I owe this sub thanks because otherwise I would never have known it existed. Poster is from a German pc gaming magazine.

Comic book for scale. The front of the poster is a curiosity, with artwork by Caldwell that was never intended for BG2 as far as I can tell. Gotta love the dracolich, but pity the poor German gamers who expected to encounter one in the game.

However what really drove me to spend more than I ought to was the infographics on the back. Makes me realize just how much of the game I missed on my first play throughs and I put hundreds of hours into it.

Hopefully of interest to fellow BG2 amateur historians!

  • I have a book that has same cover art as first image you posted. Its called "Spellfire".

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    Yup that's the source of the image. Predates BG by 10 years

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    That was be the worst fantasy book i've ever read, absolute thrash. 

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    Second part Crown of fire was a bit better.🧐

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    Honestly, it's real middle of the pack stuff as far as FR tie-in novels go.

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    Then I dont even want to know whats bottom of the barrell.

    I was young and naive, coming from Salvatore's Drizzt stuff and Dragonlance and stuff like that.

    And this spellfire book almost gave me PTSD like wtf am i reading, how can it be so bad written.

    Felt like a transcription of the dumbest, corniest, confusing D&D session between some random nerds. Probably because it was.

    One thing can be said about that book: left an impression. I've completely forgotten really good books, but not that one 

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  • I was actually just looking into getting this poster. Didn’t expect it to be so big!

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  • I think this artwork (which I love btw) is the most over used piece of art from tsr lol from magazines to videogames. It's everywhere

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