Races of Eberron Cover Art and Petition

[BrooklynKnight]

The Breland Ledger has reported that Wizards of the Coast has changed the original cover art for Races of Eberron.

A petition (http://www.petitiononline.com/roeca/petition.html) has been started requesting that Wizards of the Coast return the book to its previous cover art.

The issue is also being discussed at the Wizards Official Forum

 

[Arcane Runes Press]

Interesting.

I prefer the old cover, as it's more striking, but I think I know why it was changed:

1) To promote sales outside of the Eberron base. By this point, Eberron's been around long enough to have caused a bit of a divergence in audience - as with FR, there are those who don't buy Eberron stuff because they consider it sideways of the generic line. So fitting it in with the standard format will pull in a larger audience.

2) It's probably a step towards placing Eberron as the mainline D&D setting. Leak Eberron into core, and you start aclimating people to the idea of it being the core setting for the Player's Handbook 4.0 (whenever it appears).


Well, it's kind of what I'd do, anyway.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Cover images change all the time...even if it does end up being the final cover, I kind of like it.

 

[ecliptic]

I think we should push for a boycott.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

...and after finishing reading that thread over on the WotC board, I'm once again thankful for ENWorld.

 

[naturaltwenty]

Err...why does the cover dictate anything

WotC could put this thing out with a brown paper cover and I would still buy it for the content. Why put up a stink about this?

Greg Volz
Natural Twenty Gaming
www.naturaltwenty.com

 

[Crothian]

Considering just how many seconds I actually spend looking at the covers of most books, I really don't see what the big deal is.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

The old cover image looks better IMO, and I'd rather have this looking nice next to my ECS than looking fine sitting next to my "Races of X" books. There are some ridiculous people over there...Keith Baker popped in and said that the contents were exactly what they'd asked for, and some of them say "screw that man, I'm not getting it with the standard Races cover."

Wankers.

 

[kenobi65]

Oh, please. There must be *some* more productive use of time.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I think it ought to have the Eberron cover, too, but really, how could it be a dealbreaker? People are dumb.