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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9345518" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Thinking about the Iconics a bit more, I think DnD is actually in a position to do something kind of fun and interesting. A few years ago I got the Sentinel Comics RPG book, and in the book there are quite a few depictions of "classic" heroes and villains from the original card game... and a bunch of new faces. And so, one of the first things people did was ask "who are these people" because the company has a habit of EVERYONE being SOMEONE. And most of them... didn't have names or seem to be important in anyway... because they were stand-ins for YOUR characters. DnD is kind of in a position to do something similiar. The front cover has these 2e iconic characters with their own story, there is an interior art of the old cartoon kids, they have some of the heroes of the lance and classic wizards from the ages, drizz't and his companions... and then the group on the back of the book. Unnamed, unknown. Who are those heroes? Well... YOU. I actually would love to see art of various characters, from various eras and worlds and stories interspersed with new people. WE have a halfling wild magic sorcerer with a prosethetic arm, who is she? No clue! But maybe the equipment section is going to show Redgar, Krusk and Jozan shopping at a blacksmith's while Mialee can be seen with her tome outside. I think it could be done in such a way that DnD isn't presenting "the iconic party" but instead that every party is iconic, to the point where, a player just starts assuming that every art is some person with an awesome backstory going on a grand adventure, because they all are.</blockquote>

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