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<blockquote data-quote="StalkingBlue" data-source="post: 1733923" data-attributes="member: 645">Most of the artwork in the core rulebooks leaves me cold, it's bland and static to my eye; and I never played earlier editions, so there's no nostalgia factor involved in my case.&nbsp; The frozen postures of the iconics did nothing to ever inspire me to anything, nor did they do anything for any player I ever showed the books to (especially sad for newbies).&nbsp; All that stays in my mind from the core books is the faint impression of how the iconics must have posed interminably for the WotC artists' many-coloured Official Portraits(TM).&nbsp; I've quite liked the artwork in Mongoose's Conan RPG, and found that of the Midnight books very inspiring. The b&amp;w Midnight illustrations especially are evocative and full of mood and flavour, and the characters usually seem to be caught in mid-movement - what a breath of fresh air after the 'Portraits, Frozen, 256 Colours' of the core rulebooks!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="StalkingBlue, post: 1733923, member: 645"] Most of the artwork in the core rulebooks leaves me cold, it's bland and static to my eye; and I never played earlier editions, so there's no nostalgia factor involved in my case. The frozen postures of the iconics did nothing to ever inspire me to anything, nor did they do anything for any player I ever showed the books to (especially sad for newbies). All that stays in my mind from the core books is the faint impression of how the iconics must have posed interminably for the WotC artists' many-coloured Official Portraits(TM). I've quite liked the artwork in Mongoose's Conan RPG, and found that of the Midnight books very inspiring. The b&w Midnight illustrations especially are evocative and full of mood and flavour, and the characters usually seem to be caught in mid-movement - what a breath of fresh air after the 'Portraits, Frozen, 256 Colours' of the core rulebooks! [/QUOTE]

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