Spiders in Drow of the Underdark

[RichGreen]

I'm sure everyone will agree that this is a travesty. Stop it, fantasy artists. Stop it.

Agreed. I, for one, won't be purchasing this sloppy effort. Come on now, Wizards of the Coast, surely you can afford to hire a better zoologist to check these things over with the extortionate prices you are charging for these so-called sourcebooks?

Cheers


Richard

 

[lukelightning]

This reminds me of my mini rant after seeing Return of the King. Shelob's sting drove me nuts. Spiders don't have stings!

Yeah, I know she was some sort of demon thing, but c'mon!

 

[phindar]

I gotta give it up to the original poster. 1) You know a lot about spiders. (Though I'd like point out that I too know spiders don't wear shoes.) And 2) I mean, if they're going to devote that many pages to spiders, why not be correct? Gawds forbid we actually learn something on accident playing this game. I'm all for artistic license, and I can buy in a fantasy world house-sized spiders might look a little different or their legs might end in more claws, but why not include one correctly drawn spider as a control group?

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Frukathka turned me into a newt!

Let me have a look at you.

This reminds me of my mini rant after seeing Return of the King. Shelob's sting drove me nuts. Spiders don't have stings!

Yeah, I know she was some sort of demon thing, but c'mon!

Yeah, and that Cerberus thingy I read about. He was a dog, but had three frickin' heads! I know he's a mythical creature and not at all real, but come on!

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Is it really that big of a deal? I mean, it's DnD; its fantasy, not reality.

OTOH, it's not like they haven't had 30 years of warning that, you know, they might want to pull up a picture of an actual spider in Google Images at some point.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Agreed. I, for one, won't be purchasing this sloppy effort. Come on now, Wizards of the Coast, surely you can afford to hire a better zoologist to check these things over with the extortionate prices you are charging for these so-called sourcebooks?

Zoologist? Try a third grader. They could probably just give him a cookie afterwards.

 

[DM_Jeff]

Wow, it's like a John Cooper review of bug art.

Personally I don't care. It's D&D. As long as men and women are correct, the beasties can be any fantasy -imagined mis-match they want if it looks cool.

-DM Jeff

 

[jgbrowning]

Emphasis mine.

Don't make me make you draw an art pack of spider-filled forests.......

joe b.

 

[pawsplay]

This reminds me of my mini rant after seeing Return of the King. Shelob's sting drove me nuts. Spiders don't have stings!

Yeah, I know she was some sort of demon thing, but c'mon!

Well, spiders and scorpions are related. She's a common ancestor.

 

[pawsplay]

Is it really that big of a deal? I mean, it's DnD; its fantasy, not reality.

Would it be a big deal if Mialee didn't have her arms on the correct unit of her body? If Tordek had toes instead of fingers? If Regdar were five feet tall with light blue skin?

Is it a big deal if spiders, the central motif of drow fashion, are not drawn to look like spiders? I think so. Fantasy art is fine and all, but I have a picture of a spider in my head that I expect other spiders to resemble.