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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 6304647" data-attributes="member: 45197"><p>Hiya.</p><p></p><p> I'm going to go with...they all kinda suck. They are all boring. More or less the *same* thing happening on every single cover ("A monster leaps out with a roar!"...or "A monster leaps out with a roar!"...or "A monster leaps out with a roar!"...or "A monster leaps out with a roar!"...or "A monster leaps out with a roar!"...or "A monster leaps out with a roar!"). I feel the art director at WotC for D&D 5e basically told the artists pretty much what Henry Ford told the workers ("A customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black." - Henry Ford). Or, as the WotC D&D art director would say "Any cover you want so long as it is a monster with maw agape screaming at a hero in some sort of heroic fashion" -5e Art Director <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p> Out of all of them, I like the Starter Set the most (but that's kinda like saying "I like being punched in the face more than I like being stabbed, shot, poisoned or set aflame").</p><p></p><p> I want art that has me instantly thinking "ooooo...I wonder what *that* thing is? Oh! What's that in the background?!? Hey, is that a cave entrance back there? Oh man! I just noticed the shadow on the ground! Something is behind the cleric!". That kinda of thing. I don't want "Oh, look, it's a heroic fighter in heroic armor doing a heroic pose fighting a multi-fanged beastie. Again. For the fourteenth time".</p><p></p><p>(yes, I'm a bit jaded...I'm old and crotchety! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>^_^</p><p></p><p>Paul L. Ming</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pming, post: 6304647, member: 45197"] Hiya. I'm going to go with...they all kinda suck. They are all boring. More or less the *same* thing happening on every single cover ("A monster leaps out with a roar!"...or "A monster leaps out with a roar!"...or "A monster leaps out with a roar!"...or "A monster leaps out with a roar!"...or "A monster leaps out with a roar!"...or "A monster leaps out with a roar!"). I feel the art director at WotC for D&D 5e basically told the artists pretty much what Henry Ford told the workers ("A customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black." - Henry Ford). Or, as the WotC D&D art director would say "Any cover you want so long as it is a monster with maw agape screaming at a hero in some sort of heroic fashion" -5e Art Director ;) Out of all of them, I like the Starter Set the most (but that's kinda like saying "I like being punched in the face more than I like being stabbed, shot, poisoned or set aflame"). I want art that has me instantly thinking "ooooo...I wonder what *that* thing is? Oh! What's that in the background?!? Hey, is that a cave entrance back there? Oh man! I just noticed the shadow on the ground! Something is behind the cleric!". That kinda of thing. I don't want "Oh, look, it's a heroic fighter in heroic armor doing a heroic pose fighting a multi-fanged beastie. Again. For the fourteenth time". (yes, I'm a bit jaded...I'm old and crotchety! :) ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]
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