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

 

[Gravenhurst48]

if this were the only similarity, as it is with the picture you posted, no one would have said that the pose is superheroic.

Literally no one would call Henry VIII’s picture a superhero pose

"Here here!"

 

[Reef]

sure, it is technically competent, but it can still be generic, bland and forgettable.

I have not seen much PHB art, but the Fighter art looks very different and already does not really fit with the Wizard stylistically. Granted, WotC does not have a very cohesive art style to begin with

Heh…I’d argue that anything that generates this much discussion is anything but bland and forgettable…

Has D&D ever had a cohesive art style? I remember early editions being a wonderful mishmash of different artists. Half the time, the artists couldn’t even agree on what an orc or goblin looked like. And with the customizable nature of the game, that seems to be fitting.

 

[Gravenhurst48]

there's been alot of talk about people having issues with this wizard's pose and something occured to me, minus the floating, it's very reminiscent of the 2014 sorcerer art, and that's not a good thing IMO, the wizard and the sorcerer are meant to have different vibes so directly mimicing features of the image of the sorcerer channeling wild power to the wizard art, who uses magic with precise control bleeds over the former's concepts into the latter. even before i joined the thread people had been saying 'this feels more like a sorcerer', 'i think they'd be a divine soul'.

they've even got the glowing eyes.

Don’t see what all the fuss is about, personally. Wizard casting shield against a bunch of animated library books.

I this all-empowered young wizardess magic magnetic static levetitating light weighted objects as the suction of ais swoops everytaround so the spell

Don’t see what all the fuss is about, personally. Wizard casting shield against a bunch of animated library books.

I like it.

And I thought, the all-empowered young wizardess' magic buildup, created magnetic static to help levetite light weighted objects to be ready to be thrown as projectiles with a force shield up! Yes, what is all the fuss about, eh?

 

[Hussar]

But this forum is about Dungeons and Dragons, so keep your references to the subject so others can relate or your counter argument example is thrown out the window.

I'm sorry. I didn't realize that providing counter examples counted as throwing someone's argument out the window.

Gee, it's getting harder and harder to actually have a discussion. I'm not actually allowed to discuss anything that someone calls an opinion. I'm not allowed to discuss examples. I'm not allowed to say anything that might be contrary to anything that someone has claimed about this art. It's almost like folks are far more interested in shutting down any sort of conversation.

I wonder why that is?

 

[Hussar]

And I thought, the all-empowered young wizardess' magic buildup, created magnetic static to help levetite light weighted objects to be ready to be thrown as projectiles with a force shield up! Yes, what is all the fuss about, eh?

You do realize that you are describing Animate Objects and a Shield spell, right? As in basic stuff that any wizard of sufficient level could easily do?

Funny, when the art doesn't include a background, people bitch about the "portait art" that lacks any context. But, when they include a background, it's apparently bad too.

Do wish folks would pick a lane.

 

[Hussar]

there's been alot of talk about people having issues with this wizard's pose and something occured to me, minus the floating, it's very reminiscent of the 2014 sorcerer art, and that's not a good thing IMO, the wizard and the sorcerer are meant to have different vibes so directly mimicing features of the image of the sorcerer channeling wild power to the wizard art, who uses magic with precise control bleeds over the former's concepts into the latter. even before i joined the thread people had been saying 'this feels more like a sorcerer', 'i think they'd be a divine soul'.

they've even got the glowing eyes.

See, now this? This is how you generate conversation. Show a clear example and make a solid argument based on that example. Yes, that pose is very reminiscent of the 2014 Sorcerer. And that's a pretty solid point - a wizard needs to be distinguished from a Sorcerer. They overlap a LOT as it is, so, having an iconic wizard that looks like a sorcerer is a bad thing.

 

[Gravenhurst48]

What if she just likes wearing glasses?

I could wear contacts, and see a bit better even, but default to glasses.

This image is an oxymoron. The glasses are to show she is wizened though she is youngish, so the spectacles are representing she is studious; one who researches tremendously. Her white hair replaces the typical male wizard with a white beard sterotype, because human females can not grow a beard (ahhhh, this has proven untrue now in todays science), then again she is not represented as an old lady with age to have had her hair become white, unless she has seen many ghosts?

 

[Gravenhurst48]

See, now this? This is how you generate conversation. Show a clear example and make a solid argument based on that example. Yes, that pose is very reminiscent of the 2014 Sorcerer. And that's a pretty solid point - a wizard needs to be distinguished from a Sorcerer. They overlap a LOT as it is, so, having an iconic wizard that looks like a sorcerer is a bad thing.

EDITED: OK, it seems I have poked a nerve. Please carryon. I do not mean to stop your opinions.

 

[Gravenhurst48]

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.

Edited: Deleted my reply.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Literally no one would call Henry VIII’s picture a superhero pose

Really? Really?? Really???