Incline Favorite cRPG cover art/boxart/promo art

[KeighnMcDeath]

Ah Elmore art.
https://larryelmore.com/store/MAM6/might-and-magic-6

 

[Strig]

The conspicuous absence of Albion in this thread had to be rectified. I'm pretty sure Ambermoon was already posted but the context demands a repeat.

For me this is one of the cheesiest box art's ever, its still great though.

A half-naked (savage) woman A pair of big boobs + a man with a gun* + ... dinosaurs? Poorly drawn at that. And some ruins.
Nothing cheesy about it.

*Not your typical model of Badass Gun(tm).

Still great though. Good times when boobs were bigger and half naked. Also the covers were cheesy(ier) but at the same time often very stylish. <nostalgia>

It's pure pulp and I love it.

 

[KD6-3.7]

This is the only truly good thread on RPG Kotex.

 

[__scribbles__]

This is the only truly good thread on RPG Kotex.

Just wait until you get GD access.

On topic:

I've also always loved Crusaders of the Dark Savant's box art. Not sure why, but it made me want to play the game immediately.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

The Amber covers aren’t showing. A lot of these covers look pretty clean which is great. Fucking price stickers Bork up the art. Hats off to original art sources as well.

 

[Strig]

The Amber covers aren’t showing. A lot of these covers look pretty clean which is great. Fucking price stickers Bork up the art. Hats off to original art sources as well.

And now? I edited the post and uploaded them to Imgur this time.

 

[Atlantico]

Gah I hate the Psygnosis covers. They're so tryhard edgy

 

[Sotomonte]

Not the best, but there isn't much left.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

How about if we look at "box art" of the last 5 years (2018-2023)?

Here's my favorite of that period.

Hard West would win my 2010-2017 category.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

The Amber covers aren’t showing. A lot of these covers look pretty clean which is great. Fucking price stickers Bork up the art. Hats off to original art sources as well.

And now? I edited the post and uploaded them to Imgur this time.

AWESOME! They’re pretty glorious covers.

Siradne loves to be a cheeky bitch. I use that name for fem mages if I want a chick mage instead of a sausage fest.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

SSI had an immense advantage in being able to re-purpose existing TSR D&D/AD&D artwork as box covers for their games:
...
SSI also re-used existing TSR artwork for about 15 other games, most of them non-RPGs.

Clyde Caldwell's cover illustration for AD&D Gamebook #15 The Vanishing City was repurposed for the cover of Hillsfar (1989), a game intended for use with the quartet of RPGs that began with Pool of Radiance

Jeff Easley's cover for DL11 Dragons of Glory, an optional wargame supplement for the 12 Dragonlance adventure modules, was re-used for the wargame War of the Lance

Jeff Easley's dragon duel illustration for the 1988 Dragonlance calendar became the cover for SSI's Heroes of the Lance, the first of three non-RPG Dragonlance games

Jeff Easley's cover for DL2 Dragons of Flame was used for the cover of the second non-RPG Dragonlance game, also called Dragons of Flame

Larry Elmore's cover art for DL5 Dragons of Mystery, a lore book for the Dragonlance series, was re-purposed for Shadow Sorcerer, the third of this trilogy of games

Keith Parkinson's cover illustration for DL3 Dragons of Hope became the cover of 3D dragon combat simulator DragonStrike

Clyde Caldwell's cover for the novel Spellfire was used for the Gold Box spinoff Turbografx-16 game Order of the Griffon

Clyde Caldwell's cover for REF3 The Book of Lairs had originally been a Dragon Magazine cover and was re-purposed for the Sega Genesis RPG Warriors of the Eternal Sun

Jeff Easley's cover art for the Al-Qadim campaign setting box set became the cover of computer RPG Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse

Jeff Easley's cover art for the novel Homeland, set in Menzoberranzan, appropriately was re-used for the cover of computer RPG Menzoberranzan

Clyde Caldwell's cover for adventure module RA3 Touch of Death was re-purposed for computer RPG Ravenloft: Stone Prophet

Gerald Brom's cover art for the novel The Verdant Passage became the cover of online RPG Dark Sun: Crimson Sands

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

How about if we look at "box art" of the last 5 years (2018-2023)?

Here's my favorite of that period.

Hard West would win my 2010-2017 category.

I guess these and many games in this period had physical releases. Any that are all digital don’t count imho.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

How about if we look at "box art" of the last 5 years (2018-2023)?

Here's my favorite of that period.

Hard West would win my 2010-2017 category.

I guess these and many games in this period had physical releases. Any that are all digital don’t count imho.

I used scare quotes for a reason.
Most games nowadays have digital art that imitates box cover for use on likes of Steam or GOG Galaxy.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Hmmmm….. we could probably gauge best art by year. I hope Big Box finds the best art versions. There are a few sites that try to created the best from what has been submitted.

 

[rumSaint]

You may not like the game but box art is simple and great

 

[Atlantico]

The contrast between the serene and hopeful art and the game subtitle "Messengers of Doom" always appealed to me

really like this for an RPG

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

And Gandalf made an appearance. :p

 

[Atlantico]

And Gandolf made an appearance. :p

He's always on time

 

[janior]

 

[ind33d]

really emblematic of the direction society took that these box arts used to say "Strategic Simulations" instead of "Gay Bear Sex"

 

[Desu]

 

[Kruyurk]

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Hanratty!!!



Legit link on the book title: Paperback-Paradise.com

Anyway, https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/215753.Peter_Hanratty

That book is "The Last Knight of Albion."

 

[Strig]

This one is more interesting than it is good. Unique local spin on the fantasy formula and it's, of course, from the groriousu randu ofu Nipponu. Dwarven pickelhaube is kinda cute.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

If her arrows don't pierce you, her nipples will. The dwarf's vacant stare wishing he wasn't on the cover. When a nearly all female party strikes DEATH just laughs. The dwarf is the first to go gladly to be rid of the wenches and hope his dwarven afterlife forgives him.