Many of the 4th Ed. classes have literary or cinematic iconics to which we compare the class. Conan (Barbarian), Merlin (Wizard), Gandalf (Invoker, although I've also heard valid arguments for both Wizard and Swordmage) immediately spring to mind. I've been having a terrible time trying to find iconics for certain classes - Seeker, Battlemind, and Ardent among them. Today, though, the iconic Mantle of Clarity Ardent was revealed to me in a glorious flash of inspiration....!
Peter Gibbons from Office Space.
You laugh (and so do I) but I think it works. There's the moment of vision in which the meaning of life is revealed to him (sort of). He spends most of the movie trying to remove "conditions" from the rest of the cast - Samir and Michael: Broke (job or money laundering ends), Joanna: miserable (quitting ends) to name a couple. He even gets a promotion to a Leader role at Initech!
I now really want to play one of these using a very calm, laid-back tone; a sort of cross between Peter's actual voice and a hippie. Thoughts?
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I think it sounds like a fun character concept. I'm not sure if it makes me want to play an ardent or just remove the walls from my cubicle and smash a fax machine ;)
Finding an iconic inspiration for the seeker, though, may be an exercise in futility. I'm coming up empty on characters who shoot arrows and cause giant mushrooms to sprout from the ground where they land. (Which isn't to say it's a bad class; it's just one of the more outlandish concepts I've seen.)
I'm coming up empty on characters who shoot arrows and cause giant mushrooms to sprout from the ground where they land. (Which isn't to say it's a bad class; it's just one of the more outlandish concepts I've seen.)
There was a character class in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance who did almost exactly the same thing as the Seeker, I believe they were called Elementalists. I think they should be a lot of fun to play.
On the topic of "iconic" characters, I've noticed that WotC seems to be creating their own iconic style for 4e, rather than copying the icons of the past. Surely the new races and classes speak to a distinctly "4e" world, rather than something that came out of a previous edition - Dragonborn & Tieflings are the most obvious examples. Even the updated versions of the older races and classes have a clear "4e" feel to them.