Underdark by giger ¡¡¡¡¡, A really hard idea Options

[dracul]

Wouldn't be great ?????
The underdark made with the hr giger style .
Giger has already made a lot of stuff for movies , maeby he could do this......

[EnderAndrew]

Sounds lovely, but I wouldn't count on it.

[Briareos]

The basis of Giger's style seems to be asymetrical organic shapes. There's no reason an artist couldn't make something similar for NWN2. However, I have a very hard time picturing the style meshing well with a 'High fantasy' game like this one.

If the goal is to make the caves spooky then making them smaller, darker and full of hidey holes for monsters may work better (thinking of HoTU and IW2). I know I hate going in caves because the things are bloody small and you never know what around the next corner.

Still, I wonder if they'll even include the underdark in the SP campaign.

[Mordaedil]

Doubtful, concidering that the Underdark is often thought of as a place where you'd get pwned by anything less than epic.

And I'm quite satsified getting to move freely about in Neverwinter without encountering plague victims all the time, thank you.

[AngryKidJoe]

I wouldn't be upset if the Underdark was left out of the OC, as long as the content was accessable for it in the toolset for Custom stuff.

As for the Giger style underdark, it's a good concept. Though, I don't think it'd mix well with the 'actual' environment of the underdark.

[marc_taro]

I'd have fun working on that - classic gothy moody stuff - I had a chance to go to his museum in Switzerland, one thing I didn't know is how LARGE his paintings are - like room sized - very impressive in real life....

[MokahTGS]

Is there a link? I have no idea who this person is.

[nightcleaver]

He was the(an?) artist for Alien(s), I believe. The movie.

[Briareos]

Is there a link?  I have no idea who this person is.

Um, okay.

http://www.hrgiger.com/

Google it man, first hit.

[MokahTGS]

Um....eeew. I hope they pass on this. I'm not a fan.

[Briareos]

Um....eeew.  I hope they pass on this.  I'm not a fan.

Well, dead babies aside, I kinda like Giger's work. Its very different and has lots of style. However, as I wrote before, its difficult to picture his work as part of....well any d&d game. He did the design for the alien in 'Alien' and some of the set design (I think). You can see why. The shape and texture of his pieces just makes people uncomfortable.

His stuff may work for the Warhammer universe though (for choas cultists and mutants and such).

[Judge Hades]

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Especially for the Illithid material.

[nightcleaver]

Illithids SHOULD make you uncomfortable. I mean, I don't think you would HAVE to put dead babies aside for them, but err... for a game, they shouldn't go THAT far. It should still be incredibly alien, though.

[AngryKidJoe]

*nods* I'd love to see Giger's take on Illithids, in NWN 2 or not.

[Phosphor]

Yeah. I don't really see Giger's work being representative of the Drow or Duergar, but certainly well-suited to the Illithids and their domain. You should be filled with uncomortable dread and even outright terror at entering their dominions.. Giger-styled architecture would certainly manage that.