wicked cool
Hero
Whatever happened to the icon characters from older editions like Krusk the 1/2 orc etc. wonder why they went away from them
D&D General The ph icon characters
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-- 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.
-- 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
Legend
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.
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BookTenTiger
Sad Dad of the Revolution
They all got hired by Darrington Press.
sevenbastard
Legend
The players who ran them graduated and got jobs and scheduling got harder and harder till the campaign just died mid adventure.
Kobold Avenger
Legend
Some of those 2024 PHB characters show up in more than once in the art. I'd like to know some of the stories behind them, out of interest. Like are the Tiefling Bard with Elven features and the Elven Sorcerer siblings? How did the College of Dance Bard end up in a party with the Dragonborn Zealot Barbarian and the main Halfling Rogue? Is the Fey Wanderer Ranger actually an Orc/Elf?
When there were 10 or less 'classic' classes, iconic characters made sense. Players knew who/what they were and the iconics could be used to identify something. Now that there are a whole horde of classes, subclasses, options and whatnot, iconics lost much of their utility. Not that many players could keep track of a 100+ iconic critters. Paizo has the same issue. Paizo kept iconics but some of the classes have new primary 2e iconics with the 1e versions pushed into the background. Not sure some of the secondary iconics have names.
dave2008
Legend
Actually half-orcs are very much still a thing.
