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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5866745" data-attributes="member: 2067">Part of me wonders how much the covers of things like the PHB are driven by marketing decisions, rather than design considerations. Not that they can't often be the same thing, just that it's kind of the same reason the Mass Effect 3 media all star the buzz-cut hyper-masculine Caucasian dude, even though you can create your own character who may not look anything like that. If thirteen year old boys see a big shiny book with a hooker and a spiky dragon man, that may be somehow demographically appealing in a way that, say, 3e's more &quot;it looks like an old book!&quot; style was not. Art (especially cover art) made for &quot;who do we want to buy this?&quot; considerations rather than &quot;what do we want this to say?&quot; considerations tends to be pretty bad because of that.Again, the two can often be in synch, but the 4e PHB cover (and, indeed, some of the other 4e design choices) seems to have a disconnect with that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 5866745, member: 2067"] Part of me wonders how much the covers of things like the PHB are driven by marketing decisions, rather than design considerations. Not that they can't often be the same thing, just that it's kind of the same reason the [I]Mass Effect 3[/I] media all star the buzz-cut hyper-masculine Caucasian dude, even though you can create your own character who may not look anything like that. If thirteen year old boys see a big shiny book with a hooker and a spiky dragon man, that may be somehow demographically appealing in a way that, say, 3e's more "it looks like an old book!" style was not. Art (especially cover art) made for "who do we want to buy this?" considerations rather than "what do we want this to say?" considerations tends to be pretty bad because of that. Again, the two can often be in synch, but the 4e PHB cover (and, indeed, some of the other 4e design choices) seems to have a disconnect with that. [/QUOTE]

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