I'm more and more convinced that Mystery, Inc. as a tongue-in-cheek set of Dark Fantasy X iconics is a good idea. But I'm going to develop them a bit more, and smooth over their names so they don't sound exactly like Hanna-Barbera characters. If I already have a Fredegar de Wend, I can certainly make "Fred Jones" turn into Friedrich or Frederick von Johannes, for example. Anyway, I made some minor updates to the models, mostly to give the girls pants under their too-short skirts. While the original looked more true to the original design, they looked less practical for actual fantasy adventuring.
This tongue-in-cheek iconics group will be great for pregens for one-shots to get people into the setting and game, I think.
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| Daphne du Blake, daughter of a wealthy Northumbrian self-styled gentleman and owner of considerable land with income from rents |
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| Frederick von Johannes, third son of a Timischer baron with a Hillman mother. As third son, he's not going to inherit much, but he's using his connections and what money he does have to fund traveling in style while they make more money from their monster-hunting business |
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| I don't know what to call Scooby other than Scooby or Scoob. It's a weird name, and very unique. I'll have to think about how to refer to the big dog. |
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| Shaggy is also a very iconic name that I can't really use without giving it away, but what can you do? He's obviously (and admittedly, by the creators) based on the character Maynard Kreb. Maybe Maynard Rogers works? Shaggy also has an uncle named Shagaford (and another one named Shaggleford) that might work. |
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| Velma Dinkley is another unusual name that only calls back to the character. She was also based (actually, all four of them were) on a character from the old Dobie Gillis sitcom, and her character's inspiration was Zelda Gilroy. Maybe Zelda works a bit better than Velma? |
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