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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darth Shoju" data-source="post: 3239370" data-attributes="member: 11397">Well, let's start off by examining a few 1e notables...[sblock]<img src="http://darthshoju.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/DungeonMasterGuide4Cover.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]Overall I like this piece. Can't say much for the background. The characters look pretty stiff too...their poses don't seem natural to me. The efreet is so wooden looking it resembles a statue more than a monster fighting adventurers. I'd also have to label the girl in the efreet's hand as "cheesecake": she's obviously not just the "fair maiden" the party has come to rescue as she has a dagger in her hand and seems ready to use it. I guess the cheesecake isn't limited to 2ed. The efreet seems a little overly-muscled too. But I still like it, it definately suits the focus of 1ed. [sblock]<img src="http://darthshoju.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/TSR2009_500.jpeg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]Don't think I have much to say about this one. I guess it is kind of neat in a medieval menagerie sort of way. They all look kind of posed and contrived though...is the dragon looking right at the viewer?[sblock]<img src="http://darthshoju.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/TSR2010_500.jpeg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]This is my favourite of the three. Great context and mood...cool lighting. Every character is doing something interesting. Cool pick all around. [sblock]<img src="http://darthshoju.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/T1ModuleCover.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]Hmmm...well the giant crayfish is well done. The armoured figures look pretty neat...although I'm not too sure about the larger figure's helmet. They all seem to be looking right at the viewer though...[sblock]<img src="http://darthshoju.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/T1VillageHommletCover-Color.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]This one portrays an excellent feeling of motion. The undead and the halfling look pretty good too. However, that is one bland background I must say...and the guy getting tackled looks pretty well muscled.[sblock]<img src="http://darthshoju.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/dnd_BasicRule_s.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]This is the set that got me started on D&D; my parents bought it for me at a garage sale when I was eight or so. I had no idea what D&D was and couldn't grasp the rules. The pictures were cool and scary though. This cover piece was great and IMO pretty much says "Dungeons and Dragons" (even if it didn't *literally* say it right above  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />  ).Some pretty neat pics there. But they seem to display many of the weaknesses you claim are so rampant in 2ed and 3ed art. Give me a few mins to see if I can find anything to prove otherwise.</blockquote>

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