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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bran Blackbyrd" data-source="post: 902208" data-attributes="member: 1710">I'm with you about the Harley, Oni. I simply don't like the stuff by Hampton. Aside from just not being my cup of tea, they don't fit the overall mood of the other illos. You can't jump from those gritty, dark pictures to those virtually unshaded cartoons.I like the sparse, "graphic" style of the Kalman pics from the core book, they almost remind me of the GTA3 artwork. They're on the right side of that fine line between cool and too cartoony.The only picture that truly makes me ill is the one of the drow rock band. I don't like the style of the drawing and the proportions of the one with the guitar are borked. I'm not an anatomy snob or an art critic, but she just looks screwed up. I'm not too fond of purple drow either... I like my dark elves black, but that's just me. It's not too bad in some of the pictures, but in the band illo they're lavender!Jake Parker's stuff is top notch, I'm digging the Hazard Suit drawing and the Speed Demon. A drow on a crotch rocket, you don't get much cooler than that. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> And I've never even played one.The Homunculi are cool.The Vrock does not look like any vrock I've ever seen, and in this case that's bad.The Kailey, Mystic picture is cool.The Kailey and Leonard iconics are good, the Madeline Webber one isn't bad. I didn't care much for the others, the fact that my brother's name is Christopher Lewis didn't help either (the schmuck). <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />One of my favorites, for some reason, is the picture of the "mannequin" staring at a man through the window. The one online is too small (and flipped left to right), but in the book it has a really creepy, strange, vaguely amused look on its face that I like quite a bit.All in all though the whole package is pretty good. I wonder why they went with the matte finish cover instead of the slick cover like with the core book? Just to further distinguish it from the default setting books that will be coming?EDIT: Ugh, I've been awake far too much as of late.</blockquote>

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