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

 

[Azzy]

Does not impress me at all. Looks like a nerdy girl fantasy, not a wizard.

Lol, as opposed to the nerdy boy fantasies that have permeated D&D art since its inception?

 

[Azzy]

The price for flight is a 3rd level slot.

It took a moment, but then I loled.

 

[Reynard]

Lol, as opposed to the nerdy boy fantasies that have permeated D&D art since its inception?

To be charitable, I think the poster meant a boy's fantasy of a nerdy girl. I hope.

I still think it's a bad take, but at least my interpretation doesn't smell of exclusionary grognard.

 

[MNblockhead]

And get rid of the bits of shoulder "armor"

Maybe I'm used to Warhammer. But wizards from many of the schools of magic in Warhammer like their bling. I've never perceived D&D as any different, just less codified.

 

[MNblockhead]

Ok, so we have a problem with her staff and spellbook floating because there’s no spell for that in the book, but her having glasses is unrealistic because magic could fix it? Last I checked, “Leomund’s Lasic Surgery” isn’t in the book either.

Until NOW! [scribbles furiously in GM notebook]

 

[MNblockhead]

It's fine, but I prefer the current wizard in the 2014 PHB.

Hat? Check.
Staff? Check.
Prestidigitation cleaned robes? Check (but needs to learn the mending spell, his threads are getting frayed on the edges).
No perceptible spell effects, so hard to argue if the art agrees with RAW.
Hmm...what can I nit pick on?

WAIT A MINUTE! HE'S NOT OBVIOUSLY CASTING A SPELL! What terrible art to use to represent a D&D wizard!

;-). I jest. Just wanted to challenge myself to see if there is anything one could object to.

 

[MNblockhead]

Short or long sightedness is often considered a disease but where to draw the line is complicated (e.g., Is Myopia A Disease or Not?). I suppose it is up to the DMs judgement on whether a character's sight issues are a disease (and therefore cured by a 2d level lesser restoration) or a variation from normal. I think most DMs trying to interpret RAW would not say that any restoration can be used to better a characters vision if their vision is within normal range. Not that it would matter. The RAW are not that granular. In my games, I rule a lesser/greator restoration spell, RESTORES. It isn't going to cure a preternatural condition. It also won't reverse the effects of aging. But if sight has declined due to an injury or disease, it would seem that some fairly low level magic could cure it.

But why are we assuming these are vision correcting lenses. They could be magic lenses of some sort. She could be wearing them for some protection from all the stuff flying around. It could just be more comfortable reading with reading glasses to reduce eye strain and fatique from poring over tomes with intricate magic script and diagrams.

It is an interesting thing to notice and discuss, but seems a weird thing to find objectionable.

 

[Warpiglet-7]

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.

I don’t like things that seem—SEEM—anachronistic. Yes it’s fantasy and not our timeline/world, but still.

otherwise it’s OK.

 

[Hussar]

Hat? Check.
Staff? Check.
Prestidigitation cleaned robes? Check (but needs to learn the mending spell, his threads are getting frayed on the edges).
No perceptible spell effects, so hard to argue if the art agrees with RAW.
Hmm...what can I nit pick on?

WAIT A MINUTE! HE'S NOT OBVIOUSLY CASTING A SPELL! What terrible art to use to represent a D&D wizard!

;-). I jest. Just wanted to challenge myself to see if there is anything one could object to.

I know that's a joke, and fair enough, but, it's not an unreasonable criticism either. How is that a wizard and not, say, a druid? Or a monk? Or just some random older dude?

Having the iconic image of a class actually doing things that the class is meant to be doing isn't really a bad idea, is it? People have pointed to Doctor Strange a few times, but... well... is that really a negative? One of the most recognizable wizards outside of Harry Potter in the last couple of decades? If you're going to draw on inspiration, I wouldn't think that Doctor Strange is a terrible one to draw on.

 

[tsadkiel]

If you're going to draw on inspiration, I wouldn't think that Doctor Strange is a terrible one to draw on.

Wouldn't be the first time.