D&D (2024) WotC Unveils Dragon Delves' Eclectic Art Styles

In a short 1-minute video, Wizards of the Coast has 'revealed' Dragon Delves, the upcoming anthology of dragon-themed adventures. The video showcases the book's eclectic art styles.

Dragon Delves contains 10 adventurers from levels 1-12, each featuring a different type of dragon. The book is due out July 8th.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Now they just need to do a supplement that's all dungeons (I'm only partly kidding)

 

[pukunui]

Now they just need to do a supplement that's all dungeons (I'm only partly kidding)

They could just update this one to 5e:

It even has a matching name!

 

[Quickleaf]

A tiny village of Elves with Dragonborn and Orcs living there? No thanks, they can all just be Elves. And with some new surnames that aren’t all “WordWord”.

Hey! I resemble that remark!

 

[Yaarel]

Seriously.

The names of the Dragon species should be "Golds", "Reds", etcetereta.

Then they sort alphabetically in any document.

Dragon Black
Dragon Blue
Dragon Brass
Dragon Copper
Dragon Faerie
Dragon Gold
Dragon Green

Etcetera. It feels natural enough to refer to "a Gold", "a Blue".

In the rare case where it is necessary to disambiguate, it is "a Dragon Blue", where the term Dragon is functioning as an adjective.

 

[Yaarel]

Re the art of Dragon Delves, I like how some of the animation images seem an analog to some of the goofy cartoons of old school.

I always prefer photographic realism (surrealism) for fantasy images. But a little bit of eclectic is nice, and I am fond of expressionist images.

 

[Parmandur]

Seriously.

The names of the Dragon species should be "Golds", "Reds", etcetereta.

Then they sort alphabetically in any document.

Dragon Black
Dragon Blue
Dragon Brass
Dragon Copper
Dragon Faerie
Dragon Gold
Dragon Green

Etcetera. It feels natural enough to refer to "a Gold", "a Blue".

In the rare case where it is necessary to disambiguate, it is "a Dragon Blue", where the term Dragon is functioning as an adjective.

That...does not feel natural in English usage?

 

[Parmandur]

Re the art of Dragon Delves, I like how some of the animation images seem an analog to some of the goofy cartoons of old school.

I always prefer photographic realism (surrealism) for fantasy images. But a little bit of eclectic is nice, and I am fond of expressionist images.

I like the standard 5E "house style" a lot, but I like this approach for a book.

 

[Yaarel]

That...does not feel natural in English usage?

Heh, sounds fine to me.

If I can say "a danger zone", I can say "a dragon red".

There is even a kind of Goblin called "a Blue". This of course would be "a Goblin Blue", if there was a need to disambiguate.

 

[Parmandur]

Heh, sounds fine to me.

If I can say "a danger zone", I can say "a dragon red".

There is even a kind of Goblin called "a Blue". This of course would be "a Goblin Blue", if there was a need to disambiguate.

Nooooo...no. Following a noun with an adjective (even if it is "Noun-ified") is a violation of the word order in English. Adjective order is actually one of the weirdly strict rules in English (of the ten categories of adjective, color comes in at number 7, for instance.

 

[Yaarel]

Nooooo...no. Following a noun with an adjective (even if it is "Noun-ified") is a violation of the word order in English. Adjective order is actually one of the weirdly strict rules in English (of the ten categories of adjective, color comes in at number 7, for instance.

The term "red" is a noun. Saying stuff like, "the reds versus the blues", is normal in English such as in sports.

(Even to refer to the shades of red as the reds , or a red, is normal.)