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<blockquote data-quote="Jay Verkuilen" data-source="post: 7850050" data-attributes="member: 6873517"><p>I still run a 2E game and I have to say I don't think so. I'm not saying all the art is great---it's not---but a lot of it is pretty solid. It was a big step up from 1E, nostalgia factor aside, and is printed fairly well. I don't think it's as good as later printing, but a good bit of that's technology. The later 2E art is, IMO, not nearly as good as the earlier art, although there are spots where it's quite good.</p><p></p><p>Of the two examples, <em>Tome of Magic</em> was quite early in 2E's run before the black covers. Indeed, checking the copy right next to me, it was from 1991. <em>Demihuman Dieties</em> is from 1998. </p><p></p><p>However, the rulebooks, especially the early ones, did have some fairly bland monochrome line art, so maybe that's what you're remembering?</p><p></p><p>One other thing I'll say about 2E and many of the 1E books before them: I'm still using those books and my copies are, obviously, decades old. They are still in very functional shape and I used them for a lot of that time, because I played a lot of 2E from 1991 to 2007 and again from 2013-. Contrast this to modern PHB, which is a POS. I had to replace my first copy, which fell apart, but the replacement isn't all that great either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jay Verkuilen, post: 7850050, member: 6873517"] I still run a 2E game and I have to say I don't think so. I'm not saying all the art is great---it's not---but a lot of it is pretty solid. It was a big step up from 1E, nostalgia factor aside, and is printed fairly well. I don't think it's as good as later printing, but a good bit of that's technology. The later 2E art is, IMO, not nearly as good as the earlier art, although there are spots where it's quite good. Of the two examples, [I]Tome of Magic[/I] was quite early in 2E's run before the black covers. Indeed, checking the copy right next to me, it was from 1991. [I]Demihuman Dieties[/I] is from 1998. However, the rulebooks, especially the early ones, did have some fairly bland monochrome line art, so maybe that's what you're remembering? One other thing I'll say about 2E and many of the 1E books before them: I'm still using those books and my copies are, obviously, decades old. They are still in very functional shape and I used them for a lot of that time, because I played a lot of 2E from 1991 to 2007 and again from 2013-. Contrast this to modern PHB, which is a POS. I had to replace my first copy, which fell apart, but the replacement isn't all that great either. [/QUOTE]
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