D&D 5E (2014) Alternate Covers of Upcoming Forgotten Realms Books Revealed

The alternative covers are available from local game stores.
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While attending Gen Con, I was given an art print of the alternative covers for the upcoming Forgotten Realms books.

The left side of the print is the alternative cover for Heroes of Faerûn, while the right side is the alternative cover for Adventures in Faerûn. The alternative covers are available from local game stores.

 

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I think this art style began with Dragon Age Inquisition (e.g. Solas' murals). I haven't played Veilguard yet, but I'm glad to hear it's still around in the latest game too.
Don’t let the internet hate train scare you off, it’s a good game. Personally my least favorite of the four, but still very much worth playing if you like the series.
 


Maybe they can make up for it in a later reprinting of these books?
Yes, that would be nice --- like when they issued the 5.0e core books gift set in a slipcover with a DM screen and Hydro74 covers in 2018, which was three years after the core books were originally released in 2014. I'm not saying they would necessarily have to use Hydro74 as the artist since WotC said they've moved on to other artists (although I definitely like his work), but at least they could do a different version of the alternative covers than the ones originally released. Also, there would have been plenty of time to incorporate all the errata, as was done with the 5.0 gift set.
 

Yes, that would be nice --- like when they issued the 5.0e core books gift set in a slipcover with a DM screen and Hydro74 covers in 2018, which was three years after the core books were originally released in 2014. I'm not saying they would necessarily have to use Hydro74 as the artist since WotC said they've moved on to other artists (although I definitely like his work), but at least they could do a different version of the alternative covers than the ones originally released. Also, there would have been plenty of time to incorporate all the errata, as was done with the 5.0 gift set.
I wish that they would understand that when they do a slipcase boxed set of 3+ books, that the MSRP should be 10-20% less than the sum of its contents. The last few boxed sets, IIRC added up to exactly the sum of their contents. You get the slipcase for "free", I suppose, and I know that it costs them in production, but I still believe firmly as someone who's sold these things for decades, the basic principle of "the more you buy the more you save".

So I tend to force a slightly lower price point on collected slipcases when I sell them at my FLGS, but then it eats into my margins. We're a tiny store, so I don't think that it's very fair to make ME have to eat the difference, when I think it should be obviously a feature of the product itself.

Then again, that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to how I think business should be done differently by WotC (or Marvel, or DC, or Games Workshop, etc, etc.). Generally the bigger the parent corporation, the less sensible they are, IMO.
 

I wish that they would understand that when they do a slipcase boxed set of 3+ books, that the MSRP should be 10-20% less than the sum of its contents.
they seem to understand that with their print + digital bundles at least, possibly with the FR digital bundle too, depending on what the DLCs will cost individually
 

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