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And the award for the most AWESOME RPG-art goes to...

Started by RPGPundit, December 18, 2007, 10:08:43 AM

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December 18, 2007, 10:08:43 AM
In my book? Qin, without out a doubt.

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This is the sort of thing where people could really say the book would be worth getting for the art alone.

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December 18, 2007, 10:11:19 AM
Okay, #3 literally made me catch my breath.

EDIT:  I'm going to have to design an Asian-themed adventure just to use that illo.
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December 18, 2007, 03:39:35 PM
Wow, that really is some amazing art. I still think the McBride covers for MERP were a case of "FTW" as far as best game art goes, but this doesn't mean that everything else is shabby. These pictures are amazing. The last two blew me away.

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December 18, 2007, 07:29:03 PM
What's Qin about? Quality artwork like that leads me to believe the game is well written as well.

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December 18, 2007, 10:35:17 PM
Quote from: James McMurrayWhat's Qin about? Quality artwork like that leads me to believe the game is well written as well.

Qin is a wuxia historical-fantasy game set in ancient China just before the time of the first emperor. Its also easily the best game I've seen as far as handling both wuxia and the real style of Chinese fantasy emulation-of-genre.  I use it to run my own Romance of the Three Kingdoms campaign.

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December 19, 2007, 01:06:24 AM
Quote from: RPGPunditThis is the sort of thing where people could really say the book would be worth getting for the art alone.

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So true.  But then getting Qin for the art alone would be like, I don't know, getting a solid-gold Mona Lisa just because as far as metals go gold is pretty soft and that's neat.

(I really really want more Qin, like yesterday.)
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#6
December 19, 2007, 03:36:11 AM
That artwork doesn´t strike me as that good.

Except perhaps the Pagoda on the Karst Tower. That´s a good one.

I´m also baffled that Pundit digs Crypto-Pedo-Idols.
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#7
December 19, 2007, 04:01:58 AM
Everyone has their own tastes, of course.

I most like the three landscapes (the courtyard, the building on the mount, and the pagoda).  Those three are particularly evocative (to me at least) in ways that are hard to put into words.  The last one, for example, just makes me think "who's that coming out of the pagoda?  I know that's not good for the PCs, but why?"

They're especially a wonderful change from Exalted-style art, which is what I'm most exposed to right now.
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December 19, 2007, 05:25:39 AM
But all others have a rather freaky perspective problem or depict humans in a strange way.
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December 19, 2007, 09:10:20 AM
Quote from: RPGPunditQin is a wuxia historical-fantasy game set in ancient China just before the time of the first emperor. Its also easily the best game I've seen as far as handling both wuxia and the real style of Chinese fantasy emulation-of-genre.  I use it to run my own Romance of the Three Kingdoms campaign.

RPGPundit

Sweet. I'll have to check it out.
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