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I wanted to try and get better inks for some commissioned work which I was doing/am working on. Especially trying to get line weight better on big complex things with multiple characters. One major "thing" for me was the realization that you can mix and match brush and pen inks in the same piece - some art archangel doesn't suddenly show up and condemn you for not being butch enough to use the brush for everything - and that's what's going on here.
Well, one of the things going on. The other thing going on was I wanted to do one of those "barbarian hacks a Frazettesque path through his adversaries" picture again, and as long as I was doing that, why not make all the participants monsters so that I could draw *more monsters*? My lame justification is that you can be a minotaur in 4e. Oh man I seriously hope you can play minotaurs and other monsters in DnD Next.
Well, one of the things going on. The other thing going on was I wanted to do one of those "barbarian hacks a Frazettesque path through his adversaries" picture again, and as long as I was doing that, why not make all the participants monsters so that I could draw *more monsters*? My lame justification is that you can be a minotaur in 4e. Oh man I seriously hope you can play minotaurs and other monsters in DnD Next.
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I hope in the next edition they'll keep the added races, there's rumors going round that in 5th Ed their going to either rename or remove dragonborn entirely because of copyright from Bethesda.....yeah
let's hope 5th ed isn't too dummed down, 3.5 was the pinnacle in my opinion.
let's hope 5th ed isn't too dummed down, 3.5 was the pinnacle in my opinion.
I read about that too, over on William O'Connor's blog (since he designed them). I hope they keep 'em in, or replace them with another reptilian PC race.
It's weird, the older I get the more I like the idea of settings and races which aren't just the very human options and some sort of reptile/lizard/dragon dudes - lizard folk, kobolds, dragonborn, nagaji or whatever - just is a really appealing fantasy concept to me. I think part of why it's an age thing might be that after this much time playing FRPGs you realize that the player character party is going to be pretty much a traveling circus/freak show no matter what, so you may as well be a traveling circus/freak show made of weird creatures as well as short humans with pointy ears.
It's weird, the older I get the more I like the idea of settings and races which aren't just the very human options and some sort of reptile/lizard/dragon dudes - lizard folk, kobolds, dragonborn, nagaji or whatever - just is a really appealing fantasy concept to me. I think part of why it's an age thing might be that after this much time playing FRPGs you realize that the player character party is going to be pretty much a traveling circus/freak show no matter what, so you may as well be a traveling circus/freak show made of weird creatures as well as short humans with pointy ears.
Indeed! A D&D party composed entirely of "normal" people is a bizarre aberration.
And yes, dragonborn are damn cool. For one thing, dragons are neat, and they have an interesting design; for another, they are for once a race of big, strong, tough warrior types who aren't a) stupid, b) ugly, c) an offshoot of a generally evil race. That's something new when it comes to D&D! (Even DL minotaurs fell into the last category, IIRC.)
And yes, dragonborn are damn cool. For one thing, dragons are neat, and they have an interesting design; for another, they are for once a race of big, strong, tough warrior types who aren't a) stupid, b) ugly, c) an offshoot of a generally evil race. That's something new when it comes to D&D! (Even DL minotaurs fell into the last category, IIRC.)
I'm mixed though largely pro-dragonborn. Again, I really like the idea of having a player character reptilian race. I sort of wish that were lizard folk or kobolds (why dragon-derived, when basically crocodile-derived is cool too?). I wish that instead of dragonborn being The Honorable Warrior Race (I mean, is that dragonborn or orcs or hobgoblins or minotaurs or what? At the rate we're going the only races that aren't honorable warriors are going to wind up being humans, elves, halflings and gnomes) they'd played more, thematically, with the idea of these guys who aren't just dragons and who are trying to define their existence as something other than just dragon descendents. That's kinda interesting. I feel like they went for dragonborn because WoW already did minotaurs... but I sort of wish they'd stuck with minotaurs.
More thoughts about this one are sort of mixed up.
More thoughts about this one are sort of mixed up.
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