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Great rpg art

Started by Balbinus, November 05, 2006, 02:05:27 PM

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Balbinus

November 05, 2006, 02:05:27 PM
And by great I mean evocative art that makes you want to game right the fuck now or art that just totally captures the essence of the game.

My current favourite, Hollow Earth Expeditions, which IMO completely captures the genre both in the cover and throughout the book.

http://www.exilegames.com/games/hex.html

Can't upload the picture for some reason.

Anyway, what about you?

TonyLB

#1
November 05, 2006, 02:11:56 PM
All the color-plates in the Chromebook for Cyberpunk.

Yeah, the fully-chromed (including her HAIR) girl in the skimpy bikini on the cover is cool.  But the fashion plates for how a street-level net-runner should dress make me want want want to play.  Don't know why.
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Sosthenes

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November 05, 2006, 02:57:51 PM
Iron Kingdoms has some very, very neat covers. A little bit too miniaturs/anime for my pesonal taste, but boy, do I want to play in that world.

And I actually do, as opposed to all those great Palladium covers that make me want to cry, as I'll never be able to sell that game to my players (or myself)...
 

The Yann Waters

#3
November 05, 2006, 04:07:36 PM
The grand view of Creation which serves as the frontispiece to Nobilis:

Fanciful and evocative maps of any kind work for me, come to think of it, in that "I wonder what it would like to walk there...?" sort of a way.
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flyingmice

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November 05, 2006, 04:11:21 PM
I've never seen RPG art. What does it look like? :D

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November 05, 2006, 05:13:56 PM
Most of Dave Trampier's art in various early AD&D books really solidified AD&D for me. There was something about it, so iconic, that it resonates with me even today.

There is a pic in the 1e DMG of a wizard, astride a horse, under a cloud-filled sky, beside a storm-tossed ocean, a ship laboring in the background, that is so evocative that it's stuck in my head for 25+ years.

I have a "best of" the Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society magazine produced for Traveller way back when, of a scout ship heading away into a spiral galaxy that has always exemplified to me what scifi gaming is always about.
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4e definitely has an Old School feel. If you disagree, cool. I won\'t throw any hyperbole out to prove the point.

fonkaygarry

#6
November 05, 2006, 05:21:32 PM
Akiman's stuff for Shadow Over Mystara.  He did more to set my personal D&D aesthetic than any other artist (even DiTerlizzi, who was the only thing TSR had going for itself near the end.)
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Settembrini

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November 05, 2006, 05:30:53 PM
First Place:

Second Place:
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Settembrini

#8
November 05, 2006, 05:31:48 PM
BTW:

:pics:
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Akrasia

#9
November 05, 2006, 05:50:39 PM
I loved the covers that Angus McBride did for ICE's Middle-earth line.  Those were gorgeous, as were the Middle-earth maps for that series by Pete Fenlon.  Fenlon's maps were the most beautiful I've seen for a FRPG (only Harn maps come close).

Most of the covers for the Stormbringer RPG were very good.

Quote from: ColonelHardissonMost of Dave Trampier's art in various early AD&D books really solidified AD&D for me. There was something about it, so iconic, that it resonates with me even today...

I have to agree with you about Tramp.  His 'Emirikol the Chaotic' sums up what original AD&D was all about.

I'm also a huge fan of Erol Otus.  His covers for the Moldvay Basic D&D set and Cook Expert D&D set firmly established what 'D&D' was all about for me -- and things haven't changed since.
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Sosthenes

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November 05, 2006, 06:07:34 PM
Quote from: SettembriniSecond Place:

Yuck, Yuce? If ever one RPG artist didn't get the subjet matter, it's him...

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I also always liked the cover from Character Law.



Adventurers looking into the unknown... And I always wanted to exploit the idea that everyone has some kind of "animal companion".
 

Akrasia

#11
November 05, 2006, 07:10:57 PM
Quote from: Sosthenes... I also always liked the cover from Character Law.



Adventurers looking into the unknown... And I always wanted to exploit the idea that everyone has some kind of "animal companion".

Yeah, that cover is by Angus McBride, the guy who did most of the great art for ICE back in the day.
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mythusmage

#12
November 05, 2006, 10:05:11 PM
Larry Elmore's covers for Mythus and Epic of Ærth.

Tim Conrad's cover for Mythus Magick.

Keith Parkinson's cover for Necropolis.

Janet Aulisio's interiors for Mythus.

Allen Nunis' interiors of Mythus
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November 06, 2006, 06:11:01 AM
Quote from: flyingmiceI've never seen RPG art. What does it look like? :D

like this (I find it a little dull).
 

Dr Rotwang!

#14
November 06, 2006, 06:39:52 AM
Mage 1st had that awesome illo of the four-dimensional nasties, but what really grabs me these days is stuff like this Caldwell piece:



A little love for M.W. Kaluta, too, from my Mage days:



And I agree -- the art in Hollow Earth Expedition is Grade-A.
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