D&D 5E Vote for your favourite 5E cover art!

[Plaguescarred]

My favorite is the D&D Starter Set so epic!

 

[Lord Vangarel]

Has to be the Starter Set for me as well.

 

[Patrick McGill]

Starter set is really cool, but my favorite is the PHB now that I see it up close. That is just an epic scene. Fire Giant wearing a dragon skull? Badass elf magic-user in fur and hide armor?

It's got a Conan-esque feel to it. It feels like Sword and Sorcery. And I love it.

As a side note, I like that the scenes are both realistic and epic. It's hard to balance those without slipping into anime-wuxia territory. Not that those styles are bad in and of themselves (I happen to love them), but for D&D these FEEL right to me.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Starter set and MM are cool.

PHB disappoints me -- it should be focused on the hero, not the monster, since it's the Player's Handbook!

 

[KirayaTiDrekan]

I like the subtle and not-so subtle tributes to previous covers, especially the starter set but...

PHB cover looks best in my opinion.

 

[Giltonio_Santos]

As for the little blurb on the bottom, if you're really "the greatest", you don't need to keep telling people that you are.

Maybe I'm reading too much into that, but after considering the fact that "world's greatest RPG" is appearing in every cover we got to see, it may be somehow related to their licensing strategy. We know that this phrase has been used by third party publishers in the past to describe compatibility without violating intellectual property, and maybe WotC wants to discourage that by making it part of their basic description of D&D. I don't know, just something that came to my mind while thinking about it.

 

[Kaodi]

I went with the PHB over Rise of Tiamat. I might have chosen the MM but I cannot get over the weird hand position.

 

[steeldragons]

Maybe I'm reading too much into that, but after considering the fact that "world's greatest RPG" is appearing in every cover we got to see, it may be somehow related to their licensing strategy. We know that this phrase has been used by third party publishers in the past to describe compatibility without violating intellectual property, and maybe WotC wants to discourage that by making it part of their basic description of D&D. I don't know, just something that came to my mind while thinking about it.

This is entirely plausible and, I would venture, most likely the case.

 

[Ahnehnois]

I thought the DMG the best by far, mainly because there's a sense of intrigue and I'm not entirely sure what it is.

In all cases, I think the monsters are better than the humaoid characters, whose poses are almost all kind of strange. It's definitely better than anything we saw in 4e, and particularly the starter set with a green dragon seems like an apology for whatever hideous freak was passed as one in the 4e art. The beholder is pretty good as well.

 

[DEFCON 1]

As for the little blurb on the bottom, if you're really "the greatest", you don't need to keep telling people that you are.

Tell that to Muhammad Ali.