Would you hold it against a book if...

[Golandrinel]

I love anime/manga style art as much as I do "real" fantasy art. As long as the story inside isn't as poor as most anime then that's fine with me!

 

[diaglo]

i'd never blame the book. books don't have any sense. they just occupy space on a shelf.

however, i would blame the publishers if the material was not meant for an anime based game.

 

[johnsemlak]

Re: Re: totally uncultured dumb question

Art done in the anime style. Or, more properly, manga style.

Like this:

http://www.geocities.com/dragonlance_never/

Thanks

 

[wighair]

personally yes. I hate it. I would buy a book with no art, but i wouldn't buy one with anime. it ruins the whole mood of things as far as i'm concerned.

 

[seasong]

Brief Rant: What y'all are talking about is one style of anime - a comedic style, at that. I don't run comedic campaigns, so it wouldn't work for me, either. On the other hand, the style of Lain, or Boogiepop Phantom (bad, bad name, but good series), it would be perfect for me. /RANT

With that said, I prefer GURPS' approach to art, but I understand that WotC is appealling to a more color-oriented demographic.

 

[Tsyr]

Brief Rant: What y'all are talking about is one style of anime - a comedic style, at that. I don't run comedic campaigns, so it wouldn't work for me, either. On the other hand, the style of Lain, or Boogiepop Phantom (bad, bad name, but good series), it would be perfect for me. /RANT

Don't bother. I've tried to go down that road many times, here, at RPG.net, and elsewhere. Most people just can't grok the concept, for some reason, so I stopped trying.

For the record, I rather like the approach to art in Hackmaster...

 

[Sagan Darkside]

The less art in the book the better!

I could care less what style it is..

SD

 

[hong]

Actually, they are more realistic. The artwork in the WOTC products lack characters with over-sized heads, ridiculously styled and colored hair, eyes that could pop out of their face at any second and mouths so small that eating a grain of rice would appear to be a deadly choking hazard except for the fact that at any moment it could expand to devour the large head of the person standing next to them during an emotional moment.

*twitch*

As you can see, I personally don't like anime art

*twitch* *twitch*

 

[Hand of Evil]

Not really but I find sytle of art important in defining the flavor of the book.

 

[Golandrinel]

Art is massively important in FRPGs (..IMO...) although anime doesn't really lend itself to the genre (marvel style is probably the closest that cartoon charactersw are going to get). Pictures allow us all to interpret the descriptions of characters / monsters / places etc etc in a uniform way. And that way there should be no disputes over a description.