Thread by @WhittersRichard

Here’s a real life story thread.

I was at the Lucca convention in Italy, on stage doing a panel on D&D art. After our talk, we took questions, and at one point, two people asked a similar question…

I forget the exact wording, but they asked:

How do we appeal to old school gamers?
How do we appeal to new school gamers?

I told them that I always tried to stay faithful to the roots of the game, but I wanted to update visuals, in homage to the originals, respectfully.

After the talk was done, they both came up to the front of the stage to chat, and I showed them my Demogorgon illustration, then explained that I thought it hit the target, and that we don’t always hit the target, but we always try.

Both of them agreed it hit the target. One saw the care I took to pay homage to what they grew up with, the other said it was a cool monster worthy of any modern video game.

As you can imagine, this made me very happy.

So, sometimes my posts I talking about what I do may sound verbose or clinical, others may seem silly or goofy, but I do very much care about what I do, and love it when people enjoy what I do.

That is why I do it :)