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Message: <blockquote data-quote="trancejeremy" data-source="post: 1416372" data-attributes="member: 924">I think most of the faux-book cover books tend to be splatbooks of some sort.For instance, the Quintessential series from Mongoose, the Path of ______ series from FFG, the one word series from AEG, and to a certain extent, the critter books and Relics & Rituals books from S&S.OTOH, some companies seem to use it for all their books. Fast Forward, for instance. And Bastion Press kind of goes for that look - it's weird - they have a painting in the middle half of the cover, then the top and bottom 1/4s look sort of book-ish. (At least their non-Oathbound stuff). And hmmmm, FFG's Dragonstar stuff also has something of a bookish look. So, I dunno. I guess it's more widespread than I thought.Anyway, I do miss the full-page pictures, but OTOH, in some cases, I don't like the cover art. For instance, that Brom guy. Most of his paintings seem to be of some sort of corpse, with flat colored background. That doesn't do much for me. Nor do the playboy bunny Avalanche Press covers.Covers I do really like: Lords of the Night: Vampires (you see each sort of Vampire in the book menacing someone), Way of the Witch from Citizen Games (which has an attractive but non-sleazy woman on it), and Atlas Games' Seven Cities (which is a real neat landscape, water color, I think).  I think if you have a really nice painting, you get the best effect by making it take as much of the cover of as possible.</blockquote>

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