Comments on: Using Art in Your Games Part 1 https://www.tribality.com/2018/01/15/using-art-games-part-1/ D&D / Role Playing Tue, 16 Jan 2018 21:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: MaxXimenez https://www.tribality.com/2018/01/15/using-art-games-part-1/#comment-4563 Tue, 16 Jan 2018 21:57:00 +0000 http://www.tribality.com/?p=22813#comment-4563 My homebrew campaign began as a novel and I’ve always tried to characterize it by including snippets of in-universe art. Thing is, I’m a writer, not a painter; I can slip in an excerpt from a poem but I can’t paint a picture to save my life. So my workaround?

Lots of in-universe art criticism. I got that from Norman Spinrad’s The Iron Dream (which any heroic fantasy fan should read as it really opens your eyes to the inherent crypto-fascism in a lot of our favorite stories) but I’ve been told by many players it adds a lot of believable texture to the world. Rather than just saying “Orcs favor brutalist architecture,” the players will come across an article slamming orcs for their originality when it comes to design, or an article about how the elven government is funding the spread of Quenya-Moderne painting to exert soft power.

]]> By: Jesse https://www.tribality.com/2018/01/15/using-art-games-part-1/#comment-4557 Tue, 16 Jan 2018 00:02:00 +0000 http://www.tribality.com/?p=22813#comment-4557 For those curious as to what the pieces of art are, they are as follows:
Cover Image A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884 by Georges Seurat
Image 2 Picasso sculpture (untitled)
Image 3 Monument With Standing Beast, by Jean Dubuffet

I’ll try to keep all images in this series to be pieces that one actually can find in Chicago.

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