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Let me share with you an actual picture from an actual D&D book What is this a picture of? It looks positively Victorian. He's not even remotely looking like a character whose contemporaries to a knight and a wizard. He looks like a solicitor who got locked in a vampire's castle! Yet this is...

The reverse is often true as well. Think about how many technologic futuristic fantasy games (like Final Fantasy 7 for instance) have characters with advanced firearms next to dudes with swords and spears. No modern warrior would go into combat today with a greatsword, but Cloud with buster...

Breeches are late medieval and Renaissance.

True, but it provides a framework to start from as opposed to starting from scratch. The real reason though is that I don't imagine WotC is overly quick to re-expose the "warts" of AD&D again. They can release 3e "as is" for the most part, and 4e could just be given necessary adjoining info to...

Eberron especially is far more modernistic in it's influence (the pulp and noir stories of the early 20th century). Likewise, Ravenloft has always felt far more Victorian than Medieval (mostly due to the source material). I would say the only settings in really think feel medieval are...

I'm just saying historical inaccuracy is a trend far bigger than D&D. I also think audiences aren't interested in bilauts, doubles, or conical hats. And that's certainly a modern trend, especially if you check out old Arthurian or Robin Hood movies from prior to 1980s. But I don't think that...

D&D has absolutely lost it's medieval fashion sense (so much as it ever had it) but the trend towards "faux medieval modernism" has been a part of fantasy since the 90s. Basically, modern audiences find breeches and stocks comical. I remember there was a small amount of outrage when Aragon was...

I guess, neither BS or X is great if you are looking for actual discussion on WotC products, with the difference being BS tends to shift discussion whatever 5e heartbreaker of the month is while X inevitably breaks down into trolls yelling how D&D isn't racist or sexist enough for them anymore...

A lot of D&D chatter everywhere leans heavily anti-WotC...

Depends. Some older artwork does have a syndication stipulation (a lot of old Magic cards did this, which is why they stopped using old art on new cards) but I'm sure since the 2000s all D&D and MTG art is bought with full rights to reproduce eternally (with the artist retaining limited rights...

I don't think there is much hope for any TSR era stuff getting done. 4e is slightly more likely, but I really think they aren't going to create whole new SRDs for AD&D or Basic.

It's recycled art from Journey to the Radiant Citadel. The artist already got paid.

It was on multiple platforms. I saw it personally on Facebook and Bluesky as well.

It's capitalizing on a trending search topic (in this case, T Swifts new album name). Lots of brands hop on this trend of winking at trending topics to get higher views or to appear in on the latest trend.

@LaTia J any updates you can share?

SCAG was the last of the farmed out books that were written by outside design teams (in this case, Green Ronin). I 100% blame this outsourcing for both the bland style of writing (they were tasked with summarizing the Realms after the Sundering, minimizing the 4e elements to make is timeless...

You once again ignore my point to answer your own strawman. GG. Not discussing it further.

You have two choices when it comes to D&D settings: changing or dead. There is no evergreen and alive. Eberron is probably their most static world (there is no Metaplot, the only changes come with edition switches) and I can count a Baker's dozen of changes from 3.5 to 5.24. The introduction...

More excited about Forge of the Artificer (grumble grumble) but I'm going to get the PC book first and the DM book later