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Golarion Day: Death to the Iconics!

Thursday, February 24, 2010

So we have this book coming out soon called Undead Revisited. A 64-page book that's sort of a spiritual sequel to Classic Horrors Revisited, I suppose, in that it's got ten six-page articles that explore all sorts of scary monsters. But whereas Classic Horrors Revisited focused on frights that come from myth and legend, Undead Revisited focuses more on undead who were mostly created whole cloth for the game. A few in here, like the wight, are certainly from mythology, but most of the undead in this book are things like bodaks, devourers, graveknights, nightshades, and raveners—creatures made up for the game and only very loosely (if at all) inspired by overall stories featuring undead and threats from beyond the grave.

Anyway, when I was ordering art for the book, I decided to have a little fun. Each chapter opens with a half-page illustration, so why not show these horrible undead doing what they were born to do—kill player characters? So for each chapter opener, you get to see some violent undead monster killing off one of our iconics—pictured here, the iconic alchemist Damiel meets his end at the shadowy hands of a shadow.

Of course, there's only ten chapters, and when you count the three most recent additions to the party (the samurai, the ninja, and the gunslinger), we've got over double that in iconics. That DOES mean that only ten of the iconics get offed in this book. So make sure to check out Undead Revisited when it comes out to discover if YOUR favorite iconic bit the dust!

James Jacobs
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With a name like that, I'm surprised she is your favorite.


Because I have the word "orc" in my name? That's just a happy coincidence.


James Jacobs wrote:


Absolutely. We're calling it "Undead Revisited." ;-P

That's only partially snark. When we first came up with the idea for Classic Horrors Revisited, we were going to just have it be undead, but there was WAY too many undead to cover in one book. But there's not enough really to do TWO books. So we decided to call the first one "Classic Horrors" and added in some non-undead creeps to round things out.

Awesome :) I wasn't sure, as a second Classic Horrors could do some neat things with Hauntings and such ;) But I'm content with Undead Revisited ... that is until Mythos Revisited comes out ;)


This is a awesome idea. And you know you could make this a theme thoughout the (insert monster) Revisited bookes. Heck you could have contests in which us the fan base decides who is safe this time. (or conversly we could just vote which one dies...).

Anyway can't wait to see it.


save taht for next time.

James said the art was already ordered


Kajehase wrote:
*prays Alain's a goner*

I'm hoping we see both him andd Selyiel get nailed...oh, who am I kidding? Seltyiel will be the one turning the Iconics into undead.


Eric Hinkle wrote:
Kajehase wrote:
*prays Alain's a goner*
I'm hoping we see both him andd Selyiel get nailed...oh, who am I kidding? Seltyiel will be the one turning the Iconics into undead.

You know using a different mean of 'getting nailed' could bring in another type of artwork...Iconic porn. Though it probably exists as we do have the internet now.

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Steelfiredragon wrote:

of course then there is his rod of resurrection in his [redacted] pocket....with Merisal's name on it

Nah, he's just happy to see her. *ducks*

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John Kretzer wrote:
Eric Hinkle wrote:
Kajehase wrote:
*prays Alain's a goner*
I'm hoping we see both him andd Selyiel get nailed...oh, who am I kidding? Seltyiel will be the one turning the Iconics into undead.
You know using a different mean of 'getting nailed' could bring in another type of artwork...Iconic porn. Though it probably exists as we do have the internet now.

It does exist. It occasionally gets linked on the forums.

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Kevin Mack wrote:

Hmm let me have a guess at which other Iconics die

Valeros
Lini
Merisal
Amiri
(Witch) Cant remember her name
(Cavilear)Again cant remember the name
Harsk
Seoni
Sajan

(Also Im assuming none of the Iconics are being permanently killed since I'm fairly certain all the origonal ones have been killed at least once.)

You forgot Lem, he always dies. In fact they should have had him in the background of every image painfully slain. :)

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GeraintElberion wrote:
John Kretzer wrote:
Eric Hinkle wrote:
Kajehase wrote:
*prays Alain's a goner*
I'm hoping we see both him andd Selyiel get nailed...oh, who am I kidding? Seltyiel will be the one turning the Iconics into undead.
You know using a different mean of 'getting nailed' could bring in another type of artwork...Iconic porn. Though it probably exists as we do have the internet now.
It does exist. It occasionally gets linked on the forums.

Occasionally? hell there is a thread all about it and every time a new piece of art goes up. it gets linked with in days. :)


Dark_Mistress wrote:


Occasionally? hell there is a thread all about it and every time a new piece of art goes up. it gets linked with in days. :)

Where would I find this thread...ahem...so I can aviod it. *cough* Yeah that's it. To aviod it.

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John Kretzer wrote:
Dark_Mistress wrote:


Occasionally? hell there is a thread all about it and every time a new piece of art goes up. it gets linked with in days. :)
Where would I find this thread...ahem...so I can aviod it. *cough* Yeah that's it. To aviod it.

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So any chance of revealing which of the other Iconics get it?

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