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<blockquote data-quote="mmu1" data-source="post: 508286" data-attributes="member: 319">I'm not crazy about a lot of 3E art, although I think it's ok overall.I think the guy who does the illustrations at the front of each chapter (Arne Swekel?) does amazing work, I'd have loved it if the core books just used his black and white art all the way through.&nbsp; I also like Wayne Reynolds' stuff quite a bit, although sometimes he makes his characters just a bit too blocky. I also like most of Lockwood's stuff.I absolutely can't stand Fischer (sp?), I think his characters tend to be badly proportioned, low on meaningful detail, and just plain messy looking - his art looks &quot;fuzzy&quot; to me. I also dislike things like Alhandra's bizzare triangular swath of scale armor, the human rogue's biker outfit, and Mialee's elven fishing vest...The worts set of illustrations in all the core books by far, however, is the illustration of various types of armor. To begin with, most are suits, which is completely absurd, especially given the stats - no Armor Check penalty in a whole-body suit of hard leather, eh? Brilliant. Second, too many of them look the same. The scale, chain shirt, chain mail and breastplate are pretty much all an irregular, asymmetrical mess of what looks like a mix of chain, scale, and irregular metal plates.&nbsp; It all looks like it'd look much better on refugees from a Mad Max ripoff than fantasy characters. Not a single piece of armor, besides maybe the plate mail, looks truly functional.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mmu1, post: 508286, member: 319"] I'm not crazy about a lot of 3E art, although I think it's ok overall. I think the guy who does the illustrations at the front of each chapter (Arne Swekel?) does amazing work, I'd have loved it if the core books just used his black and white art all the way through. I also like Wayne Reynolds' stuff quite a bit, although sometimes he makes his characters just a [i]bit[/i] too blocky. I also like most of Lockwood's stuff. I absolutely can't stand Fischer (sp?), I think his characters tend to be badly proportioned, low on meaningful detail, and just plain messy looking - his art looks "fuzzy" to me. I also dislike things like Alhandra's bizzare triangular swath of scale armor, the human rogue's biker outfit, and Mialee's elven fishing vest... The worts set of illustrations in all the core books by far, however, is the illustration of various types of armor. To begin with, most are [i]suits[/i], which is completely absurd, especially given the stats - no Armor Check penalty in a whole-body suit of hard leather, eh? Brilliant. Second, too many of them look the same. The scale, chain shirt, chain mail and breastplate are pretty much [i]all[/i] an irregular, asymmetrical mess of what looks like a mix of chain, scale, and irregular metal plates. It all looks like it'd look much better on refugees from a Mad Max ripoff than fantasy characters. Not a single piece of armor, besides maybe the plate mail, looks truly functional. [/QUOTE]

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