Dark Sun Cover Poll

[Amphimir Míriel]

The old one was Wayne Reynolds trying to be Brom... I mean, its not Brom, but its nice that they tried.

The new one... they didn't even tried. It's the Wayne Reynolds style that I have come to dislike since 3E

 

[Old_school_overlord]

144 pages for $19.95 on the Critter book seems remarkably good, is this likely to increase?

 

[CasvalRemDeikun]

The original cover reminded me a lot more of classic Dark Sun stuff I have seen before. It was a lot more appropriate for the flagship book of the product line rather than a stupid monster book.

 

[Garthanos]

I wanna Brom cover, darn it!

Brom rocks! yup, ought to be expensive by now.

 

[CarlZog]

Old one. The new one is too pedestrian in composition.

Agreed.

 

[Silverblade The Ench]

Amphimir
alas, I agree with you, he's a vastly better artist than myself, but I loathe his style, ugh. It's...cartoony. It's not..believable, so to me, it sucks. Sorry Mr Reynolds :/
Awesomely well made but...it's nto at all inspiring. His early work was less...ugly, and the Dark Sun cover he did was his best art, IMHO, so changing it around sucks and yes, new one is so formulaically bland as ot make me sick.

I adored the art of D&D, it's large part of why I adore it so much and make art.
Dark SUn had amazing art due mostly to Brom...this is deeply disappointing by comparison.

"Ghandi" was the artist by the way, he rocks!!

try this one I did a while back something along this line would be better, hehe
http://www.silverblades-suitcase.com/darksun/blue_fire_of_athas.jpg

 

[Sir Robilar]

Wow, looks like this thread should have been a petition.


Silverblade, I really like your Dark Sun pieces! Is it ok for you if I use them for our upcoming Dark Sun campaign?

 

[Garthanos]

Brom is solidly on my list -- look two adventurers

 

[ProfessorCirno]

Ugh. Old one, big time.

Old one is more old school Dark Sun. Desolate wasteland with the pyramid and skeletal dragon. It's, well, Dark Sun.

New one is just "Adventurers...in the DESERT!"

What a stupid, stupid change.

 

[Vicar In A Tutu]

The old cover is far better than the new one. No doubt about that. The objections to the new cover art is the first thing I wrote about in the other thread about Dark Sun when the DS product appeared in the WoTC product catalogues.