DMG II - tidbits from Andy Collins!

[Gez]

Haven't seen it since after I posted.

 

[Jupp]

OK I just found the product page on wizards.com

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=products/dndacc/863170000

To me this looks like a 288 page cheat sheet

uuhm...yes... *goes back to his cave*

 

[DaveMage]

The brown cover you've seen was an early mockup. The actual cover is, in fact, the same dark blue (at least, it's blue to my eyes) as Unearthed Arcana.

Raloc has a point that the D&D book cover designs did begin to drift into incoherence when we moved to the all-hardcover strategy a few years back. Looking at the books that have come out over the past year or so, hopefully you'll see that that's changing somewhat. Unfortunately, when you have an active backlist of 60 to 80 titles, and a product development cycle of well over a year, it takes a while before the preponderance of titles reflects current strategy. But here's some good news: I went into a Borders a few weeks back and saw the entire D&D line shelved according to book type and series--and this in a store without a single D&D expert on the staff (I asked). So our efforts to bring coherency back to the line seem to be paying off.

Charles, thank you for piping in.

What color is the spine? Same as UA?

 

[Jdvn1]

Hm, I was expecting the DMG II to be kind of like a FAQ. Basically, to clarify everything that wasn't so clear before.

 

[arscott]

Interesting side note:

The wizards' product page for UA still displays a Brown Cover

 

[Turjan]

The brown cover you've seen was an early mockup. The actual cover is, in fact, the same dark blue (at least, it's blue to my eyes) as Unearthed Arcana.

My Unearthed Arcana is not blue. It might be brown or green (I cannot distinguish those colours very well), but it definitely does not look blue.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Interesting side note:

The wizards' product page for UA still displays a Brown Cover

The real darker cover is not for mortal eyes to see!

 

[Raloc]

The brown cover you've seen was an early mockup. The actual cover is, in fact, the same dark blue (at least, it's blue to my eyes) as Unearthed Arcana.

Raloc has a point that the D&D book cover designs did begin to drift into incoherence when we moved to the all-hardcover strategy a few years back. Looking at the books that have come out over the past year or so, hopefully you'll see that that's changing somewhat. Unfortunately, when you have an active backlist of 60 to 80 titles, and a product development cycle of well over a year, it takes a while before the preponderance of titles reflects current strategy. But here's some good news: I went into a Borders a few weeks back and saw the entire D&D line shelved according to book type and series--and this in a store without a single D&D expert on the staff (I asked). So our efforts to bring coherency back to the line seem to be paying off.

That's great to hear. Thanks for replying

 

[Knight Otu]

My Unearthed Arcana is not blue. It might be brown or green (I cannot distinguish those colours very well), but it definitely does not look blue.

It is rather hard to distinguish the color. From my first glances, it could have been a dark blue, propably because I was expecting a blue cover. Only when I looked at it closer, I realized that it is a very dark green.

I'm glad to hear that the cover on the WotC site is just a mock-up, and will have a different color.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

It is rather hard to distinguish the color. From my first glances, it could have been a dark blue, propably because I was expecting a blue cover. Only when I looked at it closer, I realized that it is a very dark green.

I'm glad to hear that the cover on the WotC site is just a mock-up, and will have a different color.

Actually, that cover's octarin.