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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9299795" data-attributes="member: 6790260"><p>I literally just did. The 3.5e PHB cover looks like a bad clay model pretending to be a real book cover. The 3.0 PHB isn't better. Both don't look like metal. They look like clay or plastic formed into an <em>imitation</em> of metal.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Not particularly; I did say I wasn't really a <em>fan</em> of the 4e PHB cover, just that I preferred it <em>more</em> than what I consider the really terrible PHB/DMG/etc. cover "art" that we got from 3e.</p><p></p><p>However, I love several artists that were employed widely throughout 4e's run, such as <a href="https://dnd4.fandom.com/wiki/William_O%27Connor" target="_blank">William O'Connor</a> (love most of his work), <a href="https://www.deviantart.com/jasonengle/art/Night-Raid-159822886" target="_blank">Jason Engle</a> (ditto), <a href="https://www.nonzerosumgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/paladin_by_benwootten-768x981.jpg" target="_blank">Ben Wootten</a> (not super prolific but damn good at what he does), <a href="https://dnd4.fandom.com/wiki/Steve_Argyle" target="_blank">Steve Argyle</a> (c'mon, you can't tell me his depiction of Bane is anything less than epic), <a href="https://annestokes.com/gallery/" target="_blank">Anne Stokes</a> (her eladrin really sell how <em>alien</em> the "high elf" archetype should be, while still being ethereally beautiful, and I like her dragons), and <a href="https://evawidermann.artstation.com/projects/1n1V43" target="_blank">Eva Widermann</a> (there's a...<em>smoothness</em> to her art I just really like.)</p><p></p><p>Having WAR covers was pretty much par for the course for late-2000s early-2010s TTRPG books. He was friggin' everywhere, to my chagrin. He <em>does</em> do good work, but much of his stuff is just waaaay too overwrought.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Whereas for me, I found 3e at best a mixed bag, while 4e was mostly good (other than Mr. Reynolds' work, which I am not particularly keen on), and 5e has gone back to being a mixed bag but for very different reasons. <em>Some</em> 5e art is really quite excellent. <em>Some</em> of it is painful to my eyes and soul.</p><p></p><p>And I just...I don't get the love for artists like Elmore or (especially) Erol Otus. I really really don't. As in if I'd been around at the time the latter's work was in vogue, it would have actively reduced my interest in playing D&D. When folks heap praise on it for being what made them think of fantasy, I genuinely just...don't understand. I doubt I ever will.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9299795, member: 6790260"] I literally just did. The 3.5e PHB cover looks like a bad clay model pretending to be a real book cover. The 3.0 PHB isn't better. Both don't look like metal. They look like clay or plastic formed into an [I]imitation[/I] of metal. Not particularly; I did say I wasn't really a [I]fan[/I] of the 4e PHB cover, just that I preferred it [I]more[/I] than what I consider the really terrible PHB/DMG/etc. cover "art" that we got from 3e. However, I love several artists that were employed widely throughout 4e's run, such as [URL='https://dnd4.fandom.com/wiki/William_O%27Connor']William O'Connor[/URL] (love most of his work), [URL='https://www.deviantart.com/jasonengle/art/Night-Raid-159822886']Jason Engle[/URL] (ditto), [URL='https://www.nonzerosumgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/paladin_by_benwootten-768x981.jpg']Ben Wootten[/URL] (not super prolific but damn good at what he does), [URL='https://dnd4.fandom.com/wiki/Steve_Argyle']Steve Argyle[/URL] (c'mon, you can't tell me his depiction of Bane is anything less than epic), [URL='https://annestokes.com/gallery/']Anne Stokes[/URL] (her eladrin really sell how [I]alien[/I] the "high elf" archetype should be, while still being ethereally beautiful, and I like her dragons), and [URL='https://evawidermann.artstation.com/projects/1n1V43']Eva Widermann[/URL] (there's a...[I]smoothness[/I] to her art I just really like.) Having WAR covers was pretty much par for the course for late-2000s early-2010s TTRPG books. He was friggin' everywhere, to my chagrin. He [I]does[/I] do good work, but much of his stuff is just waaaay too overwrought. Whereas for me, I found 3e at best a mixed bag, while 4e was mostly good (other than Mr. Reynolds' work, which I am not particularly keen on), and 5e has gone back to being a mixed bag but for very different reasons. [I]Some[/I] 5e art is really quite excellent. [I]Some[/I] of it is painful to my eyes and soul. And I just...I don't get the love for artists like Elmore or (especially) Erol Otus. I really really don't. As in if I'd been around at the time the latter's work was in vogue, it would have actively reduced my interest in playing D&D. When folks heap praise on it for being what made them think of fantasy, I genuinely just...don't understand. I doubt I ever will. [/QUOTE]
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