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[Zamkaizer]

I always hated this piece because you couldn't tell that it was a BLUE card. Personally, I think the cambions look way better than this genie pic.

That said, I do think like others that the ones that come closest to making me say "Wow" have always been pics of people just opening and letting loose a genie from its confinement.

Although, I think that is at odd with the DEFAULT home of genies which are the Elemental regions. I think WOTC should've never made them a full fledged race but kept them as bound servants to lamps, bottles etc.

The Cambions look like they were painted by someone who got a tablet and a DeviantArt account a few weeks ago. Even if the Efreet are somewhat uninspiring, they're at least rendered professionally.

And a quality of great Magic art is that the predominant color is *not* the same as the color of the card it's on.

 

[DandD]

You know what's funny? The one at the left is a gal-efreet.
Now we know that they're all ugly like sin.

 

[Daniel D. Fox]

[\QUOTE]

That's...that is sick.

 

[DandD]

Yeah, it's the Mahamoti Djinn from Magic: The Gathering, Wizards of the Coast's most profitable venture, far far above D&D whateveredition.
Must hurt us to know that they won't waste too much money for a second-rate franchise like D&D.

 

[AllisterH]

Which doesn't make sense for a race that is going to be approached mostly as humanoid.

I think by making the jinn entire actual races, the thinking from TSR/WOTC was that the standard jinn shouldn't be the genie in the bottle for the look in the MM.

(Still not impressed with the Fat_Moti pic though and consider the cambion pic to look better)

 

[Oni]

The first thing I thought when I saw the newest update is the fella in the middle reminds me of etrigan(sp?).

 

[frankthedm]

Dear Klaus,

No more pimping pls, kthxb

Can I be to blame if the examples of how I'd like to see the monsters portrayed were done by me?

On that you are not too blame.



The wotc Female efreet looks like a Fire elemental W.o.W. orc and the othwer two more like GW orcs crossed with red oni. The one throwing the Shakunetsu Hadouken is alright, but other than the Brass gear, not much jumps out at me and says Efreet.

You are to blame however for contibuting to bandwith overload. I like your efeet, though you posted it larger than it needed to be. 600x600 was 170k, 300x300 would have much smaller [only 17k using imageshack's compressor]
http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/3010/449480c187f8eb53vv1df0.jpg

 

[Shemeska]

It's on the Wizard's site from ~4 months back, I think. It also mentioned a tidbit about yugoloths that made Shemeska cry a bitter red tear, too.

I actually thought that their making Gelugons (ice devils) as yugoloths contractually forced into servitude in the Hells was pretty damn cool. It was the reasoning in R&C behind making the 1e/2e/3e yugoloths into 4e "soldier demons" in the Abyss that made me shed a few. Mostly because it was the opposite of the reasoning behind shoehorning succubi into the Hells*, given how the 'loths had previously been presented through the years, and because the two other major reasons listed therein were factually incorrect.

*succubi are tempters so we'll make them into devils, because only devils are allowed to be like that in the easily distinguished blacks and whites of 4e fiends. Yet the 'loths who were distinguished by their propensity for manipulating (and even creating) many of the other fiends, are turned against their own nature entirely and slotted into the Abyss as "soldier demons". I didn't buy the rationale at all, and I would have accepted a reasoning of "we liked it better our new way so we changed it" much more than what we got.

 

[lutecius]

I am less bothered by that cambion guy's goth-metal outfit than his ugly face and greasy hair.
Is that hell’s new regulation haircut? Are cambion and tiefling males atoning for something their ancestors did ages ago or does hellish blood just comes with bad taste?

It looks like someone's been shopping on Melroberranzan Avenue too, or was it Drow'ho Drive? the cambion girl is ok but she’s dressed like a total... Lolth priestess.

The blood fiend looks like something from a late 90’s superhero comic book.

The legion devil and tarrasque are awesome. Exactly what I expect from a fantasy rpg. Lots of details, realistic shades, yet definitely supernatural and inspiring.
I wish the ice devil’s head was more devilish though (maybe gazelle horns instead of drooping antennae)

I prefer the efreet thumbnail to the full image. The one in the middle is not bad if you don’t look too closely at his right foot. Stylized but not too cartoonish. The other two look silly.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

Matt Cavotta's version of the efreet, from the cover of Dungeon Master's Guide II, is the superior version of that pose: