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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dungeonosophy" data-source="post: 5779363" data-attributes="member: 6688049">The core D&D Next rulebooks are published in multiple visual styles. Each features the logo, graphic design, illustration style, and font of a different era:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Next Theme: The new mainstream theme and logo, designed to attract the widest audience in the largest bookstores and gamestores.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The 4th Edition theme, using the same visual style as the 4e books.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The 3rd Edition theme, with 3e logo, fonts and graphic design, with a photographed "metal-and-jewel" cover.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The 2nd Edition theme, with the blue 2e logo (minus the word "Advanced") and 2e font.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The 1st Edition theme, with an orange spine, the white 1e font (minus the word "Advanced"), and the dense 1e font. The interior illustrations are by old-school 1e artists such as Erol Otus.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The BECMI (Classic) theme, which, like the 4e Starters Set, looks like the Red Box. Larry Elmore and Jeff Easley do the interior art.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Original Theme, which features the logo and fonts of the manila colored booklets. The Original-era artist(s) are commissioned to do the illustrations.</li> </ul>They all have the exact same text. They feature the same illustrations (as far as the scene depicted), but by different artists.The less profitable themes are licensed to outside formatters and publishers.</blockquote>

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