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<blockquote data-quote="Michael Morris" data-source="post: 750144" data-attributes="member: 87">I was snooping around Amazon.com and bumped into these images<img src="http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/hosted/Dusk/images/phr.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/hosted/Dusk/images/dmgr.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><img src="http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/hosted/Dusk/images/mmr.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />At first glance they don't look different from the current books but look closely, there's another word under the phrase &quot;Core Rulebook.&quot;&nbsp; It looks like &quot;Revised.&quot;&nbsp; Second, the font used for the phrase &quot;Core Rulebook X&quot; seems to have changed, but it's hard to tell in these thumbnail scans.&nbsp; Note the PHB cover - &quot;Core Rulebook I&quot; is as high as the adjoining gems, but on the original PHB the text was only half the size of the adjacent gems.&nbsp; This is not an artifact of resizing.Finally, the shadows on these thumbnails don't match those on the cover of my books, particularly the MM.&nbsp; Remember that the D&amp;D Core Rulebook covers are actually photgraphs of engravings / carvings made by Henry Higgenbotham.&nbsp; WotC may have simply rephotgraphed the originals under better (or at least different) lighting conditions.&nbsp; The shadows seem deeper and more defined, though this could be caused by image resizing.If these are indeed the new images, a bigger scan would help shed light on the situation.&nbsp; Then again, Amazon might just be showing a new mock-up we haven't seen before instead of the final version.I've already sent Russ a copy of this for the front page.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Michael Morris, post: 750144, member: 87"] I was snooping around Amazon.com and bumped into these images [img]http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/hosted/Dusk/images/phr.gif[/img][img]http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/hosted/Dusk/images/dmgr.gif[/img][img]http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/hosted/Dusk/images/mmr.gif[/img] At first glance they don't look different from the current books but look closely, there's another word under the phrase "Core Rulebook." It looks like "Revised." Second, the font used for the phrase "Core Rulebook X" seems to have changed, but it's hard to tell in these thumbnail scans. Note the PHB cover - "Core Rulebook I" is as high as the adjoining gems, but on the original PHB the text was only half the size of the adjacent gems. This is not an artifact of resizing. Finally, the shadows on these thumbnails don't match those on the cover of my books, particularly the MM. Remember that the D&D Core Rulebook covers are actually photgraphs of engravings / carvings made by Henry Higgenbotham. WotC may have simply rephotgraphed the originals under better (or at least different) lighting conditions. The shadows seem deeper and more defined, though this could be caused by image resizing. If these are indeed the new images, a bigger scan would help shed light on the situation. Then again, Amazon might just be showing a new mock-up we haven't seen before instead of the final version. I've already sent Russ a copy of this for the front page. :) [/QUOTE]

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