For those of you who don't regularly visit the Wizards of the Coast D&D website, there has been a cool thing going on where people can vote for things that will make up an upcoming D&D creature for an official rulebook.
So far, it's been established that the creature (codenamed: Baker) will be a large aberration that lives in forests. It hates elves and uses evil fey as minions. It will have a relatively high CR and is described as a creature made of shifting metal cogs and spindles that is unnatural. It has a giant eye in the center.
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dd/20060825a
This is the final step. Vote for Baker's art!
(Personally, I picked the second peice of art because a) it looks the most like the description in my opinion and b) because it is friggin cool!)
I chose one. It fit the image I had in mind better. :)
A vote for art #2 is a vote for peace, prosperity, and creepy fey in the background.
I chose one. It fit the image I had in mind better. :)
Funny, that's the one that least fit my picture of Baker. But, hey. To each is own.
Best of luck to all the art. (I'll probably use all of them for Baker anyways, because it has a semi-constantly-shifting form. ;) )
#2. It was the one that would most freak me out charging my way. It was the one I most wanted to battle. It was the figgie I'd most like to paint. I also appreciated the wicked fey in the background.
The monster itself feels counter intuitive to me but I guess the idea is that it's progress (the aberration) versus nature. The fey minions represent the twisted souls in the world who will sell it out. Ooooor not.
You don't wanna see me around a Rorschach test.
#2, all the way :)
B U M P !