D&D General New art with a bit of text from Ravenloft: Horror Within

[mamba]

I’m no art critic but none of that inspires fear, dread, revulsion, or doom.
“Hey artists, make us some art that’ll portray horror. Don’t skimp on the bright colours, or failing that, make everything look whimsical.”

not seeing the whimsical… colors, sure, I do not need gray in gray for dread, these are all fine to me

 

[mamba]

I don't remember undead mummies being in the LotR

I assume that is a reference to the Paths of the Dead, how close to mummies those are is up to you

 

[Paul Farquhar]

not seeing the whimsical… colors, sure, I do not need gray in gray for dread, these are all fine to me

The garish colour schemes are very reminiscent of Hammer horror movies. The use of colour is really what sets them apart from the earlier black and white Universal cycle of horror movies. The cover of the original Ravenloft module used similar colours.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I don't remember undead mummies being in the LotR

It’s a deliberate attempt to make it look less Egyptian and more its own thing. The metalwork covering the massive pyramid is similar to that depicted covering Ankhteapot’s wrappings.

The "evil green light" is a feature of the Peter Jackson movies which he got from horror movies (he is a big fan). It has nothing to do with Tolkien.

 

[RainOnTheSun]

I don't know about horror, but I am absolutely going to Har'Akir to party. You can't tell me you don't feel the bass thumping out of that pyramid.

 

[Whisper-Kitten]

Meh...

 

[SothFan]

I don't remember undead mummies being in the LotR

Christopher Lee

 

[Desdichado]

This feels very "ESL" to me.

Or ChatGPT.

 

[tetrasodium]

I'm more interested in hearing about the mechanical gm support in this book and the silence on that has been absolutely deafening. I can make plenty of themed dark fantasy landscape images from copilot grok chatgpt midjourney and so on. What I can't do is point to an official page of mechanical rules supporting me as a gm in running a campaign with those sorts of themes and baseline expectations that me say "these rules are being used and we won't be descending into arguments about how they are badwrongfun in conflict with the polls wotc did. Nor will we allow Bob to join then repeatedly revive that debate by deliberately making an effort to play in a way that proves these rules can't be fun while claiming innocence over malicious compliance."

 

[Reynard]

What I can't do is point to an official page of mechanical rules supporting me as a gm in running a campaign with those sorts of themes and baseline expectations that me say "these rules are being used and we won't be descending into arguments about how they are badwrongfun in conflict with the polls wotc did. Nor will we allow Bob to join then repeatedly revive that debate by deliberately making an effort to play in a way that proves these rules can't be fun while claiming innocence over malicious compliance."

Sounds like you should head over to the GM support thread...