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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turjan" data-source="post: 2506620" data-attributes="member: 3477">I just want to comment on this "production value" point ("great color art and full color"), I don't think that colour art is necessarily better than black & white one. Just think of the old Bastion Press books, full colour and glossy paper: The style and colours of borders and interior images often clashed with each other. I have "Minions: Rebirth" (a good 'general' monster book), and I can tell you that the colour figures actually gain if you print them in black & white. Despite the art, which isn't even that bad in this case, here is another vote for 'Spells & Magic' <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=":)" />.Great b&w art can be found in 'Hammer & Helm' (gorgeous dwarf drawings), 'Wrath & Rage' (some of the funniest RPG art ever) or in some of FFG's 'Legends & Lairs' series, like 'Wildscape' (one of the best environmental books, btw.), though it's not consistent in those books. 'Legacy of the Dragons' is also not bad. I might have a different taste in art from many, but I don't think that the change of art found from AU to AE was necessarily for the better. I found some of those pieces from AU with a xylographic appearance very evocative, e.g. the illustration of the 'Venomblade' spell by David Hendee on pg. 246.</blockquote>

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