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<blockquote data-quote="oreofox" data-source="post: 7784401" data-attributes="member: 6776240">Because that's the image people are exposed to when looking in official books, and with so many new people into the game, their only exposure is to the 4e/5e tiefling, so they think it must look like that. Same with Dragonborn. 4e they were plain brown with dredlocks, and had kinda beak-like faces. Now they are descended from dragons, and you see art of dragonborn characters that look like humanoid red or black dragons. The same can be shown with kobolds and other monsters. If they look a certain way in an official book, you will get art showing the same.Choose a monster. Let's go with the displacer beast. We all know it as a 6-legged panther with squid tentacles sprouting from its shoulderblades. Change it into an 8-foot long oppossum with 8 legs and antennae sprouting from its head. Put that as the official image in the Monster Manual, and you will get new art of a party of adventurers fighting the brand new displacer beast, even though everyone for the past 45+ years knew it as the panther.It happened with the kobold (compare 1e, 2e, 3e, 4e, 5e, and even Pathfinder kobolds). It's happened with Tieflings. Aasimar can be added in the 6e PHB alongside the tiefling, and they can look exactly like the planetar, but as a playable race. You will see a flood of aasimar paladin PC art that looks like a planetar in shining plate armor, because that would be the official aasimar and it would be what people will go with.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="oreofox, post: 7784401, member: 6776240"] Because that's the image people are exposed to when looking in official books, and with so many new people into the game, their only exposure is to the 4e/5e tiefling, so they think it must look like that. Same with Dragonborn. 4e they were plain brown with dredlocks, and had kinda beak-like faces. Now they are descended from dragons, and you see art of dragonborn characters that look like humanoid red or black dragons. The same can be shown with kobolds and other monsters. If they look a certain way in an official book, you will get art showing the same. Choose a monster. Let's go with the displacer beast. We all know it as a 6-legged panther with squid tentacles sprouting from its shoulderblades. Change it into an 8-foot long oppossum with 8 legs and antennae sprouting from its head. Put that as the official image in the Monster Manual, and you will get new art of a party of adventurers fighting the brand new displacer beast, even though everyone for the past 45+ years knew it as the panther. It happened with the kobold (compare 1e, 2e, 3e, 4e, 5e, and even Pathfinder kobolds). It's happened with Tieflings. Aasimar can be added in the 6e PHB alongside the tiefling, and they can look exactly like the planetar, but as a playable race. You will see a flood of aasimar paladin PC art that looks like a planetar in shining plate armor, because that would be the official aasimar and it would be what people will go with. [/QUOTE]

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