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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9495383">I have to admit this cover does not fit Ravenloft for me at all. I think the woman on the left (the happy one) and the guy in the center definitely give it an odd tone for me. I'm an old Ravenloft fan so my taste are probably pretty out of date, but this is definitely not the vibe I look for in Ravenloft. I am much more accustomed to the human-centric setting so only having one human isn't quite my cup of tea for Ravenloft. Not saying the protagonists have to be human, monster rally can work in Ravenloft in my opinion if it is does well. But that aside, the big thing is the tone, the guy in front looks too strutty or something (there is just attitude in his step that seems out of sync with a horror novel----it is something I would maybe expect on a horror comedy cover but not a Ravenloft cover). Again I am old, but this is definitely not the kind of art that is going to be bring me into a Ravenlof novelYou are right you need more than one tone, but you also have to keep in mind Ravenloft was based on gothic horror. I know it is multi-genre horror now, but I think a person like me is coming to it with an expectation of heavy atmosphere, and not something so... triumphant looking. not really sure what word fits here, but it just doesn't work for me just to contrast it with the expectation that the TSR era novels set for me, these are what typical 2E Ravenloft novel art looked like: [ATTACH=full]384406[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]384407[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]384408[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]384409[/ATTACH]These ones have a variety of colors, and subjects but they all manage to be sinister in some way. There is atmosphere I don't get from the new novel cover</blockquote>

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