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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 2862181" data-attributes="member: 22779">As PC mentioned, having illustrations that might interfere with mechanics is a no-no.  Remember the pic in the old 1e DMG of the mage blasting away with a ray from a horse?  That picture caused all sorts of arguements at my table.  Can a wizard cast a spell while riding a horse at full gallop?  Sigh.Illo's are nice, but, IMO, there's far too much of a tendency for artists to get "creative" with the pics and you start getting some really big discrepancies between the text and the picture.  Since there's nothing in the rules that Evard's Tentacles provide cover, then they don't.  Full stop.  Picture's would likely simply cause more arguements than they would solve.Picture's of monsters are a different issue really.  The pic of the monster has absolutely no in game effect.  It's simply a pic of the monster.  It's understood that the picture in the MM may or may not exactly represent what you are facing.  IIRC, the orc in the pic is male.  No one would argue that there are no female orcs for example or that an orc cannot use another weapon.  Putting pics of spells in the PHB would tend to make them more like diagrams - more of a rules thing than simply a bit of flavour.</blockquote>