PHB, MM, DMG covers

[John Drake]

WotC should have just gone a little deeper into the coffers and got an artist of real high caliber like Larry Elmore or Boris Valjo <sic> to do the covers. Getting great artwork (Frazetta) sold covers of th e old Conan paparbacks......

 

[Maggan]

WotC should have just gone a little deeper into the coffers

I don't think this is a cost issue. WAR is tremendously popular, and I believe that's why they chose him to do the covers.

Valejo and Elmore are also popular, but I don't think they "scream" NEW and IMPROVED like the WAR images tend to do, for ill or for good.

/M

 

[Wormwood]

WotC should have just gone a little deeper into the coffers and got an artist of real high caliber like Larry Elmore or Boris Valjo <sic> to do the covers. Getting great artwork (Frazetta) sold covers of th e old Conan paparbacks......

I love Frazetta, and I believe Elmore is one heck of a landscape artist.

Both both of them are utterly locked into a particular time period, and it *isn't* the 21st century.

 

[RFisher]

Full Bleed? That gives me an image of Ron Spencer's Guro work for the 5th edition covers.

Hey, I'm good with that too!

WotC should have just gone a little deeper into the coffers and got an artist of real high caliber like Larry Elmore or Boris Valjo <sic> to do the covers. Getting great artwork (Frazetta) sold covers of th e old Conan paparbacks......

Yeah, but it's all a matter of taste, innit? I love Frazetta, but neither Elmore or Vallejo count as high caliber in my book. Though I don't entirely dislike Elmore's work.

Both both of them are utterly locked into a particular time period, and it *isn't* the 21st century.

For some of us, that is a big bonus for a D&D artist.

 

[Nebulous]

WotC should have just gone a little deeper into the coffers and got an artist of real high caliber like Larry Elmore or Boris Valjo <sic> to do the covers. Getting great artwork (Frazetta) sold covers of th e old Conan paparbacks......

I would go with Elmore over WAR in this case. WAR has some really good stuff, he does, but some of it makes me flinch. I can't say that about Elmore.

 

[Wormwood]

I would go with Elmore over WAR in this case. WAR has some really good stuff, he does, but some of it makes me flinch. I can't say that about Elmore.

People's exhibit A: 3e Monster Manual.

 

[Vicar In A Tutu]

I think the covers are horrible. Especially the PHB. I dislike the style as well as the composition. However, the WAR picture of the green dragon fighting the adventurers is much better than the three core covers, as if he restrained his urge to make swords more immense than rocket launchers. The green dragon picture is much less cartoonish. I dread the reaction of my group (I usually DM 3-4 people). They will snicker when they see the covers and take it as yet another confirmation that D&D is KidZ Rule!S.

 

[Nebulous]

Is it too late to change the covers? could these just be placeholders, or is this a done deal? i'm not sure how these things works in the publishing industry. I do know that WotC probably doesn't care what the Enworlder's think, and the majority of D&D players love Reynold's style, so i'm worried that the PHB will stay as given. Which is really, really too bad.

 

[Derren]

Oh my god. Those dragons look horrible. The person responsible for all those nose horns should have his eyes stabbed out (but he is probably blind anyway, there is no other explanation for this stupid look).

 

[Wormwood]

Oh my god. Those dragons look horrible. The person responsible for all those nose horns should have his eyes stabbed out (but he is probably blind anyway, there is no other explanation for this stupid look).

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