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

 

[Chaosmancer]

Seeing the full artwork for the first time, I do like how the blue cloak and the brown breeches with the tan under-boots does a lot to balance out the color scheme.

I also like how the glimmers from the books makes it look like she is drawing from the tomes for whatever magic she is doing.

 

[Zardnaar]

I don't really know what you have in mind.

My point is that, if you want to understand the social dynamics of a typical D&D world, you are better off using a 20th century sociology textbook than a serious social history of 13th century France.

Medieval not meditation.

I would read either book it's mostly about the vibe of the art from what I'm getting. I'm in the middle don't care one way or the other.

 

[Chaosmancer]

I assume, if a mage is wearing eyeglasses, it is because there is a good reason, normally a magic item.

If a rogue is wearing eyeglasses, is it normally a magic item as well? And is "correcting vision" not a good reason?

If an Elf is wearing glasses, for sure there is some magical benefit.

Because Elves can't have poor eyesight? Why not? Is this also true of Harengon or Bugbears? Do we have a list of these features of the various player options?

And please don't try and justify it via your own homebrew of how you interpret elves through your cultural lens. That has nothing to do with how the official DnD lore handles them.

 

[Yaarel]

If a rogue is wearing eyeglasses, is it normally a magic item as well? And is "correcting vision" not a good reason?

A low tier mage or a Rogue, might need to correct vision.

A high tier mage can use magic to correct it.

Because Elves can't have poor eyesight? Why not?

Elves personify magic and are shapeshifters. Poor eyesight would be an anomaly.

Is this also true of Harengon or Bugbears? Do we have a list of these features of the various player options?

Because rabbits eat carrots that give good eyesight? Maybe magical carrots do.

And please don't try and justify it via your own homebrew of how you interpret elves through your cultural lens. That has nothing to do with how the official DnD lore handles them.

Elves personify magic, springing from the blood of Corellon, one of the most powerful mages in the multiverse. And are shapeshifters − appearing as a bodily ideal.

Poor eyesight is virtually impossible for an Elf, unless it is a magical curse.

Plus, there is the elven innate heightened senses and Perception (albeit I prefer an Arcana skill Advantage be able to replace the Perception skill proficiency).

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Magical eyeglasses?

Glasses of Regretful Hindsight

Common magic item.

 

[Tonguez]

Lens quality was kinda poor up until modern era iirc.

And they were a luxury item.

By the 14th century riveted spectacles were relatively common having their own guild in Venice. At one point a shipment of 24000 spectacles was made for sale in the middle east and India and apparently the first specialist optician shop opened in Strasbourg in 1466.

 

[Chaosmancer]

A low tier mage or a Rogue, might need to correct vision.

A high tier mage can use magic to correct it.

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So, High tier characters who don't have access to healing spells are the only ones who might have poor vision? A high tier rogue might have glasses, but a wizard can't because they have access to lesser restoration, greater restoration, or heal? Even though Wizards, Sorcerers and Warlocks (excluding divine subclasses) don't actually have access to those spells?

Elves personify magic and are shapeshifters. Poor eyesight would be an anomaly.

No. Elves in DnD do not personify magic, and their only possible natural shapeshifting is shifting genders, nothing about altering anything else. I know, in literature, about a Were tiger with poor eyesight, so why would being able to shift between forms make that an anomaly?

Because rabbits eat carrots that give good eyesight? Maybe magical carrots do.

It would have to be magical carrots, since carrots improving eyesight to a noticeable degree is an old WWII propaganda lie to hide the existence of Radar.

Elves personify magic, springing from the blood of Corellon, one of the most powerful mages in the multiverse. And are shapeshifters − appearing as a bodily ideal.

Poor eyesight is virtually impossible for an Elf, unless it is a magical curse.

Plus, there is the elven innate heightened senses and Perception (albeit I prefer the Arcana skill be able to replace the Perception skill).

They do not personify magic. Yes, one of their origins is coming from Corellon's blood, but Orcs came from Gruumsh's blood. Sure Corellon is a god of magic, but being born from a magical being doesn't make you an embodiment of magic. And Corellon specifically removed their former shapeshifting abilities.

And sure, they have heightened senses... you should be aware that could cover mulitple senses, and elves in general having superior eyesight doesn't mean that one can't be born with poor eyesight, even if it poor eyesight for an elf.

 

[Yaarel]

So, High tier characters who don't have access to healing spells are the only ones who might have poor vision? A high tier rogue might have glasses, but a wizard can't because they have access to lesser restoration, greater restoration, or heal? Even though Wizards, Sorcerers and Warlocks (excluding divine subclasses) don't actually have access to those spells?

Access to high tier healing spells depends on the setting. In Forgotten Realms, any high tier player character can access it, directly by casting the spell oneself, or knowing someone who can.

No. Elves in DnD do not personify magic, and their only possible natural shapeshifting is shifting genders, nothing about altering anything else. I know, in literature, about a Were tiger with poor eyesight, so why would being able to shift between forms make that an anomaly?

Elf. "The first elves could change their physical forms at will." "Elves have the mystical ability to take on characteristics of the environments with which they are bonded." The alterability of bodily appearance includes ideals of beauty, as well as the seasonal shapeshifting of Eladrin, and likewise the diverse appearances of very many different Elf ethnicities.

They do not personify magic. Yes, one of their origins is coming from Corellon's blood, but Orcs came from Gruumsh's blood. Sure Corellon is a god of magic, but being born from a magical being doesn't make you an embodiment of magic. And Corellon specifically removed their former shapeshifting abilities.

Elf. "These connections grant Elves access to certain kinds of magic."

And sure, they have heightened senses... you should be aware that could cover mulitple senses, and elves in general having superior eyesight doesn't mean that one can't be born with poor eyesight, even if it poor eyesight for an elf.

All elven senses, especially sight and hearing are extraordinary, and presumably scent, and taste and touch. Perception represents every sense.

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Please be respectful, civil, and constructive. If you want to do this snarky stuff, I can end the conversion. I accord this same respect to you.

 

[Autumnal]

Glasses of Regretful Hindsight

Common magic item.

Especially in threads like this.

 

[Hussar]

Yep, those books are a real threat to her!

Good thing she has both hands free so she can use her Channel Divin... I mean her Metamag... I mean, well, I have no clue, just looks like she's trying to intimidate... something out of the frame I suppose?

Probably the librarian who has to put all the books back?

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Because the threat couldn't possibly be off screen and the target of whatever she's about to lay the hammer down on is the point of view that we're supposed to take.

But, that's impossible. After all, using any degree of imagination when looking at a picture is verbotten. You must only use the picture, never make any attempt to interpret the picture, and must be told, explicitly by the artist exactly what the picture is showing.



You must be an absolute delight at an art gallery.