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Old 8th July 2008, 06:14 PM   #119 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Arnwyn View Post
Really, AFAIC, iconics are bland, boring, and - most importantly of all - completely and utterly irrelevant. What's the point to the consumer? Branding? Meh. Looks like, for example in Pathfinder's case, some giant nobody/schmoe just plastered on the cover and getting in the way of some artwork that's actually cool.
I like the Pathfinder iconics:
1) Visually/conceptually
2) I like that if I decide to play a game and players are in attendance without ready PCs, I can just pull one of the iconics out.

Feature 2, BTW, is a significant improvement in the way Paizo does iconics than the way WotC did them AFAIAC.

So yeah. This consumer finds value.
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