Space Opera X: September 2022

Some of these are updates; some of them are merely alternates. I'll specify which are which. Iconic makeover. I'll show the "original" first for each.

First off, although they don't have new images, I've updated some names. Demir Rugova is now Kimnor "Kim" Rugova. Vant Quilin no longer has a weird foreign name, but rather a somewhat Celtic sounding one; Oisin Dughall. And Snorn is now Shule. Snorn sounded too much like a joke name.

Revecca von Lechfeld was not really meant to be a PC so much as a very important quasi-party member NPC, but I've got some new looks for her. Her original, followed by the new look, in two slightly different dresses. I think you'll agree that the second one is much prettier, which is supposed to be Revecca's standout trait; she's super attractive, charming and likeable. Kind of like Judi Bowker's Andromeda in the older Clash of the Titans except with dark hair.

Dominik Schneider was improved, although he looks more or less the same; just with better proportions and slightly bolder colors.

Claud Lupescu got a major makeover. Here's his original and his new and improved versions.

Of course, Claud has an alternate form. For some reason I had him turn into what looked like a clunky fantasy remake of The Terminator. Now I have a better look; a kind of Mr. Hyde to his normally gypsy-looking Dr. Jekyll.

And for fun, I made an image with both of his forms.

I didn't originally intend to make the Mr. Hyde version look so green, but oh, well. The Hulk was always a comic book take on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde anyway.

Ciaran Clevenger is still one that I like, although I fixed her proportions just a bit. I did, however, come up with an alternate for her too, although in general terms, it's very similar.

And finally, Ragnar Clevenger has risen to the status of Big Time Hero™. I was heading that way in most respects anyway, but after coming up with this alternative quasi-Viking look for him, I definitely feel that his role needs to grow. He's too cool looking in my head now.

I've been making loads of unique, new images, and "stealing" (albeit usually modifying) loads of Hero Forge images out of the library that I haven't posted over the last... I dunno, almost a month now. Here's a dump of some of them. A few of them are updated versions of what I've posted previously, but mostly they're new.

I called this model Alienist, but I don't actually know what he is. Don't even know for sure if I can fit this concept into Dark Fantasy X, or if he just needs to be a "generic" lichy bad guy.

I don't really need more regular old human fighter types, but what can I say? I've come around to Gary Gygax's own opinion on thinking that that's the obvious character to play. Plus, this was an attempt to get an armor layer for "free" by using an android torso as the base layer.

I realized I didn't have enough Atlantean samples, so I "borrowed" and heavily modified somebody's stone age models. I should really explain how the Atlanteans are different from humans one of these days, and the curse that has caused them to devolve. Now, they literally can't even use metal objects, even if they find them from someone else. Oh, that belt buckle is made of stone, by the way. It looks so shiny because it is polished and its reflecting the campfire light.

An Atlantean that still appears mostly human and less devolved than his peers. The original model was meant to be Ötzi the Iceman.

Speaking of campfires, after those devolved Atlanteans, here's a fairly normal adventuring fighter type

I'm thinking just a bit ahead to the eventual MIND-WIZARDS OF THE DAEMON WASTES campaign, and that I'll need some organizations. These are Drylander Ghost Guardians, a faction among them that are famous for painting skull-like visages over their faces. Anyway, more detail coming later. Quite a bit later, probably since I'm still not even quite halfway through the first of these, and MIND-WIZARDS would be the third.

Mostly an attempt to use some brand new elements to create a fairly cool looking character. Heck, he turned out cool enough that he might even replace the current image I have for Ragnar Clevenger.

I added a new one-shoulder cape to the Chersky crime lord. That's a good look on him.

I didn't think I had enough kemling samples either, so here's another one, in two slightly different outfits. I think the second one is probably a bit better, but I couldn't bring myself to commit and delete the first one.

Someone else did a psycho little girl murderer that looked better than my Little Beatriz, so I replaced her, after doing some significant modifications to his design.

Some kind of cultist, wearing one of those plague doctor bird-masks that always look so creepy.

An actual mind-wizard. For when I get to MIND-WIZARDS OF THE DAEMON WASTES, of course.

The daughter of someone important, no doubt. Maybe it's even Joan Wilmere.

I've never really gotten around to adding much in the way of faeries or fae to Dark Fantasy X, but it is one of the things I eventually want to get to. When I do, here's Oberon, or the Erlking, or Herne the Hunter, or somebody like that.

My attempt at creating a specific pirate type based on an image that I found on GIS. Not sure how well it really looked like the image, but he was cool enough to keep for his own sake anyway.

My first attempt at using the "scenes" feature to show my basic first iconic adventuring party. Stefan and Demir are in the front, with Snorn and Vant skulking around behind them.

I felt like I also didn't have enough seraphim, so here's about four more samples.

I have a vague idea for some snake cultists of some kind down the line, who literally turn slowly into snakemen, sort of like how the Innesmouth people turn in to Deep Ones. This guy's more than halfway there. Maybe they're part of the Eltdown swamps, where Bokrug rules deep in the fens.

A re-posed version of my main iconic, Stefan Clevenger.

A few more woodwoses; I didn't think I had enough examples of them either to really show off what they're really supposed to look like in their variety.

One of a few hags that I grabbed and modified... a little. I had a couple of my own hags, along with Little Beatriz, but I found some others that I liked better than most of them, so I'm probably going to slowly replace them. And it may not be a three-person coven, although I know that's pretty classic going back to Macbeth and even the Norns and the Graeae. But I'm seriously considering a hag-themed arc coming up soon.

I didn't really need more liches, but I found so many really cool ones that I couldn't resist.

Pretty basic skeleton warrior, but sometimes even the basics are cool.

Some more swamp hags.

An alternative look for one of my thurses. I actually had created this mini before, but this is a somewhat updated and improved version of it.

I had a few Nosferatu or Orlock looking vampires, and while I do like those, I think that the classic suave and urbane Dracula approach is too classic to ignore.