full color adventures?

[mcrow]

I'm not a big buyer of published advetures. Since I don't have much personal experience with published adventures I thought I would ask the opinion of the enworld crowd.

#1-- are there a lot of of published advetures printed in full color?

#2-- would it the fact that the adveture was full color factor into your decision to buy it?


I don't remember seeing any full color adventures until recently so I thought I might be missing something. As for my thoughts on the questions. #1 Don't know and #2- for me color goes in the "tie breaker" bin. If I find two RPGs I like equally but can only buy one and one is color and the other is not I would buy the color one.

 

[Joshua Randall]

What do you mean by "full color"? Do you mean just the artwork? The artwork and the text? (Very few published materials actually use full color text -- most are four color.)

All Dungeon magazines are in "full color" (at least the artwork is), as are any adventures that happen to be in various WotC sourcebooks.

 

[Crothian]

Most are not full color. If the adventure included handouts that were full color, that would be really cool.

 

[mcrow]

What I mean by "full color " is that all the art & graphics are color.

I have a copy of Turris Lemurum and it is full color, every picture, graphic, and map is color. Really sweet looking book.

 

[Poster Bard]

If not the DM-centric, interior artwork, at least the cartography and handouts?

 

[trancejeremy]

The only non WOTC adventure I can think of being in color is one of Goodman Games' Dungeon Crawl Classics, the Crypt of the Devil Lich.

http://www.goodmangames.com/5012preview.php

It being in color actually was the reason I haven't bought it - too expensive. I opted to buy a cheaper module from them instead. (Which was actually a mistake, since I didn't like it).

 

[DaveMage]

Shackled City from Paizo is another.

Um...that's it I think...

 

[Dragonhelm]

#1-- are there a lot of of published advetures printed in full color?

To my knowledge, no. Even publishers who produce color books oftentimes will put out adventures in B&W. Sovereign Press does this with Dragonlance, for example.

#2-- would it the fact that the adveture was full color factor into your decision to buy it?

It would, though it would not be the deciding factor. It would depend on the quality of the artwork, for one. It could be a tie-breaker, sure. If the art and color in general was all bad, I might actually be turned off by such a product.

 

[JVisgaitis]

The adventure that WotC put out for Wheel of Time was full color. As stalwart as we are with doing full color, I don't think we would ever publish a full color adventure. They are way too costly. However, I would include some color pages though. I'm not against doing color modules, but it would have to be something unique and not done before. For example, if I did manage to get ahold of a lot of big names in the industry and do an anthology for instance, that would certainly warrant full color.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Aside from maps? No it would not influence me in a positive way, I would be too likely to ask myself 'how much am I paying for the color?'

The Auld Grump