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<blockquote data-quote="JohnnyZemo" data-source="post: 7723778" data-attributes="member: 6681515"><p>Glancing through this article reinforces the need for good cover art. Paying an artist to do a decent cover for your product is going to be a huge help in getting people to check it out. That Winter of the World RPG cover is great; it made me want to learn more about the game. I am seriously considering buying it just because the cover makes it look like it will be a good game.</p><p></p><p>At the other end of the spectrum is Goodman Games's Fifth Edition Fantasy line. I am a huge fan of the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG and I'm eagerly awaiting my Mutant Crawl Classics book, but the Fifth Edition Fantasy modules have covers that are boring, boring, boring. They're all just headshots of single characters. There's no action, no implication of mystery, nothing. Just a boring headshot. At least #11 has a beholder on it. I guess that is a step in the right direction. The bottom line is that even though I know that Goodman Games puts out quality products, those covers make me much less likely to purchase the adventures.</p><p></p><p>The monochome cover of the OSRIC module does a great job of communicating, "this is an old school adventure," so it works for me. My only gripe with that one is the name of giant. Strategos? Were his parents big fans of the board game? I get it. As a DM I know how tough it can be to come up with good names. But if I ran an adventure with a character named "Strategos," my players would laugh every time I said his name.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JohnnyZemo, post: 7723778, member: 6681515"] Glancing through this article reinforces the need for good cover art. Paying an artist to do a decent cover for your product is going to be a huge help in getting people to check it out. That Winter of the World RPG cover is great; it made me want to learn more about the game. I am seriously considering buying it just because the cover makes it look like it will be a good game. At the other end of the spectrum is Goodman Games's Fifth Edition Fantasy line. I am a huge fan of the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG and I'm eagerly awaiting my Mutant Crawl Classics book, but the Fifth Edition Fantasy modules have covers that are boring, boring, boring. They're all just headshots of single characters. There's no action, no implication of mystery, nothing. Just a boring headshot. At least #11 has a beholder on it. I guess that is a step in the right direction. The bottom line is that even though I know that Goodman Games puts out quality products, those covers make me much less likely to purchase the adventures. The monochome cover of the OSRIC module does a great job of communicating, "this is an old school adventure," so it works for me. My only gripe with that one is the name of giant. Strategos? Were his parents big fans of the board game? I get it. As a DM I know how tough it can be to come up with good names. But if I ran an adventure with a character named "Strategos," my players would laugh every time I said his name. [/QUOTE]
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