Quote from: Aos;458390All bow before Magnum Sparticus!

Wouldn't that be Magnus Spartacus, then? /Latin nazi

Quote from: Benoist;458387Modrons are cool.

Jibba: you need to read the quote Melan injected into this thread.

Um .. i did and I agree I will take a Jeff Easley picture of a guy climibing a cliff covered in coloured impy things any day over a bland Elmore wavy big hair in the wind girl but Mondrons are not interesting or inspiring the artwork doesn't inspire me to do anything except close the book.

There is charm, an Otus cartoon of a bunch of guys arguing over a +3 backscratcher is charming, there is technically poor but kind of inspiring, but then there is merely technically incompetent and dull to boot. Mondrons are in the later category along with

What I'm not agreeing to is twofold, Jibba: (1) You've been cherry picking pictures to basically engage in some basic edition warring, and (2) your definition of what is "good art" is NOT universal. The notion that only the aesthetics matter when determining whether a picture is good or bad is bullshit.

We could start talking about art, but then J Arcane will go on a bullshit rant about how we can't discuss about this because it's all "just RPG illos" and we should "get over ourselves" and all this kind of bullshit nonsense. Whatever dudes. Keep at it.

Rifts Madhaven was awful. But I have seen a lot of small press stuff that looked like art rejected from a High School literary magazine. Just the most terrible stuff you have ever seen. Art done by people that apparently have never laid eyes on an actual human form.

So, judging by his facial expression, that half-orc is giving a double rectal exam.

Quote from: Aos;458399So, judging by his facial expression, that half-orc is giving a double rectal exam.

They ret-conned that in 3e: now the half-orc has a double-headed axe.

Quote from: Benoist;458394What I'm not agreeing to is twofold, Jibba: (1) You've been cherry picking pictures to basically engage in some basic edition warring, and (2) your definition of what is "good art" is NOT universal. The notion that only the aesthetics matter when determining whether a picture is good or bad is bullshit.

We could start talking about art, but then J Arcane will go on a bullshit rant about how we can't discuss about this because it's all "just RPG illos" and we should "get over ourselves" and all this kind of bullshit nonsense. Whatever dudes. Keep at it.

Dude you find me a decent picture in the AD&D PHB, MM or DMG that isn't by Trampier, Otus or Dee and I might conceed you a point. But if you want to actually win a debate you would have to proove that at least 1/2 the pictures were decent. I can certainly provide over half of them that are shit.

I totally understand youir nostalgia for the old edition but you need perspective.

MM1 G -
Gar - moderate
Gargoyle - moderate to bad
Gas Spore - bad technically but has a nice idea behind it
Ghost - moderate
Ghoul - bad
Giants - Cloud one of DATs weakest peices, Fire - Good (DAT), Frost - moderate to bad, Hill - bad, Stone - Excellent (DAT), Storm - bad technically but like Gas spore has a good idea and some movement
Gnoll - OMG SIIIIIITE
Gnome - actually this one might be worse
Goblin - Good (DAT)
Golem - Clay - poor, Flesh - Okay (DAT), Iron - poor techncialy but a good feel to it, Stone - poor
Gorgon - Good (DAT)
Gray Oze - poor
Green slime - moderate
Giffon - Good but for an iconic creature its very passive
Groaning spirit - Bad (and its one of DATs)

So that is one of the best letters in the book and we had

2 - completely awful
6 - bad with no redeeming features
3 - bad technically but with nice movement or a feel to them
2 - moderate/bad
4 - moderate
5 - good - all but one by DAT

Man you should see how awful H is .....

Quote from: Aos;458399So, judging by his facial expression, that half-orc is giving a double rectal exam.

No wonder half elves can't breed , they are all gay!

Quote from: jibbajibba;458402I totally understand youir nostalgia for the old edition

Fail.

Quote from: James Gillen;458256ReichStar.  (just read through a friend's copy tonight)

A good lot of the sourcebooks for Hero System 5th Edition.

JG

ReichStar was bad on so many levels I don't think I have any memory of the art.

Since none of you arswipes seemed to have believed me, I've been forced to sully my photobucket account with these images;

I'd fap to that.

Quote from: Aos;458421I'd fap to that.

Which one?

Quote from: Philotomy Jurament;458423Which one?

All three, although the top one isn't so hot now that I've realized that what I initially took to be a stream of wood-grained vomit is some kind of armor.

Quote from: Machinegun Blue;458420Since none of you arswipes seemed to have believed me, I've been forced to sully my photobucket account with these images;

Wow, just... wow. Where are those from, again?