{humor} WTF!?!, Traveller art

[Ed Anger]

Something Awful explores the golden age of shitty art in GDW's Traveller RPG:

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/traveller-artwork-steve.php?page=1

Don't forget the entire WTF, D&D section.   

[Barrister]

Traveller.

[Ed Anger]

Traveller.

Especially High Guard, Mercenary and the Imperium wargame.

But that art. Yeesh.

[grumbler]

 

[Caliga]

  I remember alot of those drawings, but don't think I thought they were so bad at the time.

I guess White Wolf really upped the ante re: gamebook art.

[Syt]

That link tickles my funny bone.

Of course, as no one around me was nerdy enough to do any p&p RPG, I was resigned to gaming books, mostly Lone wolf series. I still play some of those now and then over at Project AON.

[The Brain]

Everything was better in the 70s and 80s. Young people suck.

[Josquius]

Even Rogue Trader had some pretty bad art IIRC. People truly couldn't draw in the 70s and 80s.

[Razgovory]

GDW's art was always bad.  The cover art was always painfully 80's and the inside art looked like crude cartoons.  The worst was Traveler 2300.

[grumbler]

GDW's art was always bad.  The cover art was always painfully 80's and the inside art looked like crude cartoons.  The worst was Traveler 2300.

Actually, their early stuff (Torgau, Chaco, DNO) had decent cover art, because MacGowan could do them.  As the pace picked up, he didn't have tie to do cover art and illustrations, and GDW moved to what you rightly call the "painfully '80s" look. 

I cannot remember the name of the 70s or early 80s RPG that took place on a multigenerational starship, but I recall that it had the worst concentration of artwork I have seen in a single volume.

[Barrister]

Metamorphosis Alpha I believe grumbles.

I actually quite liked the cover art for the earliest Traveller stuff in that it didn't have any - black background with different coloured text.  Elegant in it's simplicity.

[Ed Anger]

MacGowan

I've always found some of his box art to be totally cringeworthy. The Flying Colors guy who looks like he is pinching a loaf while standing up makes me giggle when I pull it down off the shelf.

[Iormlund]

In case you were wondering if both lower and upper decks were carpeted, here's your answer.

[Razgovory]

Metamorphosis Alpha I believe grumbles.

I actually quite liked the cover art for the earliest Traveller stuff in that it didn't have any - black background with different coloured text.  Elegant in it's simplicity.

I believe that was the first Sci-Fi RPG.  Never played it, before my time.  Don't get me wrong about GDW.  They did a lot of  great stuff.  Alot of it just looks bad, but looking at the contemporary stuff it seems par for the course.

[grumbler]

Metamorphosis Alpha I believe grumbles.

Correct.  Thank you.