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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Switchback" data-source="post: 4767397" data-attributes="member: 69793">The type of book being released definitely affects the art chosen. As 4th edition is still relatively young, and kicking out a lot of splatbooks, naturally these focus on characters, and characters performing the various new feats and powers being introduced in the books perhaps.As 4th edition is expected to take place often in more generic or user created worlds, there are not necessarily specific things or places to draw that are representing an actual place in a given game world. By contrast, if you look at something like an Eberron or Forgotten Realms handbook, you are far more likely to see environments or places that have been detailed in text descriptions (i.e. Waterdeep, Candlekeep, The Trollmoors). Though I think, still less than in some past editions. Now if you were to get to something like a new "Book of Lairs" and all you saw were close ups of heroes straddling across every image, something would definitely be wrong with that.As evidenced by this thread's existence, I think they could do with expanding the art subjects. I haven't seen any calls for clarification of what certain classes or races look like, so probably all good on that front! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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