D&D 5E Toward a new D&D aesthetics

[Yaarel]

Excuse me, but you can't say a poll it's not valid because of a position that is clearly expressed inside the poll itself

Obviously there can be bad polls that are meaningless:

- You like the fact that the ocean is trending into lemonade.

- You are neutral about the fact that the ocean is trending into lemonade.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

How and why do you assume @Yaarel is being disingenuous? Yaarel is one of the more genuine posters on these forums. I think you are seeing shadows now. Read the post with eyes unclouded by hate, maybe you see it differently.

Maybe read the whole thread before posting something like this? There's no hate here. I sympathise with going off half-cocked based on a single post. I've done the same. You'll see if you keep reading that @Yaarel and I have had very open interactions with each other. I respect him/her and I hope the feeling is mutual.

 

[Yaarel]

I respect him/her and I hope the feeling is mutual.

Him.

And yeah.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

Him.

And yeah.

Well, I'm a dude too. So chest bump, bro!

 

[Umbran]

Excuse me, but you can't say a poll it's not valid because of a position that is clearly expressed inside the poll itself

With respect, it seem to me that "clearly expressed" part is going to be a problem here. As in if you read the poll categories as meaning things different from what the respondants do, as seemed to happen just a little while ago, then we cannot say that the position was clear.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Excuse me, but you can't say a poll it's not valid because of a position that is clearly expressed inside the poll itself

IF the second option is meant to be against the perceived trend, then it's not clear at all due to it saying the opposite thing from that.

 

[Stefano Rinaldelli]

Obviously there can be bad polls that are meaningless:

- You like the fact that the ocean is trending into lemonade.

- You are neutral about the fact that the ocean is trending into lemonade.

in the poll there is, also:

- The ocean is not trending into lemonade.

Wich you can choose. So what?

 

[Stefano Rinaldelli]

IF the second option is meant to be against the perceived trend, then it's not clear at all due to it saying the opposite thing from that.

I must admit that my limited intellect is not able to face your objections.
In the poll you can express your agreement/disagreement, in various degree, toward the change and you also can negate the change at all.
So what?
You can say that the change go toward your tastes, that doesn't go toward but you feel comfortable with it, that you disagree and that you disagree to the point you will probably not recognize the game at all. Also you can say that there are no change or that you are in doubt to take a position in regard of the change. More, you can use statement 6 that, look closely, is redundant.
But if you insist I glady surrender.

 

[Undrave]

I want to say that I do like when DnD doesn't try to just copy the fashion and architecture of any real world medieval society. Fashion, architecture, and so forth, are all results of the world the people who make those live in, and our world and D&D's world are different. Maybe some monsters' blood can be used to make good blue/purple dye that even the common people can afford. Maybe a different color is what's rare in D&D land? Maybe there's lighter material that are as solid as what we use in construction so they can make taller buildings.

That sort of thing. The artwork should reflect a world that is both familiar and alien to our own.

1. I think whatever you want to call it "Blue/Purple/Pink" everywhere, is over done, and I personally dont associate it with a 'Fantasy' palette, but perhaps a "Fantasy Sci-Fi" one. This is a personal issue, as a preference, I want more...pastoral tones?

That palette seems to be part of a whole idealized 80's nostalgia trend. It's very Kung Fury... The real 80s weren't that neon pink though, maybe too much brown and orange from the 70s still lingering around.

Hopefully for you it'll just come to pass like all arts trend.

 

[Faolyn]

I don't want it to be the norm; I just don't want hard things to be consistently ignored in the my version of the game. If others do (and I don't say you do), that's their business and their choice, of course.

Catching up, so it's possible someone else has already said it, but... in your version of the game, you can emphasize or ignore whatever you want.