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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bagpuss" data-source="post: 8734077" data-attributes="member: 3987">Some sort of combat illustration, it's not like every rules concept needs an piece of artwork to match. But one or two pieces would spice up a combat chapter. Using the PHB as an example, the combat chapter opens with a full page illustration of a warrior fighting off multiple opponents at the top of some stairs. Initiative is three paragraphs on the opposite page, you have a similar amount of text for surprise, order of combat, your turn and bonus actions. This opposite page which is all text, use headers, and a boxed section to break it up.The next double spread has three columns of text where a fourth would be is an illustration, I know to be a fire giant, next to the text about creature sizes. Following pages in the chapter no double page spread is without art on one of the two pages, usually a full column but right near the end (page 196-7) is mostly text with a small illustration of a potion, and pestle and mortar, right by the text on stabilizing a character, so again related to the text.Well kids of that age haven't seen an Ape or maybe even a Bee, so an illustration makes a visual link with the word. I don't know about you but I've never seen a troll in person, but I've seen several different interpretations of one over the years, but what does D&D consider a troll to look like? It is a lot easier to use artwork to illustrate what one looks like, that then leaves word count to be used to describe things like tactics, it's habits, cultural information, etc.What does D&D consider a gnome to look like? As the only gnomes I've seen IRL <a href="https://y6auj24xr4y3qq95tz7io6uu-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Garden-Ghome_miles5_sized.jpg" target="_blank">look like this fella</a>. Surely it makes sense to include an image so we are all sharing a similar imagined setting, not some people imagining something like Dobby from Harry Potter and others imaging the Smurfs?</blockquote>

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