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<blockquote data-quote="Balesir" data-source="post: 6167091" data-attributes="member: 27160">The Icons in the book are essentially examples; different world settings will have different spins on them, or completely different Icons. In fact, you could say that 13th Age world building is largely creating and describing a set of Icons. I'm pretty sure, for example, that we'll see a different set of Icons for Primeval Thule.Part of the idea of the Icons, though, is to get the players world building. The &quot;gaps&quot; in the world are filled in during play, rather than in advance, by the GM. This engages both characters and players with the world fiction. I think this is why they give a set of Icons in the core rules; the identities of the actual Icons themselves isn't &quot;Core&quot;, but the existence of a set of cool and inspiring Icons is Core, so how they might look and what they need to say has to be included in example so that GMs know how to set them up and why they exist.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Balesir, post: 6167091, member: 27160"] The Icons in the book are essentially examples; different world settings will have different spins on them, or completely different Icons. In fact, you could say that 13th Age world building is largely creating and describing a set of Icons. I'm pretty sure, for example, that we'll see a different set of Icons for Primeval Thule. Part of the idea of the Icons, though, is to get the [b]players[/b] world building. The "gaps" in the world are filled in during play, rather than in advance, by the GM. This engages both characters and players with the world fiction. I think this is why they give a set of Icons in the core rules; the identities of the actual Icons themselves isn't "Core", but the existence of a set of cool and inspiring Icons [i]is[/i] Core, so how they might look and what they need to say has to be included in example so that GMs know how to set them up and why they exist. [/QUOTE]

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