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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tx7321" data-source="post: 3231045" data-attributes="member: 43146">Fair enough.  Remember though, some comparison is going to be needed (just as if I was going to define and discuss the merits of impressionism, I might need to compare  pre-impressionists to impressionists: "the  impressionists were better at xyz," kind of like describing to someone what white is by showing them black.  In otherwords, I'm not knocking 2E and 3E (they do have more detail in them then 1E art for instance), as much as using that statement (you posted above) as a launching point for those who share the opinion that one of 1Es key values was that it expressed the feel and mood of the game very well.   I'm sure when impressionism first came out, there were realist who argued that realism expressed expresson just as well.  But that didn't stop art critics, and the general public from going bananas over the new style.Anyhow, I have no problem with debating the problems and merits of 1E, 2E, and 3E art, as long as it doesn't devolve into a big girl fight.  So far (for the most part) everyone's stuck to comments on the art and not each other which is nice for a change...and something I NEVER thought I'd see, least of all here at ENworld.   <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=":)" />   So good for us.</blockquote>

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