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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8614969" data-attributes="member: 18">No, that's literally not true AFAICT. He tweeted about how he loved Planescape a while back, and he even showed off some recent Planescape sketches, and had made a Spotify playlist to show people what he listened to when working on the original Planescape. I don't buy this as the actions of a man who "doesn't want to do Planescape art".If you disagree I'd like to see a recent quote. There was definitely a decade+ period when he was totally burned out on RPG stuff and didn't want to do it, but that ended a long time ago.I will say that there are other artists today who could do a sufficiently interesting and aligned style (or even something different but also cool), but the odds of WotC using them are approximately zero. I don't know if the problem is the art directors at WotC, but it's so consistent across multiple books that I suspect this is a WotC management-tier thing, above even D&D management, where WotC are given guidance that D&D books do not have expensive or highly original art in them, unless it's just shipped in from MtG and/or D&D art budgets are extremely constrained - but I think the extremely low-risk nature of  D&D art in 5E (and 4E for that matter) points to some more intentional directive. What I'm hoping is D&D making bazillions of dollars means they maybe they can move to spending on art like MtG spends on art?</blockquote>