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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Klaus" data-source="post: 4638721" data-attributes="member: 607">You're forgetting another important part illustrations play in a book, namely, to serve as "bookmarks" to help you navigate the text and reference the appropriate part quickly, and to give the eyes a break from the monotonous layout of a reference book.Back to the topic:I don't mind SOME art recycling. Say, for minor things, just to spice up a page of nothing but stats, you could use some item pictures from the Magic Item Compendium. Maybe you could use a piece to illustrate a paragon path or somesuch. Some Paragon Path illustrations are so generic-looking, you might as well have a recycled piece of art.But there are things that ought NOT to be recycled. Major NPC/Monsters deserve their own pictures, based on the written description. If there's a previous, totally awesome picture of it, maybe you can use it again (say, WAR's picture of Tiamat from Complete Divine). It's just a matter of managing what gets recycled, and where.And then there's the case of bad Photoshopped recycling, like the Human racial entry in the PHB, where a female tiefling was Photoshopped out and a human female was Photoshopped in, leaving a big white hole on the male human.Good recycling -> Todd Lockwood's female drow in the MM, or Steve Prescott's Medusa archer from the cover of The Sinister Spire.Bad recycling -> The aforementioned human entry, from the cover of Races & Classes, or the Kaz the Betrayer illustration in Open Grave, from the MM5's vampire entry.</blockquote>

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