Forgotten Realms Cover Is a Placeholder

[mhensley]

Okay, I'll admit it: I don't know what Ptolus is. Uh, what is it?

Big book by Monte Cook about a city.

http://www.ptolus.com/ptolus.html

 

[mhensley]

I want Drizzt back, mounted on a golden wyvern drinking a glass of emerald frost!

Man, that sounds good. WoTC should do a marketing deal with Mountain Dew and come out with some blue Mountain Dew called Emerald Frost.

 

[ruleslawyer]

Blue?

Wouldn't that be Sapphire Frost?

 

[WhatGravitas]

If we don't, Amazon will, and then we get scooped and look stupid. This way we only look stupid.

Made me laugh!

(on a more serious note: amazon is as much a boon as a bane, eh?)

Oh, and it's nice to see you here again!

Cheers, LT.

 

[Ranger REG]

If we don't, Amazon will, and then we get scooped and look stupid. This way we only look stupid.

No, Amazon.com should be the one to look stupid.

Sorry, my dark side is showing up again.

Funny, how a dot-com business can influence how other publishers must announce their upcoming products on their website, on their terms. Perhaps Amazon.com should also get into content editing.

Fine, if Amazon.com demand a placeholder image than at least put a visible watermarked label stating it's a placeholder or not the real cover.

 

[M.L. Martin]

No, Amazon.com should be the one to look stupid.

Sorry, my dark side is showing up again.

Funny, how a dot-com business can influence how other publishers must announce their upcoming products on their website, on their terms. Perhaps Amazon.com should also get into content editing.

Fine, if Amazon.com demand a placeholder image than at least put a visible watermarked label stating it's a placeholder or not the real cover.

It's not just Amazon; it's the whole business of marketing. Placeholder covers have been in use in the hobby for at least seventeen years. (I've got TSR catalogs from 1990--1996, and a good chunk of WotC's from 1998 onward.) Sometimes they're pretty clearly rough mockups of the final version; sometimes they look nothing like the final one.

Besides, there's a tradition here. Elminster was on the placeholder cover of the FRCS for 3E.

 

[Dark Psion]

So does this mean that Crows are officially in 4E?

 

[Ranger REG]

Besides, there's a tradition here. Elminster was on the placeholder cover of the FRCS for 3E.

IIRC, no one complained about Elminster gracing the cover, even if it was just a placeholder (final cover now bears a crescent moon trifecta symbol).

Can't say the same for Drizzt being a placeholder for 4e, even though he's most likely to be alive after a 100 years (like Star Trek's Mr. Spock).

 

[Sylrae]

Roman, I don't think those words mean what you think they mean

</ princess bride >

INCONCEIVABLE!

I wonder if I can see the 3e placeholder for FR... I'm gonna google it.

 

[WhatGravitas]

I wonder if I can see the 3e placeholder for FR... I'm gonna google it.

If you find it, please post it... I'd like to see it as well!

Cheers, LT.