #23
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I do vaguely remember the ad copy, now that you mention it -- but I don't think there was any drawing in the ad I saw...
I think you are correct about it just being ad copy with no art. As I am sure you recall, for a long time Metagaming used those wonderful Death Test Goblins by Pat Hidy as the default artwork in so many ads for The Fantasy Trip - they were everywhere...

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Old 08-10-2018, 01:23 PM   #24
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Yes, they were!

On the flying centurion thing, wasn't there an illustration in the original Death Test that showed an Orc flying through the air and attacking something? It was from a different angle, but maybe that was the inspiration for that one.

I looked up the old Steve Jackson Game about Dracula (Undead) on BGG to see if the cover illo there reminded me of the "Thorsz wants YOU," but it's pretty much not the source. It's also possible it was in some early version of GURPS -- when GURPS first came out as a full-fledged RPG (1st Edition) I was stationed in Berlin and lacked access to the US gaming community for roughly four years (I was in training for a year to become an Intel officer, and then spent three years on the ramparts of freedom, eating doner kabobs (basically a version of a gyro), drinking Berliner Kindl, and listening to the East Germans shooting at people trying to escape from their Socialist Workers' paradise...)
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Yes, they were!

On the flying centurion thing, wasn't there an illustration in the original Death Test that showed an Orc flying through the air and attacking something? It was from a different angle, but maybe that was the inspiration for that one.
Yes, it is on inside cover of the 1st Edition Death Test rght below the credts; but we saw it more as an Orc making a flying leap (ala' Captain Kirk); as opposed to actually flying. This magnificent piece of Pat Hidy artwork does not appear on the 3rd Edition printing of Death Test; perhaps removed due to the presence of exposed female breast on the kneeling TFT fighter. (?)

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