D&D General Art that defined D&D for you
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How has nobody cited this one yet? This is THE iconic D&D image as far as I'm concerned, right down to the party puzzling over their map while the two rogues in the back are prying out a gemstone from an idol and you just know something bad is going to happen when that gem pops loose.
Charlaquin
Goblin Queen (She/Her/Hers)
For me it’s the 3e dungeon punk aesthetic. Basically all of the 3.5 PHB art defined the look of D&D to me. Much as I dislike 3e, I can’t deny it was extremely formative for my relationship with D&D, and strongly defines how I conceptualize it.
This will forever be what a D&D Bard looks like to me:
And this is a rogue:
This is a typical adventuring party:
And while the super-cluttered character designs catch a lot of flack now, I’ll admit I appreciate the attention to detail. It still kinda bugs me that D&D art tends not to show characters even carrying packs, let alone all the weapons and bags and trinkets and baubles and tchotchkies D&D characters tend (in my experience) to lug around with them. If you can’t depict your character with all the stuff they’re carrying in a way that doesn’t look horribly cluttered and inconvenient... maybe you’re carrying too much crap.
This will forever be what a D&D Bard looks like to me:
And this is a rogue:
This is a typical adventuring party:
And while the super-cluttered character designs catch a lot of flack now, I’ll admit I appreciate the attention to detail. It still kinda bugs me that D&D art tends not to show characters even carrying packs, let alone all the weapons and bags and trinkets and baubles and tchotchkies D&D characters tend (in my experience) to lug around with them. If you can’t depict your character with all the stuff they’re carrying in a way that doesn’t look horribly cluttered and inconvenient... maybe you’re carrying too much crap.
Sacrosanct
Legend
How has nobody cited this one yet? This is THE iconic D&D image as far as I'm concerned, right down to the party puzzling over their map while the two rogues in the back are prying out a gemstone from an idol and you just know something bad is going to happen when that gem pops loose.
Eltab mentioned it in the first reply. Also, while certainly iconic, I was asking for more of a personal piece that defined D&D for you. Which can vary largely by what we were exposed to when we really got into love with the game.
wingsandsword
Legend
Planescape.
Tony DiTerlizzi used that specific art style for that campaign setting. There's a huge amount of art done in that style to describe all kinds of planar stuff in D&D.
A quick search turns up this retrospective thread about that artist and his style in that setting: Artist Tony DiTerlizzi Reflects On 25 Years of Planescape
Sacrosanct
Legend
I remember when the dragon magazine came out with that image of the giant skeleton and archer. I think I ignored my entire math class that day just looking at the picture. Still one of my all time favorites.
Eltab
Lord of the Hidden Layer
Her strongest attack is a Kick or martial arts Knee; the "3/4 armor" is to sucker you in close.Love that shield! Though I am not sure why only her legs are armored!
Because, even in a world with Halflings Kobolds and Gnomes, some people never learn to look below horizon level.
Eltab
Lord of the Hidden Layer
Text description, my first post.How has nobody cited this one yet? This is THE iconic D&D image as far as I'm concerned
Edit: somebody beat me to it. (So maybe I don't need glasses that badly after all !)
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