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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PMárk" data-source="post: 7850454" data-attributes="member: 6804619">I don't want to badmouth 5e, or your taste, it's not even really targeted at you specifically. But I never really got to understand why people are oh-so-enamored with 5e's illustrations. Sure, it has good pieces and the books look good in person, yeah, and okay, it's more diverse in ethnicities and more sensible in depicting women. However, those two aren't saying anything about the quality itself. Dunno, most of it just feels boring and too generic to me, most of the time. Most of the pictures are static illustrations of characters, or portraits in the APs. I could easily think of a great pile of books of the same (or close) genre from the past years that I think looks way, way better on the whole and from companies a lot smaller.Though, I'm the kind of person, who thinks the new V5 Vampire, or even most of the 20th edition books can't hold a candle for the old black and white books, especially Revised, so...Honestly, while I didn't like it, on the whole and mostly skipped it and went to Pathfinder, I think 4e was probably the best-looking edition so far. Even with the sometimes overtly WoW-ish glowing-weapons-with-lots-of-cristals and oversized-shoulder-pads aesthetic, which I'm not a fan of in the least. Also, as the later 3.5 books and the Dragon and Dungeon magazine covers were quite good.</blockquote>