[SCOOP] New 3.5 Monster Manual Cover

Technik4 · Apr 10, 2003

Another tidbit, it says 31 new illustrations, does that mean there are 31 new monsters or that some old monsters without illustrations are getting them and the difference is the new monster #?

Oooh, I love scoops.

Technik

Gez · Apr 10, 2003

Hmm. I prefer the new DMG cover to the old. The two others, I don't know. The PH one is more busy now. The MM one has its plastic scales less visible, and it's good, but the eye, the eye...

Number47 · Apr 10, 2003

So the new theme is spheres and deeper visual dimensions?

alsih2o · Apr 10, 2003

i think all of the new covers are better than the old covers, and i liked the old covers

Merlion · Apr 10, 2003

Nice, very nice. maybe the best of the lot

JeffB · Apr 11, 2003

I prefer the original covers...and I didn't like them either..well actually the 3.0 MM cover was good...

The old tome look is a really cool idea..unfortunately they don't look like old tomes...The FRCS looks more like an old tome than these guady baubles and bubbles...

Ranes · Apr 11, 2003

I agree that the FR covers have more of a tome-like feel than these designs. I also prefer the cover designs of MotP, D&DG et al. The core books are indeed busy. Gaudy is another word that springs to mind. Eventually to be on my shelf is a phrase that also pops up in my head.

Danyon Dehlmari · Apr 11, 2003

I like the new covers a lot!

Davelozzi · Apr 11, 2003

Ranes said:
I agree that the FR covers have more of a tome-like feel than these designs. I also prefer the cover designs of MotP, D&DG et al. The core books are indeed busy. Gaudy is another word that springs to mind. Eventually to be on my shelf is a phrase that also pops up in my head.

You hit the nail on the head with those comments.

Oni · Apr 11, 2003

Well this is the first 3.5 version cover I've liked better than the 3e cover. The first one looked like it had cardboard wrapped in aluminum foil around the edges, tacky tacky tacky, so this version is better. Still I'm not particularly fond, and wish they'd just ditch this busy overdone look. If they have to tome like covers they should go to the FR style, or at least something lik the Psi handbook, or the epic levels handbooks where we've got some illustration. Though honestly nothing would make me happier than if they had a wonderful fully painted cover illustration.