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Dragon Talk - An Official Dungeons & Dragons Podcast

Acquisitions Incorporated - Live Q&A with Mike Mearls (Part 4)

Dragon Talk - An Official Dungeons & Dragons Podcast

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4.4861 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2012

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Mike Mearls, Senior Manager of D&D R&D at WOTC, sits down with the folks at Penny Arcade and PvP. In this podcast, he helps educate them on character creation and conversion - gearing up for the Live D&D game taking place at this year's PAX (Part 4)!

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0:00.0

It's so much true. You look for those old monster manuals and it's just like I do not

0:04.0

You know exactly but you look at it sometimes I'm like man that is a lot of

0:08.1

XP I can't wait to kill that and then sometimes you look at these old and the art is way worse it's not great

0:13.8

heart right and I'm like I never want to see this fucking thing but you know what's

0:17.8

cool about that old art in first edition because I've kind of got my eyes on this

0:20.9

reprint yeah is what now you buy a monster manual some badass

0:26.0

fucking render paints exactly what you'd see but first edition is like you come up on a

0:32.3

hieroglyph like it's a cave

0:33.7

and you're like what the F is that going to be what is this mark?

0:37.7

Yeah exactly a little more love craftian right it's sort of like this listen this is the

0:41.5

best image we could get.

0:43.0

It was that guy, the German guy that did all the woodcuts.

0:46.0

What was his name?

0:47.0

Ah, art history, you fail me.

0:48.0

Hans Block.

0:50.0

Yeah, I'll think of it later.

0:52.0

Fix that in post kiko

0:55.0

Who did all the wood print someone's listening right now and screaming at me yeah but it's like that it's like a

1:00.1

wood print yeah I see so it's being more elemental somehow keeps it weird. Yeah it was I mean it was based

1:06.3

there's a guy gax like who amongst his friends could draw. They didn't have the internet

1:10.0

right? They had how would you find an artist right if you're like if you're in Lake

1:12.5

even Wisconsin so are you gonna cut out quality art from d d dineenics to how we're gonna

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