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Cleric Generic
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United Kingdom
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 Posted - 24 Apr 2010 : 15:28:06
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Mine would be the back cover of 3e Shining South, with the waterfall and the dragon about to take off.
So, which is your favourite? I'm thinking novels as well as source books (some of the cover art for recent novels has been pretty spiffy as well).
Bonus points if you can give a link to the art in question!
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Elfinblade
Senior Scribe
Norway
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skychrome
Senior Scribe
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Kno
Senior Scribe
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Victor_ograygor
Master of Realmslore
Denmark
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Cleric Generic
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
565 Posts |
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dragonfriend
Seeker
Italy
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Jakk
Great Reader
Canada
2165 Posts |
Posted - 25 Apr 2010 : 04:20:22
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First Edition novel: Spellfire (I agree, Sage; no contest on this one)
First Edition game product: The Magister (honourable mention to The Savage Frontier and Dreams of the Red Wizards; I'm a Caldwell fan too, but Jeff Easley will always be the king of D&D cover art for me; Larry Elmore will forever hold that title for Dragon cover art).
Second Edition novel: Crypt of the Shadowking
Second Edition game product: Halls of the High King
Third Edition novel: Elminster in Hell
Third Edition game product: either Dragons of Faerun or Sons of Gruumsh, depending on whether I'd prefer the PCs burned to a crisp or hacked to bits. 
The cover art that I've seen online for Ed's upcoming Elminster Must Die! looks pretty nice (if it's the cover we'll actually see on the published title); no comment as to 4E game products, except to say that the Campaign Guide cover art that I saw in product previews looked way better than the cover the FRCG actually got (although I will admit that the latter is one of the better renditions of Drizzt I've seen in a while). |
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Edited by - Jakk on 25 Apr 2010 04:29:20 |
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Quale
Master of Realmslore
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BlackAce
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
2950 Posts |
Posted - 25 Apr 2010 : 12:34:12
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| This is a tough one. The Grey box cover, the covers of Darkwalker on Moonshae and Soldiers of Ice would be my first choices I think. FR2 the Moonshaes, The Azure Bonds, Red Magic, FR16 The Shining South and N4 Treasure Hunt are contenders. |
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swifty
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
517 Posts |
Posted - 25 Apr 2010 : 17:04:50
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| the cover of the menzo box set. |
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Tyranthraxus
Senior Scribe
Netherlands
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Alisttair
Great Reader
Canada
3054 Posts |
Posted - 26 Apr 2010 : 13:44:32
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| This is a tough one to narrow down. Anything by Todd Lockwood is amazing. But what captivated me early was my first realms product purchase of the 2E Campaign Setting with Elminster and Drizzt on the cover with the sky blue colour. That was my first visual impression of the realms and it sticks in my head still today. |
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Brimstone
Great Reader
USA
3290 Posts |
Posted - 26 Apr 2010 : 14:13:19
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I always liked the cover to Unapproachable East for some reason. 
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 26 Apr 2010 : 14:41:37
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quote:
Originally posted by Brimstone
I always liked the cover to Unapproachable East for some reason.
Agreed.
Anything with Red Wizards or Szass Tam on the cover is almost an instant win for me in terms of artwork. |
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Alisttair
Great Reader
Canada
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Posted - 26 Apr 2010 : 16:39:27
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quote:
Originally posted by The Sage
quote:
Originally posted by Brimstone
I always liked the cover to Unapproachable East for some reason.
Agreed.
Anything with Red Wizards or Szass Tam on the cover is almost an instant win for me in terms of artwork.
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Archimedes of Syracuse
Acolyte
USA
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Alisttair
Great Reader
Canada
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Thauramarth
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
732 Posts |
Posted - 26 Apr 2010 : 21:29:20
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My personal faves:
Novels: Clyde Caldwell's cover for the first edition of Spellfire. Pretty strong stuff. Nothing says "high adventure" like a young blonde blasting the... ahem... solid human waste... out of a skeletal dragon.
Gaming products: Caldwell again - the cover for the 1990 Forgotten Realms Adventures hardcover. |
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
2950 Posts |
Posted - 27 Apr 2010 : 07:55:41
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Originally posted by Thauramarth
My personal faves:
Novels: Clyde Caldwell's cover for the first edition of Spellfire. Pretty strong stuff. Nothing says "high adventure" like a young blonde blasting the... ahem... solid human waste... out of a skeletal dragon.
Most of my adventures and campaigns turned more out like Jim Holloways more humorous pictures. Remember the one (it was at least used in an issue of Dragon)with the party looking at the Kua-Toa skeleton? That one is the usual every day adventure.
OK, so that was a bit of-topic. Sorry. |
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bitter thorn
Learned Scribe
USA
184 Posts |
Posted - 27 Apr 2010 : 08:23:48
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MerrikCale
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 28 Apr 2010 : 03:51:47
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| Todd Lockwood Drizzt stuff is good |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 28 Apr 2010 : 05:20:36
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| I think we've covered this topic before... But I'll rename my pics. For novels, it would be The Crystal Shard -- I love Larry Elmore's stuff. For sourcebooks, it's more Elmore: The Bloodstone Lands. I just love that artwork -- every time I see the picture, I have to wonder about the story behind it. That, to me, is one of the marks of good artwork. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 28 Apr 2010 : 07:00:01
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quote:
Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
I think we've covered this topic before... But I'll rename my pics. For novels, it would be The Crystal Shard -- I love Larry Elmore's stuff. For sourcebooks, it's more Elmore: The Bloodstone Lands. I just love that artwork -- every time I see the picture, I have to wonder about the story behind it. That, to me, is one of the marks of good artwork.
Agreed. I always tended toward doing that with his DRAGONLANCE stuff. And Jeff Easley's too. |
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Alisttair
Great Reader
Canada
3054 Posts |
Posted - 28 Apr 2010 : 15:13:50
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| The Twilight Giants original coves are kind of funny, especially The Giant Among Us, becasue Tavis looks happy the Ettin is crashing in. |
Karsite Arcanar (Most Holy Servant of Karsus)
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Kyrene
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