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

Mistwell · Mar 31, 2024

Parmandur said:
Everything looks more rad floating. We didn't make the rules here.

But I'm guessing the reason it is floating us that she is a wizard.

Errr I love wizards in D&D but floating staff is not a common thing for wizards?

UngeheuerLich · Mar 31, 2024

Mistwell said:
Errr I love wizards in D&D but floating staff is not a common thing for wizards?

She is wearing magnetic glasses of staff levitation.

Parmandur · Mar 31, 2024

Mistwell said:
Errr I love wizards in D&D but floating staff is not a common thing for wizards?

Mage hand?

ezo · Mar 31, 2024

cbwjm said:
Honestly, I'd say this is less for style and more the artist just missing the detail of the warping the glasses would make behind the lenses. I wear glasses and I'd make the same mistake.

Yep, agreed.

MNblockhead said:
Good lord, 102 pages of posts on one image. Any artist should be proud that their art evokes this much discussion. If nothing else, WotC's art director is doing a good job in getting people talking about the new books.

For better or worse LOL!

Paul Farquhar said:
You may not be able to understand it, but it’s a fact that there are loads of people who are not fictional, and could easily afford eye surgery, who prefer to wear glasses.

Your point?

Demetrios1453 said:
By the way, everyone seems to be forgetting that one of the earliest pop culture D&D wizards, the one from the '80s cartoon, wore glasses.

Nope, didn't forget it. I brought up Presto quite a while back---to emphasize how he generally reacts when he loses his glasses, which is not good more often than not. In fact, there was only one episode I can think of (S1.E9 Quest of the Skeleton Warrior) does he show courage when he loses his glasses.

FitzTheRuke said:
Yeah, though for the most part, the same things have been said over and over and over.

Preach, man, preach! At some point you would think it would sink in...

Chaosmancer · Mar 31, 2024

Mistwell said:
Errr I love wizards in D&D but floating staff is not a common thing for wizards?

Neither is wielding a sword. Do we need aspirational artwork to be "common"?

Yaarel · Mar 31, 2024

Twiggly the Gnome said:
An interesting thing about this thread is that it made me appreciate how good the changes to the Rock Gnome for the 2024 edition are. Now they are the iconic domestic fey; able to magically repair, clean and tidy up around the house.

It is surprising that the "Rock" Gnome is the domestic fey. Then again, this is the bedrock that a house and farm are on top of, can make sense.

Hussar · Mar 31, 2024

Mistwell said:
Errr I love wizards in D&D but floating staff is not a common thing for wizards?

She dropped it because she needs both hands to open the can of whoopass she’s about to drop on someone as evidenced by the power pose of the piece.

ezo · Mar 31, 2024

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?

Yaarel · Apr 1, 2024

The fact the lenses are flat and dont distort the size of the eyes and outline of the side of the head, means they dont correct vision.

Lenses made out of quartz crystal or corundum can be durable. Likewise glassteel.

Presumably these glasses are magic items that visually grant some form of magical sight. Glasses might detect any of various kinds of information.

ezo · Apr 1, 2024

Yaarel said:
The fact the lenses are flat and dont distort the size of the eyes and outline of the side of the head, means they dont correct vision.

Presumably these glasses are magic items that visually grant some form of magical sight. Glasses might transmit any of various kinds of information.

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Or (more likely IMO) it just means the artist overlooked that detail.

But either way, I prefer to think of them as magical lens (as you and others have suggested) as that makes more sense to me.

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

Mistwell

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UngeheuerLich

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ezo

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