Check Out The One Ring 2E’s Cover Art!

Cubicle 7 has just revealed the cover art (by Johan Grenier) of the new version of The One Ring roleplaying game.

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[Arilyn]

Reasonable comment.

I suppose today, more people have seen the movies than read the books.

Yes, I assume. I do love the movies, except for the Hobbit trilogy....yuck. The original cover just feels more evocative, as was mentioned earlier.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

The original art by Jon Hodgson is some of the most gorgeous fantasy art around. This is pretty clean, and I generally like it, but I wouldn’t trade my original hardbacks for that.

 

[Wightbred]

I definitely like the cover more than the interior art for the cultures.

https://www.cubicle7games.com/torsday-art-reveal/

 

[Salamandyr]

Looking at the interior art, it appears they're drawing a lot of inspiration by the art and costume design from the movies...especially with the elves. I think the problem is...everything is using that as their template these days, which means that rather than having a unique, Tolkien-ian feel, it just looks like the kind of art one would see in a 5e manual. About the only difference is the color palette is slightly more muted than one would get in a 5e book.

 

[Hugh Acton]

In their Erebor supplement C7 gave us a female dwarf iconic PC with a beard (which is proper Tolkien); I wonder why they dropped the bearded female dwarf.

 

[GMMichael]

I definitely like the cover more than the interior art for the cultures.

https://www.cubicle7games.com/torsday-art-reveal/

Well, I never thought I'd say this, but after viewing the elf's armor my thought was, "yes! No boobs!"

Sorry Wight, but you get -1 for your post. That interior art is excellent.

 

[JeffB]

Gandalf was in Middle Earth for about 2,000 years... we can assume that he was part of a lot of different adventuring parties during that time.

Yep. My thirst thought looking at the cover. I used him here and there in my old MERP games in the middle third age.

 

[The Crimson Binome]

The art looks pretty good to me. My only complaint is that the title font makes it seem like the name of the book is "The Lord of the Rings"; with "The One Ring" being like a series title. The nature of the product would have been far more clear if "The One Ring" had been in a much larger font, and "The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game" had been in a smaller font below that.

 

[EthanSental]

Angus McBride was the MERP cover artist....while looking him up, he passes away in 2007 but what a great legacy of fantasy art he gave us to enjoy.

 

[Wightbred]

Well, I never thought I'd say this, but after viewing the elf's armor my thought was, "yes! No boobs!"

Sorry Wight, but you get -1 for your post. That interior art is excellent.

The quality of the interior art is great, but the posing of each on a little stage ruins it for me.

Angus McBride was the MERP cover artist....while looking him up, he passes away in 2007 but what a great legacy of fantasy art he gave us to enjoy.

McBride’s art is inspirational, but I feel that some of his other LotR art would have been a better cover.