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

 

[Reef]

Sure but there’s also a limit isn’t there? So like i said, the divine colour isn’t even the main issue, the use of the magic feels way too wild and unrestrained for a wizard.

It’s always fascinates me how individual someone’s perception of art is. You see Wild and unrestrained, and I see the opposite.

She’s floating, concentrating on a shield, while a magic staff floats at the ready, all the while holding a spellbook up where she can read it. None of that says wild and unrestrained to me.

Now, if she was in the center of a tornado of objects flying around at all angles, like some sort of out of control poltergeist, that would read as out of control to me. All these items are positioned with way too much intention.

Again, not saying I’m right and you’re wrong. Just marvelling at how art can inspire such different responses (in the best way possible).

Edit: Besides, everyone knows that no one wearing glasses could ever be wild and uncontrolled…

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Edit: Besides, everyone knows that no one wearing glasses could ever be wild and uncontrolled…

Yeah, I mean, if you get too wild and uncontrolled, your glasses fall off and then you can't see! (Speaking from experience? Maybe...)

 

[Jaeger]

Who said anything about "medieval era"? (which lasted "a few centuries", and was very different at the end than it was at the beginning).
...
Like the few centuries between gunpowder weapons (pre-medieval but not on the D&D equipment list) and plate armour (post-medieval but on the D&D equipment list)? There is nothing "medieval" about D&D, never has been.

Plate armor is not post-medieval.

Describing spectacles as “anachronistic” displays a level of historical ignorance. And ignorance tends to accompany - other views.

Describing plate armour as "post-medieval" displays a level of historical ignorance. And ignorance tends to accompany - other views.

Do a search on "Historical medieval plate armor" and you will see that it was kind of a thing from the 14th to 15th centuries; well within the medieval era.

As to:

There is nothing "medieval" about D&D, never has been.

D&D has always had a Fantastic Medieval Aesthetic, since the beginning...

Swords, Bows, Spears, the portrayal of Armor. Knights on horses, Paladins, Clerics, Wizards, Bards, Peasants, Kings, Nobility... Big Castles in a Medieval style, with not a single Cannon in sight to bring them down...

Has it ever been "Historical Medieval"? No way.

But D&D has had a pseudo medieval fantasy aesthetic for decades.

Now if you want to say it was always more 'ren-faire medieval', or that the look has drifted in D&D art, especially in recent editions; I won't argue with you, because it's all true*.

And yet, people on these very boards have continued to describe D&D as "Medieval Fantasy" (do a search), and everyone basically knows what kind of aesthetic that they are talking about.


*In my opinion; The art direction from Wotc has been gradually turning away from the traditional pseudo medieval fantasy aesthetic of D&D. So there will be inevitable pushback from people that like the traditional D&D aesthetic, and praise from people that like the fantastical look that seems to be currently embraced.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

And there's going to be separate art for the Evoker, Diviner, Illusionist and Abjurer as well!

WotC, you know how to reach me for your iconic illusionist portrait.

 

[Staffan]

Cassandra Clare: 2007

Known for, among other things, the Very Secret Diaries. Oh, and some books that have been turned into movies and Netflix shows.

 

[Cadence]

Plate armor is not post-medieval.



Describing plate armour as "post-medieval" displays a level of historical ignorance. And ignorance tends to accompany - other views.

Do a search on "Historical medieval plate armor" and you will see that it was kind of a thing from the 14th to 15th centuries; well within the medieval era.

As to:


D&D has always had a Fantastic Medieval Aesthetic, since the beginning...

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Swords, Bows, Spears, the portrayal of Armor. Knights on horses, Paladins, Clerics, Wizards, Bards, Peasants, Kings, Nobility... Big Castles in a Medieval style, with not a single Cannon in sight to bring them down...

Has it ever been "Historical Medieval"? No way.

But D&D has had a pseudo medieval fantasy aesthetic for decades.

Now if you want to say it was always more 'ren-faire medieval', or that the look has drifted in D&D art, especially in recent editions; I won't argue with you, because it's all true*.

And yet, people on these very boards have continued to describe D&D as "Medieval Fantasy" (do a search), and everyone basically knows what kind of aesthetic that they are talking about.


*In my opinion; The art direction from Wotc has been gradually turning away from the traditional pseudo medieval fantasy aesthetic of D&D. So there will be inevitable pushback from people that like the traditional D&D aesthetic, and praise from people that like the fantastical look that seems to be currently embraced.

Tangential old thread of stuff by time period...

D&D General - Technology in D&D, the IRL Timeline, and Pausing It.

The issue of different inventions and discoveries comes up in threads now and then (why not have gun powder? what makes a world believable? shouldn't usual physics and chemistry work by default? etc...). And so I was wondering today about when different inventions came about/became widely used...

www.enworld.org

 

[Lojaan]

Hey Aabria! It's your girl, Laerryn!

 

[Vaalingrade]

Swords, Bows, Spears, the portrayal of Armor. Knights on horses, Paladins, Clerics, Wizards, Bards, Peasants, Kings, Nobility... Big Castles i

Anti-matter rifles, space ships, giant robots, a whole plane of Gothic Everything, and not a serf or rotten meat haunch covered in pepper to be seen.

 

[Reynard]

The best part about D&D is that it is exactly what you want it to be. Mine almost always has beam weapons, power armor, cyborg zombies and alien whatsits, all alongside the swords and wizards and dragons and shite.

 

[pemerton]

Generic powerful caster, too clean, too shiny, give me a bit more grit and realism, not this superhero posing. Dr Strange meets Wakanda

I assume by "Wakanda" you mean Black?

Can't we have Black wizards?