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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaodi" data-source="post: 5944332" data-attributes="member: 1231">I think that the effectiveness of Iconics is going to be completely tied up in how spiffy they look. 3e's Iconics had some issues in that department, if you ask me. Pathfinder did this better.But something that neither 3e nor Pathfinder did well was "alternate costumes", to borrow a term from video games. They wore more or less the same thing everywhere, all the time. What 5e Iconics really need is a static theme, not a static costume. The two places that jump to mind here in terms of art direction are Smallville and Battlestar Galactica. As I hear it, Clark Kent wore Red, Blue, and Yellow in pretty much every episode, or even every scene. But that does not mean he wore the same thing. And in Battlestar Galactica, they very deliberately used a washed out colour palette to keep the show looking dark and gritty.For the Iconics, what I think they ought to do is: 1) Give them one item or visual element that is with them in every picture; 2) Choose three or maybe four base colours that are going to be used in all of their costumes; 3) Be consistent with each character's colour palette being bright, normal, or dull.</blockquote>