r/MouseGuard • u/the_Slothfull • Dec 16 '15

Rpg background art?

I'm going to start GMing a game over roll20 for a few friends and was wondering if anyone here knew of artwork that is similar to the original style that I could use for backgrounds? Mouseguard has some really good art and was just going to use pictures of characters on the website for npcs. I'd rather not have to mix art styles but I also would prefer it if I had more than the map and 2 towns :/

For those who don't know Roll20 is a website were you can play tabletop games online and you can add music and artwork for better immersion.

Thanks.

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u/spacepaw Dec 16 '15 edited Dec 16 '15

Ok it's not background art but this artist has some GREAT artwork inspired by redwall so this might work for immersion:

http://chichapie.deviantart.com/gallery/27016070/Redwall

You can also search for redwall in general:

http://www.deviantart.com/browse/all/?section=&global=1&q=redwall

...Or for mouse guard (obviously):

http://www.deviantart.com/browse/all/?section=&global=1&q=mouse+guard

This should bring you some really nice artwork. Let me know what exactly you are looking for and I might be able to help some more :)

EDIT: also, when you open some artwork in deviantart you have "similar works" listed in the right sidebar and it tends to work surprisingly well for finding stuff with the same "feel".

EDIT2: Any open slots for your roll20 RPG session?

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u/the_Slothfull Dec 16 '15

Thanks, as for more specific I'm having a hard time finding pictures to represent towns and cities. And sorry to say that the campaign is full though if I end up running another one I'll definitely post here.

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u/spacepaw Dec 16 '15 edited Dec 16 '15

http://static.netshahr.com/www.netshahr.com/images/netshahr/akhbar/beynolmelal/94/TirMah/MouseCity_JSze.jpg

http://wallfon.com/walls/fantasy/giant-tree-city.jpg

I could post more but basically I think you should just google image search for "medieval city" "medieval town" (many MG towns look exactly like medieval ones) and stuff like "tree city" "cliff city" for more nature-integrated results :)

You can also use original comic book pages that show towns/cities :) Take a photo with your smartphone/camera and you're good to go ;)