Races and Classes Art Gallery at Wizards

[ZombieRoboNinja]

He might get it. They were really pimping the racial feats for a while as a means of doing things like upgrading your eladrin with more eladrin-ness (eladrinity?), and your tiefling with more tiefling-ness, so maybe dragonborn will have that option as a feat choice.

I can see that... heroic-level, lets you bite for a few points of damage as a minor action. (Minor actions seem prevalent enough in 4e that there's a real opportunity cost to using one.)

 

[hong]

Tieflike?

I don't know, you naughty boy, I've never tiefled.

 

[nem z]

The art work is all and all good better than 3e. But I utterly loath the teifling tails.

Agreed, the tails are horrible.

 

[MaelStorm]

Agreed, the tails are horrible.

It's a little bit too big.

I hate to relate to videogames, but the HoMM V succubi type tail would have been better suited for the tieflings. Just a little pointed tail. But the cat-people hater would have complained too.

 

[Larrin]

It's a little bit too big.

Just a little pointed tail. But the cat-people hater would have complained too.

Where as now the alligator lovers will be thrilled!

I too would have wished for a more subtle tail, more subtle demon traits in general really, but different strokes....

 

[fuindordm]

They should lop off the tieflings' tails and give them to the dragonborn.

 

[The Eternal GM]

Our group grabbed a copy of both of the preview books a while back, and have enjoyed them. With a couple of us being 'of artistic natures' we discussed at length the illustrations and looking back through all the images in one gallery really brings my original observations back to me.

As ever, the art is about 50/50 like/dislike, which I fully expect from every rpg book I'll ever see. Tastes vary greatly, and I know that what I like isn't what everyone will.

My grumbles...

There is some armour (on the full colour dragonborn w/ shield notably and many dwarves) that flies straight past 'moronic and ugly' into some new sphere dumb.

The halflings. I get how they're meant to look... I just don't like the images so far.

When will they stop drawing warhammers that look a brick on a lolly stick?

My glee...

The lightly armoured, or partially armoured characters look like adventurers! A few pictures really stand out for this. Particularly on the dwarves, who look far better in less armour than they do in full plate all the damn time.

I love pencil work, and there's lots to enjoy here. I think colour stuff looks more professional after being through the computer touch-up stages, but I love raw pencil work so much.

Even the Elven 'we wear leaves n' stuff' armour doesn't grate on me this time around... Now that is a first!

 

[Primal]

I really hate the dwarven equipment -- looks to be pretty impractical, both armor and weapons (who would actually wield that kind of battleaxe?). I also don't like the "new" look of the Tieflings at all. And those short legs work with dwarves and halflings, but all the other beings seem "out of proportion".

Elves and Eladrin look pretty good and evocative, and I think the "scenery" art in W&M was some of the best art ever featured in (A)D&D.

 

[Lurks-no-More]

I like the art displayed here; the humans, the elves, the halflings and the dragonborn, they all look good.

The dwarves, though, take the cake; the consistent look they got in 3e was a great step ahead from the earlier editions, but I think the 4e version surpasses that.

And it's a funny thing about the tieflings: I like the pencil sketches, with the big tails and horns and all, but the colored versions are always a lot more "meh".

 

[lutecius]

count me in the "Tiefling! give Dragonborn his tail back now! Bad, bad girl!" camp too.
the tiefling looks draconic enough with his huge horns and spikey chin.

the tail should be slimmer at the base, just so they can, you know, sit on a chair.
just a bit smaller than this but not as short and flaccid asthat (looks like a bad costume)