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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3240999" data-attributes="member: 18280">What do I think will happen?  Depends upon the individuals.  It depends, for example, on whether or not the players have read the book or skimmed it while making their characters because they someone helping them (or simply used the CD in the PHB to generate them).  It isn't my contention that reading isn't a common step, but I would certainly say that not really reading is an equally common step.  I know people who play 3e, but haven't actually read the core books because they found them "too dry".(Obviously not best practice!   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> )However, that said, the contention is not that no one will read the books, or that no one upon reading the books will be unable to differentiate between the art and the substance of the rules, but rather that for some people the implications of the art -- and especially the dichotomous implications between the PHB and DMG -- are off-putting, and hence color how they view 3e art.I know that this is true in my case, and that it took me quite a while to fairly judge the pictures in the new edition.  I suspect that this may be true for others as well.RC</blockquote>