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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaodi" data-source="post: 5755646" data-attributes="member: 1231">I love WAR's aesthetic. It was right for the time, and still does wonders for Pathfinder. But I do believe that what is needed now for D&D is a huge dose of realism. We need an art style that really allows you to place yourself in the picture. I also think though that you have to extend this thinking to the entire visual style of the product. You cannot, for instance, take a 4E style cover layout and slap it on a realist painting, because the cover layout itself uses the same aesthetic as the 4E art. I think, for instance, that 5E should have a logo that looks like it has actual dimension. Maybe even something with the look of the hanging signs that are the mainstay of the inns, taverns, and other businesses in fantasy art. The covers themselves should either harken back to the original AD&D covers (the City of Brass, the Wizard, the Dragon and Pegasi), or in contrast to the faux tome 3e covers be modelled on the old style of cloth hardcovers, to give it more of a "real book" feel. And use the same sort of off-white colour for the pages. If you ask me, the one word that should sum of the art and visual style of 5E it is " texture " .</blockquote>