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Author Topic: What were they thinking? The RPG art cringe thread :D  (Read 17465 times)

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Re: What were they thinking? The RPG art cringe thread :D
« Reply #30 on: May 14, 2021, 12:50:57 PM »
This book is called "Viking Age" (not "Sexy Fantasy Vikings" or some such), and the art pieces on the front and back really give me a lot of confidence in this product.

   Avalanche Press was notorious for their cheesecake covers during the d20 boom.

So was Dragon magazine, back in the day.

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Re: What were they thinking? The RPG art cringe thread :D
« Reply #31 on: May 14, 2021, 02:42:40 PM »
I think I'll make new D20 campaign book about authentic viking culture. How do you like this as a cover? :D


Okay, this has inspired me. For my next campaign world the Tieflings are going to be Vikings.

Those aren’t horned helmets... they’re helmets with holes for horns.  ;D
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Re: What were they thinking? The RPG art cringe thread :D
« Reply #32 on: May 14, 2021, 02:43:04 PM »
Double post, disregard.

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Re: What were they thinking? The RPG art cringe thread :D
« Reply #33 on: May 14, 2021, 05:10:57 PM »
This book is called "Viking Age" (not "Sexy Fantasy Vikings" or some such), and the art pieces on the front and back really give me a lot of confidence in this product.

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Oh, very nice. Kinda wish we had more RPG covers like that one these days.

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Re: What were they thinking? The RPG art cringe thread :D
« Reply #34 on: May 14, 2021, 05:53:44 PM »
Not sure if this one is a joke...... :D


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Re: What were they thinking? The RPG art cringe thread :D
« Reply #35 on: May 14, 2021, 06:12:15 PM »
Not sure if this one is a joke...... :D



"Flex reality" oh, that's the class Flex Mentallo is.

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Re: What were they thinking? The RPG art cringe thread :D
« Reply #36 on: May 14, 2021, 06:36:15 PM »
This book is called "Viking Age" (not "Sexy Fantasy Vikings" or some such), and the art pieces on the front and back really give me a lot of confidence in this product.
At least they fixed the problem in their later books....



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Re: What were they thinking? The RPG art cringe thread :D
« Reply #37 on: May 14, 2021, 07:00:28 PM »
Elmore's stuff may have been cheesecake but damn if it didn't at least look better than this stuff. Avalanche's covers look suspiciously like photomanipulation.

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Re: What were they thinking? The RPG art cringe thread :D
« Reply #38 on: May 14, 2021, 07:03:22 PM »
This book is called "Viking Age" (not "Sexy Fantasy Vikings" or some such), and the art pieces on the front and back really give me a lot of confidence in this product.
At least they fixed the problem in their later books....



 ;D


maybe we could blur the titles and play a game of “guess what this book is about”.

Has anyone read these? I wonder what the text is like.

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Re: What were they thinking? The RPG art cringe thread :D
« Reply #39 on: May 14, 2021, 07:08:11 PM »
Elmore's stuff may have been cheesecake but damn if it didn't at least look better than this stuff. Avalanche's covers look suspiciously like photomanipulation.

Personally I am not his biggest fan, but I have nothing against Elmore’s type of cheesecake.

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Re: What were they thinking? The RPG art cringe thread :D
« Reply #40 on: May 14, 2021, 07:20:00 PM »
I saw this the other day and thought it was a joke.  Nope, it's an Evil Hat game. 


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Re: What were they thinking? The RPG art cringe thread :D
« Reply #41 on: May 14, 2021, 07:21:26 PM »
I saw this the other day and thought it was a joke.  Nope, it's an Evil Hat game. 


But... Evil Hat is the joke.

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Re: What were they thinking? The RPG art cringe thread :D
« Reply #42 on: May 14, 2021, 07:56:34 PM »
Elmore's stuff may have been cheesecake but damn if it didn't at least look better than this stuff. Avalanche's covers look suspiciously like photomanipulation.

Tracing porn is my guess.
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Re: What were they thinking? The RPG art cringe thread :D
« Reply #43 on: May 14, 2021, 08:07:51 PM »
I saw this the other day and thought it was a joke.  Nope, it's an Evil Hat game. 



Found some superb one-liners from this game

“If you love angsty disaster lesbians with swords, you have come to the right place.”

“In this book, you’ll find:
Flirting, sword-fighting, and zingers in a system designed for both narrative drama and player safety.”


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Re: What were they thinking? The RPG art cringe thread :D
« Reply #44 on: May 14, 2021, 08:22:43 PM »
Player safety?  Are swords going to fly out of the pages?

Joking of course, but it deserves mockery.  I rather have the cheesecake than the virtue signaling bullshit any day.  The cheesecake is more honest at least as it is just sex sales.