D&D General The ph icon characters

[wicked cool]

Whatever happened to the icon characters from older editions like Krusk the 1/2 orc etc. wonder why they went away from them

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

-- CEO Overlord, you required my presence?
-- Krusk, the public sensitivies no longer tolerates half-orcs. Your existence is an offense to good taste. Your entire race has outlived its utility to our bottom line. Prepare to die, along with all your brothers and sisters... Familicide.

 

[pukunui]

Whatever happened to the icon characters from older editions like Krusk the 1/2 orc etc. wonder why they went away from them

Regdar showed up in some 4e art, usually getting killed in one way or another. I'm not sure if any of the other 3e iconics showed up in later editions, though.

I think WotC mostly just wanted new characters for each new edition.

I don't think they had any iconics specific to 4e.

With 2014 5e, they thought about introducing some iconics via the SCAG (those characters on the front cover and in various interior art pieces) but ultimately decided not to.

The 2024 revised 5e books have some new "iconics" (one for each subclass) that show up throughout the core rulebooks. None of them have names that I'm aware of like the 3e ones did.

 

[BookTenTiger]

They all got hired by Darrington Press.

 

[sevenbastard]

The players who ran them graduated and got jobs and scheduling got harder and harder till the campaign just died mid adventure.