Do you put downloaded artwork in your house rulebook?

[Emirikol]

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Do you put downloaded artwork in your house rulebook?

If not, why not?

jh

 

[Thurbane]

As a matter of fact, I do!

Elfwood is a fave sorce of mine to spice up documents that are intended for person use. I'm building my own GM screen at the moment, which will be sprinkled with d/l art goodness.

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

Yes, since my drawing isn't much better than OotS on a good day I use downloaded art extensively. I then use it in my houserules doc, handouts, counters, etc, lots of things.

In fact I do regular searches of art sites like deviantArt and Elfwood to catch potentially useful art, I'll swipe entire galleries if they're especially high quality. I've got something like 20,000 images on my HD because I'll leave a spider to grab keyword tagged pics for me while I'm at work, when you draw as badly as me any usable art is a godsend.

 

[HellHound]

Nope.

I just lay them out as simple documents.

Well, usually. There are some exceptions (like "The Stars, My Empire" - my house rules document for DragonStar / Rokugan).

 

[WhatGravitas]

Sure. Artwork is fun, and is a great way to organize stuff: If you're looking for the variant mage, you don't look for page XX, you look for the guy with the staff. You look for some additional feats? They are close to the brutish half-orc - a.s.o.

Artwork makes remembering specific passages muuuuch easier.

 

[Wik]

Yes, I do. However, I make sure to credit where I got the art from.

Yeah, I steal a bunch of art from Elfwood and Deviantart. And from RPG books that I scan in. And all that. But I'd feel rather bad if I didn't say "by the way, this piece was by X".

It's all on my last page.

(I also do this with any reprinted material - I include where I got the source. College has ruined me, I swear).

 

[Li Shenron]

What do you mean "house rulebook"? Do you just mean the DM's material which contains campaign information and similar stuff? In my case it's not a book but rather a pile of papers, photocopies, maps, notes etcetera...

But I do have one folder with a few dozen pictures downloaded from the Wizards' website galleries and printed in full color. They are great hand-outs during the game! Why there should be any problem doing that? :\

 

[Random Axe]

I paste downloaded monster art, monster mini pics, real-world scenery photos that match my game setting, video game scenes that do likewise, various game logos, item sketches, anything I can get my mouse on to spice up my handouts or module manuscripts.

I'm a very visual person!

 

[Flynn]

I use public domain art in some of my stuff, on the off chance that I might someday spruce it up enough to sell it.

With Regards,
Flynn

 

[WhatGravitas]

I use public domain art in some of my stuff, on the off chance that I might someday spruce it up enough to sell it.

Some examples/sources? I'm a sucker for stuff with a capitel 'F' in 'Free'!