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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LordEntrails" data-source="post: 9555367" data-attributes="member: 6804070">So I'm in a similar situation. I'm not publishing RPG content for a living but I want to do it ethically and in a way that does not undercut those who do publish RPG materials for a living. Even though I'm not an artist, I've been able to do all the maps (300+) of them myself using Campaign Cartographer. I've been able to gather other open source interior art (portraits, a few items, etc) from CC-SA-BY or CC0, or similar licenses. And I've acquired some stock art from sources listed above as well.The one piece of art I decided I had to spend money on was the cover image. And here I looked through sites like Deviant Art etc and reached out to various artists (And only heard back from one) about the possibility of licensing existing art they had. The intent here was to get something they already had created and had not been used on other products that would look good, but not cost what a commissioned piece would. Now, I got lucky, and a friend who has been helping me with editing my adventure has a young cousin who agreed to do the cover for me for my budget. I'm thrilled with the cover they did. And for my next project I hope this one makes enough I can spend more on art for the next one. We shall see.TLDR: lots of free and low cost ethical resources for interior art. What money you do have to spend, spend it on the cover image.p.s. I did use CC0 content from the British Art Museum for my first cover. Took a lot of searching to find something I liked, but it's there and public domain.</blockquote>

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