Warcraft's Illidan and Uther Lightbringer were Blizzard's art director's D&D characters
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I’m pretty sure we can all acknowledge the massive influence Dungeons and Dragons has had on videogaming, but it keeps proving itself in new and interesting ways well beyond the obvious realm of CRPGs like Divinity and Pillars. Turns out some of World of Warcraft’s most iconic characters found life in Blizzard art director Samwise Didier’s D&D campaign. Illidan joins your expedition to Argus in World of Warcraft patch 7.3. “Uther [the Lightbringer] was based off a blind Paladin I created artwork for,” Didier tells Reddit, in an AMA. “In one arm he carried a book of Honour. In the other, Virtue. It was a pencil drawing I did in '95. Redditor StuntedSlime (we appreciate the niche Star Wars reference there) posted a link to that drawing, which was featured in an online documentary. Turns out D&D inspired more than just Uther, however:
I’m pretty sure we can all acknowledge the massive influence Dungeons and Dragons has had on videogaming, but it keeps proving itself in new and interesting ways well beyond the obvious realm of CRPGs like Divinity and Pillars. Turns out some of World of Warcraft’s most iconic characters found life in Blizzard art director Samwise Didier’s D&D campaign. Illidan joins your expedition to Argus in World of Warcraft patch 7.3. “Uther [the Lightbringer] was based off a blind Paladin I created artwork for,” Didier tells Reddit, in an AMA. “In one arm he carried a book of Honour. In the other, Virtue. It was a pencil drawing I did in '95. Redditor StuntedSlime (we appreciate the niche Star Wars reference there) posted a link to that drawing, which was featured in an online documentary. Turns out D&D inspired more than just Uther, however:
