D&D (2024) The D&D Cartoon Heroes In The 2024 PHB

Art by Dmitry Burmak​

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

This is Regdar erasure! Hasn't the poor guy suffered enough?

The 3E art team certainly did their best.

Seriously, though, although I'd want them to have their dungeonpunk fashions turned down -- put on a shirt, Hennet -- I would love to see the 3E iconics show up, even as background characters.

 

[Stormonu]

The action figure characters and cartoon characters aren't my first choice for iconics, but realistically, in the wider world, they're probably the best known characters out of (maaaaaybe) DADHAT. So WotC playing the cards they've got is the right way to go.

They would have had to pay licencing fees for the actor's images to put them in/on the books. With it looking like these may be teetering on loss leader first release costs, I don't think they wanted that.

This is Regdar erasure! Hasn't the poor guy suffered enough?

Regarding the cartoon characters: I did not watch it growing up, even though I was squarely in the target audience while it was airing, so I have no nostalgia for it. What little I've seen of it looks... kind of bad? I'm sure one of these days I'll sit down and watch it from beginning to end, but I suspect I would find these sorts of reprises more endearing if the show had imprinted on me as a youth. Art looks good, at any rate!

Regdar's dead, dude.

 

[Birmy]

They would have had to pay licencing fees for the actor's images to put them in/on the books. With it looking like these may be teetering on loss leader first release costs, I don't think they wanted that.


Regdar's dead, dude.

And not for the first time there, either!

 

[J.Quondam]

The 3E art team certainly did their best.

Seriously, though, although I'd want them to have their dungeonpunk fashions turned down -- put on a shirt, Hennet -- I would love to see the 3E iconics show up, even as background characters.

A scholar might measure the intensity of 3e grognarderie, if any, by reimagining Lidda as a 5e style big-head/tiny-hands halfling.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Y'all must have watched the Cartoon more recently than I have, because I was a huge fan back when it came out - but I don't remember a single thing beyond the Dungeon Master is a weird little yoda-dude and Tiamat is at the end of a roller coaster.

 

[Lidgar]

I don't remember a single thing beyond the Dungeon Master is a weird little yoda-dude

Are you referring to the episode when they were both placed in the Octagon?

More seriously (and setting aside nostalgia), I do like the art style and presentation of this piece. Would have preferred something similar in tone for the front cover, but that's just me.

 

[lyle.spade]

This would have made a much better PHB cover than the other piece of art.

 

[Morrus]

Bobby had a growth spurt,

Is 40 years really a 'growth spurt'?

 

[Morrus]

The action figure characters and cartoon characters aren't my first choice for iconics, but realistically, in the wider world, they're probably the best known characters out of (maaaaaybe) DADHAT. So WotC playing the cards they've got is the right way to go.

Obscure 80s cartoons don't have modern cultural awareness. That's a nostalgia call, but it's not a set of new iconics.

Well, I don't know that it's not. Maybe it is.

 

[Queer Venger]

Oh I know these kids...
Oh, they grew up. Please don't ask me what happened to Sheila & that other snot-nosed rich brat...