Modern Roleplaying Books Now Have a Unified Look

The modern catalog finally has a face. If you see a cover with Georgi Marchev’s illustration of Gaia holding the world in her hands, framed in gunmetal blue, you’re looking at a modern title. This includes espionage, romance, mystery, crime, and everything else grounded in something like the real world. If it’s not fantasy, science fiction, or horror, it goes here.

This trade dress makes the modern books easier to spot. Whether it’s a roleplaying game about covert operations or a sourcebook on narrative tension in contemporary drama, they now live under the same look. Gunmetal Blue means grounded. It means current, that this story takes place somewhere you might recognize.

It’s about clarity. When you scroll past a thumbnail, when you browse the catalog, when you see a cover shared out of context, you’ll know exactly what it is. No need to decode the genre. If it feels like now, or near now, and doesn’t involve dragons or spaceships, it’s probably grey-blue.

The work is shifting into sharper focus. Fantasy is dark green. Modern is gunmetal. The rest are on their way.

Browse the growing modern collection at Lightspress

Postscript

I know Gaia is white-coded (or Greek statue-coded, maybe) and the only continents showing are Turtle Island and Abya Yala. This isn’t a diversity fail or a rollback of our commitment to inclusion. It’s absolutely not a white-savior narrative. In this case, it’s just a piece of artwork meant to convey the real world in a way that feels literary, classical, and modern all at once. That’s all it’s trying to do. Think of it as her residing in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Europe, and just sort of closing her eyes because she can’t deal with North America’s nonsense right now.