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exerian
@exerian

where did you find this?!?!


margot
@margot

for anyone else wondering, I looked up which book this is-- this is the archetype profile picture for the Street Mage in the Shadowrun 3rd edition core rulebook!

i really cannot stress enough how good 90s and early 2000s rpg books are for aesthetic inspiration


vogon
@vogon

does the shadowrun setting have some politically fraught content around the concept of metahumanity, cybernetic augmentation, and its use of the indigenous peoples and customs of the pacific northwest as set dressing? yes. did the authors and concept artists have a better understanding of what aesthetics could be cool in near-future upheaval fiction than almost anyone before or since? also yes.


belarius
@belarius

White Wolf's "revised era" World of Darkness product line (spanning roughly 1998-2004) largely has the same problems and the same aesthetic richness, particularly in its illustrations, not merely because they arose from the same zeitgeist but also because they employed many of the same artists. With the benefit of hindsight, it's kind of jarring how a product line so wedded to its own scrappy countercultural grit peels away to reveal a conquerer's appetite for reconciling every possible scrap of world culture into a single all-singing-all-dancing System Of The World.


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oh thank you!! i always wonder who the artists of these pieces are, but its so hard to figure out from the book alone. Definitely going to be bookmarking some websites!

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