![]() It's different than what I do with her, but it works out fine in my mind.įor the record, they got Skylla as close to a "witch: as D&D 5e's rules will currently allow. Additionally they tackle the Skylla/Charmay art issue head-on as sometimes Skylla goes by the name Charmay. For starters, her patron is not a demon (like I did) but rather with Baba Yaga ( like.I did). Though the best changes are in her background. Skylla's stats are mostly the same with some tweaks to improve what she needs to be a Warlock. Like her former boss Kelek, the level title is translated to Class here and she is a 6th level Warlock. Likely due to the Satanic Panic (but Warlock is fine?). I do note that the TSR team avoided calling her a "Witch" at the time. Again, this time "Warlock" meaning 6th level magic-user. In Quest of the Heartstone, she is listed as a 6th level Warlock. I was the most excited and the most worried to see what the Wizard's dev team was going to do to you. If nothing else I am saying he is still after unicorn horns.Īh. Well that was more or less the plot of the only D&D Cartoon to feature Kelek. Part of this adventure is searching for a lost Unicorn horn. That tracks with how I have seen him in the past. Charisma is the "prime" stat for sorcerers. His stats are pretty much the same from edition to edition with the exception of his Charisma which goes from 7 to 17. This actually make a lot of sense and I approve of this change. In Basic D&D Kelek was an "Evil Sorcerer" of course at this time a "Sorcerer" was the level title for a 7th level Magic-user. All these characters are Chaotic Evil which tracks well to their original alignments of Chaotic. I will compare them to their D&D Basic versions to see what has changed and what has stayed the same.įirst up is the leader of the League of Malevolence, our Legion of Doom for D&D. Heroes are great, but give me a "good" villain any day of the week. Warduke in particular would go on to be a minor celebrity in D&D iconic circles, getting 1st Ed (well.Basic really), 3rd Ed, and now 5th Ed Ed stats. Kelek and Warduke would go on to get a guest spot on the D&D cartoon. Ringlerun, the Good Wizard would be the cover boy for the Jeff Easley recover of the AD&D Player's Handook, although many at the time did not see the connection. Of all of these characters, there were a few standouts who got extra attention. It is also one of the reasons why I have to laugh when people today will see a stuffed Owlbear and complain that "WotC is selling out and ruining D&D." They must have forgotten the Official Advanced Dungeons & Dragons ™ Yoyo or Sunglasses. They appeared in the AD&D toy line from LJN and in other media including coloring books, stickers, adventures, and sometimes even the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon. Long before the use of the term Iconic Characters to refer to reoccurring D&D characters in publication, there were names like Warduke, Strongheart, Ringlerun, and Kelek. Plus it is October and Horror month, so I really just want to talk about my favorites, the bad guys. ![]() I'll leave poor old Thaco alone with his pipe and bitterness today. So I want to look at these old friends and maybe a couple of new ones too. While " The Wild Beyond The Witchlight" has a lot going for it the reason, well one of the reasons, I really wanted it was because we were getting some official D&D 5th Edition stats to some classic NPCs, in particular, Skylla and Kelek two "iconic" characters that I am using in my War of the Witch Queens campaign.
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