Ho boy... The Art is vital part of a #ttrpg is on my feed.

YES ART IS IMPORTANT. PAY INDIES THEIR FULL FUCKING PRICE!

SEE A 5€ INDIE GAME? TIP 10€ MORE!

There. Now no-one will complain that "art isn't important".

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Why? As with the current product placement we've been told a good game HAS to have MtG quality art on all page.

NO!

ART FOR ART sake is an ART BOOK. Those are awesome.

TTRPGs don't have to be art books. Also they don't need to have settings.

Don't support WotC! Support INDIE!

OK back to rage. I went to heat my food.

But yeah. Don't get me wrong. I do think art is cool. It creates the evocative feeling of the genre, the game, everything.

But I come from a time when ttrpg books were handwritten transcripts / typewriter copies / faxed.

Till 2000 we "didn't have art" in our books. We mostly had cheap print copies.

But does that mean I don't like art? No.

I just don't find that MORE ART == better ttrpg.

It's a combination of everything.

Rules, writing, art.

By placing the MORE ART thing, a lot of indies fall short.

They feel less worthy. Even with utterly better game design and writing.