dave2008
Legend
Inspired by the Art in D&D thread by @Aebir-Toril , I decided to take a more serious look at the art across editions. But how to go about it? Well, I decided I didn't want to arbitrarily look at random pieces of art, so to bring some method to the madness i decided to look at the full page spreads, the spectacle pieces if you will, displayed in the players handbook of each edition. The core books are supposed to be the introduction to the game and should, in theory, set the town for the art of the edition.
The next 5 posts will contain each and every full page spread from the respective editions PHB, DMG. & (maybe) MM. Please be patient as it will take some time to get these uploaded. Then I will come back here for some thoughts.
Quick analysis after posting all of the PHB & DMG images:
The next 5 posts will contain each and every full page spread from the respective editions PHB, DMG. & (maybe) MM. Please be patient as it will take some time to get these uploaded. Then I will come back here for some thoughts.
Quick analysis after posting all of the PHB & DMG images:
- Quantity: 5e is first, with 2e second and 4e coming in third.
- Quality: That is subjective but I would probably go with 5e. I like the more detail style of the 4e artwork (compared to the more painterly style of the 5e work), but I find the 4e work to exaggerated in general, so I give the nod to the 5e work.
- Most colorful: 4e
- Most BW: 2e
- Best Cover: 1e (revised edition pictured) tie with 5e
- Best single piece: TBD
- Quantity: 5e is first, with 4e second and 2e coming in third.
- Quality: That is subjective but I would probably go with 5e first, 2e second and 4e third.
- Most colorful: 4e
- Most BW: 1e
- Best Cover: 1e (nostalgia reasons for me mostly) with 5e 2nd
- Best single piece: TBD
- TBD
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