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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 8270710" data-attributes="member: 7023840">Covers, in the proper and only correct Order:1. Strange Science 2. Introducing the Awfully Cheerful Engine!3. Spirits of Manhattan4. Montana Drones and the Raiders of the Cutty Sark5. Having Jackson Pollack use his drip technique to make one of his paintings ... directly on my eyeballs.......1,982. Beam Me UpEDIT: Reasoning for this ... the most appealing one, immediately, is #4. It manages to evoke Stranger Things, E.T., and even (if unintentionally) a touch of Back to the Future. It perfectly captures not just an '80s zeitgeist, but also a future nostalgia by the 80s-via-Stranger Things refererent.The core rules are also appealing- I get the immediate gist of genre mixup. It's effective! After that, I immediately "got" #2. It's Ghostbusters. I like Ghostbusters- the original movie and the original TTRPG (WEST END GAMES IN THE HOUSE!).  The reason I place Montana Drones last among the "good" covers is because while the cover is good and evocative (I get it ...), it's also not great for a TTRPG. It makes me think that this is a game for a single protagonist, or solo play. Beam Me Up is just ... not good. I assume, from the title, that it's Star Trek? But the cover itself tells me nothing at all. Is it ha ha Star Trek? Is it planetary exploration, or space battles? Can I do Douglas Adams style scifi? The cover itself doesn't do anything for me.</blockquote>