Who Are They?

[Presto2112]

In the past year or so, the artwork for at least one adventure in Dungeon Magazine has included the same characters over and over again. One appears to be a tiefling with a freaky lookin' sword, one looks like a cleric of Wee Jas, another one looks like a bald monk or sorcerer, etc. It's neat to have that kind of connection between the different issues. Are these figures named / classed / statted anywhere? Are these "characters" considered iconic for Dungeon, or is it just a case of the artist liking these images and using them all the time? Either way is cool.

 

[BlackMoria]

I don't recall their classes and races at this moment but this has been discussed a number of times on the Paizo boards.

They are iconic in that they showed up in the artwork during the period of the time of the AOW adventure path (but not limited to those adventures alone). There are new iconics now.

The old iconics did have races and classes but haven't been statted out.

Check out the Paizo boards (namely the Dungeon subgroup). Or someone else is bound to weight in.

 

[WayneLigon]

I really like the design for the paladin (Or fighter; he looks like a paladin to me) they've been using.

 

[Nightfall]

I like the Tielfling myself.

 

[James Jacobs]

Yeah... those guys are basically the Dungeon Iconics. We use them to give the magazine an ongoing personality (although the adventuers change each issue, the heroes don't), and because it's easier to ask artists to paint/draw a specific character than to ask for a paladin and then have to go in and change things because the art we get is of a guy who doesn't look like a paladin (or monk, or wizard, or whatever).

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Yeah... those guys are basically the Dungeon Iconics. We use them to give the magazine an ongoing personality (although the adventuers change each issue, the heroes don't), and because it's easier to ask artists to paint/draw a specific character than to ask for a paladin and then have to go in and change things because the art we get is of a guy who doesn't look like a paladin (or monk, or wizard, or whatever).

Do they have names, classes, whatever?

I'm feeling clueless, now, 'cause I'd never picked up on this.

 

[Nightfall]

Olgar,

I don't know them but I'm guessing the one human female is a cleric of Wes Jas. But I could be wrong...

 

[demiurge1138]

The human cleric is named Tyralandi, after James Jacobs' Age of Worms playtest character. The human paladin is Abelard, after another playtest character from that game (don't remember his player). Abelard died in the first session, which is why, in the Age of Worms modules at least, he's always the one being targeted by the monsters.

As far as I know, none of the rest of them have names.

Demiurge out.

 

[James Jacobs]

Correct; Abelard was Wes Schneider's character. He was eaten by the acid beetle swarm.

The other 9 characters don't have names, although among them all, all 11 core classes are represented.

The relaunch of Dungeon back in issue #114 introduced the first four: the ranger, the paladin, the rogue, and the sorcerer.

Age of Worms (Issue #124) introduced the cleric, the fighter, and the bard.

Savage Tide (Issue #139) introduced the wizard, the monk, the druid, and the barbarian.

Tyralandi and Abelard are the only ones so far whom we've named.

 

[AFGNCAAP]

Actually, I think they're a nice inclusion to the magazine.

I know I'd want to see them statted up; perhaps even showing up in the magazine as part of a special feature. Maybe even written up at various levels of progression (5th/10th/15th, or 1st/4th/8th/12th, etc.).

Heck, I'd like it if they wound up being included in the next run or two of the DDM line, like Warduke did.