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

 

[TwoSix]

By the by, I like the picture. I like pretty much any and all well drawn/painted fantasy art.

I say this as someone who thinks D&D art peaked at 2E and 3E. Mostly 2E

The 2e core books are peak D&D art to me. But I think we always gravitate towards the styles that inspired us in our youth.

 

[Alzrius]

"Omega Level Threat Detected."

"Do you know what happens to a froghemoth that's struck by chain lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else."

 

[Oofta]

Wrong quote?

Who said anything about it being a "disease to be cured"? I said it is a condition which lesser restoration removes.

Why? Admittedly I was thinking just Restoration (not greater) which removes a disease but wearing glasses doesn't mean you're charmed, petrified or cursed. Your ability scores are not reduced nor is your HP max.

 

[Shardstone]

"Do you know what happens to a froghemoth that's struck by chain lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else."

This line woulda' went hard if she actually killed Toad after saying that.

 

[ezo]

Tastes vary of course, but this to me is still outstanding art.

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Not to mention hilarious!

Why? Admittedly I was thinking just Restoration (not greater) which removes a disease but wearing glasses doesn't mean you're charmed, petrified or cursed. Your ability scores are not reduced nor is your HP max.

Well, it removes blindness, which is vision so poor you cannot see. It seems reasonable to me that it would also handling simply "less than normal" vision as well. Since it also handles deafness, probably helps there, too.

Your interpretation may differ, but that is mine.

 

[overgeeked]

Never played a tier 1 game that felt like superheroes. Nothing less heroic then getting dropped by a kobold critting you at 2nd level or getting gored by a minotaur at 3rd or 4th level in one strike.

I think it’s partly the superhuman ability to fully regenerate from any and all damage unless it’s fatal with a nap. The ability to go from wildly above average (1st level) to demigod status in power inside a fortnight might also have something to do with it.

 

[RoughCoronet0]

I honestly love this art, and it actually makes the wizard look cool. I'm absolutely loving the art direction for the revised core books and can't wait to see more.

 

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

Looks AI generated

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I think it’s partly the superhuman ability to fully regenerate from any and all damage unless it’s fatal with a nap. The ability to go from wildly above average (1st level) to demigod status in power inside a fortnight might also have something to do with it.

That's more a matter of how the game relates "damage" and, for that matter, "full HP" to injury compared to how you'd like it to. (It doesn't relate the two at all, beyond a very abstract connection - You can be at full HP and "injured" and you can be at near-zero and "unharmed", depending on the narrative).

But that's an argument that these boards have had over and over ad nausea.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

At first I thought the Wizard picture was that Quandrix girl from Strixhaven (much like how I thought the Mordenkainen's Monsters of the Multiverse Illusionist entry was), but Quandrix girl is wearing turquoise coloured clothing and is younger.

"Omega level threat" is from X-Men '97, but is also a reference to how Storm is in the same power category as Magneto, Jean Grey, Exodus, Hope Summers and others who have no limits to their powers.