D&D 5E (2014) Lots Of Art (and some Warlock stuff)

[I'm A Banana]

Woah.

Let this post serve as my requisite "whine about how goofy tieflings look" post, and we can move on to the other stuff.

ALSO! [MENTION=607]Klaus[/MENTION] . Holy smokes, dude. Wicked piece.

 

[Klaus]

Woah.

Let this post serve as my requisite "whine about how goofy tieflings look" post, and we can move on to the other stuff.

ALSO! [MENTION=607]Klaus[/MENTION] . Holy smokes, dude. Wicked piece.

Thanks, mate! It was the first (but not last ) piece I did for 5e, and I'm quite fond of it!

 

[TerraDave]

5E art is functional. I think 3E art was supposed to be. Maybe some 1E and B/X art. But they seem to really be trying to show what the game is about, and not just illustrate some stuff that happens to be connected to the game (if that makes sense).

And with that, let us know examine every bit of minutia in the warlock description.

 

[wedgeski]

I predict that some people will like the art, and some people will dislike the art.

Me, I like it!

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Woah.

Let this post serve as my requisite "whine about how goofy tieflings look" post, and we can move on to the other stuff.

ALSO! [MENTION=607]Klaus[/MENTION] . Holy smokes, dude. Wicked piece.

Elf City - Generic but bitchin'. Good stuff random Chinese concept artists! (I assume) EDIT - Apparently not! Good job Thom Tenery!

Red Dragon vs PCs - Ooooh jesus that Tiefling's tail... he's practically a kangaroo... I argh... Seriously ruins the picture for me. Not a great picture start with, though.

Mordenkainen's Sword - I swear I've seen this before. Regardless, it's boring WAR at his most boring with a sub-dungeonpunk (not edgy enough to reach even the heights of actual dungeonpunk!) sorta-colourful-but-not really MOR button-wizard with ridiculous accoutrements in an XXXXXTREEEEMEMEMEME pose casting an XXXTRREEMEMEMEME spell. Cannot roll eyes hard enough. YMMV.

I do like the Owl though. Almost saves the piece. Almost.

Cloudkill - It kind of sucks that [MENTION=607]Klaus[/MENTION] did this because the fact that it is the best piece will make it look like we are sucking up to him , but yeah, it's the best piece here and definitely very cool. Love it all.

High Elf Wizard - Uh... not feeling it. I like the colours. Kinda. It's skilled art, but it doesn't speak to me, and normally I like blank-background stuff (sue me!)

Warlock - I actually love this shiz almost as much as Klaus piece. It's silly and arguably badly posed but there's something awesome about it, particularly the frog.

PHB cover - nice detail but I don't love it.

 

[TwoSix]

Elf City - Generic but bitchin'. Good stuff random Chinese concept artists! (I assume)

Thom Tenery doesn't sound like a Chinese name, but it is a big country.

 

[sidonunspa]

so the warlock spell level advancement....

how does that work? is it commutative? total spell levels?

 

[TwoSix]

And with that, let us know examine every bit of minutia in the warlock description.

So spells known seems to be like 3e sorcerer spells known. I'm guessing warlock prepare a subset of that list, but maybe they just use all their spells known, straight up.

If spell slots are what power their spells, they really don't have a lot of casting per day. Obviously, the slots will scale with the "Slot Level" column. So warlocks will have 2 5th level spells per day. Similar top level power to full casters, but none of the depth.

I'm guessing Mystic Arcanum lets you use a slot once per day as if it were the higher level. Especially the 3rd spell slot comes into play at the same time, 11th level. Fits with the major kicker at 11th level theme we've seen with other classes.

 

[I'm A Banana]

so the warlock spell level advancement....

how does that work? is it commutative? total spell levels?

I think it is that by level 20, warlocks know 4 cantrips, 15 total spells (Looks like 3 1st-level, 2 2nd level max, 2 3rd level max, 2 4th-level max, and 6 5th-level max), and 8 Invocations.

That feels like spellcasting-lite, but I bet their Invocations and their Mystic Arcanum are all "You don't have to cast a spell to be super magical, you can just glow with weirdness whenever you want."

 

[Klaus]

Elf City - Generic but bitchin'. Good stuff random Chinese concept artists! (I assume) EDIT - Apparently not! Good job Thom Tenery!

Thom Tenery doesn't sound like a Chinese name, but it is a big country.

Thom Tenery is a great concept artist, who worked on Oblivion (2013) and is working on Star Wars Episode VII.