Klaus
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D&D 5E Starter Set Excerpt 5
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And no, I have no art in the upcoming MM (and that's all I can say).
DMZ2112
Chaotic Looseleaf
How about you ignore my single letter misplacement and I'll ignore your double letter transposition and we'll call it even?
tuxgeo
Adventurer
How about you ignore my single letter misplacement and I'll ignore your double letter transposition and we'll call it even?
Sounds good!
(Actually, it sounds better than it looks: "viniculture" is a word; "terroir" is a (borrowed) word; "green" is a word: what transposition?)
Hussar
Legend
Scaley, lizardy kobolds never bothered me, because this was my first kobold:
I mean, the only thing different is they added a tail. I remember the whole Dog Kobold thing was a mistake or something in 2e. I seem to remember reading that in one of the Gygax interview threads. It wasn't until Baldur's Gate that I even thought of kobolds as doggy.
I mean, the only thing different is they added a tail. I remember the whole Dog Kobold thing was a mistake or something in 2e. I seem to remember reading that in one of the Gygax interview threads. It wasn't until Baldur's Gate that I even thought of kobolds as doggy.
DMZ2112
Chaotic Looseleaf
steeldragons
Steeliest of the dragons
Well, in my initial response (which the internets ate), I was more precise.
It's not that I want or expect them to be, like, "Christmas/pine" or "grass" GREEEEN or anything. My initial thought was that with the colors that were used in the image, I might have gone a bit more in the "olive-greenish-into-yellowy/tan/khaki" direction than the "yellow-sandy-khaki-tinged-with- olive" that was used. But the "olivey-khaki" green-tinged brown-ish yellow-ish that was used is good/"makes sense" for camouflaging in woodlands and swamps where, I think it is expected, a lot of goblins will be lurking about.
I, personally, would have ventured a bit more into the green spectrum while maintaining a yellowy-tan-dusty kinda look. And/or a bit more divergence in the skintones, just among the group we see. Maybe one is noticeably more olive, one is noticeably more yellowed or more "brown" vs. sandy/tan, etc...
Best of both worlds...the "green goblin" expectations are closer to being met without the Christmas tree green of popular perceptions & PF, and maintaining the yellowed type skin "goblinoids" seem to be expected to have by a lot of folks here as "D&D goblins."
I will say, until this thread...I had not realized ALL goblinoids were supposed to be in the yellow-orange-red family. My recollections were always that goblins were pictured or described as grey or greyish green. Hobgoblins, most notably, were orange-to rusty-to red with BLUE noses/snouts! That's what always made hobgoblins stand out in my mind. And the bugbears were traditionally pictured with decidedly "yellow" (or maybe ochre) skin, but almost entirely covered with shaggy hair in any/all shades of brown or brownish grey (and then grey-er/greying with age)...So I always, mentally, just think of bugbears as "brown".
But when I had to rewrite the whole post over again...I didn't quite go into that much detail on the subject.
tuxgeo
Adventurer
...I can't very well point it out if I'm ignoring it!
True, true.
GMforPowergamers
Legend
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And no, I have no art in the upcoming MM (and that's all I can say).
You sir are awesome, and I am going to start a letter writing (ok I'm lazy I'll probably just tweet it) campaign to get WotC to make you there primary artist... I mean those pics are better then a lot of 3e and most of 4e art...
RichGreen
Adventurer
Hadn't seen that troll pic before! Those 4e trolls are huge, aren't they? I do like them but the minis look very funny next to my 25+ year old Grenadier troll mini.
Cheers
Rich
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