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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 8747184" data-attributes="member: 11760"><p>Honestly, I don't love the 5E books. They're not as wildly dated as the 3E and 4E books are (the 4E books looked dated the moment they were published, IMO), but they are very much of their time, as opposed to the 1E and 2E books which look, to me, largely timeless.</p><p></p><p>The red stuff on the spine (blood? fire?) never worked for me, and the inconsistent use of other icons on the spines is kind of sloppy. OK, the MTG books have its log on their spine, that makes sense. But why does Wild Beyond the Witchlight have an icon on its spine? And I seem to recall an icon on the spine of Curse of Strahd, but if it's a Ravenloft icon, why isn't it on the spine of Van Richten's Guide?</p><p></p><p>In 2024, WotC should start fresh and maybe go out of house and hire some real superstars to design the 2024 trade dress. This will be an edition that will show up in a <em>lot</em> of newspaper articles and elsewhere, so this should be a great looking edition. </p><p></p><p>And if it was me at WotC, I would make the copies that go on sale in 2024 <em>even better</em> with <span style="color: rgb(250, 197, 28)"><strong>gold foil</strong></span> on their covers for 2024 only. Make it a cool souvenir/really goose those sales numbers, all at the same time.</p><p></p><p>Or am I completely off-base? Does everyone else love the 5E trade dress, or is it time for a change?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 8747184, member: 11760"] Honestly, I don't love the 5E books. They're not as wildly dated as the 3E and 4E books are (the 4E books looked dated the moment they were published, IMO), but they are very much of their time, as opposed to the 1E and 2E books which look, to me, largely timeless. The red stuff on the spine (blood? fire?) never worked for me, and the inconsistent use of other icons on the spines is kind of sloppy. OK, the MTG books have its log on their spine, that makes sense. But why does Wild Beyond the Witchlight have an icon on its spine? And I seem to recall an icon on the spine of Curse of Strahd, but if it's a Ravenloft icon, why isn't it on the spine of Van Richten's Guide? In 2024, WotC should start fresh and maybe go out of house and hire some real superstars to design the 2024 trade dress. This will be an edition that will show up in a [I]lot[/I] of newspaper articles and elsewhere, so this should be a great looking edition. And if it was me at WotC, I would make the copies that go on sale in 2024 [I]even better[/I] with [COLOR=rgb(250, 197, 28)][B]gold foil[/B][/COLOR] on their covers for 2024 only. Make it a cool souvenir/really goose those sales numbers, all at the same time. Or am I completely off-base? Does everyone else love the 5E trade dress, or is it time for a change? [/QUOTE]
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