2015 - Hommage to AD&D Barrier Peaks

This admittedly odd image was inspired by the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (AD&D) game I played as a kid and teenager. There was a game module that involved taking your sword and sorcery team into the ruins of a strange mountain fortress, which actually turned out to be the ruins of a spacecraft from another world that had crash landed here millennia ago.

Combining sword and sorcery with futuristic technology?! Hells yes!! :)

Anyway, there were tons of strange and fearsome creatures roaming the decks of this ruined spacecraft, including a vast menagerie of deadly plant life. There was one image that always stuck with me -- it was of a handsome and muscular warrior who has fallen onto a patch of grass that began to bore through his body and eat him alive  The young warrior is reaching out a hand, desperate for help, and I always fantasized that i was the one to rescue the grateful young man.  :)

If there's any interest, I'd be glad to post the illustration from that AD&D module here...