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<blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 3155923" data-attributes="member: 3649">There's an law in comics: Bad writing can be saved by great art but great writing will never save bad art. For a game product, it's not quite that simple. Great art can enhance a product to no end. Bad art can diminish the enjoyment I get from a game product but not to the extreme degree that bad comic art damages a comic. Sometimes art is required. Any monster book needs to have art for each monster, period. Bad monster art will cause me not to use that monster unless I can find a substitute. The embarassing pig-headed orcs of 1E are a good example. I never liked them. I thought it was silly and done that way so as to avoid copyright issues - I never seriously beleived anyone actually used orcs with pig heads. The clean line drawing in the MM just says 'man, these things are stupid'. Yet I've seen evocative depictions of pig-headed orcs that made me want to go use that monster. If you're going to splurge anywhere, splurge on the art.Layout is something I want touched on in a review. If you're talking about a 96-page book that, save for wide decorative margins and generous white space, should be a 50-page book, then I want to know it so I can spend money elsewhere. Watermarks almost guarentee that I will not purchase the product unless they are used very sparingly and do not interfere with either me following the text or with photocopying a page. WW's Eastern subsections of their various OWoD game lines are a prime example of what not to do. I strongly suspect that I would have been very interested in the contents of those books if I could have actually read the text. If they're there, I want to know about it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WayneLigon, post: 3155923, member: 3649"] There's an law in comics: Bad writing can be saved by great art but great writing will never save bad art. For a game product, it's not quite that simple. Great art can enhance a product to no end. Bad art can diminish the enjoyment I get from a game product but not to the extreme degree that bad comic art damages a comic. Sometimes art is required. Any monster book needs to have art for each monster, period. Bad monster art will cause me not to use that monster unless I can find a substitute. The embarassing pig-headed orcs of 1E are a good example. I never liked them. I thought it was silly and done that way so as to avoid copyright issues - I never [I]seriously [/I] beleived anyone [I]actually [/I] used orcs with pig heads. The clean line drawing in the MM just says 'man, these things are stupid'. Yet I've seen evocative depictions of pig-headed orcs that made me [I]want [/I] to go [I]use [/I] that monster. If you're going to splurge anywhere, splurge on the art. Layout is something I want touched on in a review. If you're talking about a 96-page book that, save for wide decorative margins and generous white space, should be a 50-page book, then I want to know it so I can spend money elsewhere. Watermarks almost guarentee that I will not purchase the product unless they are used very sparingly and do not interfere with either me following the text or with photocopying a page. WW's Eastern subsections of their various OWoD game lines are a prime example of what not to do. I strongly suspect that I would have been very interested in the contents of those books if I could have actually read the text. If they're there, I want to know about it. [/QUOTE]

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