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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercutio01" data-source="post: 4949690" data-attributes="member: 37277">And that alone was enough to make you want to see the film?  Seriously?By contrast, I think the trailers for Inglourious Basterds were well done.  There's something approaching characterization, the basic concept behind the plot, and some dialogue.  But that's apples to oranges.A better comparison would be something like a single off of a new music album.  You don't get the whole album, but you get one piece off of the album, which gives you an idea of the kinds of sounds that will come out of the rest of the album.  For a direct example, I'm a fan of old-school Metallica and haven't really liked any of their songs since the black album.  But the radio played "The Day That Never Comes" which was enough of a cue as to what the rest of the album would sound like, and convinced me to pick up the entire album.Now, I don't buy D&D books just for the artwork, but I do put a lot of emphasis on the art in my personal preferences.  Good illustrative art, to me, is more of a selling point than yet another article about skill challenges.  Obviously YMMV.The appeal to authority here doesn't work for me.  I know you have a fairly large pedigree in the gaming world, but I'm not convinced you're being wholly objective here.  Your work for Wizards was during the 3rd edition, when they released art galleries free for consumers to peruse.  It was also during a time of record sales of D&D, was it not?  I know that coincidence/=correlation, but in my particular case, as a consumer, it definitely does.  Indeed, the extensive previews for 4E were what convinced me to not only embrace 4E, but to advocate for it among friends, family, and internet acquaintances, and to try to support it through the power cards I co-created with Black Plauge.  My subsequent moving away from Wizards can be tracked as an almost linear correlation with the movement of previously free content behind the paid subscription wall, and that same linear track can also be linked to my purchasing history for Wizards products.Obviously I'm just one (former) consumer, but I'm far from the only person ticked off about the most recent move.</blockquote>

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