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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mr. Kaze" data-source="post: 1733980" data-attributes="member: 8848">3e Art is like a neighborhood of front lawns without an HOA to ensure that property values aren't dragged down by rusty cars and broken bottles on one particular yard.  Some products use art like the Ghostly Patrol in City of the Spider Queen to accentuate the original, iconic if you will, feel that the designer presumably conveyed to marketing which marketing then reflected in the price tag of the book.  Other products use art like the Dark Hunter in Complete Warrior to... check that, I can't figure out what the heck they were trying to do when they printed the Dark Hunter artwork.Compared to some of the older stuff that my neighbor has -- with umber hulks that look like anthropomorphized beetles shooting rays from their eyes -- I have to say that 3e art is okay.But does it generally make me glad that some publishers (WotC) are marking up their products to cover the cost of color printing?  I only bought Complete Warrior because it was 60% off because I wanted the hexblade class.  Compare to MSRP on the Draconomicon because I wanted the pretty pretty dragons and you can see how the real estate values compare in the neighborhood of 3e art....::Kaze</blockquote>