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12 months ago ::
Jun 15, 2012 - 5:58PM
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This. I don't even care of the context, i just think it needs to be reused. Spoiler:
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12 months ago ::
Jun 15, 2012 - 6:07PM
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This. I don't even care of the context, i just think it needs to be reused.
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That one made me chuckle. Very cool.
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12 months ago ::
Jun 15, 2012 - 6:38PM
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I would like to see constance throughout the artwork, an remakes of old school D&D monsters. I know the artists at WotC are great and will do a great job on it.
An Illithid running after a brain golem with a fork, knife and bid?
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12 months ago ::
Jun 15, 2012 - 7:24PM
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Emirikol the Chaotic and A Paladin in Hell
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12 months ago ::
Jun 15, 2012 - 7:35PM
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Emirikol the Chaotic and A Paladin in Hell
Black and white art can be very evocative. Certainly sharper and easier to see the details.
Ars Magica had great woodcuts. I also like some of the Old School Renaissance stuff.
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12 months ago ::
Jun 15, 2012 - 8:28PM
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As for my own personal preferences for art, I like the action scenes where heroes and monsters are actively doing things in an interesting environment. I'm not terribly fond of the "posing" art that just has the character or monster standing there.
I actually prefer the opposite. My primary use of the art is to say things like, as another poster said, "Here guys, this is what the weapon looks like." Action shots distort the actual information I want to convey in using the picture.
I also request more attractive people, especially dudes, in the books.
Yes, there is a lot of sexualized art, but not much of it is actually of attractive people. That's great, you have a lot of cleavage--now, can we please do something about your face?
But more than that, give me some dudes that I'd actually want to look like. My wife can flip through a D&D book and see a dozen chicks in slutty corsets and crap that she'd want to look like. What do I get?
Steroid freak. Old guy. Dwarf with beard down to his balls. Steroid Freak. Horsey Elf Dude. Steroid Freak. Robot. Old Dwarf with beard down to his balls. Bald guy. Steroid Freak.
Not cool, guys. I'd rather look like Simon, the Doctor from Firefly, or Richard Rahl from Legend of the Seeker, than any character played by Arnold Schwartzenegger or a dude with more beard than face.
The only dude in any of the 4e books I have that I'd want to look like was the Half Elf racial picture guy. He works ok, but is still not ideal.
Half Elf Dude
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12 months ago ::
Jun 16, 2012 - 4:54PM
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If they do a horror module book... Please recycle art from D20 Urban Arcana/Modern (Night Terror, Vampire, Illithid), Heroes of Horror (All of it?), Libris Mortis, the Shadowfell books, and the spookier art from the magazines! That would make my day! Spoiler:
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Plus, if there are D&D splatbooks sampling other cultures for campaign inspiration, art from; Tomoachan, Maztica, Kara-Tur, Al-Qadim, Mulhorand, Moonshae Islands (Yes, quite a bit of Realmsian references), Heroes of the Feywild, and even some City-States in Dark Sun might work. Spoiler:
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Also, art that doesn't delve into cheesecake nonsense would be nice. I think the game can mature beyond such a concept. Plus, it wouldn't make parents worry about buying the game for their kids nearly as much. Also, non super violent artwork would work too. We're not in the GRIMDARK duuuuude '90s anymore (and yet, Rob Liefeld still draws comics.) I couldn't find much non-cheesecake art. Why dooesn't Wizards just hire the artist for Dias Ex Machina's Amethyst RPG? Spoiler:
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Edit: Okay, I added the sblocks, but now it's just links. I fail at internets!
Disgruntled ghost of the Knights of W.T.F.
(Keep D&D alive, end the edition wars!)
"And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Disclaimer: Most of my posts are based on opinions (and are sometimes humorous, other times inspirational)
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12 months ago ::
Jun 16, 2012 - 8:34PM
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Also, art that doesn't delve into cheesecake nonsense would be nice. I think the game can mature beyond such a concept. Plus, it wouldn't make parents worry about buying the game for their kids nearly as much. Also, non super violent artwork would work too. We're not in the GRIMDARK duuuuude '90s anymore (and yet, Rob Liefeld still draws comics.) I couldn't find much non-cheesecake art. Why dooesn't Wizards just hire the artist for Dias Ex Machina's Amethyst RPG?
'cause then he wouldn't do artwork for our next Amethyst book.  
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12 months ago ::
Jun 16, 2012 - 10:24PM
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I actually prefer the opposite. My primary use of the art is to say things like, as another poster said, "Here guys, this is what the weapon looks like." Action shots distort the actual information I want to convey in using the picture.
I also request more attractive people, especially dudes, in the books.
The only dude in any of the 4e books I have that I'd want to look like was the Half Elf racial picture guy. He works ok, but is still not ideal.
No doubt about it. The best looking male character is this half elf: Spoiler:
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Mind you, my own elfin male looks like this: 
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12 months ago ::
Jun 16, 2012 - 10:44PM
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I'll bite.
The one with the hippie looking cleric/druid girl healing the wounded warrior while a giant walks away in the background.
I love everything about that picture. One of the few peices of D&D art I'm not completely embarrassed about liking. It tells a nice story, looks nice and has a fun take on the way a healer might look.
EDIT here it is:
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dead link - but i know exactly what picture you're speaking of and it just so happens to be my favorite of Elmore's considerably awesome collection. the full page of it in the AD&D Complete Priests Handbook
Other pictures I would love to see reproduced:
Tordek vs. Dragon (3rd Ed. PHB) Spoiler:
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Elmore's Duel: Spoiler:
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Elmore's Demi-Humans (Basic Red Book) Spoiler:
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Half-Elf Cleric (4th Ed. PHB) Spoiler:
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I also would like to see a return to the grittier more realistic style of weapons / equipment (example from Frostfell 3.5 book - Note these are not realistic weapons but the style in which they are drawn is more realistic to me than the oversized loudly colored ones of 4th) Spoiler:
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And lastly, if there will be online tools, I would enjoy seeing character portraits ala' the Baldur's Gate series: Spoiler:
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What's the matter, you dissentious rogues,
That rubbing the poor itch of your opinion
Make yourselves scabs?
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