D&D General How would you design the new 5.5 (whatever) ed PHB cover? Art!

[Distracted DM]

I assume a design goal of a modern PHB cover is to highlight the characters not the monster. You want players to pick up the book and think "oh it'd be cool to play one of those characters!"

It also makes sense to have a dragon on the cover.
And some treasure.

I actually love the ideas behind Quickleaf's Take the Loot and Laugh a few posts above, but I think the scene would have to be more condensed to size appropriately on a cover.

 

[Quickleaf]

This is the cover I'm using for my homebrew rules. Yes, its AI generated. Don't care.

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Does the art help your players to accept/remember your house rules better?

...asking for a friend.

 

[DarkCrisis]

I assume a design goal of a modern PHB cover is to highlight the characters not the monster. You want players to pick up the book and think "oh it'd be cool to play one of those characters!"

It also makes sense to have a dragon on the cover.
And some treasure.

I actually love the ideas behind Quickleaf's Take the Loot and Laugh a few posts above, but I think the scene would have to be more condensed to size appropriately on a cover.

I see a cool D&D monster and think “Man, I bet that will be a good fight! Can’t wait to fight one!”

 

[Reynard]

The composition of the 2nd image is quite nice. I personally hate most AI generated dragons and this one is no exception

Most AI generated is bad, even if it looks good at first glance. But it is nice for a quick sketch.

 

[Stormonu]

Does the art help your players to accept/remember your house rules better?

...asking for a friend.

It does make sure they are looking at the right document

 

[Horwath]

This is the cover I'm using for my homebrew rules. Yes, its AI generated. Don't care.

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10x better than suggested for new PHB

 

[aco175]

Do people not put brown paper book covers over their books to protect them like we did to school books in the 80s?

Next, someone will suggest writing in them all the errata.

 

[DarkCrisis]

Do people not put brown paper book covers over their books to protect them like we did to school books in the 80s?

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Next, someone will suggest writing in them all the errata.

They are produced in mass and will never be worth anything in the long run.

Not to mention DDB and PDFs.

 

[Horwath]

They are produced in mass and will never be worth anything in the long run.

Not to mention DDB and PDFs.

unless they are leather bound colectors edition, they will break down eventually.

my 3.5 PHB is just a page salad now.

 

[Remathilis]

Something with majesty and awesomeness.