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Oldschool Fantasy Art

Please read the rules before posting! Subreddit devoted to share oldschool-retro fantasy artworks full of dragons, magic, undeads, warriors and heroes! If you're a fan of Boris Vallejo, Larry Elmore, Keith Parkinson or you're just looking for some classic RPG fantasy art, then you're in a good place!

76k subscribers176 posts / mo in Sep 202658 authors / mosince 2016

r/oldschoolfantasy has 76k members (+185% over the last 12 months). It gets about 176 posts a month from 58 people. Top topics: Science Fiction Book Covers, Space Stations and Science Fiction Covers.

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Size and growth

How r/oldschoolfantasy has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+185%in 12 months · +19% in 3 months · +5.1% in 1 month
Oct 202675k
Growing75k subscribers
Data since Sep 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+309%vs Sep 2025 · +3.3% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026176
BusierPeaked at 227 in Jun 2026
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/oldschoolfantasy

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Science Fiction Book Covers5.8%
  2. Space Stations2.6%
  3. Science Fiction Covers1.5%
  4. Witches and Fallen Kingdoms1.3%
  5. Book Covers0.6%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Scryfall Magic: The Gathering Search
  2. Substack
  3. T E X T F I L E S D O T C O M
  4. DriveThruRPG
  5. itch

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research