Erol Otus

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Erol Otus
Occupation	Artist

Erol Otus is an American artist and game designer, known internationally for his contributions to the fantasy RPG genre, most notably for the early Dungeons & Dragons franchise. Called "legendary" by RPGnet ^[1], he is also known for his artwork on the multiple award winning^[2] Star Control II as well as providing the voice for one of the character races, the Chmmr, in the same game. ^[3]

1 Role-playing games
2 Video games
3 Homage
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Role-playing games

Otus was a prolific contributor to the early Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) franchise, creating full covers as well as many interior illustrations for TSR materials.^[4] For example, he created the cover for the first version of the D&D manual Deities and Demigods and illustrated the Cthulhu pantheon within.

Otus has also provided cover art and interior illustrations for Goodman Games, Oracle Games (in particular Alma Mater - The High School RPG) and the Arduin series.

[edit] Video games

Otus has also provided illustrations, production design and voice overs for computer games such as Star Trek: Generations^[5], Mail Order Monsters and Star Control II. Star Control II was named by IGN as the 17th best game of all time ^[6] and by Gamespot as one of the greatest games of all time.^[7]

[edit] Homage

In the Dungeons & Dragons adventure module "A4: In the Dungeons of the Slave Lords", part of the treasure on the slaver ships is a series of paintings by a supposedly famous Drow Artist named "Ool Eurts" (an anagram of Erol Otus).