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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9379739" data-attributes="member: 6790260">The red is the only chromatic I'm (very, very slightly) more positive than negative on. I preferred the overall look of the old one, but I recognize that there are elements that are an improvement. The wing silhouette and the longer tail both do it a service. I agree with your stated criticism elsewhere, that the new one is really weirdly chonky in several places, while being sleek in others--it's like they couldn't decide whether to make it hefty or svelte and ended up making it kind of both.I definitively dislike it. In fairness, I wasn't exactly fond of the 3e/etc. art. I just think this is worse.The weird...under-chin-horns and flat head just don't work for me. Maybe it's the perspective, I dunno, but I just do not like how either of these images look.I STRONGLY dislike the stupid double-swept horns. The skull-face is an improvement, I'll cop to that, but everything else doesn't do it for me. Especially the xenomorph-style knobs along the spine/tail and the creepy as feck spider-leg-like protrusions on the wings. I have moderate to severe arachnophobia. No spiders please. No spiders ever.I guess I'm kind of the same, since (as you say) we haven't seen much. But it looks...furred? And I'm not about that.The art you showed has a tail approximately equal to the dragon's body length. Especially since both the neck and the spine are arched in the shown image.I hate, hate hate hate, the new gold. I cannot stand it. I think it looks horrible. It is, by far, the worst "official" dragon design I've ever seen.I'm genuinely not sure how you can't see the changes, especially given your complaints about the red. It's obviously WAY chonkier, to the point that it has an outright barrel chest; the face is weirdly flattened and widened, and the legs are now squat and wide rather than long and graceful. It looks like a hippopotamus with wings, not a refined and elegant dragon.As noted above, this is probably the one I'll have to concede--though this should have been the copper, not the bronze, so I've no idea how they're going to do the copper. Also, this is a tail length that's actually reasonable; the gold's is WELL over 2x the body length, pushing 3x. (Having just checked myself, the tail is almost exactly 2.5x the length of the gold dragon's chin-to-hamstring length when stretched straight.)</blockquote>

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