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<blockquote data-quote="Foundry of Decay" data-source="post: 935886" data-attributes="member: 846">Actually, the lack of new art doesn't surprise me in the least.Persoanlly I don't believe this is a 'royal screw'.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Well, lets take into account:1)&nbsp; To have all new art would require new contracts with existing/new artists to commission them (For money) to draw up&nbsp; all new artwork for the three core books.&nbsp; This in itself is a monumental task.&nbsp; Depending on the artist, art can take roughly a couple days to weeks to finish depending on variables.2) You have to quality control the art.&nbsp; This means it is either rushed, or the dates of release are pushed back monumentally.3) Finally, you have to reformat entire sections of layout, and work out a way to keep a decent page count again with all three books.&nbsp; Layout in itself would take a mind-numbing amount of time to rework with existing text.4)&nbsp; Also, remember that they don't have as many people working on the revisions as they did the first core books, so more people are forced to do more jobs from quality control, to editing, to reformatting.I couldn't imagine that there are any quick and simple ways to change up any of the three core books.&nbsp; The page count alone is pretty large, and all in color, meaning that new color seps might have to be done for new art as well.Those are my thoughts, anyway.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Foundry of Decay, post: 935886, member: 846"] Actually, the lack of new art doesn't surprise me in the least. Persoanlly I don't believe this is a 'royal screw'. Why? Well, lets take into account: 1) To have all new art would require new contracts with existing/new artists to commission them (For money) to draw up all new artwork for the three core books. This in itself is a monumental task. Depending on the artist, art can take roughly a couple days to weeks to finish depending on variables. 2) You have to quality control the art. This means it is either rushed, or the dates of release are pushed back monumentally. 3) Finally, you have to reformat entire sections of layout, and work out a way to keep a decent page count again with all three books. Layout in itself would take a mind-numbing amount of time to rework with existing text. 4) Also, remember that they don't have as many people working on the revisions as they did the first core books, so more people are forced to do more jobs from quality control, to editing, to reformatting. I couldn't imagine that there are any quick and simple ways to change up any of the three core books. The page count alone is pretty large, and all in color, meaning that new color seps might have to be done for new art as well. Those are my thoughts, anyway. [/QUOTE]

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