I agree it's not a beholder! LOL! It's actually a statue of a wizard who thought unwise to challenge THAT dragon who turned the wizard into stone with its breath weapon! Now the dragon sees more foolish and blundering trespassers returning to its realm. The dragon muses to himself as he flies...
I would have to agree with tetrasodium. The "statue" doesn't look like a statue. It looks like a 5th character. It actually looks like a Magic User getting ready to cast a spell at the flying dragon on the horizon. But at the same time I can also see it's a statue ONLY because it is the same...
I would have to agree with a few others here. The artwork for the sake of art is really good. But not for your cover. I have to say if I saw the LEVEL UP: A5E book with this cover art on the shelf with a hundred other RPG books at my local game store and I didn't know anything about the game I...