How much less?
I find it particularly perplexing when people have an obvious favourite past edition and their main gripe about the current/new edition is that it is not like that past edition. WotC will not confiscate your old books! If you like them better, just keep using them instead!
Totally missing it.
That is not my reasoning. This is about setting a mood for the game. I don’t prefer things that take me out of my preference for medieval flavored fantasy.
No, I don’t describe the king’s knights as wearing glasses. This is a taste thing only. No value judgment or moral concern to it. Might as well argue with me for not liking mayo.
Its a good piece of art. I made a statement about taste and design decisions in the context of it being skillfully done.
I am not getting the vapors over it but based on several posts in the thread, it is unthinkable that I don’t like D&D characters with glasses. The only answer is I must like that design choice?
One person informed me about when glasses were invented and suggested I don’t know much about history.
I made it clear that they “seem” anachronistic…and made a point to not argue about gunpowder in China or the first person to wear glasses.
If you imagine Elric or Aragorn or whatever with glasses more power to you.
Now if you will excuse me, I am going to select my duergar artificer’s feat…and laugh about his goggles. He is fun but not exactly and exemplar for a core class in my mind.
Flexibility is a virtue or something.
If they have a preferred past edition then there is no need to complain, but as @Jaeger said, many like to play the current edition and still want it to reflect their preferencesTrue, it is a common phenomenon. I find it particularly perplexing when people have an obvious favourite past edition and their main gripe about the current/new edition is that it is not like that past edition. WotC will not confiscate your old books! If you like them better, just keep using them instead!
Personally hoping for Greyhawk, but I could roll with that.Several posters have said this wizard gives MTG vibes. Several other posters have pointed out that that Strixhaven is a D&D setting. Which got me thinking:
How fast would the D&D corner of the internet explode if the sample setting in the DMG was Dominaria?
Right?? Magic the Gatherong is rooted in D&D to begin with.Better than Forgotten Realms, that's for sure!
I really don't get the MTG complaint. Like I haven't player MTG for ages, but I still browse MTG art time to time, as it tends to be high quality, as well as imaginative and evocative. And some specific themes and concepts aside, I don't find it unfitting to D&D at all. D&D art style has varied from editions to edition, so there really isn't any specific art style I strongly associate with D&D anyway.
Probably more than half in my case.you don't like somewhere around half of the official DnD settings for 5e.
Good for you! And I'm sure if you were in a D&D dungeon and had your glasses broken, lost, or taken from you, you wouldn't have any issues.
I don't think anyone ever said they couldn't, did they?
It just doesn't make sense to me that they could choose that. It's like mushrooms. I hate mushrooms, can't stand them and think they are disgusting, but other people like them. I don't know why... but that isn't my concern. However, if someone presents a gourmet dish and says, "this looks wonderful and tastes terrific," but I see mushrooms, I'm not going to agree with them.
So, no, I don't agree that a powerful PC would wear eyeglasses for corrective purposes if they could afford magical aid instead. But hey, that's just how I feel about it. I've never said others have to or should feel the same.
Sure, I get that. I'm bald, have been balding since I was in my late teens. If I could have hair again I'd have to give it thought. I'd probably think I'd look wierd with hair at this point! Someone might ask, "why don't you regrow your hair?" to which I would reply: I might, or I might not. But the difference is me not having hair wouldn't impact me in an adventuring environment as much as relying on glasses could IMO, and so I see little reason to keep them if you didn't have to. You might not weigh the potential risk as highly as I would, which is fine, and decide to keep wearing glasses even then.
I don't think I am misidentifying them, I'm afraid.i really think you're misidentifying what are the actual factors of isekai here, i don't deny that some of those things have prominently turned up in isekai but they've also turned up in multiple other works and are not what makes isekai, isekai, the literal translation of the word is 'other world'.
(and if your post was meant to be a joke the humor REALLY didn't come through for me)
I assume some worlds have jet fighters. I mean why not put them in the sky with rhe picture of the fighter? They exist somewhere.I'm not saying that you must like it, and I don't care about historical reality at all. The fact of the matter is that if you don't like anything that takes you out of your preferred medieval fantasy... you don't like somewhere around half of the official DnD settings for 5e.
Which is fine, you don't have to like them, but going forward with "this doesn't feel like DnD" seems silly to me. Maybe the King's Knights don't have glasses in Greyhawk... but does a librarian in Sigil have glasses? What about a news reporter in Eberron? A Guild Artificer in Ravnica? A teacher in Strixhaven? An Alchemist in Drakkenheim?
The official setting of 5e is the Multiverse. And the multiverse contains much much much more than medieval fantasy worlds.
Not only is that interpretation completely unsupported by the rules (short-sidedness is NOT a disease) it is also anti-inclusive. People who wear glasses, or use a wheelchair or whatever, want to see people like them represented in game.
It’s equivalent to saying Alter Self can cure your gender and ethnicity.