Books with green covers?

[Nine Dragons]

A couple of months back I spotted an auction for the original painting for some 2E supplement on eBay. The seller had an interesting comment: apparently, the original artwork was too "green", so the final product was color-corrected to make it less so. I believe the actual gist of it was that TSR's people (or perhaps the publishing community in general) had come to the conclusion that things with green covers don't sell well.

Well, I'm not the foremost expert on all things D&D, but the last time I bought something with a green cover, it was the AD&D 1E Monster Manual II. Of course, 2E had the historical campaign series, which were all uniformly green, but I never bought those.

The thought crossed my mind because I just recently realized that I don't think I have any 3E products with green covers. In fact, there's a lot of brown. What's with this love-affair with brown?!?

Off the top of your head, what 3E products (either WotC or non-WotC) can you think of that breaks the anti-green superstition?

 

[bwgwl]

Nyambe? (kinda a green and yellow mix)

for Star Wars d20, Powers of the Jedi had a green spine and a vaguely green cover.

fwiw, sitting on my desk right now is a copy of GURPS Aztecs, which has a predominantly green theme. (quite a few green GURPS books, IIRC.)

 

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

Fantasy Flights new book, Twisted Lore, has a green cover.

SSS's Creature Collection 2 is predominantly green in color.

Ditto for EdenStudio's Liber Bestarius.

Fiend Folio Has a lot of Green on it too

Maybe monster books are an exception to the rule?


a few other "green" books I can recall:

Book of Hallowed Might

Many Necromancer Books ( DM series: Taverns etc... )

Penumbra's seven cities has a lot of green

ok - losing interest now...

 

[Samothdm]

Off the top of my head... AEG's "Mercenaries" is Green.

I'm not really sure that the color of the cover affects sales as much as the topic, publisher, and artwork.

Edit: Missed that Liber Bestarius was already mentioned

 

[Darrin Drader]

Monsternomicon
Star Wars New Jedi Order Sourcebook
Necromancer Games' Rappan Athuk 1-3
Necromancer Games' The Crucible of Freya
Bastion Press's Alchemy and Herbalists
Bastion Press's Into the Green
FFG's Seafarer Handbook
AEG's Dragons

 

[Paul_Klein]

Interesting,

I learned in my color theory class that Green is considered to be (phycologically-speaking) the "classiest" color.

And for the record, orange is considered to be the "lowest-class" color, considered (again, phycologically) to be "ugly".


As an aside, that day in class I was wearing a green and orange shirt. I was quite a fashion paradox

 

[kreynolds]

(quite a few green GURPS books, IIRC.)

Lots of green VtM books as well.

 

[333 Dave]

That Celtic book from Avalanche...

 

[trancejeremy]

The Quintessential Muppet?


I think all the Hell on Earth RPG books are Green.

I think other colors tend to be more eye catching than Green, unless it's a neon green. I know that when I had a green Mustang ('71), I was never pulled over by the police. But then I got a red one, same basic style ('73), and I've been pulled over, well, close to 15 times (only 1 ticket, though). And the Green one was much louder, because the mufflers were falling off (put them on myself...)

 

[ced1106]

IIRC, According to DC comics, the best selling issues had gorillas, dinosaurs, and QUESTIONS IN ALL CAPS.


Cedric.
aka. Washu! ^O^