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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadeus" data-source="post: 2579570" data-attributes="member: 1795">I guess the Introduction to the book did not thoroughly explain what the Ironics are.  I called it the Ironics because I always found it ironic that the Iconic characters were so poorly designed.  The name is my own in-joke on that fact.  I had been playing in a number of pick-up games lately where they were using the iconics as pregenerated NPCs.  Unfortunately, they were filled with stat-block errors and didn't contain stats for familiars, mounts, or animal companions.  Plus many of the feat and skill selections were sub-optimal.  Finally they were only statted out for 3.0 in Enemies and Allies, so they needed some extensive updates.The intension of the book is to have some pre-generated characters that the DM knows are balanced with each other and that the stat blocks are correct so if they want to run a game at GameDay or a one-shot, they have a reliable source for characters.  In addition, a bit of background was included in case the DM wanted to use them as NPCs instead of PCs (or as a villain).As for using other Open Game Content, I contemplated that pretty heavily.  But ultimately wanted to provide a tool for DMs to use without requiring any additional products beyond the core rules.  As for why they are single-classed, that was the intent of the book was to showcase single-classed characters.  There is probably a second set of characters that would show prestige classes and multiclassed characters as well.  But that would open a much larger door including the more popular multi-classing options (wizard/rogue, fighter/wizard, fighter/cleric, etc.) and didn't want to muddle the focus of this book.Thanks for the review.  Some good observations in there.....Shadeus aka Eric Jensen</blockquote>

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