From obscurity to major players

[Philotomy Jurament]

Morgan Ironwolf.
Zenopus.

 

[BOZ]

anyone remember a villan from a module or elsewhere that could have really used more time in the spotlight? Acererak gets plenty of nods, for one, and so does Keraptis at times. but how about bad guys (and good guys) you remember but never hear about?

 

[Numion]

"Lassiviren the Dark"

Who's this? As a finn, the name sounds just wrong.

 

[Shazman]

Wouldn't Kyuss be one as well? I know that the only reference to him that I knew of before Age of Worms was his spawn.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

Bargle the Infamous? I remember reading about him in my Karamiekos campaign setting. He was portrayed as a comical figure, though. Sort of a buffoon-mage. I gather this shouldn't be the case?

Nope- he wasn't intended to be comical. He's a street thug who knifed a wizard's apprentice, stole his spellbook, and learned to be a wizard. Mostly by killing and stealing spell knowledge from other wizards. He got himself a fancy gig as a Baron's court wizard, but despite the rise in station, he's still just a thug.

Classic villain. Him and the Black Eagle Baron that he works for. "Bwahahahaaa!"

 

[Cthulhudrew]

anyone remember a villan from a module or elsewhere that could have really used more time in the spotlight? Acererak gets plenty of nods, for one, and so does Keraptis at times. but how about bad guys (and good guys) you remember but never hear about?

Hmm... let me think.

Xanathon and Draco (from X3: Curse of Xanathon) always appealed to me.

Skarda (from X12: Skarda's Mirror)

Barimoor (Alphatian wizard that carved out an underground realm beneath Ylaruam on Mystara)

Any and all of the LJN D&D characters (Strongheart, Warduke, Kelek, Ringlerun, and the rest of the gang). Aside from the toys and the cheesy old coloring books (which were *really* generic- at least the two I've managed to get my grubby little paws on), there wasn't much done with them. They should have made them the iconics for D&D 3rd Edition. Or made a comic book with them, or something...

 

[arwink]

The Korpru in the Isle of Dread. Somehow I find the current 3.5 incarnation of the monster somewhat...unsatisfying.

Ettien D'Amberville from the Known World, with all the wonkiness that is the radiance in full effect.

The drow sorcerer who appeared in the 3.0 DMG wielding a staff of the deathsong, whose name I can't remember now that my 3.0 books are long gone.

 

[MerricB]

Any and all of the LJN D&D characters (Strongheart, Warduke, Kelek, Ringlerun, and the rest of the gang). Aside from the toys and the cheesy old coloring books (which were *really* generic- at least the two I've managed to get my grubby little paws on), there wasn't much done with them. They should have made them the iconics for D&D 3rd Edition. Or made a comic book with them, or something...

Warduke has a miniature in War of the Dragon Queen (and Epic version) and has been statted up in a recent Dungeon magazine.

Thankfully, nothing has been done with Uni.

Cheers!

 

[Cthulhudrew]

Warduke has a miniature in War of the Dragon Queen (and Epic version) and has been statted up in a recent Dungeon magazine.

Yes- I have that issue of Dungeon, and they did a pretty good job of inserting him into Greyhawk, even if they did buff him waaay up from where he'd previously been statted (level 8- although I guess 22 years of adventuring will help out quite a bit.)

Still think they'd have been great choices for the iconic characters, though- even if they do skew a bit heavy towards the "human" side of things (only 2 halflings, 2 elves, 2 half-elves, 1 half-orc, 1 gnome and 1 dwarf in the entire bunch!)

Plus they're missing a monk character. Otherwise they've got all the bases covered!

 

[Templetroll]

I always liked Xylarthan, the example wizard from Men & Magic in the tan booklet. We met him as an npc in my first D&D campaign, back in '70, but we called him Xylaphone. A few years into the campaign it was a trivia question for those same players!

I used the name a couple of years ago for my dwarven wizard. My storyline had him banished from his clan for the study of magic and he took the name from "...an ancient tome of lore."