The black raven |
Just received my latest order from Paizo and it got an ad for GenCon with what looked suspiciously like new iconics :
- A very Hulk-like male green skin (I guess Half-Orc) that could be a Bloodrager (or maybe a Brawler)
- A blond human (or similar) male playing a string instrument that made me think of a realistic/serious Elan (of OOTS fame) but with a goatee and who might be a Skald
- A tan-skinned redhead female human who looks like an arcane caster (Arcanist ?) with like a hundred rings at her belt (to replenish her pool maybe)
- A blond human or elf female with the classical archer Ranger look. My guess is Slayer since I do not see a companion nearby.
Of course I could also be 100% wrong about these new (to me at least) characters ;-P
Shisumo |
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The Free RPG Day module also seems to show the warpriest and swashbuckler iconics...
Kevin Mack |
Just received my latest order from Paizo and it got an ad for GenCon with what looked suspiciously like new iconics :
- A very Hulk-like male green skin (I guess Half-Orc) that could be a Bloodrager (or maybe a Brawler)
- A blond human (or similar) male playing a string instrument that made me think of a realistic/serious Elan (of OOTS fame) but with a goatee and who might be a Skald
- A tan-skinned redhead female human who looks like an arcane caster (Arcanist ?) with like a hundred rings at her belt (to replenish her pool maybe)
- A blond human or elf female with the classical archer Ranger look. My guess is Slayer since I do not see a companion nearby.
Of course I could also be 100% wrong about these new (to me at least) characters ;-P
Honestly dont think those are the new iconics just a general add for Gencon I think.
Kevin Mack |
The Free RPG Day module also seems to show the warpriest and swashbuckler iconics...
Just me or does the swashbuckler look male? also seems to be half elf If I'm not mistaken.
Samy |
What I would want, or what anyone of us would want, is probably too late to make any difference by now, I'm guessing.
But just for posterity's sake...
I would really like to see a little bit of representation outside the core races. Aasimar and tiefling, in specific. Geniekin and drow have a lot of history too, and dhampir and catfolk are personal favorites. I'm not saying these need to be the majority or anything, but with the amount of iconics we're going to be deluged with, it would be really nice to see at least one tiefling and one, say, ifrit or something. The rest could all be core races.
I also agree that filling out the missing gender/core race combinations like female halfling and female dwarf should be a big priority.
Cthulhudrew |
The Free RPG Day module also seems to show the warpriest and swashbuckler iconics...
Good catch! I know that Jason Bulmahn has said that the warpriest is going to be a male half-orc, so this would indeed appear to be him.
Shisumo |
Shisumo wrote:The Free RPG Day module also seems to show the warpriest and swashbuckler iconics...Just me or does the swashbuckler look male? also seems to be half elf If I'm not mistaken.
Looks female to me.... but I admit I can't be certain. Half-elf does look right, though.
Tels |
Kevin Mack wrote:Looks female to me.... but I admit I can't be certain. Half-elf does look right, though.Shisumo wrote:The Free RPG Day module also seems to show the warpriest and swashbuckler iconics...Just me or does the swashbuckler look male? also seems to be half elf If I'm not mistaken.
I agree, it looks female. Notice that below her rapier arm there is a slight bulge which may indicate breasts. Also the depiction of the legs is very feminine so my guess is female.
Also, notice the Half-Orc has scrolls on his belt. Definitely a Warpriest.
Mikaze |
Shisumo wrote:I agree, it looks female. Notice that below her rapier arm there is a slight bulge which may indicate breasts. Also the depiction of the legs is very feminine so my guess is female.Kevin Mack wrote:Looks female to me.... but I admit I can't be certain. Half-elf does look right, though.Shisumo wrote:The Free RPG Day module also seems to show the warpriest and swashbuckler iconics...Just me or does the swashbuckler look male? also seems to be half elf If I'm not mistaken.
Hmmm...we don't have an intersexed iconic yet...
still holding out hope she's secretly a tiefling
Umbriere Moonwhisper |
Tels wrote:Shisumo wrote:I agree, it looks female. Notice that below her rapier arm there is a slight bulge which may indicate breasts. Also the depiction of the legs is very feminine so my guess is female.Kevin Mack wrote:Looks female to me.... but I admit I can't be certain. Half-elf does look right, though.Shisumo wrote:The Free RPG Day module also seems to show the warpriest and swashbuckler iconics...Just me or does the swashbuckler look male? also seems to be half elf If I'm not mistaken.Hmmm...we don't have an intersexed iconic yet...
still holding out hope she's secretly a tiefling
a male iconic whom dresses like a female would be awesome. something akin to a trope inspired by Japanese theater, were some men, raised to play female roles, would be forced to live their lives as if they were female until they reached adulthood and would often be coerced to join Kabuki theatre.
not every Kabuki actor did this, just the ones that were offered by their parents in their youth to play the female role.
could make a nice investigator.
Cori Marie |
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Tels wrote:Shisumo wrote:I agree, it looks female. Notice that below her rapier arm there is a slight bulge which may indicate breasts. Also the depiction of the legs is very feminine so my guess is female.Kevin Mack wrote:Looks female to me.... but I admit I can't be certain. Half-elf does look right, though.Shisumo wrote:The Free RPG Day module also seems to show the warpriest and swashbuckler iconics...Just me or does the swashbuckler look male? also seems to be half elf If I'm not mistaken.Hmmm...we don't have an intersexed iconic yet...
still holding out hope she's secretly a tiefling
A tiefling who can teleport with a sound effect of "Bamf"!
LazarX |
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The iconics should be interesting races like aboleth, mu spores and gelatinous cubes.
Humanoid races are boring. If I wanted to be a humanoid, I'd just go outside.
Speak for yourself. if your human characters are boring it's because you didn't put in the effort to make them interesting. I've been meeting humans for over half a century and they still surprise me.
Cori Marie |
Cori Marie wrote:Be still my heart.Mikaze wrote:still holding out hope she's secretly a tieflingA tiefling who can teleport with a sound effect of "Bamf"!
That's actually the description of my cohort in WotR
ZanThrax |
Personally, I'm pulling for each of these groups getting an iconic, but maybe we could see some from outside the core races show up too? C'mon, a WAR-styled tiefling*, aasimar*, or tengu iconic could be cool.
*As long as their range in appearance from Blood of ____ was kept in mind!
I'd love to get at least one tiefling - so long as it's anything other than the standard-issue reddish skin + horns. Especially the unibrow horns. It would hopefully encourage amateur artists to introduce more variety in their tieflings, which would let me have more variety in the art that I use to represent my characters.
Mark Moreland Developer |
poiuyt |
Mikaze wrote:Says who? You don't know the conversations that have gone on behind closed doors.Hmmm...we don't have an intersexed iconic yet...
still holding out hope she's secretly a tiefling
Intersex/Hermaphrodite iconic when?
Crossdressing iconic when?
(more) Evil iconic when?
Authors avatars when?
Gluttony |
yea, I'm pretty sure I've heard that one of the iconics was trans.
pleasebeEzrenpleasebeEzrenpleasebeEzren
It seems likely that it's Damiel who is the trans one (assuming there is indeed only one trans iconic), considering that his fascination with the transmutation aspects of alchemy and changing from one thing into another culminates in an outright obsession with something he calls 'the change'.
Adjule |
At this point, all I want is more iconics with a BEARD. Only 2 have any form of facial hair. A dwarf (Harsk) and an old man (Ezren). The iconics need more epic beard among them. I can see the hunter looking kinda "mountain man" like, since the other 3 nature-y classes are female (barbarian and druid) or a dwarf (ranger).
Really hoping for more beards.
Tels |
At this point, all I want is more iconics with a BEARD. Only 2 have any form of facial hair. A dwarf (Harsk) and an old man (Ezren). The iconics need more epic beard among them. I can see the hunter looking kinda "mountain man" like, since the other 3 nature-y classes are female (barbarian and druid) or a dwarf (ranger).
Really hoping for more beards.
Ross Byers RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32 |
At this point, all I want is more iconics with a BEARD. Only 2 have any form of facial hair. A dwarf (Harsk) and an old man (Ezren). The iconics need more epic beard among them. I can see the hunter looking kinda "mountain man" like, since the other 3 nature-y classes are female (barbarian and druid) or a dwarf (ranger).
Really hoping for more beards.
Balazar also has a beard, I thought.
Getting more might be tough, as several races canonically don't grow beards. 50% of iconics are female, and can't have beards right there. Elves, halflings, and half-elves also aren't going to have beards. Dwarf males will, obviously but so far that's just Harsk. I'm sure half-orcs can grow beards, but that's less appealing from an artistic point of view, because a beard obscures their distinctive orc-like features: tusks, jawline, and green/grey skin.
Fortunately, iconics skew toward human, and human males can and do have beards. I guess we get to see what the art department comes up with.
James Jacobs Creative Director |
Adjule |
Never fear. More beards are on the way.
Great news indeed! Would help expand cosplay choices (for cosplaying as iconics that others can easily recognize) for if/when I can ever obtain funds for PaizoCon attendance. Of course, if I can get the moneys, it more than likely means the beard is gone as the employment world hates the beard.
But, more iconics with beards is always a good thing.
Also, @Ross: Not sure about Golarion half-elves, but those from other worlds could grow them due to their human heritage (Tanis Half-Elven from Dragonlance is the biggest one that comes to mind). Of course, it could be half-elves of Golarion can't, but I haven't read much about them so don't know. More of a half-orc fan when it comes to human/other crossbreeds.
Ross Byers RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32 |
James Jacobs Creative Director |
James Jacobs Creative Director |
Purple Dragon Knight |
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*sigh*I so wanted the iconic arcanist to be a half-orc that actually came from a stable home.
you mean... was born of two hard working half-orcs earning their keep in a law-abiding way....... or raised by a well-established single male human wizard who should not have taken that shortcut through that female orc university during frosh week?
Liz Courts Webstore Gninja Minion |
Ross Byers RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32 |
Ahh dang, that bloodrager looked so cool too.
I don't recall the original source of that piece of artwork, but it pictures Prestige Class iconics from the Core Rulebook. It's the iconic Dragon Disciple* and the iconic Mystic Theurge trying to kill each other.
*Red dragon, clearly