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What were they thinking? The RPG art cringe thread :D

Started by Trond, May 13, 2021, 02:15:47 PM

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Trond

May 13, 2021, 02:15:47 PM
Show us the best worst RPG art :D
This one is from Drakar & Demoner, which is NOT a comedy game. They had rights to use Runequest rues, and adopted ducks as a race, so they thought this was a good idea:

ThatChrisGuy

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May 13, 2021, 03:14:40 PM
Quote from: Trond on May 13, 2021, 02:15:47 PM
Show us the best worst RPG art :D
This one is from Drakar & Demoner, which is NOT a comedy game. They had rights to use Runequest rues, and adopted ducks as a race, so they thought this was a good idea:



I think I have a bigger problem with the wang-staff than the duck.
I made a blog: Southern Style GURPS

Torque2100

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May 13, 2021, 03:19:03 PM
Quote from: Trond on May 13, 2021, 02:15:47 PM
Show us the best worst RPG art :D
This one is from Drakar & Demoner, which is NOT a comedy game. They had rights to use Runequest rues, and adopted ducks as a race, so they thought this was a good idea:



The Ducks have always been an utterly baffling aspect of Runequest's worldbuilding.  It's like "here's a reasonably well researched depiction of a fantasy world based on Iron Age Europe and OH BY THE WAY HERE'S DAFFY DUCK!"

Ghostmaker

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May 13, 2021, 03:24:32 PM
After falling on hard times, Donald took up adventuring to help pay for his nephews' schooling, as well as to hopefully one day track down and defeat the shame of his family, the terrible lich Scrooge McDuck...

RandyB

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May 13, 2021, 03:40:44 PM
Quote from: Ghostmaker on May 13, 2021, 03:24:32 PM
After falling on hard times, Donald took up adventuring to help pay for his nephews' schooling, as well as to hopefully one day track down and defeat the shame of his family, the terrible lich Scrooge McDuck...

Nah.

Scrooge is more of a Mummy Lord type...

Omega

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May 13, 2021, 03:46:28 PM
Quote from: Hakdov on May 13, 2021, 03:39:50 PM
cringe  :o

Just short of every halfling depicted in every 5e book I have so far looks deformed, or outright hideous. I can think of two, maybe 3 at best that were not circus freaks.

Omega

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May 13, 2021, 03:48:48 PM
Quote from: Ghostmaker on May 13, 2021, 03:24:32 PM
After falling on hard times, Donald took up adventuring to help pay for his nephews' schooling, as well as to hopefully one day track down and defeat the shame of his family, the terrible lich Scrooge McDuck...

I'd be surprised if that is not a plotline for Wizards of Mickey...

I mean we had Micky turn into a Death Knight in that. Scrooge being some undead horror fits perfectly.

Omega

#9
May 13, 2021, 04:01:11 PM
As for the ducks in Runequest and Drakkar. It fits the original cursed by a god origin. And they did it before the advent of Gully Dwarves and Tinker Gnomes in Dragonlance. Another product of a curse.

Though nothing really approaches the WTF x 100 of 3e Cyberpunk2020. 10 years to produce... this. And these are just samples of larger pieces throughout.

HappyDaze

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May 13, 2021, 04:09:39 PM
Quote from: Omega on May 13, 2021, 04:01:11 PM
As for the ducks in Runequest and Drakkar. It fits the original cursed by a god origin. And they did it before the advent of Gully Dwarves and Tinker Gnomes in Dragonlance. Another product of a curse.

Though nothing really approaches the WTF x 100 of 3e Cyberpunk2020. 10 years to produce... this. And these are just samples of larger pieces throughout.


Oh fuck yeah... The BarbiePunk edition. The "art" was terrible, and what the setting became was so bad I almost did t give Red a chance (but I'm glad I did).

Omega

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May 13, 2021, 04:25:53 PM
Though in all honesty they should have had a doll-figure for the, ahem, were-whales or whatever they hell they were.

The setting was no longer cyberpunk. It was a post apoc nano-world not much different from d20modern Gamma World.

Trond

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May 13, 2021, 04:54:30 PM
Quote from: Hakdov on May 13, 2021, 03:46:11 PM


I could do this all day.

Elvis & Elves, the game where you can play diminutive trans Elvis impersonators with boobs.

Trond

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May 13, 2021, 05:03:35 PM
To be fair to Drakar & Demoner, I always liked the direction they took with the Expert edition. Oh and in some illustrations they almost managed to make the duck look like a viable option. But the above drawing just went all out on Donald Duck clashing with relatively "normal" RPG stuff.

Wntrlnd

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May 13, 2021, 05:40:50 PM
Quote from: Trond on May 13, 2021, 05:03:35 PM
To be fair to Drakar & Demoner, I always liked the direction they took with the Expert edition. Oh and in some illustrations they almost managed to make the duck look like a viable option. But the above drawing just went all out on Donald Duck clashing with relatively "normal" RPG stuff.

I think its just that particular artist. Nisse Gullikssons ducks could get right down savage. Particularly the black pirate ducks.
Having the white ducks be civilised merchants, brown ducks be magically talented and the black ducks be savage pirates would really not fly in todays climate though.

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