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Image: Gonzo Dungeon Crawl Classics tabletop RPG cover pa

Generated from: Gonzo Dungeon Crawl Classics tabletop RPG cover painting, in the spirit of Frank Frazetta's Conan and Heavy Metal magazine but pulpier and less polished — old-school Doug-Kovacs-style dungeon fantasy environment art, NOT idealized heroic art. Dense oil-and-acrylic rendering with a hand-mixed, slightly muddy blotchy colour transition, visible brushwork, grubby unglamorous earth palette: rust, ember orange, mud brown, soot black, cold grey-blue. NOT pen-and-ink, NOT cross-hatching, NOT line art, NOT rulebook illustration, NOT clean digital painting, NOT glossy modern fantasy art, NOT 3D render, NOT anime, NOT symmetric idealized composition. No text, no logos, no borders. Castle smithy interior, built against the inner wall: a roaring stone forge throwing bright orange sparks, mismatched tools and horseshoes hung crooked from nails, a hunched blacksmith mid-swing with a dented hammer over an anvil, sweat and soot streaking bare arms. Crates of scrap iron and half-finished blades clutter the dirt floor. Firelight from the forge, harsh and uneven, lighting the smithy against the cold grey daylight leaking through the open wall arch to the courtyard. Background: castle courtyard visible through the open smithy arch. Wide interior-to-exterior view, square format.