Thursday, March 12, 2009

Cover Trouble II

If my fairly open-minded and not particularly religious parents were freaked out by the cover of Freedom, I can't imagine how this one would have gone over with people more uptight than they:



I mean, that's exactly what Jack Chick's audience thinks a book that teaches you how to sacrifice goats to Belphegor of the Sulfur Pits would look like.

Oddly enough, it sorta looks like a 3rd edition D&D book. Hmm...

8 comments:

  1. I had to explain the one point up/two point up pentacle/pentagram thing a lot. One of the best rpgs ever, with a totally sketchy cover for the 80's.

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  2. I only briefly owned it a couple of years ago, but it seemed pretty cool. It reminded me of the Palladium Fantasy RPG, in a way (and I mean that as a compliment). The Sienkewicz art in the Bestiary was incredible.

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  3. I remember that. 80's (pre-digi) Sienkewicz really does it for me.

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  4. DEMON BEAR!

    Yeah, I need to re-acquire the Arcanum Bestiary in its original standalone version. (The one you saw was a compiled reprint, and I think the art got shrunk down.)

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  5. Atlantis: the Lost World also has a Bestiary in it that is the exact same one as the standalone (I own them both).

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  6. Yeah, Atlantis: The Lost World was the version I used to have. Do you happen to know if the artwork in the original Bestiary book was printed at a larger size?

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  7. The Bard Games A:tLW and the Bard Games Bestiary are exactly the same. I am not sure about any other editions done by other companies, but I just thumbed through them and there is no difference in the Bard Games versions.

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