Art by Dmitry Burmak
The 3E art team certainly did their best.This is Regdar erasure! Hasn't the poor guy suffered enough?
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.
Regdar's dead, dude.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!
And not for the first time there, either!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.
A scholar might measure the intensity of 3e grognarderie, if any, by reimagining Lidda as a 5e style big-head/tiny-hands halfling.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.
Are you referring to the episode when they were both placed in the Octagon?I don't remember a single thing beyond the Dungeon Master is a weird little yoda-dude
Is 40 years really a 'growth spurt'?Bobby had a growth spurt,
Obscure 80s cartoons don't have modern cultural awareness. That's a nostalgia call, but it's not a set of new iconics.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.