Art is of vital importance to role-playing games because it is both inspirational and instructive. There are accounts of RPG designers seeing a single work of art and being so roused that they created RPGs based on them. Great art also galvanizes Dungeon Masters and players. Great art creates windows to worlds that have never existed outside the imagination, and the role-playing game says, “Would you like to spend time in that world? Right this way…” It is a powerful pairing of media. Great art can teach people how to play a role-playing game without words.
