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And, maybe that's a fair critique. But I don't think it really fits into the "controversial content" bucket this thread seems to be focused on.
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Worth noting that her reaching out to touch his bare chest was an ad lib on the actress's part.And again, I think that's why it's such a great contrast to what the article talking about: he's not the clean cut, spotless Chris Evans Captain America. I mean, that dude could be sexy and he is in the first one (or at least, Peggy Carter acknowledges him as such at one point, which is more than most post-Disney Marvel films ever do).
So since 1983 1e AD&D.THIS is what happens when we reduce the amount of gratuitous inclusion of controversial elements. When we stop just putting in slavery cos we need a reason for bad guys to be bad in need of killing, and actually make slavery the subject, or when we stop putting images of half naked women on the cover of the DMG,
or when we stop putting images of half naked women on the cover of the DMG,
Yeah where can I get that one?
The original 1979 1e DMG DCS cover. The efreeti dual wields a scimitar and a scantily clad woman.Yeah where can I get that one?
and his reaction to that gets me every time. It isn't planned, he dosent know it is going to happen and his head just snaps to her hand and for a second. Makes me laugh seeing his natural reaction every time.Worth noting that her reaching out to touch his bare chest was an ad lib on the actress's part.
I have seen that cover so much but never noticed that detail beforeThe original 1979 1e DMG DCS cover. The efreeti dual wields a scimitar and a scantily clad woman.
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Actually, I do think there definitely is a problem with the art in the current edition of D&D. In my opinion, I think the majority of these images define beauty and heroism in humans and human-like individuals as being slim, youthful, muscular, and having highly regular features, a stereotypical and unrealistic look that is wholly devoid of any substance and realism - stylized, empty, and dare I say Manga-esque - and which I would consider problematic especially re those of the young internet generation that do not look like any of that. I do believe that there has been some recent research into how images like this have a negative, even dangerous, influence on children and teenagers growing up with them.
5E PHB, pp. 25, 29, 38, 42, 44, 51, 55, 61, 64, 67, 70, 76, 90, 94, 99, 105, 125, 129, 130, 134, 137, 138, 140, 148, 167, 192, 199, 200, 206, 217, 220, 232, 253, 262.
So not a problem from thisI think this is a reference to an interior image in the DMG for second edition (there are a bunch of oil painting plates and one of them is of a scantily clad sorceress). As far as I recall the 1E covers didn't have anything like this and the 2E covers were a fighter on horseback for the PHB and a wizard with a crazy long beard for the DMG.
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And the PHB had this one (which I always thought was kind of cool):
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