D&D 5E Vote for your favourite 5E cover art!

[Morrus]

I will admit, the white dragon cloak is a genius kinda move for an adversary that everyone and their mother (with any kinda magic to bare) will be throwing cold/ice spells at.

Genius? Only in the sense that me wearing a coat out when it's cold makes me a genius! Seems like basic common sense to me. The question is why, up till now, they've all been so intensely stupid as to not do something like that?

 

[Jeff Carlsen]

The Monster Manual is my favorite, followed by the Starter Set. In fact, I with the Player's Handbook had the Starter Set's art. Which isn't to say I dislike the PHB cover. Just that it doesn't feel as iconic.

I still don't like the choice of type for the titles. It just doesn't seem to match the rest.

 

[Derren]

All of this art is pretty mediocre. Sure, they are well drawn but they hardly convey what the book is about. Instead we have over the top fighting scenes on all of them (except for Lich Galactus). What has two guys fighting a Giant to do with the player handbook, a book used for creating characters of various races and professions?
What has Galactus to do with building a world (DMG)?

The only two books where the cover art has at least some connection to the content is the MM (Just because there the usual fighting scene actually fits) and Rise of Tiamat for showing Tiamat.
And while not visible on the book cover, in the high res version Tiamats claw looks a lot like plastic to me.

So that leaves the MM which gets my vote.

 

[Talath]

Genius? Only in the sense that me wearing a coat out when it's cold makes me a genius! Seems like basic common sense to me. The question is why, up till now, they've all been so intensely stupid as to not do something like that?

You have to kill it first. What kind of person would go out of their way to kill the creature that holds special power to inflict really great harm on them? Only the best of the best could do that, which is why I assume King Snurre wears one and not many others do.

 

[Morrus]

You have to kill it first. What kind of person would go out of their way to kill the creature that holds special power to inflict really great harm on them? Only the best of the best could do that, which is why I assume King Snurre wears one and not many others do.

That doesn't make him a genius.

 

[Talath]

The artist for the PHB cover and the DMG cover displayed the uncropped covers on his website.





You certainly get a better sense of the scene with the uncropped versions.

 

[DMZ2112]

Well, I'm guessing that the way-right balance of the "uncropped" images means that the left side of the images will be appearing on the back cover.

 

[DMZ2112]

What has two guys fighting a Giant to do with the player handbook, a book used for creating characters of various races and professions?

You know what these images have to do with their respective books?

Selling them.

 

[steeldragons]

Genius? Only in the sense that me wearing a coat out when it's cold makes me a genius!

As, so clearly, you are.

 

[Gamgee]

I feel all the covers suck. The only one I would consider passable is the DMG.