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<blockquote data-quote="Ibrandul" data-source="post: 8206816" data-attributes="member: 6871736"><p>Can confirm. As Chris Perkins pointed out in an interview around the time they announced the "revamped" version, she doesn't appear to be concealing the prosthetic in the illustration of her in the book (p. 230), so the text is sort of mismatched with the image to begin with. The revision (on this, anyway) is really minor: the heading "Esmerelda's Secret" on p. 231 becomes "Esmerelda's Prosthetic," and the words "and takes care to hide it from view" are deleted from that paragraph. That's it.</p><p></p><p>And the illustration of her on the cover of this new book perfectly matches the illustration of her in <em>Curse of Strahd</em> (both versions; that illo wasn't changed in the revision).</p><p></p><p>What I'm wondering is what the heck she's doing on the cover of <em>Van Richten</em>'s book?!? It makes me wonder whether this was originally intended to be <em>Esmerelda's Guide to Ravenloft</em>, with the title and narrator changing late in development after the alt-art had already been commissioned.</p><p></p><p>Reportedly <em>Xanathar's Guide to Everything</em> was originally meant to be <em>Xanathar's Guide to Adventurers</em> to parallel <em>Volo's Guide to Monsters—a</em>dventurer's guide to monsters, monster's guide to adventurers. But in that case really only the title would have changed, whereas if my speculation is right here, they would have to have rewritten the post-it-note commentaries they put in these things. Or maybe not most of them; I can imagine Van Richten and Esmerelda saying pretty similar things about many topics.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ibrandul, post: 8206816, member: 6871736"] Can confirm. As Chris Perkins pointed out in an interview around the time they announced the "revamped" version, she doesn't appear to be concealing the prosthetic in the illustration of her in the book (p. 230), so the text is sort of mismatched with the image to begin with. The revision (on this, anyway) is really minor: the heading "Esmerelda's Secret" on p. 231 becomes "Esmerelda's Prosthetic," and the words "and takes care to hide it from view" are deleted from that paragraph. That's it. And the illustration of her on the cover of this new book perfectly matches the illustration of her in [I]Curse of Strahd[/I] (both versions; that illo wasn't changed in the revision). What I'm wondering is what the heck she's doing on the cover of [I]Van Richten[/I]'s book?!? It makes me wonder whether this was originally intended to be [I]Esmerelda's Guide to Ravenloft[/I], with the title and narrator changing late in development after the alt-art had already been commissioned. Reportedly [I]Xanathar's Guide to Everything[/I] was originally meant to be [I]Xanathar's Guide to Adventurers[/I] to parallel [I]Volo's Guide to Monsters—a[/I]dventurer's guide to monsters, monster's guide to adventurers. But in that case really only the title would have changed, whereas if my speculation is right here, they would have to have rewritten the post-it-note commentaries they put in these things. Or maybe not most of them; I can imagine Van Richten and Esmerelda saying pretty similar things about many topics. [/QUOTE]
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