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Worst art in an RPG book thread.

Started by J Arcane, May 15, 2011, 04:48:20 PM

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J Arcane

Someone mentioned doing  this in another thread, so I thought I'd start the thread.

For me, my vote would have to go for Big Eyes, Small Moth 1st Edition, which is so bad that apparently I can't find actual images of it on the Internet.

I did find this in a Google search though, and it seems indicative:

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Soylent Green

Star Wars - Players Guide to the Tapani Sector. Decent book, terrible, terrible cover.

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Bounty Hunters of the Atomic Wastelands, a post-apocalyptic western game based on Fate. It\'s simple, it\'s free and it\'s in colour!

danbuter

That cover is awful! Made me laugh, though.
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Almost all of WEG's early art for Torg and Star Wars.

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WEG d6 Star Wars, any b/w art by Allen Nunis. The guy did some Star Wars comic books and then landed the recurring job with WEG. I just don't like his style, especially the 'realistic' way he tries to do faces and his asymmetrical perspectives of ships.



"Meh."

Machinegun Blue

Psh. The stuff on this thread so far is weak sauce compared to the absolute shit found in Elder Secrets of Glorantha for 3rd edition Runequest.

greylond

D&D 3.0 for all the stupid looking spikey armor. Plus the fact that so much of the artwork got in the way of reading the rules. It's like someone never told their layout dept that Text needs a good contrasting background to be readable...

jeff37923

Quote from: greylond;458209D&D 3.0 for all the stupid looking spikey armor. Plus the fact that so much of the artwork got in the way of reading the rules. It's like someone never told their layout dept that Text needs a good contrasting background to be readable...

Emphasis mine.

I can think of several pages in WotC books where you have a piece of artwork right in the middle of a text block and the text block 'wraps' around the art, making it difficult to read and even harder to understand. It looks like the interns got ahold of Microsoft Publisher and decided to get creative with the layout.

There was also the WotC module Scourge of the Howling Horde which had several instances of black text on a charcoal grey background with cursive writing on that background, making the module text illegible for all  practical purposes.
"Meh."

Silverlion

#8
I really need to scan, Dark Refuge, I feel bad because the authors got hammered on RPG.net with no one having owned or read the game. I picked it up to give them a fair shake. Yet the art is TERRIBLE. It might not be so bad, if it weren't all blurry. But even then, some of it is very very rough.
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and this classic:


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I totally want to lose 75% my hair,  gain 50 pounds and wear this one on a t-shirt.
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Here you go from Dark Refuge's Web page:

Ah here:


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Quote from: Silverlion;458219Here you go from Dark Refuge's Web page:

Ah here:

That would look great doodled on a trapper-keeper.

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