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Pictures to inspire gaming
« Topic Start: February 07, 2012, 04:10:27 PM »
Post pictures here of things that look like there's a story there, waiting to be told. Things that make you want to create a character, or an adventure, or a campaign setting.

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Re: Pictures to inspire gaming
« Reply #1: February 07, 2012, 04:34:29 PM »
The second and third are begging to be used in Magipunk.  I shall steal them.

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Re: Pictures to inspire gaming
« Reply #2: February 07, 2012, 05:03:52 PM »
Keep them coming!

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Re: Pictures to inspire gaming
« Reply #3: February 08, 2012, 06:07:03 AM »
Just going to attach THIS link to a similar thread from the WotC boards -- a repository of really cool pics.

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Re: Pictures to inspire gaming
« Reply #4: February 09, 2012, 11:35:09 AM »
Some examples from D&D books:
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(interesting looking NPC)

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(danger that's attacking kids!)

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(cool-looking dungeon)


And probably my favorite from 2nd edition:
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(low level adventure. Maybe this story is just wrapped up, or maybe this spurred something bigger!)
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Re: Pictures to inspire gaming
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Solo: Pro leagues are filled with overcompetitive asshats. So you should probably suggest it to TGD.
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Re: Pictures to inspire gaming
« Reply #7: May 20, 2012, 09:02:20 PM »
Phae: Your spoiler is blank!

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Re: Pictures to inspire gaming
« Reply #8: May 20, 2012, 09:14:13 PM »
Phae: Your spoiler is blank!
Quoting shows that it's meant to be an image from wikipedia of the Antikythera mechanism

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Re: Pictures to inspire gaming
« Reply #10: May 21, 2012, 02:06:44 AM »
Pencil: My Mac complains of malware on that link.  Don't wanna test it.

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Re: Pictures to inspire gaming
« Reply #11: May 21, 2012, 02:38:36 AM »
And thus my evil masterplan was foiled again  :shakefist

jokes aside.I didnt have any problems
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Re: Pictures to inspire gaming
« Reply #12: May 21, 2012, 03:07:37 AM »
Pencil: My Mac complains of malware on that link.  Don't wanna test it.
My windows (firefox as my browser) complains about that link as well.

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Re: Pictures to inspire gaming
« Reply #13: May 21, 2012, 03:19:54 AM »
 Some kind of living goop
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might be easier to see it this way
http://www.wallpaper4me.com/images/wallpapers/meandemon-327830.jpeg
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Re: Pictures to inspire gaming
« Reply #14: May 21, 2012, 05:27:23 AM »
Okay my links are from stumbleupon so maybe that was the problem.Anyway I am just going post the pictures I find most striking and you wont have any risk :)

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Ok now this might seem a bit much but you are free not to observe them all ;)

The painted ones are from Jeannette Woitzik

The conceptual photographies are from various Artists.
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Re: Pictures to inspire gaming
« Reply #16: June 14, 2012, 09:32:37 PM »
Solo: Pro leagues are filled with overcompetitive asshats. So you should probably suggest it to TGD.
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Re: Pictures to inspire gaming
« Reply #18: October 05, 2012, 02:55:28 PM »
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So I was going to post some stuff to this thread.
But I have too much of it, so I did this instead.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8kthmz2tiiufsvr/iR2eWAwgwI
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Re: Pictures to inspire gaming
« Reply #19: October 06, 2012, 09:20:31 AM »
Agita, the dropbox setup is great.  It is, however, kinda overwhelming.  Is there any way to get bigger thumbnails or organize it in some fashion?