Man in the Funny Hat
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Not that there's anything wrong with that.Piratecat said:
D&D 4E The 4e PHB : Cheesecake Y/N?
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Ogrork the Mighty
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I don't like the cover b/c it's certainly not what I would expect to find on the cover of what will be the highest selling D&D 4E book. To put it bluntly, the cover sucks. Get that tiefling out of there. And the chick's nose looks like it'll take an eye out. Bad cover.
That being said, the 3E covers were hideously boring. Not exactly eye catching. So yeah, they need an action picture. But this certainly ain't the one!
That being said, the 3E covers were hideously boring. Not exactly eye catching. So yeah, they need an action picture. But this certainly ain't the one!
Lord Xtheth
Explorer
Oh noez, It's clevage!
( . Y . )
Does my post offend you?
Theres even crappy art nipples in mine!
As for that lame PHB cover, I can't emphasise the snoring sound my lumbedo made when I saw tiefling cleavage-bits. This cover isn't just tame...
It's Ben Stien tame.
( . Y . )
Does my post offend you?
Theres even crappy art nipples in mine!
As for that lame PHB cover, I can't emphasise the snoring sound my lumbedo made when I saw tiefling cleavage-bits. This cover isn't just tame...
It's Ben Stien tame.
Pbartender
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I said, WAR!
Huh!
Good God, y'all...
What is he good for?
Huh!
Good God, y'all...
What is he good for?
Nyeshet
First Post
I don't like the cover. I also wonder why they only have the new races on the cover [dragonborn and tiefling] and why there are only two in the party when WotC has said that 4e presumes 4 or 5 PCs in a party? On the plus side, the cover does focus on the role of roles in combat (note how the warlock [striker] is protected by the fighter [defender] ).
The dragonborn warlock is not too bad. It seems an odd fit for a race whose strengths are presumably suited more for direct (physical) combat, but as we have not seen the actual final stats for the race yet perhaps I am incorrect in my assumption.
The tiefling fighter, however, is just odd. The pose seems a bit off somehow. It just looks unbalanced. Also, the armor is odd, having holes where one would expect protection (over the heart, the sides of the neck, around the thighs and armpits (locations of major arteries), and so forth). This is not even taking into account that the out-thrust edges around the elbows, knees, and neck will actually guide the attacking blade into the flesh, rather than away from it. But that is a problem with many fantasy armor images. Lastly, the shield is supposed to protect the fighter, right? So why is it held to the side? I presume it was for artistic reasons, as the threat is supposedly outside the front of the cover, but it would work far better if the threat was shown to the side, with the PCs (more than two) also viewed from the side.
As for the image being cheesecake - I don't really think it qualifies as such. It shows virtually nothing, and what it does show is shown so awkwardly and so unemphasized as to have no worth as cheesecake - presuming any could actually consider it to have the possibility to be cheesecake in the first place (which is so unlikely I tend to think that it was not the intent of the artist for it to be considered such).
The dragonborn warlock is not too bad. It seems an odd fit for a race whose strengths are presumably suited more for direct (physical) combat, but as we have not seen the actual final stats for the race yet perhaps I am incorrect in my assumption.
The tiefling fighter, however, is just odd. The pose seems a bit off somehow. It just looks unbalanced. Also, the armor is odd, having holes where one would expect protection (over the heart, the sides of the neck, around the thighs and armpits (locations of major arteries), and so forth). This is not even taking into account that the out-thrust edges around the elbows, knees, and neck will actually guide the attacking blade into the flesh, rather than away from it. But that is a problem with many fantasy armor images. Lastly, the shield is supposed to protect the fighter, right? So why is it held to the side? I presume it was for artistic reasons, as the threat is supposedly outside the front of the cover, but it would work far better if the threat was shown to the side, with the PCs (more than two) also viewed from the side.
As for the image being cheesecake - I don't really think it qualifies as such. It shows virtually nothing, and what it does show is shown so awkwardly and so unemphasized as to have no worth as cheesecake - presuming any could actually consider it to have the possibility to be cheesecake in the first place (which is so unlikely I tend to think that it was not the intent of the artist for it to be considered such).
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small pumpkin man
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Lord Xtheth said:
I have the Conan RPG books with nipples on every page, while quite silly, I had less of a problem with that than this cover. (although nipples on every page probably wouldn't be appropriate for D&D.)
mhacdebhandia
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What in the world are you talking about?Nyeshet said:
The warlock at the back is a tiefling. The fighter at the front is a human woman with sword-shaped decorations in her hair.
Dragonborn look like this:
mhacdebhandia
Explorer
Yes, that's from Races & Classes.
For comparison, a male dragonborn warlock:
For comparison, a male dragonborn warlock:
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