Douglas Muir 406 |
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So I'm very fond of Paizo's Rival Guide, a book that has several times provided me with tough and interesting parties of NPCs to throw at my players. And part of the appeal is that there's some lovely artwork in this book. I recently ran the Hands of Slaughter group, and the players were definitely impressed by the illustrations. "Here's what the group's leader looks like. This guy seems to be their sorceror." "Wow, cool."
However. While the illos are great, the only way to show them to the players is to clumsily hold out the book with one hand while trying to cover the rest of the page with the other hand. This is kinda dopey.
There is a workaround, though. If you have the .pdf, you can copy the images, paste them into a Word document, and print them. This works great, and if you have access to a color printer you can show your players these NPCs in vibrant color. So that's good.
But not everyone has the .pdf.
So, my question. Could Paizo (or someone) post these images online? There are a lot of gorgeous paintings of NPCs, monsters and locations. It would be neat to have them all at one site, organized, available for printing.
Thoughts?
Doug M.
Yora |
They do put a lot of images from all kinds of books in the Paizo Blog, and while those are only a small part of all images, it's still a huge number by now. Why they couldn't make them into a real image gallery I've never understood.
We've been helpfully reminding them for years, but we're still waiting.
Good to remind them again every couple of months. ^^
Douglas Muir 406 |
Why they couldn't make them into a real image gallery I've never understood.
Well. I would guess that between publishing a complete module every month, publishing a bunch of other stuff, putting together the RotRL hardcover, updating the blog and the website every weekday, monitoring the forums, dealing with freelancers, dealing with printers, dealing with money, and just generally doing the million and one things necessary to keep a medium-sized business afloat while providing some sort of decent living to themselves and their employees, they just might not have gotten around to this yet.
That said, it seems like the sort of thing fans might be able to undertake.
Doug M.
Andrew Betts |
It has to do with art not being cheap and they don't want to give it all away. There is a very nice portion of art on the blogs. The art from the blogs is one of the only places people can get art to put up via the Community Use Policy, so someone making a site themselves is out of the question. Allowing people to copy art from the PDFs is really very generous, not all companies allow that, heck many won't even allow you to print them.
Liz Courts Contributor |
I'll note that some of the portraits end up in our GameMastery Cards line, like the Urban NPCs deck.
That being said, we don't currently have any plans for an online image gallery, but as Andrew pointed out, we do post a lot of art to the blogs, and many artists post their work on their websites (or on DeviantArt).
Mark Moreland Director of Brand Strategy |
David Fryer |
anything that is legally available to be reproduced via the Community Use Policy has been included in PathfinderWiki, so if it's an image you can reproduce under that license on your own website or fan product, it's there.
Could we get a link to the Pathfinderwiki for those of us who are Google challenged?
Papa-DRB |
Linkified --> Pathfinder Wiki
Not Linkified --> http://www.pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Pathfinder_Wiki
-- david
Papa.DRB
Cpt_kirstov |
Linkified --> Pathfinder Wiki
Not Linkified --> http://www.pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Pathfinder_Wiki
-- david
Papa.DRB
This is the art gallery for the wiki - might be an easier link to find the art you're looking for.