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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JoeGKushner" data-source="post: 5773779" data-attributes="member: 1129">WoTC has a few options here.I keep hearing a lot of talking about 'uniting' the player base. But, as we can see here, art alone, is something that has very different meanings to different people. Looking at the OSR, we see a lot of nods and winks to the older editions and how they went about things. Newer editions seem obsessed with belts, spikes, studs and detail.I personally think that WoTC has done the D&D fanbase a diservice by not bringing in Larry Elmore, Erol Otous and other artists to do more work on things like Dragon and Dungeon magazine and while I give them a nodd for having the Penny Arcade artist do one cover for them, I poner where they think that the art needs to be. Jeff Easely or William O'connor for example. Both great artists, both associated with very different branches of the system.While some may say have one do X and another do Y, I honestly think that would just piss off fans of the earlier and later editions.In some aspects, WoTC might be better getting some unknown artist, or one whose work hasn't appeared extensively in the RPG field, and use them and direct them to take homage from the old images and art styles.</blockquote>