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I think it has become a fairly generic aesthetic myself. WoW looks D&D looks MtG looks etc. I am really keen on art, went to art school and have an eye for seeing the "errors" that make a style. Even in late 1e/2e one could see Elmore and Easley and Parkinson and know the artist was different...

That fit with the idea of domains and rulers and the archetype of the adventuring noble though and Knights of the Round table for example.

Yeah the gatekeeping comment was kinda harsh but nitpicky is nerd culture. We COULD be arguing about what makes a dragon and why GRRM was using wyverns instead of dragons when describing a make believe creature.

Ding ding, it's a carry over from FOrgotten Realms 2e era where it was true but hasn't been true since 3e with the NPC classes.

Does that invalidate his opinion for some reason?

The rules for high level, name level, play were domain management and they were ample, the idea of a campaign wasn't yet adventure until your level 20, it was to adventure and acquire wealth to build a stronghold etc and then manage your domain and other player characters adventured within the...

Why not both? You can cast more spells per round.

Depends on edition. In 1 or 2e, even 3e, healing & especially magic were different. Spells like Haste aged you. Healing was 1 point a day with rest and while the Realms had a plethora of healers it was generally assumed they were rarer in other settings and a cleric can only heal so much. You...

Usually they're halflings. They should just make the official art a halfling ranger riding a turkey.

I prefer Vance's wizards with their weird garb and hats to Tolkien's Merlinesque archetype. Turjan and Mazirian, Pandelume, were all much more interesting to read about and visualize. This wizard is sort of similar to that idea but I think Otus and Mullen capture it visually with their unique...

never denied that.

I mean there IS a striking difference in fantasy, mainstream, than there was before 1990. It was more freeform and didn't fit that D&D mold. Even The Witcher has a ton of D&Dism in it whereas before it was more broad. Gaiman is like Moore, he fills that fantasist niche but doesn't do D&D...

Sure sure and yes Doug does some MtG art. There is a slickness to MtG art though that I was referring to in modern D&D art, considering it is the same pool of artists doing the work. ;-) The artists I listed have a unique style and flair that is also a throwback to Otus, Willingham, Dee...

LOTS of early swipes from Marvel with those kids who helped illustrate the LBB.

1. I, too, can pick artwork from decades ago to define a concept and 2. I am entitled to an opinion you disagree with without you having to selectively choose 15-20 years ago to "clap back". You see you missed where I was merely expressing a preference and you are trying to objectively correct...

Looks ok to me but I prefer artists like Erol Otus, Peter Mullen, Stefan Poag, Vault Crawler and Doug Kovacs. This is very MtG.

Professor DM will heed the call.

Will always be revered for Gamma World. It begat Mutant Crawl Classics.

big snip I learned on a mishmash of 0e with Greyhawk, Gods, Demigods & Heroes and a 1e PHB originally so that might be why my memory is all sorts of mush on it.