Missing art in Bestiaries and Adventure Paths

[Onkonk]

So I've noticed occasionally when using adventures and adventure paths that some creatures that are used don't have an image supplied (either in the AP book or in the Bestiaries/Archives of Nethys) which can make it hard to show the player the appearance of such a creature.

I have noticed however that they'll supply images of these creatures in Pawn Collections and it would be great if there was a way to access these images because buying the pawn collection as a digital product is not ideal given how they're very much designed to be printed and as a result are very small and a bit cluttered.

My suggestion is that Archives of Nethys could get the original art for these missing creatures (such as Cinder Rat that only has art in the pawn collections), or that the digital pawn collections also could include more high res versions of the images.

[Zaister]

You could buy the Bestiary Battle Cards, they have illustrations for all the monsters from the appropriate Bestiary, even those that are not illustrated in the book.

[James Jacobs]

We generally don't have room and/or the art budget/time to illustrate every unique character or creature in an adventure, so we have to pick and choose; generally selecting the more important or visually interesting ones.

The pawn sets have their own budgets and are produced later, so from a money and time management perspective, it's a good chance for us to catch up on some "missing" art that otherwise we wouldn't have produced at all.

Also, for hardcover bestiaries, we can't put more than 1 piece of art on a page, so when there's more than 2 creatures on a spread, then by some get left out because of purely physical reasons. And then we can use the bestiary pawn sets to get illustrations done later.

[Staffan Johansson]

James Jacobs wrote:

We generally don't have room and/or the art budget/time to illustrate every unique character or creature in an adventure, so we have to pick and choose; generally selecting the more important or visually interesting ones.

The pawn sets have their own budgets and are produced later, so from a money and time management perspective, it's a good chance for us to catch up on some "missing" art that otherwise we wouldn't have produced at all.

Also, for hardcover bestiaries, we can't put more than 1 piece of art on a page, so when there's more than 2 creatures on a spread, then by some get left out because of purely physical reasons. And then we can use the bestiary pawn sets to get illustrations done later.

Would it perhaps be possible to have the digital versions of the pawn sets come with full-size images of the contents? That is, instead of just a PDF, also a set of PNGs of each individual pawn?

[James Jacobs]

Staffan Johansson wrote:

Would it perhaps be possible to have the digital versions of the pawn sets come with full-size images of the contents? That is, instead of just a PDF, also a set of PNGs of each individual pawn?

That's beyond the scope of the product; sorry.