Sacred Lye
Warrior
184 Posts
    
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| I am wondering about some of the uniques. What stories/series can we find them in. If there is already a thread on this, please point it out to me.
Harbinger.
The Seven Uniques were from the Players handbook I believe.
Dragoneye.
Kerwyn, Human Rogue & Regdar, Human Fighter are both Iconics as well I think.
Urthok the Vicious - Where does he come from? Book?
What I would like to do is go set by set and see who comes from where.
Thanks,
Greg
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Sacred Lye
Warrior
184 Posts
| | 02/22/2006 5:16 PM |
| ArchFiends
Mialee, Elf Wizard - Iconic
Drizzt, Drow Ranger - FR - first seen in "The Crystal Shard" novel
Ialdabode, Human Psion - Psionic Iconic
Ragnara, Psychic Warrior - Psionic Iconic
Snig the Axe - ????? Where is he From?
Giants of Legend
Lord Soth - ????
Aramil, Adventurer - Basic AD&D Set
Eberk, Adventurer - Basic AD&D Set
Regdar, Adventurer - Basic AD&D Set
Lidda, Adventurer - Basic AD&D Set
Mordenkainen the Mage - Grayhawk Setting - not sure if he was in any books aside from modules.
Lareth the Beautiful - Grayhawk Setting - I think! Temple of Elemental Evil ????
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Rising Dragon
Sneak
91 Posts
| | 02/22/2006 5:26 PM |
| Lord Soth is from Dragon Lance
Snig I think is from Forgotton Realms but appeared as D&D Mini first. | |
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Korvax
Warrior
263 Posts
| | 02/22/2006 5:53 PM |
| | Lareth is indeed from the ToEE (or Return to ToEE) | |
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MerricB
Underboss
2353 Posts
Australia
| | 02/22/2006 6:34 PM |
| [url="http://www.3rdedition.org/merricb/2004/07/uniques-who-is-mordenkainen-mage.htm"]Who is Mordenkainen?[/url]
[url="http://www.3rdedition.org/merricb/2004/10/uniques-who-is-lareth-beautiful.htm"]Who is Lareth the Beautiful?[/url]
[url="http://www.3rdedition.org/merricb/2004/08/uniques-who-is-king-snurre.htm"]Who is King Snurre?[/url]
[url="http://www.3rdedition.org/merricb/2004/07/uniques-who-is-lord-soth.htm"]Who is Lord Soth?[/url]
(If anyone wants to send me new articles of that type, feel free to do so!)
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glumag
Warlord
5968 Posts
| | 02/22/2006 7:29 PM |
| Urthok, Rask and Snig are DDM specific.
Lord Soth is from Dragonlance but he was seen in Ravenloft as well. | |
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Dordledum
Commander
3463 Posts
Netherlands
| | 02/23/2006 6:31 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by MerricB
[url="http://www.3rdedition.org/merricb/2004/07/uniques-who-is-mordenkainen-mage.htm"]Who is Mordenkainen?[/url]
[url="http://www.3rdedition.org/merricb/2004/10/uniques-who-is-lareth-beautiful.htm"]Who is Lareth the Beautiful?[/url]
[url="http://www.3rdedition.org/merricb/2004/08/uniques-who-is-king-snurre.htm"]Who is King Snurre?[/url]
[url="http://www.3rdedition.org/merricb/2004/07/uniques-who-is-lord-soth.htm"]Who is Lord Soth?[/url]
Cheers!
Mordenkainen is the inventor of Magic Missile (Geyhawk?). lareth the Beautiful is from Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil (Greyhawk).
I think Snurre and Soth are from Dragonlance, although I don't know for sure.
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Sacred Lye
Warrior
184 Posts
| | 02/23/2006 10:10 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by MerricB
[url="http://www.3rdedition.org/merricb/2004/07/uniques-who-is-mordenkainen-mage.htm"]Who is Mordenkainen?[/url]
[url="http://www.3rdedition.org/merricb/2004/10/uniques-who-is-lareth-beautiful.htm"]Who is Lareth the Beautiful?[/url]
[url="http://www.3rdedition.org/merricb/2004/08/uniques-who-is-king-snurre.htm"]Who is King Snurre?[/url]
[url="http://www.3rdedition.org/merricb/2004/07/uniques-who-is-lord-soth.htm"]Who is Lord Soth?[/url]
(If anyone wants to send me new articles of that type, feel free to do so!)
Cheers!
Thanks for that post, it was a great set of links!
Aberrations
Alusair Obarskyr - ????
Ryld Argith - From the War of the Spider Queen Novels - first seen in "Dissolution"
Deathknell
Rask, Half-Orc Chainfighter - DDM Specific (Unless someone knows something else)
AngleFire
Ulmo Lightbringer - ????
Mina, Dark Cleric - ????
Underdark
Artemis Entreri - The enemy of drizz, first seen in the Icewind Dale Trilogy.
Elminster of Shadowdale - Poster Boy Mage of Forgotten Realms (Like Mordenkainen for Grayhawk)
Rikka, Angelic Avenger - Seems like another DDM Specific figure
War Drums
Shuluth, Archvillain - ????
Snig, Worg Rider - DDM Specific , correct us if we are wrong.
King Obould Many-Arrows - The enemy of drizz from Books I haven't read yet.
Warduke - I am sure with this name it is DDM Specific
So as someone who has never played in or read any of the dragonlance products, storywise what book or series of books should I read first if I want to learn about Lord Soth and/or Mina?
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Orion72
Underboss
1917 Posts
| | 02/23/2006 10:18 AM |
| | You can read all about Alusair on the wizards site. She's a princess of Cormyr, currently acting as Regent (fill-in ruler) for her young brother. She's a tomboy who pays more attention to the military aspects of rulership. She leads the Purple Dragon Knights and Soldiers of Cormyr, if you're into theme bands. | | | |
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Orion72
Underboss
1917 Posts
| | 02/23/2006 10:24 AM |
| I haven't read any of the novels, but here's what I gathered:
Mina is (sort of) the evil Joan of Arc in Dragonlance. She's a crusader for the One True God. She gathers an army and kicks butt all the way across Krynn through most of three books. At or near the end, it's revealed that her One True God is actually Takhisis, the Dragon Queen (sorta the DL equivalent of Tiamat). | | | |
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glumag
Warlord
5968 Posts
| | 02/23/2006 10:36 AM |
| Warduke was a character from the D&D cartoons of the 80s but he is a powerful human warrior and a Hierarch of the Horned Society. He sometimes works as a bounty hunter and assassin, and is heartless, cruel and short-tempered.
Ulmo Lightbringer appears in a wotc supplement but I can't recall which.
Shuluth, Archvillain was one of those silly characters that went head-to-head in a poll contest of who would win...silly thing but now he is official. | |
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Orion72
Underboss
1917 Posts
| | 02/23/2006 10:43 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by glumag
Ulmo Lightbringer appears in a wotc supplement but I can't recall which.
He's the Righteous Crusader prestige class iconic from Exalted Deeds, I think. | | | |
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Count Dooku
Commander
4637 Posts
New York
| | 02/23/2006 10:45 AM |
| Ok. Heres everybody. I checked and double checked and its all correct.
Alusair Obarskyr - Forgotten Realms - After the King of Cormyr died she is now in charge of the kingdom as Regent until her littel brother is old enough to take the throne.
Aramil - Iconic D&D - First Appeared in the D&D Basic Game. Is now on the cover of Red Hand of Doom.
Artemis Entreri - Forgotten Realms - Drizzt's arch enemy. First appeared in the Icewind Dale trilogy of novels.
Devis - Iconic D&D - First Appeared in the PHB.
Drizzt - Forgotten Realms - Super-popular FR character from R A Salvatore's novels.
Eberk - Iconic D&D - First appeared in the PHB.
Elminster - Forgotten Realms - One of the most powerful wizards in FR. Hes was thier poster boy until Drizzt.
Ember - Iconic D&D - First appeared in the PHB.
Guenhwyvar - Forgotten Realms - Drizzt's magical companion.
Ialdabode - Iconic D&D - First appeared in the Psionics Handbook.
Jozan - Iconic D&D - First appeared in the PHB.
Kerwyn - Iconic D&D - First appeared in the PHB.
King Snurre - Greyhawk - One of the main villians from the 1st Edition trilogy of adventures "Against the Giants".
Krusk - Iconic D&D - First appeared in the PHB.
Lareth the Beautiful - Greyhawk - From the adventures "Village of Homlet", "Temple of Elemental Evil" & "Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil".
Lidda - Iconic D&D - First appeared in the PHB. Also was in the Choose your own Adventure style DVD.
Lord Soth - Dragonlance - Death Knight villian from the Chronicles and other Dragonlance books. Was also in Ravenloft for a period of time.
Mialee - Iconic D&D - First appeared in the PHB. Also was in the Choose your own Adventure style DVD.
Mina - Dragonlance - Villian from the War of Souls trilogy and other Dragonlance novels.
Mordenkainen - Greyhawk - Creator of D&D Gary Gygax's PC. Mordenkainen is one of the most powerful wizards in the Greyhawk setting. He is also in the Epic Level Handbook.
Nebin - Iconic D&D - First appeared in the PHB.
Obould Many-Arrows - Forgotten Realms - Drizzt's enemy from FR novels. Also appears in the FR Campaign Setting Sourcebook.
Ragnara - Iconic D&D - First appeared in the Psionics Handbook.
Rask - D&D Minis Unique - Mini only. Appears in no other source.
Regdar - Iconic D&D - First appeared in the PHB. Also was in the Choose your own Adventure style DVD.
Rikka - D&D Minis Unique - 2004 DDM Champion got to design his own mini.
Ryld Argith - Forgotten Realms - From the War of the Spider Queen series of novels.
Shuluth - Iconic D&D - First appeared in Weapons of Legacy. Was also a contender in the Wizards.com monster contest.
Snig - D&D Minis Unique - Mini only. Appears in no other source.
Tordek - Iconic D&D - First appeared in the PHB.
Ulmo Lightbringer - Iconic D&D - First Appeared in the Book of Exalted Deeds.
Urthok - D&D Minis Unique - Mini only. Appears in no other source.
Vadania - Iconic D&D - First appeared in the PHB.
Warduke - Greyhawk - One of the first iconic D&D villians. In the early 80's was an action figure, appeared in coloring books and had a cameo on the D&D Saturday morning cartoon. Paizo also sells a Dungeon Magazine T-Shirt with his action figure on it. | |
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argwinkle
Sneak
94 Posts
| | 02/23/2006 10:46 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Dordledum
Lareth the Beautiful is from Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil (Greyhawk).
While his mini stats are based on the RToEE version, Lareth had his first appearance in T1 - "The Village of Hommlet". He still had Charisma 18 at that time.
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Sacred Lye
Warrior
184 Posts
| | 02/23/2006 11:02 AM |
| Sweet!! I got the answer to my question about the Uniques!!!
Thanks to all!!! | |
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Vash
Underboss
1995 Posts
| | 02/23/2006 12:06 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Count Dooku
Lidda - Iconic D&D - First appeared in the PHB. Also was in the Choose your own Adventure style DVD.
Shuluth - Iconic D&D - First appeared in Weapons of Legacy. Was also a contender in the Wizards.com monster contest.
Just to add a bit
Lidda also appeared in the Xbox Game "Dungeons & Dragons Heroes"
Drizzt and Artemis are playable characters in a few FR Video Games
Shuluth - Technically I would say his first appearance would be the Cover of the Psionics Handbook, looks more dead ringer to me than his WoL pic. | |
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orcmonk220
Underboss
1608 Posts
| | 02/23/2006 12:13 PM |
| | quick comment: You could unlock Drizzt on the Baldurs Gate game (original) | |
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Username
Warlord
5692 Posts
| | 02/23/2006 12:22 PM |
| | Nice list Count! | |
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Username - he deals in minis
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wolfsbane114
Warrior
327 Posts
| | 02/23/2006 12:46 PM |
| | This is all great info. Thanks to all its contributors. Especailly fro Merric's info on Mordy. He's one of my fav figs, but I didn't know his story only he has a lot spells named after him. | |
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Ghendar
Warlord
13109 Posts
Mud Lick, Kentucky
| | 02/23/2006 1:13 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Count Dooku
Mordenkainen - Greyhawk - Creator of D&D Gary Gygax's PC. Mordenkainen is one of the most powerful wizards in the Greyhawk setting. He is also in the Epic Level Handbook.
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Almalik
Warrior
266 Posts
Vancouver-ish, Canada
| | 02/23/2006 1:36 PM |
| | Thanks for the links Merric, they were great reading. Reading the entry for Soth makes me want to go back and read chronicles again. | |
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