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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bran Blackbyrd" data-source="post: 1734800" data-attributes="member: 1710">I can't say the same about your try at an insult. I know throwing verbal jabs is easier than addressing a person's points, but it doesn't gain you nearly as much street cred unless you've done it sublimely. Wheel of Time novel covers. Anyone who knows where I'm going with this, raise your hand. Nobody likes them, and the artist's interpretation doesn't match any of the fans'. The characters are described a million times during the series, but the artist never gets it right, and the fans know it. They don't agree with him on how the characters should look.So the fans agree on how the characters should look, right?Nope. Tons of fan art exists for these characters, all of it different and much of it doesn't remotely fit my image of the characters.But, this has the potential of becoming tangential...At the end of the day, I'd rather see something new that misses the mark once in a while than to see the same old thing over and over again. You won't hear me complain because the current art doesn't follow the dead tired themes of previous editions. Much of the old art was just plain bad and did nothing to spur thinking outside of it's very small boundaries. Same goes for the art that was technically sound, but fell into the same stereotypes.On another note, nostalgia doesn't sell books to new players. Generally speaking, they don't care about the white box, they don't know about Trampier and they don't care about the plight of the flumph. I know some grognards out there wouldn't give a hoot if this hobby never attracted new blood, but that's the only way the hobby will survive. New buyers; that's why they make more books. Try selling something today that looks like the orignal monster manual. You'll get a few nostalgia purchases... maybe some curiosity buys.Then again, there are people out there that would rather see no more books get made if they aren't going to be made the way they were back in the day; which in my book is as selfish as not wanting the hobby to attract new players. But that too borders on the tangential...People like to talk about spikes and straps and tattoos; what about metal skullcaps and chainmail bikinis? Did those make any more sense?"Well, those spikes would be more of a hindrance than a help, it's unrealistic!"What about wizards who wear robes for no other reason than that they are wizards; like it's some kind of uniform. Even the lightest armor interferes with their casting but they'll wear something with huge floppy sleeves, a hood that blocks their vision and what is essentially a long skirt to trip on?Every other helmet back then had horns. Enough with the horns! And then there was the odd spartan that would show up occasionally among the pseudo medieval types... What was that about?Naysayers can pick all they want at the tattoos and spikes, but I don't see where that's any worse than some of the stupid stuff going on in the old books.Mmm pillows. Zzz....</blockquote>

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