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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darth Shoju" data-source="post: 3232476" data-attributes="member: 11397">Well you've pretty much lost me at this point. Somehow you see "machismo" and "inner vision" and "spirit" where I see some cool atmospheric illustrations along side some goofy filler material (a description which can apply to all editions IMO). You imagine some bearded rebels flipping the bird to society while striving to produce art in its purest form. I picture it more like this: [Gary G.] Ok, we need someone to flesh out our adventures and supplements with some illustrations of people going into dungeons and fighting weird-looking monsters in the pursuit of treasure...[Art Director] Well there are some pretty decent fantasy artists out there now...[Gary G.] We also don't have a lot of money[Art Director] Ok well we've got these guys...some of their work is pretty cool looking. They work pretty cheap too...[Gary G.] Sold !That's a kinda cheeky example but I tend to go with the simplest explanation until someone "in the know" can come on and validate that they were indeed devil-may-care mavericks publishing art that reflected the "true spirit" of the game. While I agree that art can have a message (hence art directors), I'd have to say the majority of what is being bandied about in this thread is just personal opinion. Outside of RC's posts there is little objectivity (and even there I'd say opinion is weighing pretty heavily). IMO YMMV and so forth.</blockquote>