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<blockquote data-quote="Altalazar" data-source="post: 1404583" data-attributes="member: 939"><p>You just nailed it.&nbsp; I liked the mysterious feeling one would get from much of the 1E art.&nbsp; It was just there, often without much explanation.&nbsp; A small scene in some shadowed dungeon or lowly field on a windswept plain.&nbsp; Like some rough sketch made of a real event, one long forgotten, you would look at it and try and determine what they were thinking, what was happening?&nbsp; It really captured the imagination - something you can't do where you just have cartoonish looking (sometimes by style, sometimes by content - lots of buckles and spikes in armor being the proverbial example) iconic looking straight at you in a portrait that makes it clear the only thoughts involved are &quot;look at me, I'm a cool iconic.&quot;&nbsp; There just isn't any mystery there.&nbsp; There isn't anything to capture the imagination in quite the way you could where there are so many questions left unanswered in a scenic artwork (as opposed to a portrait).&nbsp; Perhaps that is the big distinction - the 1E books had many &quot;scenes&quot; of indeterminate nature while 3E just has lots of illustrations / portraits.&nbsp; The style just makes it that much less palatable to me.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Altalazar, post: 1404583, member: 939"] You just nailed it. I liked the mysterious feeling one would get from much of the 1E art. It was just there, often without much explanation. A small scene in some shadowed dungeon or lowly field on a windswept plain. Like some rough sketch made of a real event, one long forgotten, you would look at it and try and determine what they were thinking, what was happening? It really captured the imagination - something you can't do where you just have cartoonish looking (sometimes by style, sometimes by content - lots of buckles and spikes in armor being the proverbial example) iconic looking straight at you in a portrait that makes it clear the only thoughts involved are "look at me, I'm a cool iconic." There just isn't any mystery there. There isn't anything to capture the imagination in quite the way you could where there are so many questions left unanswered in a scenic artwork (as opposed to a portrait). Perhaps that is the big distinction - the 1E books had many "scenes" of indeterminate nature while 3E just has lots of illustrations / portraits. The style just makes it that much less palatable to me. [/QUOTE]

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