Pictures in Your Homebrewed Documents?

[the Jester]

Anyone put art or pictures in their homebrewed gaming documents? If so, what kind? Does it significantly improve the enjoyment you and your group get from the game?

Back when my Players' Guide to Cydra was hand-written, I had lots of campaign art in it. A few pieces even demonstrated specific things- I'd drawn a picture of a kocho, which is a riding bird imc, and one of my players had done a piece of his pc Jerakai casting one of his spells, Jerakai's embrace. Otherwise, various bits- a character study or two, etc. Almost all of it was black & white pencil or pen on plain (or sometimes even lined) paper.

I'm currently in the process of digitally inserting pics, mostly randomly found online, into my campaign docs prior to printing the newest iteration of the Players Guide. I'm trying to make these pics more thematically linked to the page they'll appear on.

Anyone else?

 

[Angel Tarragon]

I have a lot of the supplemental DnD books, and whatever I allow in my campaign I retype and print out and put it into a binder. That binder is pretty thick. Anyway, I use the art from the WotCs art gallery. It makes that document look nice and spiffy.

 

[Megatron]

I drew and painted the art for my homebrew. all the classes, races, holy symbols, maps, prestige classes, monsters, and artifacts. I also had a few pieces comissioned. I'm working on revising them now, actually.

 

[Voadam]

I cut and paste pictures all the time for the e-mail game I run in a yahoo group. Everybody has a character portrait up, we have a link to the WotC art gallery for each of the shifter's forms, and a bunch of pictures of monsters they have fought, npcs they have met, and places they have been, plus maps.

 

[zagorm]

Like Megatron, I draw all needed arts. I have made complete illustrated village called Fishside and few significant locations around it.
Samples are available on www.theforge.pl

Regards
Z

 

[Ampolitor]

Yeppers

I use pictures of the web and when i get time i do my own artwork and replace them one at a time. It does help get the feel of the world, It gives a common visual for everyoen to go off of!