D&D 4E Vote for your favorite 4E PHB cover!

[ThirdWizard]

I don't think the color scheme works out on the last one. The picture just doesn't go with the horizontal strips. Now, I love the picture (sans dragon horn), but it just clashes.

I had to vote for the middle one, even though I would rather have a fourth option.

 

[Irda Ranger]

It's been my plan since August to buy one of those plastic textbook covers I used back in 6th grade, print that green dragon artwork on the front and slap it on my PHB. The recent change to the artwork has not changed that plan at all.

 

[Klaus]

You can't run a Green Dragon from the Player's Handbook. You can run a Dragonborn or Wizard from it though.

Besides, having one core book feature a scene while the others focus on their subject (in an admittedly abstract fashion, in the DMG's case) ruins the symmetry.

You could. Just stat up a, say, dragonborn Warlock 15, make it Large, with arbitrary ability scores and call it a Green Dragon.

 

[WhatGravitas]

Green dragon!

Why?

1) It freaking embodies D&D. Throughout. I don't care that dragons are not there, the book screams D&D.
2) It has powerful colours and contrasts. It looks nice and eye-catching - good for seeing it on a bookshelf.
3) I feel like the artist had more fun with it than with the other ones, it looks more lively and uses WAR's tell-tale contrasts and vibrant colours better than the other two.

Cheers, LT.

 

[Klaus]

Isn't the Green Dragon vs Adventurers the cover for the Character Record sheets?

Yep.

 

[Zamkaizer]

You could. Just stat up a, say, dragonborn Warlock 15, make it Large, with arbitrary ability scores and call it a Green Dragon.

And I could grab a Monster Manual and run a party of Rust Monsters, or grab the Dungeons Master's Guide and run a competitive dungeon renovation game!

Wait, what were we arguing about again?

 

[Geron Raveneye]

Definitely #3. Come on, the game is called Dungeons & Dragons, not Dungeons & Dragonborn or Tunnels & Tieflings. The picture shows all essential elements to a classic D&D adventure...a group of intrepid adventurers confronting a dragon in a shady underground dungeon. This is the essence of D&D, and should be on the front of the first (and in many cases the only) book a D&D player will buy for 4th Edition. The other two look a bit like covers to an issue of Adventurer's Health or Swords 'n' Staffs Quarterly.

And for the record, I disliked the fake book covers of 3E core books as well as the "black edition" of 2E. Basic D&D had a great succession of cover motives, each fitting to the theme within the box. And the older editions of it had really evocative covers. It's time the cover shows what the game is about again!

 

[Darkwolf71]

It would have been really cool if the PHB had a group of adventurers, the MM had a big nasty dragon, and the DMG had them both facing off. (With obligitory treasure piles in the background.)

 

[Klaus]

And I could grab a Monster Manual and run a party of Rust Monsters, or grab the Dungeons Master's Guide and run a competitive dungeon renovation game!

Wait, what were we arguing about again?

No, you couldn't, because the MM doesn't have the combat rules.

But hey, back to our poll!

 

[Jaws]

They all suck.


j.