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The Most Iconic Cover In RPG History?

Started by RPGPundit, January 21, 2018, 06:07:45 AM

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#75
January 29, 2018, 03:24:00 PM
Quote from: Manic Modron;1022128The demon statue is recognizable to gamers and non gamers alike as D&D.  The red dragon image doesn't have nearly as much traction.


I suspect that would be true, but I'd be curious to test just how many normies recognize and correctly identify one image vs the other.
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#76
January 29, 2018, 03:32:40 PM
I don't think the normies would correctly identity either one specifically as much as the red demon statue would get "that's some d&d thing" and the red dragon cover wouldn't be recognized as a professional cover at all.  It might be viewed as "somebody's d&d art," but not as anything official.

Might be worth quizzing my group with Saturday, though.

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#77
January 29, 2018, 10:15:19 PM
Quote from: Skarg;1020938I don't think there's such a thing as "most iconic" for all RPGs, but there would be at least one per RPG you're familiar with. (I don't think iconic-ness works as a one-dimensional measure; there's a cover that comes to mind for each game I think of, but it doesn't make me think of other RPGs.

Though I also think of the cover art from Microgame versions I started with:
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I find the covers of the versions I started with more iconic for The Fantasy Trip:
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Not popular enough a game to be generally iconic for RPGs, but still a favorite.

For D&D, I'm partial to the Greyhawk supplement cover with the beholder.

Quote from: Skarg;1021349To me the TFT covers I picked above for icons of TFT similarly show what the main gameplay of those games are about. Melee is about combat, and the risk of death at any time from tactical situations, as the woman behind the victor with a spear shows (if she's a foe, she may be about to kill him with a charge from the rear). Wizard is about balanced combat between wizards and fighters, nicely illustrated even if there is no "rips your face off into a bubble" spell, unless that's the Death spell. The other covers also nicely illustrate one of the main campaign experiences, again combat with tactical aspects of arranging fighters to screen against encircling more numerous foes, protecting the wizard from getting engaged, and using terrain to gain a defensive advantage. The TFT orcs seem to be given pause by the party's deployment. That's a great visual of what a typical TFT combat might be like.

The original covers captured the essence of those two Microgames well. (I think better, but likely because they were the ones I started with.) That's a decent standard for iconic for a less known game.

Skarg

#78
January 30, 2018, 01:23:40 PM
Quote from: rawma;1022642I find the covers of the versions I started with more iconic for The Fantasy Trip:
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Not popular enough a game to be generally iconic for RPGs, but still a favorite.
The original covers captured the essence of those two Microgames well. (I think better, but likely because they were the ones I started with.) That's a decent standard for iconic for a less known game.
Yeah, I started with the other covers, and never owned those earlier ones, but I'd probably associate the game with whatever covers I had first.

Mike the Mage

#79
January 31, 2018, 04:03:36 AM
There are loads that I love, but the ones that really stand out for various reasons are these two guys

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#80
January 31, 2018, 11:14:19 AM
Quote from: Mike the Mage;1022841There are loads that I love, but the ones that really stand out for various reasons are these two guys
I wonder what the third cover would have been, if the D&D Companion continued the sequence.

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#81
January 31, 2018, 11:17:27 AM
Original 1E AD&D Players Handbook cover (demon idol)
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#82
January 31, 2018, 07:17:33 PM
BECMI red box, no doubt. That or the 1E PHB.

(Personal) Honorable mention: the first D&D I ever owned, of course! Below, the Brazillian version of the Dennings black box released here by Grow back in 1994. :)

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#83
January 31, 2018, 10:52:12 PM
Quote from: RF Victor;1022931BECMI red box, no doubt. That or the 1E PHB.

(Personal) Honorable mention: the first D&D I ever owned, of course! Below, the Brazillian version of the Dennings black box released here by Grow back in 1994. :)

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It's honestly (to me) amazing how often variations of single fighting hero versus a dragon game covers there are.

This is why I personally think that the red box Elmore cover is more iconic, because it has been aped and copied for as long as RPG's has existed.

Am I right?  Flarked if I know, but that's why I believe it is.
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#84
February 02, 2018, 03:21:35 AM
Quote from: RF Victor;1022931BECMI red box, no doubt. That or the 1E PHB.

(Personal) Honorable mention: the first D&D I ever owned, of course! Below, the Brazillian version of the Dennings black box released here by Grow back in 1994. :)

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The Brazilian market always blows my mind. It always makes me question why there was such an effort to translate and bring in product to the Brazilian market compared to that of the rest of Latin America. You'd think Spanish would have been a pick over Portuguese, but nope.
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#85
February 02, 2018, 06:08:53 AM
Quote from: RPGPundit;1023186The Brazilian market always blows my mind. It always makes me question why there was such an effort to translate and bring in product to the Brazilian market compared to that of the rest of Latin America. You'd think Spanish would have been a pick over Portuguese, but nope.

The effort to translate and bring in product was not made by TSR itself or any of the other companies; There was no latin american "localization plan." Brazilian publishers themselves went after the rights.

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#86
February 02, 2018, 06:46:29 AM
Peripheral to the core hobby of course, but in the UK at least, this was pretty huge.

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#87
February 02, 2018, 01:12:28 PM
AD&D PHB , IMO.

But Fighter x Red dragon seems to be really, really popular.

Not that is MY favorite.

I'm not even that much into AD&D...

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#88
February 02, 2018, 01:43:25 PM
Quote from: RF Victor;1023196The effort to translate and bring in product was not made by TSR itself or any of the other companies; There was no latin american "localization plan." Brazilian publishers themselves went after the rights.

  On a tangential note, can you explain why Ravenloft was such a hit in Brazil?

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#89
February 02, 2018, 02:18:43 PM
Quote from: Pat;1022863I wonder what the third cover would have been, if the D&D Companion continued the sequence.

I´ve never tought about it, but I´d love to see that!
Is Otus still alive, maybe we could ask him?
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