MM2 art gallery- AWESOME!

[frankthedm]

The Nothic really creeps me out. Were these in past editions? If they were, what were they like?

The art is from the 3.5 minis handbook.i like the art, but it makes me long for hit location rules.

The artist did good work on the of the Eye of frost beholder. It might be a colour coded underground monkey, but the artist did their job.

...the somewhat strange phenomenon that as you travel a diverse world, rather than seeing a diversity of creature types, you see the same creature types, in a diversity of colors: in The Lost Woods, you find the Wolf, the Giant Rat, and the Forest Dragon; in the Slippy Slidey Ice World, you find the Arctic Wolf, the Snow Rat, and the White Dragon; in the Temple Of Doom, you'll face the Dire Wolf, Plague Rat, and Zombie Dragon.

The most common Underground Monkeys are those whose names begin with one of fire, ice or lightning. In games which play Elemental Rock Paper Scissors, the colors may also indicate elemental weakness.

The barghest-skunk made me laugh. At it. Not a fan of the face of the other barghest though that one's hobgoblin form looks suitably impressive.

The Behir illo could have been very good. Shame the artist gave it a chin like a caricature of Jay Leno.

The xorn looks great. Probably the best illo i've seen for the things yet. aberration looking is good in my book.

IIRC the Dagon illo was from a dragon magazine. It is really good annd I am glad to see it reused.

New Glabrezu themed demons? Interesting

Gold dragon's facial tentacles are becoming more pronounced...

I like where this is going.

I like how the gnoll illo has an over-the-top sword & sorcery feel to it.

 

[Belphanior]

I for one love the gnome picture. The guy is a bit too "rawr" but the female's look in her eyes clearly says that she's not funny, she hasn't got a lair or a badger, and she's going to royally you up now. And all that without abandoning the gnome look or resorting to chainmail bikini.

 

[Henrix]

Lots of great pictures there, much better than MM1!

Even the Myconids look cool, while still funny!


I still dislike the new troglodyte look, but this picture is a lot better. (Not as cool as the 3e trogs, though. They would be more fun as something less bruteish, as weii - too many of those around already.)

 

[Henrix]

After a quick look through the .zip file it seems to me that there are more pictures there. (Or is just my perception skill too low?)

 

[Dice4Hire]

Yes, I thought the art was excellent. I like the new way of doing art for the MM.

 

[mach1.9pants]

The Behir illo could have been very good. Shame the artist gave it a chin like a caricature of Jay Leno.

Jay Leno: Translated for Brits and many other English speaking nationals

Jimmy Hill

 

[Kris]

Some I like (the angels look cool), others not so much.

I really dislike the barghests though.

 

[avin]

There's what? 7 - 8 reused art? I like some, but most of them keeps the scooby doo train moving. Demons and devils are inferior compared to the MM.

My vote goes for Witherling too, a fresh breath of weird among very cartoon art.

 

[Klaus]

I for one love the gnome picture. The guy is a bit too "rawr" but the female's look in her eyes clearly says that she's not funny, she hasn't got a lair or a badger, and she's going to royally you up now. And all that without abandoning the gnome look or resorting to chainmail bikini.

The gnomes are done nicely, BUT the artist forgot that 4e gnomes have black orbs as eyes.

Great art, overall!

 

[questing gm]

There is some excellent art in there, really inspiring. I dunno if they are recycled, I have most 3E and 4E books but my memory for art is a bit poor due to old age senility.

This Copper Dragon was an illustration for a Dragon prestige class (which I can't remember what it was exactly called, something to do with scales or spells) from the 3.x Draconomicon. The other Copper Dragon looks familiar but I'm not sure where did I see it, could be the same book as the former.

The Dimensional Marauder was previously the Ethereal Marauder from 3.x MM1 while the Darkmantle art is the same one from MM1. The Remorhaz shown here is also from MM1 but I remember they had a new art for it (which is awesome) when they previewed it as an excerpt.

The Warforged Titan looks familiar too but it also looks like a rehash from a previous art. My mind must be showing signs for senility as well.

Other than those, everything else looks awesome.