D&D 5E Planescape shows up in the wild. Tease from Chris Perkins.

[Parmandur]

I do too, but the store-only special edition edges the other one out for me.

By ever so little for me, too: but thst Tyler Jacobson painting is still fire.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

So why are we getting diTerlizzi back?

Because it provides a link to the past without being trapped in it. From an artist who is capable of moving with the times.

 

[Reynard]

It's not the 90s, the target audience are not people from the 90s.

I mean, technically the target audience is people "from the 90s" for a specific definition of "from." "From" the 00s, too.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Because it provides a link to the past without being trapped in it.

Being hopelessly trapped in the past is what D&D fandom is all about.

 

[Reynard]

Being hopelessly trapped in the past is what D&D fandom is all about.

It's pretty much all fandoms, right? People complain when they change Spiderman not in general, but from what Spiderman was when they discovered Spiderman. "They've really screwed up my sportsball team! We were champions once!" Etc.

D&D fans aren't special. Fans ruin everything.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Yeah, but not being unique doesn't mean we shouldn't be called out for it.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Because it provides a link to the past without being trapped in it. From an artist who is capable of moving with the times.

A meaningless link to the past if his art is different (meaningless for any reason other than enticing veterans to buy something anyway).

 

[Reynard]

A meaningless link to the past if his art is different (meaningless for any reason other than enticing veterans to buy something anyway).

I think "veterans" is a weird euphemism there.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

So why are we getting diTerlizzi back? You think Gen Z are like, "Oh yeah, the Nodwick guy, ideal guy to do Planescape art." The only reason to have him doing the cover as opposed to any other artist is because he did it in the 90s, isn't it?

His current style looks great and captures the weirdness of Planescape, and having the same guy, whose style has evolved, serves the same purpose as redoing Planescape in the first place.


And the Lady of Pain picture is far from cutesy.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

It's pretty much all fandoms, right? People complain when they change Spiderman not in general, but from what Spiderman was when they discovered Spiderman. "They've really screwed up my sportsball team! We were champions once!" Etc.

D&D fans aren't special. Fans ruin everything.

It’s not even just fandom. Anything people are into and can make part of their personality.

Try telling certain Americans that “In God We Trust” and “One Nation, Under God” were added to the money and pledge of allegiance in the 50’s. Doesn’t matter, that’s how it was when they grew up, so it can’t ever change.