Man, please just let us get a Planescape book in that style again.![]()
I used to think a PS book would have to include his art, but the past is past. 5e can and will do its own thing.Not sure that's even possible. Yes Diterlizzi can be commissioned for a few pieces, but not the whole book; he's explained before how when doing Plescape, he was making art constantly and it wasn't a healthy pace. I don't think he'd want to be the sole artist on a new book release again.
And if the other artists are trying to mimic Tony, they're pieces would suffer... you can't beat the OG at this style!
So it'd be great to have a new Planescape book, with new pieces by Diterlizzi, but it shouldn't be the only style... otherwise it would probably suffer in quality.
One of the things I miss about older editions of D&D was how different artists did so much to differentiate the different worlds of play. The art in "Van Richtens" is more or less the same as that in "Tashas" or "Xanathars" - "Van Richtens" isn't a Ravenloft product, it's a D&D product that happens to take place in Ravenloft. I'm sure it would be the same for "Shemeshka's Guide to the Wheel", or whatever we call a theoretical "Planescape" book.Yes Diterlizzi can be commissioned for a few pieces, but not the whole book
I read that book in Middle School! I loved his giant Tardigrade art!I read The Search for Wondla to my daughter years back, and particularly liked his art in that. For instance:
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His website is pretty great, by the way; full of stuff to look at, read, listen to, and watch.
wait, I'm confused--didn't you downvote him in that thread?I wanted him in my final 2. Unfortunately politics got in the way.
Love his stuff though.
I did, because Frank Frazetta was being unjustly targeted.wait, I'm confused--didn't you downvote him in that thread?
not by me! I was the one who suggested Frazetta be on the thread to begin withI did, because Frank Frazetta was being unjustly targeted.
I wont claim to make sense but as Cuthbert is noted to have said.
“Yes, retribution is the basis of all law.”![]()
I was going to say exactly the same. His remorhaz, his grig, his salamander, wereboar, death kiss, thri-kreen, kraken, ogre mage … it’s delicate and intricate work, but it really drips personality. The work he did for planescape really suited Sigil (if arguably not so much the rest of the planes) but it’s the MM work I found most evocative, and it’s very different in style to the planescape stuff.My favorite of his work was just what he contributed to the 2E Monstrous Manual, because it showed how his style CAN BE a part of generic D&D, b/c it is capacious enough for a bunch of styles - some monsters just looked better when he drew them
I did, because Frank Frazetta was being unjustly targeted.
I wont claim to make sense but as Cuthbert is noted to have said.
“Yes, retribution is the basis of all law.”![]()
I love Frazetta's work, but I didn't upvote him in the D&D artists thread because I don't really associate him with D&D. Of course, if I were to run a very sword & sorcery leaning D&D game, his stuff would be strongly featured on my inspiration board for that game.not by me! I was the one who suggested Frazetta be on the thread to begin with
this is why we can't have nice things
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I think that's by Richard Whitters.The guy that draws the ''sketchy'' art of the 5e Basic Rules as well as the art of Curse of Strahd and Out of the Abyss (forget his name) is pretty close in my opinion.