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 feels like D&D is weaponising that shallow advert-aesthetic. It's focus-tested. It's designed to get dopamine pumping, to have the lab rats feel rewarded just by looking at it. It isn't taking risks! It has no identity, because if one had an identity, one might not cast the widest net. This is what those '80s cartoons did. Some compare it with Marvel's "capeshit," but it's so much more shallow than even that.

#psychology #actuallyautistic #dungeonsanddragons #dnd #dnd55e

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