file Gary Chatterton again ?

03 Jun 2012 03:41 #31636 by johannes
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03 Jun 2012 04:06 #31637 by Juggernaut1981
It's not a long step across from Bum's Rush to that 'art'.

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03 Jun 2012 06:22 #31641 by Haze
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looks like some exciting artwork of a brand new auspex card from the upcoming expansion set! repost it to all VTES blogs with your opinions!

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03 Jun 2012 11:45 #31654 by bakija
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You know it was for fun, and your name was not really quoted in a serious form, do you ?


Fair enough. That was probably uncalled for. Apologies.

Back to the point at hand, I'm still baffled that anyone cares this much about those Chatterton cards. Clearly, the game was on its last legs (see: it got shut down right after the publication of that set...) There wasn't, presumably, a lot of money for the art budget. All the cards that got the dubious art were re-prints of cards that needed reprinting, but hadn't been reprinted for a long time due to needing new art. The pictures were likely very cheap and done very quickly, which was probably exactly what they needed. I mean, yeah, they could have had a "get your illustration for Deflection (or whatever) printed" fan contest that would have generated plenty of free, likely more interesting, art for those cards. But that also probably would have taken more time and organization than they had manpower for at the time. On what was clearly a sinking ship.

Some of those cards are horrible. Some of them are actually kind of good for what they are. Most of them are just forgettable and certainly no more visually objectionable than other cards with bad illustrations throughout the history of the game (Ambush? Sabbat Flash? Jyhad Fake Out?)
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03 Jun 2012 13:02 #31656 by Ohlmann
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I mean, yeah, they could have had a "get your illustration for Deflection (or whatever) printed" fan contest that would have generated plenty of free, likely more interesting, art for those cards. But that also probably would have taken more time and organization than they had manpower for at the time.


Also, they are hidden costs in this kind of contest. At the very least, legal fees because you don't want the winner to sue you for whatever reason.

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06 Jun 2012 00:34 #31734 by KevinM
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Fake Out is neutrally disappointing.

Gary Chatterton is actively rotten, shitty card art.

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