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It's probably based on a real safari pic. The dragons legs are dangling naturally for a dead animal, but the wings are tensed rather than hanging limp. I wager Elmore used a real image of a trophy kill to recreate the dragon but had to wing it (pun intended) on the wings and opted for simple...

I'm mocking it because the person was complaining how the the Forgotten Realms cover was a staged photo composition. There was "no drama, no action" and I responded with a LITERAL posed picture; an image reminiscent of a hunting safari image (which I'm sure Elmore used as a reference, replace...

One word: Redgar.

It was the inner cover (after to ToC). Literally the first picture IN THE PHB after the cover. They are posed like a photograph. There is no action. No sense of danger. They just killed a dragon no bigger than a black bear and posed like a hunting photo. It couldn't be more posed if they were...

Where indeed. Where indeed. AD&D 2nd edition Players Handbook.

The issue was that (as I said) it was a mile wide and an inch deep. It didn't give me enough info to actually sell me on Icewind Dale or Cormyr or the Moonshaes. I know a lot of people criticize the focus on the Sword Coast for 5e's run, but it got enough detail that I actually got a feel for...

4e Forgotten Realms books says "what am I, a joke to you?!" (Actually don't answer that.) I have a confession to make: I'm not a big fan of the 3e FRCS. It's a mile wide and an inch deep. It's horrible to navigate without the index, gives enough info on an area to be encompassing, but not...

Which is why I was putting the blame squarely on the Internet and the fact that conflict fuels engagement far greater (either naturally or algorithmically) than positivity. It's the reverse of attracting more flys with vinegar than honey.

It's a frame issue. I'm not wildly excited about the cover, but it's kinda tiring that the same group of people always finds a way to find the worst thing to say about every action the franchise does. Does matter if it's D&D or something else. Which is why I say it's an Internet thing: the echo...

I see you cover and raise you this. A floating head, a photoshopped Drizzt from a different cover and a third person* posing on an overlook. No motion, muted colors, three portraits overlaid over each other. Nothing here excites the imagination. Hell, nothing here even explains what the tone...

WotCs could place crisp $20 bills in the back of each book and people would complain it's not a $50. Then again, I'm increasingly convinced fandom is a net negative for any given franchise. I've yet to meet a a fandom that isn't overwhelmingly critical of the thing they claim to enjoy. Things...

All I see is a portrait filter and oversaturated colors. Honestly, D&D covers have been crap for 40 years. 1e was rank amateur. 2e was painfully generic. 3e boring. 4e was bad comic book art and 5e looks like Magic cards. It's a good thing I buy the books for their content and not their covers.

I recently started buying comics again, and the fact that a comic was $1.25 when I started in the 90s and $4.99 now for the same amount of pages is telling enough. WotC Doesn't make softcover books because they are too costly. Hasn't since 3.0. Hell, Forge of the Artificer is an experiment to...

I'm not an MBA. I don't know what goes into the cost of POD vs a print run, or how much sunk cost for things like art and pay per word factor into these decisions. And I would love a world when I can go on WotCs site (or Paizos, it's near impossible to find print versions of anything but this...

I will state that having a principled stance against non-physical/non-ownership of media is not a fault. I have a friend who will not use self-checkouts out of principle because that's what they believe in. So, no shame if that is your stance. But my issue is you keep gesturing at some magical...

I applaud the principled stand that if you can't get Astarion's Guide in print, you'd rather not have it. I assume you also avoid all streaming services and only buy physical discs for movies, music and video games.

I'm convinced that if they didn't feel this material was able to be included in a 112 or 200+ page book, it would be forgotten on a hard drive in WotC. So I ask again: would you prefer it dlc or never having it?

I know you would vastly prefer a physical release, but assuming that's not economically feasible for WotC to do, would you prefer this type of material to be digital only or not released at all? Because that's your Sophie's choice.