28 - Style Sunday: Roll 1d8+1, tag that many friends with your favourite RPG cover art.
To the surprise of I suspect very few regular readers, the original Vampire: The Masquerade cover.
The product of budgetary necessity, a photo of a piece of marble and a rose, it evoked a mood and stood out from most RPG covers of the time with paintings of characters in action. Backed up by the interior art, especially Tim Bradstreet’s full-page chapter frontispieces, it suggested more than showed.
No tagging, but I did decide to roll, and got a 3, so three more...
There had been minimalist covers before Vampire, all the way back to Traveller at least, but this is the one that got me for something I was already looking at. And the first edition of Traveller I saw, the 1983 starter set, had a figurative art cover anyway. But I’ll still count it.
One of the best presented RPGs I’ve ever seen is the second edition of Nobilis:
And finally let’s go much more traditional with first edition King Arthur Pendragon, the cover by Jody Lee which I first thought was a Pre-Raphaelite original.
Runeslinger and week 4 video with guest Lily
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