OK... that's just vulgar...

[Tewligan]

Heh. That's funny. So they mucked around with the original and inadvertently turned it into a big floating vagina?

A big floating HAUNTED vagina!

 

[Bagpuss]

Jesus H Christ!

Guess what I get to go and ask to be fixed tomorrow?

Could you fix the massive spoiler for

Spoiler

Vanthus Vanderboren

while you are at it, loads of people are still only part way through that campaign and probably don't want their players knowing his whole life story.

 

[Lorthanoth]

Huh? And huh again. I really cannot see anything suggestive in this at all. A sword is a flaming sword. An eye is an eye. The surrounding for the eye looks nothing like a vagina.

Never cease to be amazed.

 

[helium3]

What's funny is that if they'd used the colors from the death knight at the beginning of the article, IE lime green, no one would've noticed it.

It really just goes to show how subjective human perception really is.

Heh, well that and ENWorld in general.

 

[pawsplay]

I think it would still be noticeable, but a lot less noticeable, yes.

 

[jester47]

I didn't see it initially, but now I can't look at the pic w/o getting grossed out.

I think it is intentional, running along the whole HR Giger biomechanics tradition combined with the common mysogynistic idea that the female sex = evil. All in all I think it is a great expression of the concept. Still a public site of a large corp is probably not the best place for somthing like that. There is a time and a place. This is more a gallery piece than a gaming book piece IMO.

 

[helium3]

I didn't see it initially, but now I can't look at the pic w/o getting grossed out.

I think it is intentional, running along the whole HR Giger biomechanics tradition combined with the common mysogynistic idea that the female sex = evil. All in all I think it is a great expression of the concept. Still a public site of a large corp is probably not the best place for somthing like that. There is a time and a place. This is more a gallery piece than a gaming book piece IMO.

Heh heh. Funny you should mention misogyny. In the article, that picture is supposed to be of Blackrazor, which is described thusly:

The adventure White Plume Mountain introduced Blackrazor, a magic sword that stole a character's soul and made him subject to its whims.

Looks like someone at WotC has some issues with their romantic life.

 

[Celebrim]

If you think this is unintentional, then you probably think that Georgia O'Keefe's paintings coincidently look like things.

I have a very hard time believing a serious artist going to unintentionally do that. You get way to much indoctrination in seeing things that way just by studying art, and anyone with more a couple hours worth of classes in art history is going to pick up on it immediately.

In contrast to the nay sayers who say this is just naughty imaginations, I think females are going to pick up on the association faster on average than men.

 

[Wormwood]

What's funny is that if they'd used the colors from the death knight at the beginning of the article, IE lime green, no one would've noticed it.

You be the judge:



edit: maybe later

edit: and yeah, I just emailed the picture to my wife. She saw it immediately---so I guess I was wrong in my previous post. Imagine that, someone admitting their error on the Internet?

 

[Bagpuss]

Oh my god I can't believe you've just posted a picture of Princess Fiona's lady troll bits!!!