Make an amazingly good compilation of the most important books for 2e

>make an amazingly good compilation of the most important books for 2e
>put literally the worst art you can find in the cover

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What's wrong with it?

the geeks responsible for this shit are not necessarily visually oriented, and are thus unable to differentiate between good art and bad art.

their unconscious mind therefore cannot answer the question "is this a good cover?", and instead substitutes the answer to the question "do i think this is hawt?", which they find easier. it's sad, but you can't really blame them.

however, it does tell you something about the size of their organisation that they didn't have anyone else on the team whose visual sensitivities were any better.

>retarded armor choices and gratuitious nudity that says nothing
>when other great art exists

I don't really see the problem except that somebody scribbled over her nipples with magic marker. Also, her traveling around wearing only a cape, gloves, and a belt is basically asking to raped either by monsters or adventurers.

>implying she isn't woman enough to rape monsters and adventurers

>Posting objectively worse art because you're triggered by slightly fantastic armour in the form of a pauldron and nudity.

I hope you're not suggesting that the ridiculous looking fellow in your image would be a suitable replacement.

>Shitting on Julie Strain
You're the one with no taste, user.

>the worst art you can find is literally a hundred times better than 99% of official DnD illustrations

Wait, isn't that Luis Royo?

This is now a ‘What art would be perfect for an AD&D cover?’ thread.

That's the artist. I'm talking about the model. They're both good. OP is shit.

At least there's SOMETHING going on in the picture, other than "Here's some tits".
Here's a better example of unrealistic sexy armor.

Oh yeah, I love Royo's fantasy work.

This is fucking amazing too

that IS better, but that doesn't make OP art terrible

I think this art would be perfect because it perfectly insinuates which classes are the reason people play dnd

You are a scholar user. Unlike OP, you are a man of taste.

It's not that the picture is badly drawn. It's that it's saying nothing. I mean, you could probably put a couple of sexy barbarian ladies fucking in the cover. But why would you, when you could set the tone for adventure?

You put that image in the Player's Handbook and you'll get wizards everywhere. This is amazing.

>hat is a fucking dragon
>has a fucking snake for a belt
>has all sorts of cool shit in his room (even a coke bottle, cthulhu, and a tasmanian tiger)
>works powerful magic
>carries a keyring because he owns a fucking tower
>not cool

You're objectively wrong

>"so, should she be dressed like an amazon, a pirate, a knight, or a whore?"

>"Or?"

Anything that shows how overly broken magic is would do, basically

a classic

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Yes, and he is visualy spinning a tale about a knight, a dragon and a dame in distress with smoke, used on the cover of the Spinning Tales book. It is ver specific and can't be used anywhere but there.

>Spinning Tales book
What

...

Man, Dragon magazine used to be so good.

It's just a bit crap mate. Reminds me of the photoshop covers people mock up for their amazon fetish e-novels. D&D's always had a schizophrenic quality of art but 2e had some damn good shit.

At least them fucking would have some point to it.

I mean I actually think Luis Royo had some good stuff but a lot of his stuff is also "Oh I'm gothy and sexy and I look a little bit constipated"

As far as 'women fucking angel/demon' goes this is in the bottom 10% of shit I've seen I think.

Where I think like this or link >animeonly.org/albums/LATEST_RELEASES/FANTASYARTv16/Art/Luis-Royo/Prohibited-Book-1,2,3/luis_royo_p2_021.jpg
Are OK as variations on a theme. This has a wee bit of inference to it with you know, the claws, the consideration, the contrast of expressions but the apparent intent of the women and the beast. It's clear what she's buying and what she's paying.

...but when you actually get the materialization of it Royo is a bit rubbish. It's like he can put some emotion into his art but when he does sex it's just really stilted porn modelling.

I'll surely eat a ban sooner or later for posting these but this could be a million times more fucked-up and pornographic and erotic than it actually is. It feels like a bad porno. The demon looks like he feels awkward about getting his dick sucked, and the woman looks like she's pretending to be into it.

I bet his hooves hurt.

Look at her. She wouldn't need to rape most monsters and adventurers.

I'm not sure why this picture is so hilarious

>I'll surely eat a ban sooner or later for posting these but this could be a million times more fucked-up and pornographic and erotic than it actually is. It feels like a bad porno. The demon looks like he feels awkward about getting his dick sucked, and the woman looks like she's pretending to be into it.
>I bet his hooves hurt.

>ey goth bb wan sum fuk

> "I dont like thing therefore its bad"-The Thread

Good Display of SJW-Style Thinking right there, user.

>willingly eating shit so as to not offend anyone
Good Display of SJW-Style Thinking right there, user.

> t. doesn't understand how marketing works
Look like they understood their target demographic well. This is going to catch any 14-21 year old's eye in the store. He picks it up, thumbs through it, purchases it and becomes a neckbeard.

> anything I disagree with is SJW
Sounds pretty MRA to me.

>So butthurt about people liking different things that you start pretending to be retarded

>all these people not understanding that this isn't the cover of an official D&D book, but the cover of a fan compilation

>it's 2018 and we're having a thread on Veeky Forums to watch OP complain about the art on the cover of a 2e netbook that's probably been on the internet longer than he has.

>pretending to be you is pretending to be retarded
checkmate atheists

>STOP LIKING SKIMPY CLOTHED WOMEN BECAUSE I DONT LIKE THEM
>Not SJW

Sounds pretty reddit to me.

This is so 70s and so great.

>being a fucking retard
sound pretty tg to me

This is the best D&D art ever made.
Prove me wrong.

Oh I get that. But even it was TSR's official 2e cover, who cares? It's fantasy. Nobody forces female players to have their characters go adventuring basically naked, and if they choose to, who gives a shit? The majority of players and therefore customers are male, and men like to see sexy women.

Men of cultured taste, I see.

>going full retard because someone called you out on your opinion essentially being "I dont like it so neither should you"

The Damage-Control by faggot OP continues.

I didn't know Dragonlance was pro Day of the Rope.

Oh hey, White-Knight Shitposter is back. How did you enjoy your ban?

Then the fans perfectly captured the spirit of 2E. Do you have any idea how many times I jerked it to my dad's 1E Deities & Demigods book? If I saw this shit in middle school I would buy it in a heartbeat. It looks very much like a book that would come out in the late '80s or early '90s.
Of the 2E core rule books I owned, the only one I had with the original cover was pic related. The rest were the black border ones. OP's image fits right in with it. Besides, if it's a good compilation, why do you care what the cover looks like?

You can complain like a bitch or post art that you find cool.


>White-Knight Shitposter
Was this a thing?

Being male doesn't mean you want porn in literally everything you consume. I'd much prefer burly men fighting each other no homo

>the spirit of 2E
You mean the spirit of the edition that removed devils & demons, the assassin, and the half-orc?

I posted that and still mostly agree with OP, senpai

You do understand that you have objectively shit taste, right?

Ok, you prefer burly men fighting each other. Great. That happens constantly in most campaigns. But that doesn't mean there can't be scantily clad attractive women in the setting. IRL you can compete in MMA or boxing, and that doesn't cause all strip clubs or "foxy boxing" events to magically cease to exist. And I would say that OP's image is not pornographic, just easy on the eyes.

It's a fun piece of art because it is EXTREMELY D&D in terms of the dynamics on show.

Like who the fuck are they posing for? This is your medieval fantasy world. Except they're being played by American teenagers/young adults so no shit they're posing like you'd pose with a caught fish. And it's great from the perspective of this isn't some giant fuck-off monster dragon, it looks pretty titchy, but they're a low level party and at a low level you can fight an elf-sized dragon and it's still a fucking nightmare and you might well die.

So like whatever you think of that actual picture, thematically it is an amazingly on-point piece of art.

Please show me the loli magical girls you like so much

It was painted by Elmore.

Proof provided.

It's like neither you or the person you're arguing with can understand subjectivity.

>removed devils & demons
Renamed.
>the assassin
Scarlet brotherhood.
>the half-orc
Complete book of demi-humasn.

Yes, they wanted to distance themselves from those accusations of occultism and devil worship. They toned down 2E but cheesecake didn't disappear entirely. For the record, this is a computer game and not a rulebook, but it's still officially licensed 2E merchandise.

I think the person I'm arguing with is overly subjective. If he prefers burly men fighting, whatever. To me that doesn't mean he should burst into tears at the mere sight of a pretty girl on a cover.

that penis is at a weird angle to where the middle of his crotch should be at

Sometimes dudes have a bit of a bend on, user.

And another one. This is from Tome of Magic, so a 2E example from the early 90's that's in a D&D splat.

He should know, with all the cock's he's seen.

This is pretty nice.

This is just like, whatever. I think it's pretty bad. The lizard dude is doing nothing. The whole thing is really static.

This is terrible, I think maybe the worst ITT.

Looks like I grabbed a copy from an actual game book, I was only familiar with the computer game. Further proves my point. You could even argue that armor is more ridiculous than OP's because it covers everything EXCEPT your heart and lungs.

Oh I think it was done well. As for the pose I assumed they were posing for a painting.

What the fuck is that sword?

The big tits make it extra sophisticated, but if I were to do the cover for an AD&D compendium, it would literally be as follows:

Saurial weapons are weird like that.

That's actually pretty good

>minimalism is best
Have you ever seen AD&D art user?

>aliased type face
>gigantic block letters
>"minimalist"
Get good, faggot.

You forgot to put big tits on the cover.

>that
>worst
underage detected

You need to shop a bunch of Royo tits on there my man.

post more crazy D&D art

Yes, and I hate it.

>1000 hours in MS Paint
Considering I'm not a graphics designer, I think I did pretty good.

Royo doesn't actually draw good tits.

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not the worst girl in dragonlance, but close

IN THEORY

IF SOMEONE IN THIS THREAD HAD A PDF EDITOR AND SOME FREE TIME

WHAT WOULD BE THE ONE IMAGE THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE ON THE AD&D COMPLETE NETBOOK

>aliased type face
user, that was clearly done with vectoring, of course it's going to be smooth as your balls.

damn rotgrubs got no chill

I didn't say Royo tits. I just said big tits. AD&D 2e. Then a picture of tits.

I mean his tits are mostly just like 80s model tits like the rest of his women. He doesn't go in for that big tits either. I was just making fun of the OP a bit user.

This one

5e's art is pretty bad.

Kitiara was fucking retarded and deserved everything bad that happened to her.

...

Obviously this "I tame dragons with my pussy" one.

It varies. Just flicking through the class portraits will basically show you the range of what you can expect from 5e art.

Is that F&GM?

Oh, man, fucking tell me about it. 80s porn is just SO BAD. I caught the tail end of it, and man oh man, modern day pornography is so much better. You should've seen the fetish art, it was actually revolting.

Anyway, is this better?

It looks like those 2 guys are about to plunder a bordello.