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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 9714459" data-attributes="member: 6906155">Sure they are different. But the second picture has a greater range blur than the first. The first figure is crisp, but the caster at the back is blurred. There are also three levels of blur in the background. The new book has only two levels - crisp for the characters (and the rocks they are standing on) and blurred for the background. This is why the image in the new book  looks flat.Plenty to criticise in the SCAG cover as well: The characters featured are boringly generic, and have no connection to the setting, and the colours use a muted palette, which means it won't stand out on bookshop shelves.Modern D&D books use black and pillar-box red banners to help them stand out in shops. This pretty much locks them in to using strong primary colours in cover art, since the red would clash horribly with pastel colours like the SCAG cover.On the whole, I would say the SCAG cover is better art (I like the foreshortening on the foreground dagger, shame they didn't do that for Minsc's sword), but the new cover is a better book cover.</blockquote>