I love art books, and I am unfortunate in only being able to appreciate visual art and not create it. I love buying the Art Collection books for sci fi and fantasy, especially the Art of Dragonlance, or Art of Dungeons and Dragons books that used to get released.
The art for PAthfinder is too inspiring and well done to just sit in Ap's or Rule books. I would love to see a volume printing selections of the best of Paizo's art.
I do not have every adventure path yet, but I completed collecting Second Darkness. There is fantastic art in there that I have never seen. I don't think all of it has been reprinted in rule books. It is too nice to be missed!
Please folks at Paizo! Release an Art book!
I'm in.
This has been brought up a couple times. The basic responce has been that those types of things (add callendars to the list) do not sell as well as the fans who really want them expect them to, and so they are not cost effective to produce.
This has been brought up a couple times. The basic responce has been that those types of things (add callendars to the list) do not sell as well as the fans who really want them expect them to, and so they are not cost effective to produce.
This. We still have volumes of the Art of Dragon Magazine sitting in the warehouse.
This has been brought up a couple times. The basic responce has been that those types of things (add callendars to the list) do not sell as well as the fans who really want them expect them to, and so they are not cost effective to produce.This. We still have volumes of the Art of Dragon Magazine sitting in the warehouse.
But, ...
This makes me sad.
Maybe you can make like 50 of them and we can fight for it in your Washington arena.
BOOOOO!
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But, ...
This makes me sad.
Maybe you can make like 50 of them and we can fight for it in your Washington arena.
BOOOOO!
...I'm having visions of Thunderdome now, thank you.
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...I'm having visions of Thunderdome now, thank you.But, ...
This makes me sad.
Maybe you can make like 50 of them and we can fight for it in your Washington arena.
BOOOOO!
MASTERBLASTER RULES PAIZOTOWN!!!!!
We still have volumes of the Art of Dragon Magazine sitting in the warehouse.
I have that one. But to be honest, I didn't pay full price.
Maybe a digital compilation?
This has been brought up a couple times. The basic responce has been that those types of things (add callendars to the list) do not sell as well as the fans who really want them expect them to, and so they are not cost effective to produce.This. We still have volumes of the Art of Dragon Magazine sitting in the warehouse.
Because the big problem, of course, is what do you do with an art book? If it's Pollock or Renoir, you put it on your coffee table. If it's Mapplethorpe, you put it in your coffee table where the kids won't see it. But if it's, say, the Dragon or a collection of awesome WAR art? The handful of people who actually want to play $60 for an oversized hardcover will drool over it, and the 95% of the people who want RPG material will go "what the heck is this crud?"
Nothing against WAR, he's a great guy and I love his artwork; I'm lucky enough to have an original. But I don't know what to do with that either :)
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Because the big problem, of course, is what do you do with an art book?
Put it on a shelf most of the time except for the time when you read* it?
At least, that's what I do with most of my books.
*I use a definition of read that is a bit more relaxed, since it's mostly looking at the pictures.
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I can understand Paizo's reasons for not doing it anytime soon, but you can count me among the few that would buy such a book. AND I'd leave it out on the table for all to see; anyone who has an issue with my gaming at this point generally doesn't come by my house anymore. :)
+1
We still have volumes of the Art of Dragon Magazine sitting in the warehouse.I have that one. But to be honest, I didn't pay full price.
Maybe a digital compilation?
Digital compilation would actually work better for me since what I really want to do with the art is use it as a player hand out and its easier to print material from a digital source. Often looks better as well. I've found that some of the images I have scanned in the past have not always looked as good as I would have hoped and you always have to spend all this time trying to actually straighten them out for printing.
Digital compilation would actually work better for me since what I really want to do with the art is use it as a player hand out and its easier to print material from a digital source. Often looks better as well. I've found that some of the images I have scanned in the past have not always looked as good as I would have hoped and you always have to spend all this time trying to actually straighten them out for printing.We still have volumes of the Art of Dragon Magazine sitting in the warehouse.I have that one. But to be honest, I didn't pay full price.
Maybe a digital compilation?
I would simply love a compilation whether it is printed or digital. Digital would work nice. When I was flipping through pictures on the internet, my wife saw the painting of the burning Sultan's Hand. She (who never saw it in the AP) asked if someone painted a picture of the Sultan's Hand scene we played.
Unlike a lot of gaming art in the past, the artists here do a great job of capturing scenes the players have played in.
Do you all really want this?
A book like this would just be asking for some <self-censored> twit to make a thread complaining about the amount of cheesecake in the book.
Do you all really want this?
A book like this would just be asking for some <self-censored> twit to make a thread complaining about the amount of cheesecake in the book.
let them complain. The more cheesecake the better in my book. The paizo artists do a good job of relevant cheesecake.
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You can do it yourself for a good percentage of Paizo art.
1) download Acrobat Reader 10
2) download a program that can manage images (I use Irfanview, it is free)
3) buy the PDFs and comb the Paizo site, copying each image and pasting them into irfanview. With Acrobat 10 you can select the images without problem.
4) you have your art compendium.
As long at is for personal use only I think it is perfectly legal.