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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 3787698" data-attributes="member: 22424">While that covers the &quot;dungeonpunk&quot; aesthetic as a whole, it does not cover the changes to elves. Dwarves, gnomes, half-orcs and half-elves all look distinctly different from, and yet recognisably an evolution of, what has gone before. Elves and halflings clearly do not match that which has gone before.Now, in the case of halflings, this is because they've replaced &quot;hobbit&quot; halflings with &quot;kender&quot; halflings, and with solid reason for doing so. The same does not apply to elves.They could very well have taken an existing elven illustration, and &quot;dungeonpunk&quot;ed it, and had something that matched but was well-branded. Instead, they chose to go with something significantly different. There was no reason to do this, hence change for the sake of change.And so absurd is it, that many of the recent Forgotten Realms novel covers do not match the elves of the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting! Presumably, this is because the new style would either confuse or repulse potential customers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 3787698, member: 22424"] While that covers the "dungeonpunk" aesthetic as a whole, it does not cover the changes to elves. Dwarves, gnomes, half-orcs and half-elves all look distinctly different from, and yet recognisably an evolution of, what has gone before. Elves and halflings clearly do [i]not[/i] match that which has gone before. Now, in the case of halflings, this is because they've replaced "hobbit" halflings with "kender" halflings, and with solid reason for doing so. The same does not apply to elves. They could very well have taken an existing elven illustration, and "dungeonpunk"ed it, and had something that matched but was well-branded. Instead, they chose to go with something significantly different. There was no reason to do this, hence change for the sake of change. And so absurd is it, that many of the recent Forgotten Realms novel covers do not match the elves of the [i]Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting[/i]! Presumably, this is because the new style would either confuse or repulse potential customers. [/QUOTE]

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