D&D General The ph icon characters

[aco175]

I do find it cool that the new book pays a throwback to the original.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

Speaking of the hottie know as Lidda. Is this the most provocative piece of art D&D ever made?


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Who remembers the Enworld thread voting on who was the hottest iconic? And the controversy on Lidda winning and some posters accusing the others of degeneracy. Usual stuff.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

Actually half-orcs are very much still a thing.

No they were definitely banned I remember it.

 

[Alzrius]

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

It's because the "pH" characters turned out to be...

Basic.

That's a chemistry joke, y'all.

 

[Charlaquin]

Yeah but its like a less is more thing. IDK.

Like its one thing to be boobily crouching near a dragon in a thong and no top and another to be pulling you pants down a tad to check a tattoo.

Or maybe thats just me LOL

Is that why she’s doing it? I’ve never understood what the heck was going on in that art. Or, rather, why it was going on.

 

[Micah Sweet]

-- 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.

Wouldn't that mean all humans and all orcs related to any half-orc die (etc) die too?

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Is that why she’s doing it? I’ve never understood what the heck was going on in that art. Or, rather, why it was going on.

I hadn't known that either, or if I did once long ago, I'd forgotten. But look!

 

[Burnside]

Plus, I always get distracted by the fact that her left arm is longer than her right arm.

Oh no. Now I'll never not see that.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Oh no. Now I'll never not see that.

I think that's just a poor foreshortening thing - her right elbow is bent directly away from the "camera" (try to reach your butt, you'll see). I don't think that the picture is wrong, it's just that it looks that way from what would be, if it were a real picture, an optical illusion.

 

[Charlaquin]

I hadn't known that either, or if I did once long ago, I'd forgotten. But look!

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Well… I guess that explains why she’s pulling her pants down, though it does raise new questions about why she has a tattoo that matches this statue…