D&D (2024) Here's The New 2024 Player's Handbook Wizard Art

 

[Jaeger]

That seems to be Y'shtola, the best NPC from Final Fantasy XIV, so not anime, though it is Japanese.

The similarities in art style are enough to make my point...

But protective force bubble certainly is pretty ubiquitous visual, and I doubt it originated from anime.

Maybe not. I don't read comics, not familiar with all that is out there for them.

But that's not the point.

Again; it's not like I pulled my impression out of thin air...

 

[Charlaquin]

I wear glasses at times (night driving, mostly), but I just find them odd on D&D adventures, mostly because magic would fix any vision issues, right? So, a PC as "powerful" as this one "seems" to be, it just strikes me as strange.

Ok, so we have a problem with her staff and spellbook floating because there’s no spell for that in the book, but her having glasses is unrealistic because magic could fix it? Last I checked, “Leomund’s Lasic Surgery” isn’t in the book either.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

honestly, it is the colour choice, I have been programmed for years for white and gold to look holy whilst I associate wizardry with blueish or purple colours.
change the clothing colour and put a cool hat on her and she would look arch magey.

I can see the appeal of a gritter and practical down-to-earth mage art, contrast helps with these things.

Again, not to insult you - you are free to like what you like, of course - but it strikes me that the colour of a Wizard's clothes, and whether or not they are wearing robes and/or a hat (of any sort, pointy or otherwise)... it all just seems incredibly limiting to me.

It just seems to me that Wizards ought to look like just about anything a D&D player would want them to (appropriate to the setting, but I see that distinction as more broad than a lot of people here seem to as well).

I mean, I don't even get the argument that she looks too much like a Stryxhaven Wizard. Stryxhaven IS a D&D world! YOU can choose not to play in it, of course! But it EXISTS.

She doesn't have to look like YOUR wizard character, whoever you are, that's the whole point: You can make a wizard however you want - and so can this artist.

 

[Shardstone]

Ok, so we have a problem with her staff and spellbook floating because there’s no spell for that in the book, but her having glasses is unrealistic because magic could fix it? Last I checked, “Leomund’s Lasic Surgery” isn’t in the book either.

Write the spell, queen, and I will use it.

 

[overgeeked]

That seems to be Y'shtola, the best NPC from Final Fantasy XIV, so not anime, though it is Japanese.

But protective force bubble certainly is pretty ubiquitous visual, and I doubt it originated from anime.

Exactly. “Protective shield or bubble” is not exclusive to anime.

In the context of fantasy at least, we can trace that back to Tolkien if not Vance or earlier. Which is likely where D&D swiped it from for shield and globe. And so much of manga and anime fantasy tropes come from Lodoss, which started out as a D&D game. So if, to you, magical barriers are “an anime thing” at least be aware you can almost certainly trace that back to D&D.

When I commented on the art not being anime, I was referring to the actual art style. Not the character having a protective barrier.

 

[Charlaquin]

Depends on how you define needing glasses. Is it really a disease to be cured?

Not a disease, but nearsightedness and farsightedness are disabilities. We just don’t often think of them that way, because we have thoroughly normalized the accommodations people with those disabilities require to function in society.

I say this as someone who cannot legally drive without corrective lenses.

 

[Charlaquin]

that probably works too

It's the whole genericness and superhero style to me, it's just bland and boring, I've seen too many pictures like this, probably 1000s, so it just is not interesting

Have you not also seen 1000s of pictures of old dudes with long white beards, blue robes, and pointy hats?

 

[ezo]

Ok, so we have a problem with her staff and spellbook floating because there’s no spell for that in the book, but her having glasses is unrealistic because magic could fix it? Last I checked, “Leomund’s Lasic Surgery” isn’t in the book either.

Oh, har-har-hardy-har-har.

Yeah, read the rest. Lesser Restoration would cover it IMO. If you want to have bespectacled PCs wandering around, your choice.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Oh, har-har-hardy-har-har.

Yeah, read the rest. Lesser Restoration would cover it IMO. If you want to have bespectacled PCs wandering around, your choice.

You’re one of those people that doesn’t think that people with disabilities can exist in fantasy worlds, aren’t you?

 

[ezo]

You’re one of those people that doesn’t think that people with disabilities can exist in fantasy worlds, aren’t you?

No, not at all. Did I ever say that or imply it? No, I didn't. Frankly, I don't appreciate people implying that I have. Read my posts.

I said, lesser restoration, since it can remove the blinded condition, would work to help those with vision impaiments, which would be a "lesser condition" than being blinded.