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<blockquote data-quote="halfling rogue" data-source="post: 6585903" data-attributes="member: 6779182">I only have the PHB and I was a tad underwhelmed. I do like the over all vibe of the art, but some of them just don't work for me. Lots of pictures look great but then maybe something will be just a bit off, mostly faces. For example, I'm thinking the elf with the bird referenced above (sorry no page numbers working off memory) and the Ranger chick in green (I think in the backgrounds section?)The halflings, when they are bad (and unfortunately the prominent ones), they're hella bad. But others are actually pretty great and I think they'd be wise in the future to pattern halflings similar to this (sorry it's so huge...):[ATTACH]67803[/ATTACH]My one tentative complaint would be that, while I respect the motive and vision of inclusiveness or diversity as a theme, and while I think they achieved it quite well in many respects with their art, I do feel like they overdid it a bit. Let me be clear before everyone stones me, I think it's cool what they did and love most of the art individually, but it really does feel like nearly every page had some sort of normal fantasy archetype with a twist geared solely for the purpose of being diverse. What I'm trying to say is that you can tell that they were trying too hard. This isn't a complaint about diversity (at all...hooray for diversity!), but a complaint about the impression I got. I flip through the PHB and what I hear from the art is &quot;Look how inclusive we are!&quot; rather than &quot;Look how awesome this is!&quot; Take each 'diverse' pic individually, and yeah, you get &quot;This is awesome&quot; but the over all feel of the PHB to me comes off more like propaganda then it does about a fantasy game. For instance, I think the female samurai picture is awesome, but I can't shake the feeling that it was included, not because it was an awesome picture in its own right, but because it was part of their plan to sell to us that they are being as diverse as possible. The picture comes off as a tool rather than a treat, like an AARP commercial playing a Beatles song.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="halfling rogue, post: 6585903, member: 6779182"] I only have the PHB and I was a tad underwhelmed. I do like the over all vibe of the art, but some of them just don't work for me. Lots of pictures look great but then maybe something will be just a bit off, mostly faces. For example, I'm thinking the elf with the bird referenced above (sorry no page numbers working off memory) and the Ranger chick in green (I think in the backgrounds section?) The halflings, when they are bad (and unfortunately the prominent ones), they're hella bad. But others are actually pretty great and I think they'd be wise in the future to pattern halflings similar to this (sorry it's so huge...): [ATTACH=CONFIG]67803._xfImport[/ATTACH] My one tentative complaint would be that, while I respect the motive and vision of inclusiveness or diversity as a theme, and while I think they achieved it quite well in many respects with their art, I do feel like they overdid it a bit. Let me be clear before everyone stones me, I think it's cool what they did and love most of the art individually, but it really does feel like nearly every page had some sort of normal fantasy archetype with a twist geared solely for the purpose of being diverse. What I'm trying to say is that you can tell that they were trying too hard. This isn't a complaint about diversity (at all...hooray for diversity!), but a complaint about the impression I got. I flip through the PHB and what I hear from the art is "Look how inclusive we are!" rather than "Look how awesome this is!" Take each 'diverse' pic individually, and yeah, you get "This is awesome" but the over all feel of the PHB to me comes off more like propaganda then it does about a fantasy game. For instance, I think the female samurai picture is awesome, but I can't shake the feeling that it was included, not because it was an awesome picture in its own right, but because it was part of their plan to sell to us that they are being as diverse as possible. The picture comes off as a tool rather than a treat, like an AARP commercial playing a Beatles song. [/QUOTE]

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