D&D (2024) Here's The New 2024 Player's Handbook Wizard Art

 

[Mind of tempest]

Yeah, I think the "Storm" argument has more merit (not a lot more, but a bit) than "Wakanda". That one doesn't go far beyond black, other than maybe "black and awesomely stylish looking".

I mean, you nail it here. It's meant to look like a cool wizard to inspire players to play one.

It's the image from the PHB Wizard's title page. They've said that there's art for each subclass, too, so we're going to see at least four more Wizards in the Wizard section alone (far or less all the ones that we will see elsewhere in the book in "party" shots).

One thing that I bet we can expect: The others will look very different from this one.

honestly, it is the colour choice, I have been programmed for years for white and gold to look holy whilst I associate wizardry with blueish or purple colours.
change the clothing colour and put a cool hat on her and she would look arch magey.

Tastes differ, is all I can say. I've seen a lot more AI art that looks better IMO.

I can see the appeal of a gritter and practical down-to-earth mage art, contrast helps with these things.

 

[ezo]

change the clothing colour and put a cool hat on her and she would look arch magey.

And get rid of the bits of shoulder "armor"

 

[mamba]

It doesn't give much more context to what she's up to.

yes, still very generic and without context, reverse image search found this one

 

[Shardstone]

Man who knew spellcasting was adherent to such visual norms. Do we add colors and homogenized descriptions to the list of sacred cows now?

 

[Oofta]

I wear glasses at times (night driving, mostly), but I just find them odd on D&D adventures, mostly because magic would fix any vision issues, right? So, a PC as "powerful" as this one "seems" to be, it just strikes me as strange.

Depends on how you define needing glasses. Is it really a disease to be cured?

 

[Scribe]

Depends on how you define needing glasses. Is it really a disease to be cured?

Glasses are a corrective device for a defect in structures of the eye.

'Disease'? No. Flaw in natural function? Perhaps?

 

[Mind of tempest]

sure it has to look like something, but there are tons of spells that do look very different from this

The sphere and symbols made me think Dr Strange


black, sleek modern-ish clothes, glasses, metal staff, for a comic universe that comes close to Wakanda to me, chances are there are others (not much into comics), but that one comes to mind for me thanks to two movies

I have no issue with the character being black, my objection was not about skin color at all, it was about style

I think Dr. Strange covers the who wizardess of the art.
do you mean the corporate standard high-level mmo look of the design?

It doesn't give much more context to what she's up to.

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yeah it is the colour of the magic and outfit that bugs me, it should be blue.

 

[DarkCrisis]

"Omega Level Threat Detected."

 

[Shardstone]

I'm going to say, it is vaguely Anime, but that is a huge plus for me. The aesthetics, magical systems, and overall fantasy (not just high fantasy) depictions in Anime are far more advanced and innovative then what we typically see in the West. I love leaning into a more attractive, cool looking character that has some kind of supernatural powers for pretty much all of the art. I'm tired of seeing scumbags in armor with little knives or old men with crusty beards pissing themselves as they cast magic missile. This new aesthetic of wizard is the first time I've wanted to play the wizard class in years; I finally feel like its appealing to something more then overproduced European psuedo-Renaissance aesthetics.

As for the color, I get that we in the West are conditioned ot see yellow/gold as divine, but I like that the wizard is yellow for that very reason. I don't believe that the cultural biases we have towards aesthetics should go unchallenged. D&D is a massive game that has a lot of influence; it's better IMO if it challenges stereotypical aesthetics and provides something new for us to stare at and think about.

This is just my personal opinion, but I really just don't respect any argument that wants to see more of the same. I'm tired of D&D aesthetics being locked up by the antiquated tastes of people from 50 years ago. Let me see something new.

 

[TwoSix]

LOL, SHE IS FLOATING!!!! This is such a superhero pose it is ridiculous. Storm, Dr. Strange, whoever. "Floating magic of awesome power".

Once you get out of Tier 1, 5e is a game of fantasy superheroes.