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Originally Posted by Erik Mona  Given how helpful they are to art orders and branding and how easy it is to license and merchandise their images, their absence is an enigma. |
I'll grant you the first, but Jesus, Erik! When did Wizards of the Coast ever license or merchandise the iconics? A short series of unsuccessful
D&D novels and a couple of named droplets in the collectible miniatures ocean? Maybe a calendar or two?
Paizo with its
Pathfinder iconics has already beaten out everything Wizards of the Coast ever did with the
D&D iconics except writing them into a novel or two.
It would be pretty trivial to turn the Fourth Edition class portraits into iconics, if you wanted to do that. I hope they
don't, because they're pretty boring: all white-skinned (if they can be, and even the tiefling warlock looks less red-skinned than white with firelight casting a colour shadow), 75% male (only the ranger and warlock are female),
et cetera.
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