D&D 5E Opening Page of the PHB

[Thaumaturge]

On a less ridiculous note, I really like that art. If that's a harbinger of things to come, I shall be highly pleased.

Thaumaturge.

 

[Remathilis]

EXCITE!

THAUMATURGE.

Thaumaturge must have bought one of those Dalek-themed keyboards.

 

[Patrick McGill]

Actually, their gender isn't clear to me.

I also like this piece, both because it evokes Swords & Sorcery as well as Al-Qadim! I also like the co position of what I'm calling a "watercolor burst".

Oh, and to quote Will Ferrill in Anchorman 2: BLAAACK! A good thing IMO, nice to see WotC embracing non-white fantasy heroes in vanilla D&D art right out of the gate.

It looks pretty masculine to me, what with the goatee/moustache. Unless my eyesight is fuzzy from all the excitement.

 

[Ruzak]

I love this art. I don't recall seeing blood like this in D&D art before. Am I just crazy?

My internal jury is still out on the light red/dark red color combination in the branding.

 

[Ratskinner]

I love that art in so many ways!! WOOT!

 

[evileeyore]

Yeah it's a goatee-dreadlocked black guy... unless it's a really tall thin black dwarf female.

 

[the Jester]

WOW!

That... is... AWESOME.

And let me just take this opportunity to give a huge, huge, huuuuuuge thumbs up for starting the Players Handbook off with a non-white male figure.

 

[Thaumaturge]

Thaumaturge must have bought one of those Dalek-themed keyboards.

THE KEY-BOARD HAS A SPE-CIAL "EXT" KEY.

THAUMATURGE.

 

[Plaguescarred]

I really like this scenery great piece of art!!

 

[Iosue]

You know, for a while now, the WotC guys have been talking up the art for this edition, how beautiful the books were, etc. I kinda let it go in one ear and out the other; eye of the, uh, beholder, marketing-speak and all that jazz. But with the release of each piece of art, I'm really seeing why they are so excited.