EzekielRaiden
Follower of the Way
Strangely, this isn't my experience. I technically was exposed to D&D first via 2nd edition, mostly vicariously through the Icewind Dale CRPG and the like. My first true exposure to D&D for serious "I want to learn this" stuff was 3e, and I do remember a lot about its style and presentation, though more in the "polymath's sketchbook" way than the art art.It is a problem with all editions. I can’t think of anything that really sticks with me from 3e, or 4e, or most of 2e or 1e even.
What “sticks” is that art that wowed me when I was young and new to the game. It is not better art necessarily, it was just new to me then, I was more impressionable, and I had lest context. Now, I’ve seen so much D&D art that any one piece has less impact.
4e, though? A bunch of its art is burned into my brain. And that despite the fact that most of my exposure to it came via the web because I used DDI rather than buying books most of the time, subbing only as needed. Edit: 4e doesn't even have the "childhood memories" angle, because it came out when I was an adult. So I really have no idea why 4e stuck harder than its companions. Maybe I'm just a big fan of the style used by the main artists (I do quite like Ben Wootten, William O'Connor, and Jason Engle, who all did quite a bit of art for 4e.)
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