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  1. Paul Farquhar

    D&D 5E (2024) Here's The Covers of BOTH of November's Forgotten Realms Books

    The elephant in the room is that AI art would have done better. The reason you can tell a human did it is that Karlach and Minsc are clearly copy-pasted from other illustrations. AI would have created it from scratch (well thousands of illustrations, rather than just one per character). The...
  2. Paul Farquhar

    D&D 5E (2024) Here's The Covers of BOTH of November's Forgotten Realms Books

    Oil painting is something AI can imitate very easily. I suspect acrylics were generally used (prior to photoshop) more than oils though. For example, as I mentioned the other day, you can see traces of the underlying drawing on the SCAG illustration, which would have been obscured by oils...
  3. Paul Farquhar

    Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 3 Viewing (Spoilers)

    There is a prototype holodeck in the 1973 Animated Series.
  4. Paul Farquhar

    D&D 5E (2024) Next issue of Game Informer will have details on the two upcoming Forgotten Realms books

    Given the “Fall of Netheril” DLC (AKA content there wasn’t space for), I would guess specifically Shadovar.
  5. Paul Farquhar

    D&D 5E (2024) Here's The Covers of BOTH of November's Forgotten Realms Books

    I have a suspicion they deliberately blandify the standard covers in order to sell more special edition books. Thus avoiding the issue with Ghosts of Saltmarsh, where the standard cover was better than the special cover.
  6. Paul Farquhar

    D&D 5E (2024) Here's The Covers of BOTH of November's Forgotten Realms Books

    The opening sequence has stained glass windows featuring this style of art (don't know if same artist) to explain "Previously on Dragon Age".
  7. Paul Farquhar

    Are Ghosts Real? (a poll)

    You are getting into fine line definitions there. People often remember things differently then influence others. Since they believe what they are saying, the intent is not nefarious, but the effect is the same. Is it not gaslighting if someone doesn't know they are doing it? A very big and...
  8. Paul Farquhar

    Are Ghosts Real? (a poll)

    This is the thing. Unless you can make a falsifiable prediction you cannot reach any kind of conclusion. Which renders the question meaningless. Believe whatever you want.
  9. Paul Farquhar

    Are Ghosts Real? (a poll)

    Not fillings, but when I was at school we wedged a jack from an electric guitar amplifier into an old night storage radiator and picked up radio broadcasts.
  10. Paul Farquhar

    Purple Dragon Knight Retooled as Banneret in D&D's Heroes of Faerun Book

    Very sad. Rabid fanbois with a canon fetish turn an interesting subclass into something as boring as F.
  11. Paul Farquhar

    Worlds of Design: In the Shadow of Tolkien

    One of the Dawn Treader crew is a Minotaur.
  12. Paul Farquhar

    D&D 5E (2024) Here's The Covers of BOTH of November's Forgotten Realms Books

    Whist I also prefer physical painting (not just "looks like") I'm pretty sure both BG3 and Pixar have made far more money than Frank Frazetta ever did.
  13. Paul Farquhar

    D&D 5E (2024) Here's The Covers of BOTH of November's Forgotten Realms Books

    The two females have similar bodies and mirrored poses too. I’m not sure how the artist has produced this image, some sort of stencilling? Do we know the date?
  14. Paul Farquhar

    D&D 5E (2024) Here's The Covers of BOTH of November's Forgotten Realms Books

    Those characters are established as very much enjoying fighting. “Butt-kicking for goodness!” -Minsc
  15. Paul Farquhar

    D&D 5E (2024) Here's The Covers of BOTH of November's Forgotten Realms Books

    For me, the most distinguishing feature of the Forgotten Realms is everything is larger than life. Massive open spaces, towering citadels, enormous mountains, huge cities, frigid glaciers, over the top spell effects (mythals). If I was designing a cover for a FR sourcebook I would focus on the...
  16. Paul Farquhar

    Forgotten Realms Books to Have Several Digital DLCs, Including One Featuring Asterion

    And it has been pointed out why you are wrong. Rich people have money to spend on leisure activities, such as the cinema, a restaurant meal, gym membership, Netflix subscription or RPG books. It doesn’t matter that these things are not permanent, because they fundamentally DO NOT MATTER. No one...
  17. Paul Farquhar

    Forgotten Realms Books to Have Several Digital DLCs, Including One Featuring Asterion

    If people disagree with you accept it, because there is no way you are going to change their minds, you will just make them more adamant. You know the difference between good and evil? Evil is always certain they are right. Good always questions themselves. I have no right to tell people not...
  18. Paul Farquhar

    Evil Drow Statblocks to Return in Forgotten Realms Rulebooks Later This Year

    1) WotC don’t only sell to one country. 2) If there is no common ground, then business has to side with the 70% and write the 30% off as an unavoidable loss.
  19. Paul Farquhar

    D&D 5E (2024) Here's The Covers of BOTH of November's Forgotten Realms Books

    Animal cruelty. The dragon looks like the victim here.
  20. Paul Farquhar

    D&D 5E (2024) Next issue of Game Informer will have details on the two upcoming Forgotten Realms books

    The Red Wizards have never been a unified grouping.
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