What is the most evocative art you've seen in a TTRPG?

[Wofano Wotanto]

Have you seen his new adventure? The art's as good as ever, maybe better.

I did, although I haven't found an opportunity to run it yet. The art is stunning as expected, and the adventure premise is pretty great and...I guess "typically atypical" is as good a descriptor as any? Nice to see that the end of A Thousand Thousand Islands hasn't stopped Munkao from working on his own.

Still, I do rather miss the combination of his art with Zedeck Siew's terse writing. His style's as distinctive to me as Munkao's art. Very unhappy to hear about that split.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Still, I do rather miss the combination of his art with Zedeck Siew's terse writing. His style's as distinctive to me as Munkao's art. Very unhappy to hear about that split.

Any time both people in a two-person partnership feel undervalued by the other, there's serious ugliness ahead.

 

[jdrakeh]

The art in the Merry Mushmen's edition of Black Sword Hack is amazing.

 

[kronovan]

I'll ditto Cubicle 7's art in TOR 1e as being top quality and evocative. I found their art in Adventures in Middle Earth to equal it. The art in Ulissee Spiele's Dark Eye publications has compelled me to continue my quest to find an IRL or vitual table to play at, or find that ever elusive audience of players to host around my own. The TDE PDFs are among the few I've ever bought, where I felt they were worth it for the art work alone.

 

[innerdude]

The One Ring, as already mentioned.

The art for the Interface Zero 2.0 setting book for Savage Worlds is next level. Not all of it is truly "great," but there's a consistency and level of detail throughout that holds the book together in a way that the OP describes---it's evocative and compelling.

 

[Haiku Elvis]

Agon (2e) must be up there. I mean look at it John Harper did the art as well as co-designing the game. To be honest I'm not sure if the game's for me but the art keeps tempting me to buy it anyway - you don't need to play me, just look at my pretty pictures!

 

[Wofano Wotanto]

To be honest I'm not sure if the game's for me but the art keeps tempting me to buy it anyway - you don't need to play me, just look at my pretty pictures!

That reasoning got me to buy rather a lot of Spacemaster and Traveller 4e stuff over the years, although I'm pretty sure the only thing being evoked by the art in that case was near-religious awe of Chris Foss' artwork. You could put his art on the cover of a recipe book for cannibals and I'd still buy it.

 

[Arnie_Wan_Kenobi]

I've said it before: Elmore's "Dragon Slayers and Proud if It" was exactly what 2e was for me. Sticking with 2e: DiTerlizzi and Planescape, Brom and Dark Sun captured and/or created the "feel" of those settings.

Similarly, the color "ads" in the WEG Star Wars books really created the "flavor" of the SW galaxy.

 

[Jahydin]

D&D's new "softer" aesthetic really isn't my thing, so always excited to see RPGs with creepy art that conveys just how dangerous and horrifying dungeon delving and/or studying the arcane would really be.

My recent favorites:
Shadowdark

Dragonslayer RPG

Hyperborea:

Spoiler: Violent Content

 

[Jahydin]

I've said it before: Elmore's "Dragon Slayers and Proud if It" was exactly what 2e was for me.

Have you seen Pathfinder's homage to it?