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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 884132" data-attributes="member: 2067">I do think a lot of these 'They're skinny and emaciated!' or 'I hate spikey armor!' complaints are quite....well....silly. <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=":)" />Mostly because you either agree with the sentiment or don't and there's no real logical reason for either...it's all personal preference. It kinda gets annoying when either side dresses up their opinion as the 'most logical choice.'Some people don't like spikey armor. Some people do.Some people don't like skinny monsters. Some people do.Neither is any better or more right than anything else, and suggesting that it IS is slightly insulting, IMHO. There is no reason WotC's art HAS to agree with your tastes, and no reason the paid artist can't draw a lioncloth on a balor if he wants (for instance). So you don't like it. Okay, that's fine. But that doesn't mean that everyone who likes it has inferior tastes. That doesn't mean the choice is stupid. That doesn't mean that the artist is a complete idiot who can't draw a compelling monster.It just meanst that your tastes are obviously different from the artists. Regardless of what the art looks like, no one is forcing your balors to have down-turned horns or your mariliths to be eerily thin or your armor to have a Picasso-inspired design or your blink dogs to look wicked or your blackguards to be fat. So the best thing to do is maybe say 'it's not for me,' and accept that just because you don't like it doesn't mean people have to agree with you.We're lucky we get art, IMHO, especially by people who can draw better than stick figures. Just because I think the DMG blackguard looks goony doesn't mean that it's a worthless picture or that those who like how he looks are philistines. All of these artists are paid, and a lot of thought goes into their work. They obviously see some reason for 'dungeonpunk,' and us lamers on a message board aren't really fit to call it stupid. Call it 'not for me,' sure. Everyone has a right to their own tastes. But insulting someone else's hard work is in no way a positive thing.Just because I think the balor would've looked better without a loincloth doesn't make it true. There's obviously a reason for it being there, the artist took time to draw it, and I have no right to call them a moron who's trying to push some 'Evil = Savage' negative culturalist stereotype on the game.Come on. Everyone has a right to their own personal preferences, but that doesn't mean that those who don't agree with them are evil, stupid, nostaligic, or wrong.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /></blockquote>

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