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Very nice. I always wonder if there is a lot of pressure on artist to draw very "mainstream" until someone comes along and says "please, for this product, define your own style".

Deedlit is a perfect example, and she made the anime elf ears somewhat popular, I think. Though computer games like Lineage and WoW helped too.

I think I have to say sorry for not contributing more to "my" thread - a surprise vaccination left me somewhat, uh, under the weather. Anyway, I think that I... uh... think so much about art these days because it allows me to define game concepts I`ve known for a long time in a different way...

It`s a typical example of opinion bubbles. Hate subreddits like KotakuInAction support this interpretation and ban anyone who posts anything else. If you do not bother to look beyond your vicious supporters, you see yourself as the pure victim of a big conspiracy.

It should be required reading at D&D academy. It is incredibly how much THOUGHT someone put into conceptualizing - and then drawing - dungeon ecologies!

I think this ties into what I said in the original post. It is just an ebb and flow of influences that change how artists depict fantastical people. I don`t think there`s anything else behind it - just a broadening of the concept of fantasy races and a broad range of media influences of all kinds.

I admit it, I have always been somewhat conservative if it comes to D&D art. I didn`t rail against the "belt economy" in 3.x as much as others, but most art from Reynolds et. al. grew old very quick for me (beyond Eberron). Fast forward to today and to me preparing a new campaign. I always do a...

By the way, if someone still thinks this topic is not worth discussing, remember that ENworld is an island of calm, a save haven. Read (or don´t) the threads on Reddit if you want to know what hits you when you dare to openly question this kind of rhetoric. I shudder how it must feel for people...

That Wotc even takes the time to write about this topic is important. I know some people like to joke about this or say "hey, I've always done it this way". Well. guess what - many people didn`t, and I can assure you that right now, the shitstorm is brewing how Wotc forces politics into their...

I can. I`ve become very good at ignoring the stupid ballast that D&D is carrying around because some yokel said "let`s curse the cellar fairies with dark skin" back in the day. I`ve had decades of experience of ignoring my memories of the Chronomancer cover, so ignoring insensitive naughty word from...

We need more flying elf clerics who are also Drow with ecology-appropriate skin tone which was not ordained as a curse because they did something wrong is a result of the effects of Underground Drow Radiation on skin pigmentation combined with a lack of sunlight or sunlight-related light...

Why not? The look was taken from popular media. Just like 99% of all D&D content was. If there were elves with those ears as plastic figures in Kellogs Frisbees (TM) in the 80s, our books would be full of them. Most elves in early D&D books look like humans with glued-on ears anyway. Might as...

That would work as well in my group as it did when I tried to tell the players that, yes, those gnobbly-eared monstrosities on the front of the Dark Sun box are your player characters. Some artwork simply didn`t age well - no pun intended. Also, I love the Record of Lodoss war elf ears these...

I hope to see lots of cosplay of that and hopefullly never a cosplay of Drizzt do Urden from the cover of Drizzt do Urdens Guide to the Underdark shudders. Or every single person on the NPC cards in the Menzoberranzan Boxed set. shudders even more

I know that some people will dislike this interpretation, but it made me very happy when i saw it. The players I have right now are all young and first-time D&Ders, and they love drow pictures like these. None of them would even look at the old drow as possible player characters, but this was...

The point is to belittle attempts to be sensitive about specific themes and subjects. You know, like: "don´t think too hard about problematic stuff - let`s rather make jokes about those who try to do anything about them". I had people like that at my gaming table. Briefly. Very briefly.

Ghost variety. Ravenloft DMs rejoice!

A wonderful initiative - and the art is great, too.

I knew it was over when they started selling D&D action figures. Wait. That was TSR not Hasbro.

If you`d told me that I could`ve easily and quickly shift a long-running campaign Online without much hassle I wouldn`t have believed you a year ago. THAT is how far we´ve come.