[3.5E] Is it just me or...

[Number47]

I like the ruled lines!

 

[Droogie]

I like the new art. Fewer buckles and spikes.

But the Blink Dog is worse than they original art. The original was serene. The wise, relaxed pose made it clear that blink dogs are in fact Lawful, intelligent creatures. The new Blink Dog looks like a generic mangy cur. Deifinitely not Lawful, definitely not Intelligent, definitely not Good.


-z

Totally agree. The first illustration had such personality, you could think up an NPC on the spot just by looking at it.

 

[Chauzu]

I liked the old Blink Dog picture.

 

[Gimble]

Here's Gimble! My least favorite image but that's just because he's not in color

That's because if they showed me in color, you would be blinded by my sexiness.

Nymphs have nothing on the Gimble.

 

[Dinkeldog]

I like the new Blinkdog. I've got a very cute and peaceful golden retriever that I've seen get fighting-aggressive once. He looked about like that.

 

[Desdichado]

I find most of Wayne Reynolds' humanoids horrendous, but his other stuff is generally acceptable to me.

And I like most of his humanoids! In general, though, I like WAR of any stripe, although he has a few bad ones too, here and there. Frankly, that blink dog isn't really a great one IMO.

A bunch of pictures I would really like to see replaced would be the one for the Displacer Beast (probably the only picture I dislike by Sam Wood), and the ones for most of the Good Dragons, specifically those that have butterfly wings (I believe they are the Brass, Copper and Gold dragons).

I like the new look of the displacer beast, although the d20 Modern version was a better picture technically, I think. Beats the other one hands down. And, I like the good dragons. Who wants all your dragons to look the same anyway?

The Bronze Dragon was painted so beautifully, why change the style for the others?

Because the others are so beautifully done too? I actually really like the gold dragon in particular.

Anyway, the topic of art in D&D is a tricky one, mainly because the greatest strength of D&D art is that it is varied. If there was only Todd Lockwood everywhere, people would get bored very fast.

Oh, I don't know. There are some artists that pretty much everyone likes (as near as I can tell) and others that nearly no one likes. I could do with a little less variety if they used the good ones more.

For a perfect example, ask people about the magmin picture, and you will receive answers that will cover the whole spectrum, from "Glorious" to "Stinky".

The picture itself is fine. The concept of a pudgy little ugly child-looking thing is what's bad.

 

[demiurge1138]

Thank goodness for the new Blackguard pic. The old one was so unbelievably awful that I couldn't believe anyone ever approved that crappy design. And to make it worse, there were two pictures of him in the DMG!

C'mon, the old blackguard was really cool! I had a NPC for him and everything! He was Biggbune III, a fallen paladin who lost his status through vanity, when even the peasants mocked his ample girth. Enraged, he made a pact with a glabrazeu to get him into shape, but now he has to eat even more just to stay alive. Tricked by the demon, he now is planning to cheat the peasants out of their hoard of doughnuts and lard in order to sustain himself long enough to get the demon to fulfill his promise.

But the new blackguard is very cool. And I like the deep-one-esque sahaguin in the underwater combat pic.

Demiurge out.

 

[caudor]

C'mon, the old blackguard was really cool! I had a NPC for him and everything! He was Biggbune III, a fallen paladin who lost his status through vanity, when even the peasants mocked his ample girth.

Some bard needs to hit 'ol Biggbune III with Willy Wonka's Oompa Loompa song for chubby Blackguards...
(full credit should go to Willy Wonka, of course)
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Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-do
I have a perfect puzzle for you
Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-dee
If you are wise, you'll listen to me

What do you get when you guzzle down sweets?
Eating as much as an elephant eats
What are you at getting terribly fat?
What do you think will come of that?

I don't like the look of it

Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-da
If you're not greedy, you will go far
You will live in happiness too
Like the Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-do
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I'm sure that would enrage him

 

[Olive]

Dragons with butterrfy wings, i can live without. And its not something i remember at all from previous editions.

The new art is good! (staying on topic)

 

[demiurge1138]

Some bard needs to hit 'ol Biggbune III with Willy Wonka's Oompa Loompa song for chubby Blackguards...
(full credit should go to Willy Wonka, of course)...

I'm sure that would enrage him

Biggebune III's next action, of course, will be a crusade against the land of Oompa Loompas
Damn, I should actually run this character sometime.

Demiurge out.