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Monday, August 2, 2010

Bestiary 2
Illustration by Wayne Reynolds

We've got a Wayne Reynolds cover art showdown! Here to square off against the Bestiary 2 cover, it's the preview cover to World Guide: The Inner Sea! Fight!


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Sexy !

I rolled spellcraft and I belive The Whispering Tyrant is about to cast an Empowered Quickened Epic Jazz Hands.

The iconics don't stand a chance.

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He's just mad because they didn't bring him cookies. Who can blame him.

Also I think Seoni needs to change places so she's facing toward the reader.

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Awesome, same fight but new scene.

Like a metaphor for the whole book, you sly dogs.

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dm4hire wrote:
Also I think Seoni needs to change places so she's facing toward the reader.

Yes. This, please.

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GeraintElberion wrote:

Awesome, same fight but new scene.

Like a metaphor for the whole book, you sly dogs.

My thoughts exactly.

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GeraintElberion wrote:
Like a metaphor for the whole book, you sly dogs.

<Head tap tap> Yup. See how that works.

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F. Wesley Schneider wrote:
<Head tap tap> Yup. See how that works.

Wait... you head works? Oh, no a black dragon who's head works! run in terror!


Love me some Wayne Reynolds, but this is a bit sub-par for his standards. That big, weird emptiness on the upper left corner, Valeros' silly face, Seoni's shapeless, straight-as-a-line arm... and please, find some way to emphasize the title without that hideous transparent white line, that only detracts from the cover.


Well if it is a contest, Bestiary II art and cover design wins hands down. I love Wayne's art but have to agree with Viriato on this one, especially about the hideous transparent white line.

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I like the picture itself, I just don't think it conveys "epic" like a whole campaign setting.

Of course I don't have a better suggestion :) And it will still be on my shelf.

Also agree on the transparent banner . . . I hope that's just a stand in.


This isn't the final cover design.


I'm aware of that; just giving my unrequested impressions and suggestions. I'm opinionated like that.

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Sarah Robinson wrote:
This isn't the final cover design.

I've always loved me some WR since work he did back in 2nd edition. But has anyone else noticed that Merisiel and Seoni are in the exact same stance? Made me wonder if they're doing the Hokey-Pokey. :)


Sarah Robinson wrote:
This isn't the final cover design.

...That's a creepy avatar you got there Sarah...

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Lilith wrote:
Sarah Robinson wrote:
This isn't the final cover design.
...That's a creepy avatar you got there Sarah...

Creepy in a sneak-preview of Bestiary 2 sort of way.

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Is that right? I thought the World Guide was branded under Pathfinder Campaign Setting not Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. But the top logo says Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.

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Lilith wrote:
Sarah Robinson wrote:
This isn't the final cover design.
...That's a creepy avatar you got there Sarah...

Agreed!

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Mock-up, mock-up, mock-up.

It should say "Campaign Setting," and probably will as soon as the art team gets back from lunch. :)


So, is this the final layout for the cover? ;p


So the illustration on the front cover is either Valeros, Merisiel, and Seoni arguing with Kyra when she's having a really bad hair day, or else that's the Whispering Tyrant and he's already taken Kyra out?


Charles Evans 25 wrote:

So the illustration on the front cover is either Valeros, Merisiel, and Seoni arguing with Kyra when she's having a really bad hair day, or else that's the Whispering Tyrant and he's already taken Kyra out?

Nah, Seoni cast Improved Invisibility on her before the battle started. She's standing behind old Tarby, preparing to hit him with a +3 "whatever-the-weapon-quality-undead-really-hate-is-called" sword.

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Erik Mona wrote:

Mock-up, mock-up, mock-up.

I think my confusion came from the term "preview cover." Though I have various sources of confusion in my life.

Also one question I've had with this product is how it will differ/complement/override all the many Chronicles and Companion books that I've purchased. (Maybe this discussion is on another thread--if so, could someone direct me there?)

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Curn_Bounder wrote:
Also one question I've had with this product is how it will differ/complement/override all the many Chronicles and Companion books that I've purchased. (Maybe this discussion is on another thread--if so, could someone direct me there?)

This book is a revision of the hardcover campaign setting we published a few years ago. It updates that book's rules (of which there were only a few) to the Pathfinder RPG, it expands all of the regions up to 4 page entries, and pulls in some new and some old stuff from numerous different articles and books we've published in the last 3 years.

The goal is to make this book "ground zero" for all things Golarion; it'll be the book everyone should go to in order to "get started" in the world. It's going to complement pretty much EVERY Golarion book we do, in other words.

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