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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Autumnal" data-source="post: 9656851" data-attributes="member: 6671663">Sure. It was - in my memory of my experience, so double-qualifier there - a lot of stuff. It felt like a phone book arranged geographically, when I want a guide book - something that would tell me about the neighborhoods, give me some highlights, explain local ways that might be interesting and/or get me in trouble, and like that. I apparently never developed much skill at extracting implicit structure and story from flat data, and always needed a fair amount of hand-holding to spot and understand a lot of the connections between bits. This on top of being an art snob, of course. I was into Roger Dean and Howard Pyle before getting into RPGs. I think Lisa Free may have been the first gaming artist to really make my breath catch and my eyes light up with delight. Judges Guild illustrations never did a thing for me. At least the flip pages on Tomb of Horrors were well-rendered and useful.</blockquote>