D&D (2024) Comeliness and Representation in Recent DnD Art

[Scribe]

What do you consider "risky"?

Clearly Conan style images.

 

[Faolyn]

And of you have male-identifying artists drawing women for female-identifying players or non-binary artists drawing cheesecake art?

Well, how much cheesecake do you really need in a gaming book? Especially when there's so much already available online.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Well, how much cheesecake do you really need in a gaming book? Especially when there's so much already available online.

Apparently for you the answer is zero, for everyone.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Apparently for you the answer is zero, for everyone.

I, for one, am happy that D&D moved beyond the racist and sexist Conan-style art before I started playing the game.

 

[Hussar]

Now, I'll be the first to admit I wouldn't mind a bit more action in the art. I adore the old Fiend Folio art. That was some seriously gritty stuff there. And I'll love Erol Otus to my dying days.

So, I'm not unsympathetic to wanting different art. By the same token, one of my all time favorite D&D books was the 3e Tome of Magic. That book was freaking GORGEOUS. Just a beautiful book all the way around.

I'm not really sure that we need airbrush van art in the game anymore though.

 

[Faolyn]

Apparently for you the answer is zero, for everyone.

That's not an answer.

 

[Scribe]

Well, how much cheesecake do you really need in a gaming book? Especially when there's so much already available online.

Honestly? A couple of pieces tops.

Why? To reflect that there is actually a diverse approach to the game instead of Disney Heroic, and nothing but.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Honestly? A couple of pieces tops.

Why? To reflect that there is actually a diverse approach to the game instead of Disney Heroic, and nothing but.

You cannot be serious. Please explain in what way Descent into Avernus, Ravenloft, Icewind Dale, and Netherdeep are “Disney Heroic” without cherry-picking the two or three cute/silly images from the books.

5e art has stylistic and thematic diversity. You’re just upset that there’s not any girls in bikinis.

 

[MGibster]

I'm not really sure that we need airbrush van art in the game anymore though.

D&D art really hasn't grabbed me since 2nd edition and it's not because of a lack of cheesecake. My most favorite art I can remember from back then didn't really involve a lot of cheesecake. And honestly, I didn't think AD&D was all that bad when it came to cheesecake. You can certainly cherry pick examples, but when you take it in the aggregate it wasn't all that bad. Are there even any examples of chainmail bikinis in AD&D? I remember some boob windows in armor. Where was I?
Ah, yes. Van art. I'd rather have some of that van art back compared to what we have now. The painting style doesn't do anything for me and I don't even like the outfits most PCs are wearing. I just prefer the look of the old school art. This is better than anything I've seen in 3rd or 5th edition, and I'm not even a big fan of it.

 

[Scribe]

You cannot be serious. Please explain in what way Descent into Avernus, Ravenloft, Icewind Dale, and Netherdeep are “Disney Heroic” without cherry-picking the two or three cute/silly images from the books.

5e art has stylistic and thematic diversity. You’re just upset that there’s not any girls in bikinis.

Not really, I'm disappointed with a safe and tame art style that doesn't reflect artistic diversity at all.