Yeah but why improve current products and work on organic growth piggybacking on positive buzz and popularity stemming from said improvements when you can use that fancy MBA to ensure that every quarter number go up at all costs.
I think a lot of it has to do with the death of using water colors that happened during the 1990s. Water color I've noticed adds an ethereal or a timeless element to the work when done well enough. Also there is less reference to actual models and designs, even with diverse sources in mind. Instead, they just template off of a copy of a previous piece of art made for another fantasy.
If you want to read a novelization of someone’s D&D campaign Raymond E Feist would like a word.
That's what sours modern art for me the most, desings of armours, weapons and clothing too often look like they're made of plastic, and clothing is too often looking too modern or out of place, Pathfinder being my main exposure to it. Old art may often look cheesy but it has certain weight to it. What even created demand/trend for all this plastic? World of Warcraft?
I like realism, except my idea of realism is authentic looking equipment and characters that don't look like supermodels or tumblrinas, so I imagine it's a bit different than your average wokie's perception of it.
most women still want to be attractive tho, that's the whole point of makeup existing. ofc a tomboy warrior won't spend an hour each morning getting caked up, but still put at least some effort in her looks. that doesn't mean 10/10 supermodel, but still "conventionally attractive" however you want to define that. but woketards can't even manage that. and if you go full make-believe in a RPG or whatever, they absolutely gonna want to look 10/10 as their self-insert.
It's personal taste, really, while steel thongs for gals and spiky deathtraps for guys have certain charm, I'm a sucker for more grounded, believable designs.
Yeah, these scans are awful. Helps that I rarely play AAA but let's not derail tabletop topic into vidya.
It's possible. If studded leather origin story is true, there's even precedent. Except Gygax and company did it in 1970s and their only references were whatever books they managed to grab. Today, with how little time it takes to find info on the internet, not to mention countless reenactors, many of whom would likely act as consultants for scraps if not outright free, there's not really any excuse anymore.
How is this meme even about WH40K which literally has a cult of depraved sex perverts?
Warhammer has multiple cults of depraved sex pests. WH40K has millions of them even if more than a few go back to the same source which admittedly was fucked into existence by the most top tier degenerates the setting saw.
But yet Slaanesh is a thing.
might be a self-fullfilling purity spiral. no one wants to be the chud proposing "unrealistic" changes, especially if you're a male, and all the DIE woman won't propose it either or block it so the game isn't sold via sexism and attracts the problematic male gaze. it's not about being attractive anymore but "safe".
those are not your average libtards tho, like the ones growing up in the suburbs, gone to college and then got hired into a writers room, especially if they're some kind of minority.
I'm in the chainmail bikini fan club. The whole "ugly mud farmer who dies at first level to a rat bite" really grates. There are some games that can benefit, but I question how many people really play that at their DnD table.
Are you new to this? I'll give a quick explanation just in case.
Because they aren't the original writers. And when it is it's because the put politics and virtue signaling above good writing.
I was once told Dark Eldar are the result of Eldar having an orgy so big and depraved a dark god was formed. No idea how true that it.
Completely true. The Eldar became so licentious, brutal, and depraved that they accidentally birthed Slaanesh, the Chaos god of excess, who consumed billions of Eldar and killed almost their entire pantheon, destroying their empire and screwing the rest of the galaxy in the process. The Dark Eldar didn't change a bit afterward, it's just that they have to hide in an alternate dimension and constantly torturefuckrapemurder other sentient beings so that Slaanesh eats those souls instead of theirs.
Yep, it's a big universe with a finite amount of purging that can be carried out.
Kind of. The Elder did fuck the aforementioned Slaanesh into existence at which point the mast majority of their race ended up devoured as part of the assorted chaos unleashed by its existence/deliberately caused by its arrival. The survivors split into those pursuing vastly different lifestyles from those that had gotten the species that way (standard Eldar, Harlequins and others) whereas the Dark Eldar are the ones that sat in the ruins of their shattered society with the gnawing awareness that their souls were bound for a very unpleasant place on death and the only way of avoiding that was inflicting the sort of horror on everyone that was not them that was even more creative than the shit that spawned a malevolent deity in the first place. As the above poster noted.
Think Larry Elmore vs Pathfinder. Elmore took many artistic liberties yet when you look at armors and weapons from his artworks, they have certain weight behind them, they look like something you could use or wear. On the other hand, Pathfinder stuff mostly looks like something made for low quality cosplay, sometimes it's hard to figure out how are characters supposed to move in their clothing/armor, or even how would it look like outside of that specific pose, while weapons look like rubber toys.
I'm fairly new to TTRPGs, I've been only playing for three or so years, and beyond one Pathfinder 2e one shot only last month I tried something different than Pathfinder 1e (Blades in the Dark). Most of my nerd experience comes from vidya so similar issue with wokeness.
You are both right, of course, it's just so hopelessly stupid, part of me tries to rationalize it.
I had Dragon Age in mind, David Gaider was lead writer for DAO/DA2/DAI yet it's night and day, and only five years between release of DAO and DAI. There's massive decline even in two years it took them to release DA2.
Yeah, opportunism is simple and elegant answer to the above point I made.
I used Elmore's art as example of good fantasy artwork and Pathfinder's as bad, I couldn't be bothered to check who the fuck makes Pathfinder crap, at least now I know who's responsible.
While it is largely not great, there are a few gems in the Pozzo dumpsterfire.
he was always kind of a twat tho. I think another aspect to the "not as shit in the past" is that they had tardwranglers forcing them to be less retarded. there's even examples for it with that dude from ubisoft (who later got canceled of course) enforcing white male protags for sales, or that exec from microsoft preventing fable 2 from having a black women on the cover.
the answer is in the links. one is historical art, the other "fantasy" art. so some liberties apply - like space marine captains having so much faith in the emperor they don't need helmets...
