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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davelozzi" data-source="post: 1413766" data-attributes="member: 771">Very cool.  Is that a Tony Szczudlo piece?  I really like the stuff that he did on the Birthright line but I haven't seen much from him in the past several years.I totally agree.  Jeff Easley's stuff used to be great but nowadays it's extremely lacking.  I hope that's just because of the direction he's been given by the powers that be in Wotc, as I'd hate to think that his talent has actually deteriorated.  My favorite piece of his is the from the 2nd printing of the 1e DM' screen, the one I use as my avatar.  I really don't like the 3e stuff, for example, the DM's screen (3.0 version).  I particularly dislike the 3e renditions of elves (Mialee makes me shudder - she looks like a bug).Getting back more to the topic at hand, I definately prefer covers with evocative art over the faux cover look.  I don't totally oppose the idea of an old tome cover for the core books, but the current ones are too gaudy for my tastes.  A good example of a great cover that suggests an adventure is the cover of Ruined Kingdoms, an Al-Qadim adventure box.  It's by Fred Fields.  Unfortunately, a Google image search doesn't turn up it up in high enough resolution to do it justice.  Also, Keith Parkinson's covers of Mines of Bloodstone and The Throne of Bloodstone are excellent.  More generally, as mentioned I like Tony Szczudlo's old Birthright pieces, as well as Elmore's work on/in the old basic/expert sets and in Dragonlance, Brom's work on the Dark Sun line, and Tony DiTerlizzi's in Planescape (although I don't like it as much in other places).</blockquote>

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