D&D General One Piece of Art IV (Races)- What D&D Art Inspired You to Love a Race (Lineage, Ancestry)

[EzekielRaiden]

I've already shared one of the pieces that made me really love the dragonborn, but this one is what fully cemented that love and also gave me several of my ideas about the ones I like playing:

Spoiler: Dragonborn 1

This shows, for example, that dragonborn have "facial hair" if they wish. It also just...really spoke to me in terms of an elder (presumably a father) showing a youth (presumably a daughter or son, hard to tell) the ways of war. I dunno why this specific thing spoke to me so much, but it really did. (As is the case with a lot of the cool 4e art, this is William O'Connor, you can see his mark.)

A later one, which I just think is really cool:

Spoiler: Dragonborn Paladin (spoilered for HUGE)

This one comes from Bob Kehl.

Edit: One last cool piece. This one I've long thought about exactly how I would try to implement it--I suppose nowadays a Hexblade Warlock is probably the best pick.

Spoiler: A wizard and a warrior.

Apparently made by user "phazone" on Reddit, I haven't found a more specific name to credit.

 

[JohnF]

This Pathfinder grippli image inspired my all-time favorite PC, Mr. Rynn, a grippli freebooter (ranger) for the Skull & Shackles AP.

 

[Laurefindel]

This Pathfinder grippli image inspired my all-time favorite PC, Mr. Rynn, a grippli freebooter (ranger) for the Skull & Shackles AP.

Indeed, this guy is pretty awesome!

 

[James Gasik]

Teenaged me thought kentaurides (female centaurs) were really neat. I can't imagine why though...

 

[Maxperson]

From moment one this piece of art had me loving Githyanki.

 

[Kurotowa]

I'ma go with something recent because it's fresh in my mind. Usually I'm not a fan of short races, but damn if the illustration for goblins in Monsters of the Multiverse doesn't make me want to play one. It's badass, it's bowing to popular opinion and green instead of yellow, and it gets away from the big nosed model that I've never liked (either aesthetically or for its real-world connotations). I'd sooner play a goblin like this than a gnome or halfling.

 

[Maxperson]

one day there will be one of these threads that I can participate in.

You can. In the first one there is no art that led me to love a class. That happened because D&D. However, I found art that I loved that perfectly represented the class that I loved and it was accepted in the thread just fine.

 

[Baron Opal II]

I can't put the picture up, but one that struck me was the earth genasi (?) in the Planescape book Guide to the Inner Planes.

I looked at that and immediately wanted to play one. A friend of mine said "that is a righteous dude who takes no grief and has no slack!"

Yeah, it was a while ago.

 

[Mind of tempest]

You can. In the first one there is no art that led me to love a class. That happened because D&D. However, I found art that I loved that perfectly represented the class that I loved and it was accepted in the thread just fine.

I have yet to see art that inspires me.

 

[Laurefindel]

I have yet to see art that inspires me.

* gasp! *

I felt a great disturbance in D&D. As if millions of artists suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.