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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SakanaSensei" data-source="post: 8616672" data-attributes="member: 7033162">Coming in very late here, but on the art angle, I'm in the camp that thinks that 1) I am very happy that we don't have male gaze-y "show your chest and your butt at the same time as you pose for the camera, young lady, while the men all look at a different angle toward the offscreen threat" that I've seen a few times in older era art.and 2) I really like the general STYLE of that kind of art when the subject matter isn't blatantly sexist, racist, and generally regressive. There's something very charming about that old line art that makes me want to look at it, whereas a lot of 5E art makes me do the "not bad Obama" meme face and flip the page without much of a second thought. For context, I came in with 4E and have only had a chance to play 4E and 5E.All of this said, I definitely think a lot of people could benefit by taking the stance that Mike Shea often puts forward on his YouTube channel, which boils down to "you can only be disappointed if you allow Wizards to dictate what DnD is to you." There is so much quality coming out of the 3PP space of such wildly varying tones. WotC is just another publisher alongside MCDM, Kobold Press, Ghostfire Gaming, Hit Point Press, the list goes on and on.</blockquote>