Codex Anathema changed to... Lords of Madness?

[Pants]

Yup...
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=products/dndacc/177410000

Personally... I liked the old title better, however... seeing as the cover image is gone, perhaps a new, better one will replace the old, fugly one.

 

[jester47]

1. Wonder why.

2. The cover does not look that different than what they had before...


A.

 

[Pants]

2. The cover does not look that different than what they had before...


A.

What?
I don't see any cover image anymore...

 

[jester47]

Following your link takes me to a page with the picture of the Beholder and the Mindflayer doing weird things to some dead looking body...

A.

edit: A refresh has caused the old image that was there to disappear. Weird. I can only suspect that the original name and art offended some sensibilities.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Well, there's not that much of a surprise in seeing a name change. Not that I didn't like the old one, but use the miniatures sets as an example. A few times already the sets 'original' name is changed to an official one.

 

[Pants]

edit: A refresh has caused the old image that was there to disappear. Weird. I can only suspect that the original name and art offended some sensibilities.

Probably it was just an image from an old cache file of the website.

 

[jester47]

I know, thats why I refreshed. I do work in web security, in a group called Web Hacking, Attack and Penetration.(WHAP) I had better be able to recognise when somthing was just in a cache file.... I was talking about the whole chage the name change the image routine. I think it might have offended someone... maybe...(?).

Aaron.

 

[Dark Psion]

Most likely nobody at Hasbro could pronounce "Anathema"

 

[coyote6]

Maybe marketing research indicated that too many people were saying, "Codex Anna whosis? Thelma?"

Too bed; Codex Anathema was a cool name. And this seems awfully late in the game for a name change; Googling "Codex Anathema" gets 8500 hits, and the first 3 full pages are all about the WotC book. That's a lot of websites that are going to need to be updated . . .

Say, I hope this marketing change isn't indicative of any kind of editorial or developmental change; it's kind of late for that sort of thing . ..

 

[Brennin Magalus]

The first title was an abuse of the word anathema, and this one is banal.