Argyle King
Legend
As much as I like 3.5 and have plenty of supplements for it, these would have to contain some strikingly significant errata between their covers for me to want to pay for any of them.
The cover art is not, in my opinion, an improvement. As busy as the Higgenbotham covers were originally, at least they had a coherent vision.
These look like quick photoshop jobs that sample bits and bobs from the originals and awkwardly template in a decorative border around the centrepieces. They just look cheap and off-kilter to me.
I'd much sooner buy a Pathfinder Core book than a PHB or DMG reprint - it would have more content, and cost less than either.
Maybe my perspective would be different if my 3.5 books weren't still in quite decent condition, but... I don't think so.
I'll be impressed and pleasantly surprised if the previews for these reprints change my mind though.
I'm pretty lenient when it comes to art, but I have to agree. Maybe I have a more stringent eye because of some previous time spent working in a copy & print shop.
I'm curious... how much errata would there have been between the later printing of the 3.5 PHB (the soft cover one) and these?