Mastodawn

[P] I've been trying to pin down why I dislike the D&D 5.5E artstyle so much. I'm an amateur artist with a wife who's so talented, so I do pick up things. In my twilight though I'm not always sure I have the vocabulary for it. But thwn I saw someone use a descriptor that hit me like a tonne of bricks. "Focus-tested." I mean, yes, it's soulless and so homogeneous, but it's so much worse than that. It's corporate-by-design.

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Weary Wulf

[P] It looks like advertising! It has the aesthetic of advertising. It's hard to articulate to anyone who hadn't had the unfortunate experience of the '80s. I was so glad when we were done with that. It's why I use really shallow toy cartoons as a touchstine. You know the sort, not few good ones like BraveStarr, Ulysses 31, or Willy Fog. No. I mean like Mask, Visionaries, and their ilk. Literal 20 minute ads for kids.

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