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<blockquote data-quote="13garth13" data-source="post: 7670552" data-attributes="member: 16979"><p>Colour me torn....I loved DiTerlizzi's work for Planescape....MOST of the time. Whenever he was drawing faerie folk, or the upper planes, or generally whimsical weirdness, he was superb (not surprisingly, he and Brian Froud share similar sensibilities, IMHO, and there are definite similarities between their styles). But (and it is a big "But", which I like and I can't deny it) anytime he had to illustrate something of a dark/horrific/lower planar nature, his work came across as the complete ANTITHESIS of ominous and scary. In fact, it was typically so appallingly <strong>unthreatening </strong>that it took me right out of the mood of the sourcebook/adventure. His fiends were damned near comical in appearance and I never, EVER showed those illustrations while DMing a Planescape game, because at some moment that should be filled with <em>gravitas</em> and grim import/impending danger of a most lethal kind, my players would have rolled their eyes/laughed, and I wouldn't have blamed them in the slightest.</p><p></p><p>So, like I said....sometimes whimsical images that look like they should have been concept art for <em>Labyrinth</em> (1986) are great and convey a wonderful sense of strangeness....but if the fiends and dangerous predators of the Underdark all look like that that, then it's gonna seriously kill the mood, like reciting a Monty Python sketch in the middle of a horror movie.</p><p></p><p>I'll remain on the fence; hopefully this concept art reflects only some of the moods/themes of the adventure, and not the whole of it, because darn it all, any adventure in the Underdark has to live up to D1-3 and The Night Below in terms of evoking strange, otherworldly menace and bizarre subterranean monstrosities. So, my personal preference is something a little closer to <em>Descent</em> (2005) and not so much Froud/DiTerlizzi. </p><p></p><p>To reiterate, I'll remain cautiously optimistic (I love Underdark adventures, and I love fiends/horrific creatures, so I am really hoping Green Ronin can deliver {if it had been one of their own books, I wouldn't be hesitant at all.....I LOVED The Book of Fiends, I just don't trust that WOTC's design goals/specs will be entirely as malevolent/nasty as Green Ronin's in house works}).</p><p></p><p>Cheers,</p><p>Colin</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="13garth13, post: 7670552, member: 16979"] Colour me torn....I loved DiTerlizzi's work for Planescape....MOST of the time. Whenever he was drawing faerie folk, or the upper planes, or generally whimsical weirdness, he was superb (not surprisingly, he and Brian Froud share similar sensibilities, IMHO, and there are definite similarities between their styles). But (and it is a big "But", which I like and I can't deny it) anytime he had to illustrate something of a dark/horrific/lower planar nature, his work came across as the complete ANTITHESIS of ominous and scary. In fact, it was typically so appallingly [B]unthreatening [/B]that it took me right out of the mood of the sourcebook/adventure. His fiends were damned near comical in appearance and I never, EVER showed those illustrations while DMing a Planescape game, because at some moment that should be filled with [I]gravitas[/I] and grim import/impending danger of a most lethal kind, my players would have rolled their eyes/laughed, and I wouldn't have blamed them in the slightest. So, like I said....sometimes whimsical images that look like they should have been concept art for [I]Labyrinth[/I] (1986) are great and convey a wonderful sense of strangeness....but if the fiends and dangerous predators of the Underdark all look like that that, then it's gonna seriously kill the mood, like reciting a Monty Python sketch in the middle of a horror movie. I'll remain on the fence; hopefully this concept art reflects only some of the moods/themes of the adventure, and not the whole of it, because darn it all, any adventure in the Underdark has to live up to D1-3 and The Night Below in terms of evoking strange, otherworldly menace and bizarre subterranean monstrosities. So, my personal preference is something a little closer to [I]Descent[/I] (2005) and not so much Froud/DiTerlizzi. To reiterate, I'll remain cautiously optimistic (I love Underdark adventures, and I love fiends/horrific creatures, so I am really hoping Green Ronin can deliver {if it had been one of their own books, I wouldn't be hesitant at all.....I LOVED The Book of Fiends, I just don't trust that WOTC's design goals/specs will be entirely as malevolent/nasty as Green Ronin's in house works}). Cheers, Colin [/QUOTE]
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