Peter Mullen and the Ten-Foot Mule

I want to take the time to point out the cool art for the header image of this blog, by the inimitable Peter Mullen. Peter's art for games like Dungeon Crawl Classics is the quintessence of Old School-style gaming art. I rank him the equal of luminaries from the Golden Age of D&D, guys like Erol Otus and Dave Trampier, bringing that type of mood and sensibility into the present. When I considered commissioning a piece for this blog, his art was the first to leap to mind. It is both fresh and immediate, yet evoking the spirit of that bygone era of dungeon delving for its own sake, and mules dragged into the underworld to haul equipment in and treasure out. And, of course, some adventurer or other is bound to have concocted some spell or potion of growth or enlarge to conjure up a single pack animal that could take the place of many, thus saving a few gold pieces...though, perhaps, the implications of trying to squeeze such a large animal into a dungeon were not closely considered.