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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue Orange" data-source="post: 8646892" data-attributes="member: 7025997">For casual or new gamers: the cover is a reference to the much-parodied 1st ed Dave Trampier cover of the Players' Handbook, with the idol holding the bowl with fire framed by the archway, the smaller braziers, the party of adventurers, and the trade dress in the upper left corner. Versions of this have been produced as a callback to the earliest days of gaming, usually with changes to highlight the specific features of each game. On the HackMaster version, we see a lot more blood; the Exalted version has a robotic-looking idol.In this case, the adventurers are the illustrations of the character classes from the core TSL playbook. The composition is a clear homage, with two groups of adventurers in the foreground, with the left group holding a scroll (with the two in the original holding a book), and the two climbing on the idol (here clearly feminine-presenting), who appears to be flirting with two of the adventurers, who appear to be flirting back, and the lizard-person at the base rather than being dead appears to be tied up but smiling, giving a 'consensual kink' subtext.</blockquote>