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

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Paul Farquhar said:
Just a mention: there is only one official D&D setting where wizards wear colour-coded outfits, Dragonlance. And in that setting those colours are black, red and white. This art is Dragonlance compatible, whereas the previous version was not.
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For some reason, this post makes me want to create a setting where wizardry is a magical tradition handed down by dragons and the orders are white, black, green, blue and red, and copper, brass, Bronze, silver and gold.
 

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It’s not my favorite, but it’s not terrible. The only thing I really don’t like are the shoulder pads, but I hate that style in general (e.g., the huge shoulder pads in WoW). The only thing worse would be if it had too many belts.
 
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kenada said:
It’s not my favorite, but it’s not bad. The only thing I really don’t like are the shoulder pads, but I hate that style in general (e.g., the huge shoulder pads in WoW). The only thing worse would be if it had too many belts.
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I can certainly understand shoulder pad hate (especially if it borders on Warcraft levels of insanity). This one doesn’t bother me so much. It’s pretty much a historical fact that those with power made sure people knew it by wearing overly-ornamented clothing. Have you seen the engraved abs on ceremonial amor in museums? Not to mention the cod pieces…heh. And any clothing worn by such people almost always had elaborate embroidery and the like, even for their ‘day to day’ wear.

Which makes sense. When you can clear the room with a fireball, it saves time and effort if everyone knows it by looking at you, instead of you having to constantly prove it. Less mess on the carpet, as well :).

That was even a running bit in the Belgariad books. Where Belgarath, the legendary sorcerer dressed like a common slob, because he couldn’t be bothered. And was constantly running into people who refused to believe he was who he was. To the point where a couple of times he was forced to dress in fancy wizard robes by his daughter (also a powerful sorcerer) just to save time at the door when going to see some monarch or other.
 


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Reynard said:
It's weird to think that people in fantasyland would not want to look cool and confident and attractive, just like us.
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Exactly! The question isn’t “why would a wizard look so clean and fancy?”. It’s “why wouldn’t a wizard want to look clean and fancy?”. Especially with the sort of wealth and power a high level wizard usually has access to (and there’s no way this illustration is a low level wizard).
 





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