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And he looks like Sean Connery doing the grunge thing. :P
http://paizo.com/image/content/RiseOfTheRunelords/PathfinderDesktop-5.jpg
Is it just me or is his left hand missing some fingers?
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*snip from another thread*
http://paizo.com/image/content/RiseOfTheRunelords/PathfinderDesktop-5.jpg
The would be hero comes across as an amalgamation of Gandalf and Aragorn (or Merlin and Lancelot for that matter!) and is a story waiting to be told unto himself !! I can almost hear him speak in Sean Connery's Scottish drawl.
James Sutter wrote
Last week you saw Wayne's awesome white dragon fight for the cover of Pathfinder #5. This week, we've brought you the whole thing as a downloadable desktop wallpaper—including the newest iconic! Who is this well-equipped wizard? Only time (and, perhaps, a blog post in the imminent future) will tell....
Do tell sir, do tell !!
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I think I would like the new iconic better as an NPC.
Especially if he is going to be presented at a low level. He just looks too old to be a first level mage and just starting his career, alongside the other iconics.
I know it takes years of study to be a wizard, but damn - 50+ years of schooling just to cast "magic missile" aint worth it. :D
If his face were more youthful, the silver hair thing might be cool.
I don't know, is it just me? He looks like a very powerful wizard, not a beginning iconic.
Although, might be a cool backstory if he is older and spent most of his life doing something else (maybe he has 6 levels of expert or something) and some interesting spin could be created on why he came to the study of magic so late in life.
EDIT: Although, he IS on the cover of #5, and the party should be about 11th or 12th level or so by then . . . so, that's not too bad.
Well-designed, but kind of generic.
Looks like a Conn Seanery to me.
"Shand Point? I've lived there for yearsh."
Wow. Typing a Scottish accent is harder than I thought.
I love seeing the Paizonians suffering from Insomnia as too am I. Wow my syntax gets bad without sleep. The fun thing is I don't really care right now in spite of realizing it.
The new Iconic can't be straight Sean Connery. He'd need to have a shword for that. Typo intended.
For the record, I do a very good Sean Connery voice. I apparently lapse into it sometimes by accident for older, seasoned characters. Then I stop. That voice is reserved for the elderly superpimp character only.
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Soap elementals and nixies.What do they use for the laundry matt in college?I don't care if he's got a cane. I'm not giving him a quarter.That's probably okay, since he couldn't spend a quarter in Golarion! ;P
HEY EVERYBODY! I got Dr. Jacobs to admit that there are nixies and a para elemantal plane of soap in the Golarion cosmology!
That voice is reserved for the elderly superpimp character only.
I'm sure this chracter will take some levels in superpimp prestidge class.
Or he could just go the Elminster route and take levels in every base core class.
*getting in character*
Mook: "Who are you?!" Gesticulating with a cocked Handcrossbow.
????: "Connery. Sean Connery." Blasts mook with Wand of Magic Missle outfitted with a pistol-grip. Twirls his Katana off-handedly.
Sean Connery of Korvosa
Male Old Human (Scottish or Varisian equivalent)
Rogue 2/Fighter 2/Cleric 1/Sorcerer 5/Monk 1
The monk class is only included due to Sean Connery's undoubted ability to use a variant of stunning fist, the Stunning Chop, as evinced in many James Bond movies.
Just wait until he finds the Golden Wand.
That art is amazing! Makes me want to play right now.
Well, who's he? There's some who call him.... Tim!
But of course that cane's a dead giveaway. He's a diviner/healer with a superb talent for finding out what ailment someone has - and then curing it with the same healing spell every time.
He's Tim House, of course!
I just wanted to voice my appreciation for the new iconic character. I've always used a "Sean Connery voice" for one of my Living Greyhawk characters, so I expect that the new iconic is going to fit right in in my games.
What was his name again? Tym Gandminster?
He usually just uses one thumb. If he used his second thumb, it's much too lethal a weapon when he only needs to teach a lesson.
(from a movie)
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*snip from another thread*
http://paizo.com/image/content/RiseOfTheRunelords/PathfinderDesktop-5.jpg
The would be hero comes across as an amalgamation of Gandalf and Aragorn (or Merlin and Lancelot for that matter!) and is a story waiting to be told unto himself !! I can almost hear him speak in Sean Connery's Scottish drawl.
James Bond is a Commander of the British Empire (one step below a knight) and Sean Connery himself is a Knight of the British Empire, wonder if this guy gets to be a knight (titular, not class level), nice twist on a wizard chracter.
On that note... can any of you Paizo fellows give us a small taste of some of the Knightly Orders of Golarion?
He has a name now, and his backstory is coming together in my head. All will be revealed tomorrow on the blog.Does he have a name yet?
Twould be quite the idea to make a design-a-name contest would it not?
Awesome!
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He has a name now, and his backstory is coming together in my head. All will be revealed tomorrow on the blog.
I'm going to totally scoop Jacobs here...
His name is Ned Neodore Nogan, Esquire. He's into totally excellent magical stuff and he really hates those bogus outsider dudes. And whenever he casts a totally righteous spell he's all, "Whoa."
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He has a name now, and his backstory is coming together in my head. All will be revealed tomorrow on the blog.I'm going to totally scoop Jacobs here...
His name is Ned Neodore Nogan, Esquire. He's into totally excellent magical stuff and he really hates those bogus outsider dudes. And whenever he casts a totally righteous spell he's all, "Whoa."
Is his familiar named Bill?
"When did the Cheliax rule Varisia?"
"When did the Cheliax rule Varisia?"
Since the Cheliaxian Quarterback, Aroden, went and got himself killed after Homecoming. Since then the whole school has "tuned in and tuned out" and teen pregnancy is on the rise.
Sweet...
Lord: "Put them in the iron maiden!"
Vill and Ned: "Excellent!"
Lord: "Execute them!"
Vill and Ned: "Bogus!"
Now will the time tra...err...planeshifting telepho....err......outhouse?
I guess thats about what it would have to be. ^_^
The question is...who is who's cohort? Vill or Ned?
And his weapon of choice...AXE!
He has a name now, and his backstory is coming together in my head. All will be revealed tomorrow on the blog.I'm going to totally scoop Jacobs here...
His name is Ned Neodore Nogan, Esquire. He's into totally excellent magical stuff and he really hates those bogus outsider dudes. And whenever he casts a totally righteous spell he's all, "Whoa."
But does he know kung-fu (or the Golarion equivalent)?
I just took a good look at the illustration and dude doesn't look anything like Sean Connery.
This whole thread is moot.