New Player's Handbook Cover Art!

[Raduin711]

Jeff Easley

Probably one of those things I should have known already. Thanks.

 

[Relique du Madde]

That cover needs something that saids that "4e will kick your ass then ---- your mom, not because it wants to but because it can". If only the back cover has a Tiefling beheading a halfling or a half nude drow warlock who is summoning bael then I think it will be sending the right message out to those scared religious types.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

THIS .... IS ... D&D!!!

 

[Nightchilde-2]

Needs dragonborn bewbs.

 

[variant]

I am glad the damn tiefling is off the cover. I am seriously sick of the tiefling.

 

[Klaus]

The new picture is better than the first one.

The original had a dark background with brightly lit characters in the foreground. The background unfortunatedly "swallowed" the characters. Also, the "camera" was front-and-center, and the colour scheme was too gray (gray background, gray armor on the woman, muted colours on the tiefling).

The new picture has a bright background that bumps the characters to the forefront with their high contrast and deeper shadows. The "camera" is set on a lower angle, so you are looking up to them a bit. The bright blue background contrasts nicely with the bright red of the wizard's robes and the darker shades of the dragonborn's armor.

I attached a slightly enlarged version of the cover.

I still prefer the "Green Dragon Fight" cover. It draws the eye much better from a distance (in, say, a bookstore), and the nice homage to the earlier Erol Otus cover would garner 4e some measure of goodwill from older players.

 

[hong]

Yeah, the green dragon cover is way more dynamic than the latest one.

 

[Nytmare]

A dungeon on the Player's Hand Book and a dragon on the Dungeon Master's Guide leaves only one possible option for the Monster Manual.

 

[Matrix Sorcica]

Probably one of those things I should have known already. Thanks.

Best version I could find: http://www.jeffeasley.com/popups/color/co076.htm

 

[Masquerade]

I think it's the first time I've said this on the 4e boards, but I definitely like the old version better. Still, I understand why the change was necessary for the book to be sold in certain markets.

I am kind of disappointed that a female warrior was traded out for a female wizard. Say what you want about the silly armour, or the less than amazing tiefling companion, at least there was an attempt at recasting that particular gender role on the cover of the most important book in D&D. But no more. Now, just back to the old cliché.

Then I'm not the only one thinking this. Couldn't we have replaced the tiefling with this dragonborn?