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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9266108" data-attributes="member: 6790260"><p>You certainly won't hear any argument from me on the internal style of 4e books being over-simplified. I think they were angling for like, a slick "Apple Product" style look? But it comes across as dry, like what you'd see in a classroom textbook.</p><p></p><p>I think a hybrid 3e/4e method would work best. As you say, sepia-tone, giving the visual texture of parchment, and chapter art that looks like a da Vinci sketchbook--those were solid aesthetic choices. But the individual bits of splash art in 4e were, IMO, better-handled; 3e went a bit overboard with trying to integrate the art directly into/between the text, when it's more effective if used tastefully as banners, columns, or other similar stuff. Leave the more "intrusive" art for special occasions, when you REALLY want the art to almost literally pop out of the page at the reader.</p><p></p><p>I very much think that if the books themselves had looked, internally, like 3e books, 4e would have sold better and been better received. It wouldn't have fixed everything, but good <em>Lord</em>, did it prove that presentation is nine tenths of the love...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9266108, member: 6790260"] You certainly won't hear any argument from me on the internal style of 4e books being over-simplified. I think they were angling for like, a slick "Apple Product" style look? But it comes across as dry, like what you'd see in a classroom textbook. I think a hybrid 3e/4e method would work best. As you say, sepia-tone, giving the visual texture of parchment, and chapter art that looks like a da Vinci sketchbook--those were solid aesthetic choices. But the individual bits of splash art in 4e were, IMO, better-handled; 3e went a bit overboard with trying to integrate the art directly into/between the text, when it's more effective if used tastefully as banners, columns, or other similar stuff. Leave the more "intrusive" art for special occasions, when you REALLY want the art to almost literally pop out of the page at the reader. I very much think that if the books themselves had looked, internally, like 3e books, 4e would have sold better and been better received. It wouldn't have fixed everything, but good [I]Lord[/I], did it prove that presentation is nine tenths of the love... [/QUOTE]
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