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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clavis" data-source="post: 3811485" data-attributes="member: 31898">The biggest influence I see on the art of 3.X edition is actually modern American comic book style. Now modern American comic-book style has been influenced by Japanese manga, but is certainly not identical with it. The other influence I see is 80s-90s British fantasy illustration, as exemplified by Games Workshop miniatures. Incidentally, that GW style first showed itself in D&D with the 1E Fiend Folio, back in the early eighties. If you want to see some impractical armor and weapons, along with deliberately distorted bodies, look at the art in the original Fiend Folio (if you have access to one).So I would say, that while 3.x editions art is NOT anime or manga style, it is influenced by styles that were themselves influenced by anime and manga.Incidentally, with the new "points of light" thing that WOTC is talking about, I would expect to see more explicitly GW Warhammer-style art.Oh, and I while I loved the old Fiend Folio, I tend to dislike the 3.X edition art. But NOT because its anime or manga style.</blockquote>