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Doodles/Silly Art in your Old-School Books?

Started by RPGPundit, December 19, 2012, 06:01:48 PM

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Bedrockbrendan

#15
December 23, 2012, 12:42:20 PM
I think doodles are fine. Whether they are appropriate to a given game really depends on what they are shooting for and perhaps the genre. One thing doodles provide is a sense of humor and light-heartedness. Events at the game table can be funny, and most succesful games I participate in have a fair amount of laughter. So I think it can be quite fitting. Doodles are not the only way to capture this, and overkill is possible, but for me it works.

Fiasco

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December 24, 2012, 07:55:43 AM
Some of the best stuff in the 1E DMG are the doodles in the margins. There are some great combat scenes featuring an adventuring party as well as one of a troll about to ambush a gnome or some such.

My favourite is of the one of the adventuring party disguised as rats as part of a ruse to pillage a rat shrine. It's funny but also totally typical of what an adventuring party might actually attempt.

But then the 1E DMG is really a one of a kind in so many ways. Nothing comes close to the remarkable riches within its covers.

RPGPundit

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December 25, 2012, 10:09:22 AM
Quote from: Fiasco;611215My favourite is of the one of the adventuring party disguised as rats as part of a ruse to pillage a rat shrine. It's funny but also totally typical of what an adventuring party might actually attempt.

See, again, that's a totally iconic image.  There's quite a lot of other art in the DMG that you could try to describe to me that I'd have to look up to remember. But who the fuck will ever forget that one?

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