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Absolutely. As a player, I draw my own characters myself. It helps me a lot to imagine them and play them. I also prefer art for NPCs. A...

DnD art inspired me to become an artist myself so yes, it is very important to me. But, I very much prefer one great piece that captures...

It's pretty important to me. It's not even about the quality of the art, but it has to say something to me.

I tend to spring board off influential foundational pieces. I’m not good at building from whole cloth. So, I’m big into art and...

Art is important to me. It helps set the feel and aesthetic of the game/setting I'm playing in. And as an artist myself, I really...

I'm an extremely visual person so art means a lot to me. There are systems where I feel happiness when I open them because of the art...

We play over VTT (Roll20) exclusively and I use art assets as backdrops instead of battlemaps a lot of the time. I'll have tokens or...

I like using art as a reference to help me visualise what a creature or scene might look like, I even do my own little sketches during...

I do the same with art and like to use it as a reference for my players to actually show them where they are or what they're encountering.

A recent anecdote which fits here: I just ran (for the first time myself) a game of Brindlewood Bay (Carved by Brindlewood) for three...

I definitely think there's a portion of the "casual" player base that is generally passive. They show up at the table, chime in with...

100% this. I am honestly shocked when I see this characterization from someone online. I know everyone is different, but compared to...

I don’t think of Baker is a revolutionary. I think of him more as a game designer who is very happy to share his thoughts and...

I think any attempt to categorize casual players as some kind of monolithic thing are misplaced.

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