Hmmm, this might be partially a side topic from
Video Game Artwork, but it's still technically a game so...
I've been slightly involved with a fan translation project for a Japanese Table Top RPG called Tokyo Nova. It's a pretty old rpg and fairly popular over there (debuted in 1993 or so, still getting official expansions and new content to this day) with a setting that mixes future cyberpunk with magic and the occult. If you're familiar with Shadowrun, it's a bit like that, though perhaps with a dash of World of Darkness (in that there's an active "masquerade" going on to hide the supernatural stuff, as well as being grittier and nastier overall). Another way of putting it is that it's like an amalgamation of every hardcore 80's-90's ova ever.
It also has an incredibly unique battle system. Instead of using dice for "checks" like most trpg's, the game uses playing cards, for which everyone always has a hand of 4 at all times. So in addition to the standard rpg battle mechanics, there's a neat little element of luck management/manipulation that adds some very interesting strategy to encounters. It also has a clever little "combo" system, where skills you acquire are assigned to different card suits, and you can "combo" them together and combine their effects if you play a card with the same suit as both. Overall probably one of the best turn based battle systems I've played, vidya or otherwise.
Anyway, the game has some absolutely killer artwork that I feel would be relevant to the tastes of some of the regulars here.
The game also associates every class ("style") with a tarot card. The older editions had some very flowery amano influenced art for them, while the newer editions have tarots more in line with the rest of the games aesthetic.
old
new

Kugutsu (corporate samurai exercising a sort of suicidal Bushido for their megacorp), The Hanged Man (I'm fond of the whole monitor reflection echoing the tarots motif)

Ibuki (power armored rescue worker), The Emperor Reversed.

Fate (grizzled film noir detective seeking the truth), Judgement.

Etranger (inhuman horror slipped in from astral space masquerading as human), The Star Reversed (I'm fond of how subtly "off" the facial expression on the human guise is).
There's a lot more cool art (npc profiles in the books, illustrations for sample stories, etc.) but we don't have a lot of it scanned or in good quality.
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Instead I am stuck in the America's where women rule with an iron crotch, and a man could get arrested for sitting behind a computer too long.
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