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Post Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 11:16 pm 
 

True Detective season 3 has a mocked up AD&D hardcover in one of the first episodes. It's pretty cool looking. I'm curious if anyone recognizes the cover art. It's calling to me but I can't place it, so it may be original.

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Post Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2019 9:18 am 
 

With some Photoshop perspective tool magic, here's the cover: https://i.imgur.com/sypL7O0.png

It looks like a green dragon head with tentacle claws.  Kind of like a decapus (B3). There's also a man holding his hands as if praying just in front of the monster.

The cover text says something like, "An imaginative, original book about the most amazing elements of the AD&D game world."


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Post Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2019 9:54 am 
 

They did a great job with that.  A ton of effort for what was probably a 1-second blip on the show.

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Post Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2019 12:10 pm 
 

I would open a copyright violation claim!


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Post Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2019 3:28 pm 
 

aia wrote in Are there any true detectives here?:I would open a copyright violation claim!


Okay, but you'll have to file it in person in Leng.


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Post Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2019 10:11 am 
 

Dig the sorta-TSR Logo there. :)



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Post Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 12:36 pm 
 

Juan Moore (the artist who did the covers) recently posted to Instagram:

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Post Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2019 10:43 am 
 

spine text is wrong on the forest of leng one, right?


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Post Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2019 12:36 pm 
 

The actual prop is correct. The images aren't. While the spine likely would have been corrected prior to the book being made up as a prop, small things like the spelling errors in the back cover blurb wouldn't be.

Looking at the screen cap, I rather wished the supermodules as well as Lankhmar were published in hardback, rather than softcover. I'm assuming though that it was too expensive to do.



  

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Post Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 1:23 am 
 

blackdougal wrote in Are there any true detectives here?:Juan Moore (the artist who did the covers) recently posted to Instagram:

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Post Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2019 6:11 am 
 

I agree that the covers look amazing and all, but If one would be in a nitpicking mood though, one could argue that the later-era first edition logo on the Leng module wasn't used as early as 1980 (when that part of the series takes place). Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong!

  
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