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Message: <blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 1453530" data-attributes="member: 10201">Well, that migth be overstating the case. There definitely has been some idea flow from Anime, through videogames, to D&D3E. But the new "dungeonpunk" D&D art style is mostdefinitely not Anime, by any stretch. It lacks almost all of the defining characteristics that i pick up on, and has quite a few qualities that are anathema to Anime as i've always seen it (lack of action being one of those).His post may have been strictly opinion, but claims that the 3E books have poor layout are not. Every book on good design and/or typography that i've read would tell you that a lot of the things D&D3E does are very poor design: underlines that are strong enough to obscure lettershapes; close textwraps around images that make for very awkward lines (which sometimes get visually lost in the image); tables and other blocks of text that are not clearly set off from the main text; text over too-high-of-contrast images; inconsistent use of chapter splash pages; and some other things that don't come immediately to mind. The 3.5E books are slightly better, but still pretty awful. And that doesn't even get into issues of organization and editing. It's really pretty shameful how someone with the money and expertise of WotC can put out such sub-par books. Oh, sorry, started to slip into rant mode. I'll just end it here.</blockquote>