This is the artwork for a gold dragon wyrmling in 5e's new Dragon Delves adventure anthology.

>>95996062 (OP)
If I kill it does its body turn to solid gold?

>>95996062 (OP)
https://www.creativebloq.com/art/digital-art/how-dungeons-and-dragons-dragon-delves-is-breaking-all-fantasy-art-rules

>>95996062 (OP)
>That tail
They some sort of Marsupilami motherfuckers now?

>>95996070
No, it turns to a solid block of XP with a side of alignment shift.

>>95996655
That one really is the gayest one, but I kinda like this.

>>95996655
This one is the best though.

>>95996655
>That’s part of what makes D&D special, he says. “It’s not just a game. It’s an experience tied to visuals, to memory. When I think back on great campaigns, I also remember the artwork.”
No, it fucking isn’t. There is absolutely no requirement for visual aids, and THAT’S part of what makes TTRPGs great. The space given to you to imagine.

>>95998382
Anon, you can't visualize things in your head?

>>95998423
Reread his post carefully.

>>95998423
Anon, you can’t read?

>>95996062 (OP)

>>95996062 (OP)
... ok?

>>95998382
>When I think back on great campaigns, I also remember the artwork.

...your campaigns come with artwork?

>>95998665
White men only make up about 30% of Americans. Less depending on how you distinguish Latino/Hispanic. Half seems low.

>>95998352
This gives AI vibes.

>>96000689
everything gives AI vibes if you're shit at recognizing AI art.

>>95999954
I guess that means you have to start doing DEI for white people now, which you wont.

>>96001314
You fool, DEI benefits white people too, especially when they come from low-income areas. Learn a thing or two about what things mean before you bitch about them.

>>95998382
>The space given to you to imagine.
Yes and then after 3 months of playing you realize that none of the playes share your vision and everything falls apart because they invested themselves into their own vision. I always visually poison my table with art.

>>95999954
Since when is D&D set in modern America, retard?

>>95996062 (OP)
Eh, its alright

>>96003522
I don't actually believe you.

>>96003522
lmao no

That's not the point of American race laws

>>95996062 (OP)
That's cute.

>>95996062 (OP)
I don’t really mind. As someone who’s DMed for a decade, sometimes you want stupid little art for your stupid little game.

And I know, I know. DnD should be the forerunner of the tabletop aesthetic - but it’s not 1995 anymore, the internet is awash in “epic” set-pieces or “alluring” character portraits. DnD rightfully recognizes that real grogs build their aesthetic from a collage of gathered pieces, so trying to appeal to them is a fool’s errand.

>>96004911
> and everything falls apart because they invested themselves into their own vision.
If you’re tanking your own games because you’re mad that your players DARED to imagine that something looks different from how you pictured it, there’s something wrong with you.

>>96004911
What's the problem with people having different visions?

>>95996062 (OP)
I've figured it out. I hate fags not because they bum each other (and I don't even need to know they do), but because the aesthetic they promote is awful. It's weirdly sissified, really desperate for attention, and often low quality. If they just acted like normal people and liked normal things, I'd have no problem with them, which tells me I'm not homophobic because my hate for them isn't about their sexuality, it's about the weird culture they then wrap around it.

>>96005867
>>96005644
Anon probably forgot that DnD is meant to be a collaborative storytelling exercise where the plot is meant to be a setup for player interactions. An important lesson for GMs, since it’s a pitfall I’ve fallen into many times, is that a scene should never be built on PCs reacting to something played out or described. They need a voice.

>>96000689
Because it is. Your sense tingling means it's AI 99% of the time

>>96000928
He's probably right, though. There's things in it that don't make sense, mostly around the design and placement of the statues, which suggests AI, because any real designer would see the issues. You can also tell if you flip the image left to right quickly, you can see where the design and layout doesn't align, and that's almost illustration 101.

>>96005932
I read an article about the gay rights campaign a while back that was very illuminating. Basically, as more rights have been won, an increasing majority of gay people have been satisfied by their progress and stopped campaigning for more. People who didn't care about acceptance and just wanted to be decriminalized? They aren't part of the movement any more. People who just wanted to be able to get married? Same thing. Now, everyone will still show up for pride events and the like and will talk about how important it is not to backslide, but the percentage of activists is basically perpetually falling.

What this means is that people who define themselves by their sexuality and try to promote any kind of identity-related agenda are increasingly weirder and weirder and simultaneously less and less representative of what it means to be homosexual. So, realistically, it isn't even that you hate gay people for promoting something, but that you hate the people who have so little an idea of what they want to be that ALL they can latch onto is the idea of being gay.

For a "rage thread" no one seems to care much.

>>96006008
>don't like people who have long hair and wear band shirts and black wrist bands passed 25... because they're making their entire identity about metal music
>don't like people who wear football shirts and spend all their discussing footballers or glued to the tv... because they're making their entire identity about football
>don't like people who freely canvas for an election, post about political partisan nonsense, and rant on twitter about elections... because they're making their entire identity about politics
>don't like people who talk in ridiculous feminine voices, wear bright colours, and constantly reference being gay... because they're making their entire indentity about being gay
Holy shit. I'm not a bigot, I just can't tolerate one-dimensional characters.

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>>95998352
Imagine paying money for AI sloppa and a toddler's scribble. I'd be fucking furious.

>>96005967
>There's things in it that don't make sense, mostly around the design and placement of the statues, which suggests AI, because any real designer would see the issues.
>You can also tell if you flip the image left to right quickly, you can see where the design and layout doesn't align, and that's almost illustration 101

>>96006091
>broke bitch justifying why they can’t afford a book

>>96006165
Don't worry, you'll learn all about this if you ever go to art school, maybe 6 or 7 years from now.

>>96006185
>imagine thinking anon could get into art school

>>96005967
>>There's things in it that don't make sense, mostly around the design and placement of the statues
They're loot.
>Black dragons hoard tarnished symbols of hope and relics of fallen empires.

>>96006346
You'll notice I didn't say the lore of the statues, I said their design and placement.

>>96006373
They're following a golden arc, I really don't see the issue here

>>96006451
>posts picture showing they didn't
Anon...

>>96006177
It's not that I hate this existing. There's room in the world for games like this. And I appreciate deviating from generic fantasy photoshop style.
My problem is it's all in one direction. Where's the gritty black and white 14th century knights or the lurid frazetta pin-up? They always want diversity, as long as it's diversity in their weirdly juvenile fantasy utopia (in a game about murdering monsters and looting their corpses, for some reason).

>>96006496
The general placement of the statues line up with that, I would say the constriction was the size of the page, but it doesn't look to me like something AI will come up with. Just to be sure I went to check the guy's blog and indeed it seems he's an ink and paper artist.
>https://mattstikker.bigcartel.com/

>>96006451
>>96006496
>>96006546
Most artists don't do that kind of thing anyway, they just eyeball it.

It's weird watching people try to dissect the differences between AI art and human art because half the time they're picking on the most irrelevant shit. Even good artists fuck up proportions and angles and make strange choices all the damn time.

>>96006181
>broke bitch doesn't CONSOOM BRAND like I do!

>>96006529
>My problem is it's all in one direction.
>Where's the gritty black and white 14th century knights or the lurid frazetta pin-up?
well it seems that when we are about to get a little taste of something different you have retards screaming that it's ai generated

>>96006692
You don’t need to post your face

>>95996062 (OP)
Am I supposed to be mad? I don't cling to D&D's defiled corpse so it isn't my problem, maybe it's time for you to move on too.

>>96003522
DEI almost entirely benefits women.

>>95996062 (OP)
What's wrong with a baby dragon being depicted with cute art?

>>96006918
Tourists worrying about culture like usual. Baby cartoon dragon is cute

>>96006451
Lmfao literally realigns the arc to make his point

>>96007198
Not very inclusive of you, bigot

>>96003522
DEI is meant to hurt men and whites. To a lesser degree it's also meant to hurt anyone with a family, and anyone without a sexuality-based identity. But it's primarily about hurting men and whites, and that is always why it is so well funded.

>>96006091
Pretty soon even the toddler scribbles will be AI. Though I can't feel bad for those 'artists' losing their jobs.

>>96003522
I'm a white dude with a mental abnormality. DEI doesn't do shit for you if you're white unless you're a turbofaggot.

>>96006918
Nothing, except that they think you should pay money for it rather than including real art.

>>96011717
No one Is forcing you to Buy It and they are very upfront about the type of art you get, Is not like a hidden surprise

>>96005149
>Since when is D&D set in modern America, retard?
Probably when they made orcs hispanic.

>>96013117
Mexicorcs will never not be the funniest part of this 5.5 version.

>>96018683
>>96013117
>tourism

>>96018817
I've been playing since AD&D.
Cope about it. 5.5's random racial weirdness has made it measurably worse and it will do worse and has done worse as a result of embracing such an obviously political vehicle.

>>96012127
>No one Is forcing you to Buy It
And indeed, no one IS buying 5.5e lol