Lots of great pictures, tough to pick just one, but the knight with the laser pistol on the vol. 3 page is awesome.

There are too many for me to pick just one, but one of my top ten is the picture if the Yithian on page 53 of the bestiary,

Handy Haversack wrote:

Dudes. Duuuuuudes. Really? The shaman. The incredibly hot shaman.

But I'm glad this was brought up. I don't know if the artist frequents this board at all, but I think the art in the game is really wonderful. And that it's all one person's work really makes it a coherent piece. I gotta say, I really like it.

Gotta go. Ms. Haversack's yelling at me.

I completely forgot about that wonderful piece.  The original hangs above my computer and I get to gaze at her everyday! 

Morgan
 

mabon5127 wrote:

Handy Haversack wrote:

Dudes. Duuuuuudes. Really? The shaman. The incredibly hot shaman.

But I'm glad this was brought up. I don't know if the artist frequents this board at all, but I think the art in the game is really wonderful. And that it's all one person's work really makes it a coherent piece. I gotta say, I really like it.

Gotta go. Ms. Haversack's yelling at me.

I completely forgot about that wonderful piece. The original hangs above my computer and I get to gaze at her everyday!

Morgan
 

I think this is the first time the Internet has made me jealous.
 

Crisippo wrote:

The art is generally awesome so choosing a favorite is, as others have pointed out, almost impossible.
However the cover of Vol VI with the Viking ship have inspired me a lot. The Lich Vol IV p.61 breathes so much (un)life and power into that creature. The zombie on p.111 made me laugh in very good way.

I should also mention that my players were instantly drawn to the Warlock and there was intense arguing (resolved peacefully) about who would get to play one.

An all Warlock campaign could lead to some interesting complications.
 

The cover painting by Chuck Lang: It is the picture that has hanged in my office for years, and for a long time I wanted to make a game (or setting) based on that picture. It encompasses everything I love about swords and sorcery. 

The frontispiece for Volume I with the man in the bar, staring at his drink, and a tentacle is creeping through the door behind him: This, to me, captures the feeling and emotion of HPL-inspired fiction in a swords-and-sorcery milieu. Plus, it's the only Baggley interior piece that I have the actual original of. Sadly, it hides in a cardboard box until I get it framed, because I don't want anything terrible to happen to it.

The sorcerer in the Players' Manual (p. 103): This is the piece Ian Baggley forwarded to me years ago when I was working with Gary on Castle Zagyg. After Gary passed and his widow closed all his creative projects, I was suddenly free. I got to staring at that Chuck Lang painting again, wondering how I'd make a game of it. As I thought about who might illustrate it, I thought about the guy from Toronto who sent me the evil necromancer picture from his own CZ campaign. I contacted him, and he ended up illustrating the entire AS&SH game.

I also love the Mi-Go illustration and the Berserker class pic. So many great ones to choose from.

I have to go with the cover, also.  Not because it's color... The interior art is astoundingly good.  But, that cover!  To me, it just immediately screams at you what this game is about.  Bold, brash, dangerous... Beautiful.  

Although the Necromancer is very evocative as well.  Oh, good grief...  There's so much great art in this thing it's really hard to choose, man!  The Fish-Man is really cool, too.  ...Ok, I have to stop or I'll type too much!  

For me, the winner is the cover art.

Well... considering that I am the proud of owner of two pieces that Ian and collaborated on, I have to say that they are probably my favorites (below). I also really like many of the others, including the Legerdemainist, the guys in town on page 196 (this has Mos Eisley written all over it!), the Class III daemon (nasty!), the Gorgon (gnarly!), the Great Race and the Mi-Go (just plain cool in every way) and the boat on the cover of the gazetteer (the background city has a great dreamlike, mysterious quality to it). There really are a ton of good ones. 

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Merctime wrote:

Methinks someone started this thread to brag!

Haha!

Merctime wrote:

Great score, Chainsaw!

Thanks man! I really had no idea they planned to use either piece in the final product, but I was glad they did.

Incidentally, the cover art has really grown on me and it easily makes my top five, along with one of Bingham's pieces in the Dunwich module (don't want to say which exactly, as that might spoil a surprise for someone).