How Dungeons & Dragons Inspired The Spiderwick Chronicles

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Tony DiTerlizzi explains how The Spiderwick Chronicles was almost a Dungeons & Dragons book.

Legendary artist Tony DiTerlizzi's work on Dungeons & Dragons directly led to the creation of his bestselling novel series The Spiderwick Chronicles. While Tony DiTerlizzi's work on the legendary Planescape setting has immortalized him with Dungeons & Dragons fans, he's perhaps best known as the co-creator of The Spiderwick Chronicles, a series of children's novels that have been adapted into a movie and a soon-to-be released Roku Channel TV series.

Much later, he remembered his fantasy field guides and pitched a concept to TSR, with the Monster Manual reimagined in the style of an Audubon field guide."I literally mocked up a couple pages and pitched it to TSR, what would become Spiderwick," DiTerlizzi said."I pitched the idea to them and said, 'I have this idea and it uses handwritten calligraphy and it's very much this beautiful Audubon coffee table book.

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