Daemonwaste – The Characters, So Far
I’m still poking bits and pieces of the story and locations, and plan to do a big chunk of blocking out later this month when I take some leave. In the meantime though, some of my regular players, and...
View ArticleHagswalk – Whatever Happened to the Winter Eladrin?
There were three soldiers attached to the Wild Hunt who were of the Winter Eladrin. In the grand battle before the Fireclan Bastion, they were captured. They were treated kindly, and with respect, and...
View ArticleNPC – Olas Derrim
I thought I’d have a bit of a play with the updated D&D rule set to make a new character, and then of course I had to make a Heroforge set of tokens to add to the sheet. Meet Olas Derrim, a...
View ArticleCreating an Immersive Heroforge Model for Storytelling – The Mother
I haven’t made any plans, but I did mention the spectre of the Stalker’s mother having been seen at the Lake of Crystals. In a quiet moment this evening I thought I’d make a Heroforge model and tokens...
View ArticleLore Drop – The Stalker
By the banks of a lake of crystals in the wild forests of Thelanis, lies a broken tomb. It’s shattered casing has been broken from the inside, leaving sloping and empty slabs. Those who dare to peer...
View ArticleNPC – Winter’s Knight Grave Warden
The DDC are on their way to their showdown with the Winter’s Knight. First however they must traverse the Faewilds. Across story and fairy tale landscapes back to an isolated mountain valley in their...
View ArticleNew Heroforge Template – Batfolk
One of the things I appreciate about Heroforge is that they keep adding assets and options. This week they added a new species to the many fantasy options they already provide – the batfolk. They’re...
View ArticleNPC – The Rising Pen
For no particular reason I opened up HeroForge this afternoon and began playing around in the settings. I didn’t have a particular figure in mind, but this character quickly formed so I couldn’t say...
View ArticleTokens – Kerne Dragonmarked
Following the events of this most recent session, I’ve tweaked Kerne’s design a bit. Heroforge doesn’t have facial tattoos for dragonborn so I’ve changed some colour options, and then applied decals...
View ArticleNPC – Joruun and Jaroin
It’s been a busy old week so to get myself back into the swing of not being in work mode, here’s a couple of sailors ready for trouble. Call them independent contractors, call them men at arms, just...
View ArticleNPC – Vhardesh
As I’ve said a few times, using Heroforge to pass the time is a great way to keep my brain ticking over. It helps with plotting future elements of the game, inspiring weird and wonderful twists, and...
View ArticleNPC – Kher Update
I’ve updated Kher as he’s an NPC that’s getting a lot of use in the secondary stream of the story – and its been so long since I made the original model that a whole new set of facial models and...
View ArticleDDC – Hearthflame Temple Screenshots
Dungeon Alchemist has a couple of options for wandering around inside the 3D models, either with a cinematic flying eye, or by depositing a virtual token on the map and then clicking on an option to...
View ArticleRakshasa Tokens
I was playing around in Heroforge to try and make some fresh tokens for when the rakshasa devils reappear. In Eberron lore, these devils are native to this world. When slain they reform back in the...
View ArticleNPC – Hearthsflame Cleric
The DDC are on their way to confront the Hearthsflame Cult which has been corrupted by the demoness Derroghast. What better excuse to try and define a distinctive aesthetic for them than that? Eberron...
View ArticleMap – The Coach House
This is the map we used the last couple of sessions of DDC adventures – the coach house near Korrth where the young Hope had a few relatively care free years before being left at the temple by their...
View ArticleMap – Lakeshore
I’ve been doing some more generic encounter maps that I can pull up for random encounters, or when needing to quickly adlib something. Today’s is a simple area near a lake and a path that could be...
View ArticleGeneral Round-Up
It’s been a bit of a challenging week on most fronts – but especially on the health front, relatively normal posting will be resuming as I get back on track. Part of managing my mental health has been...
View ArticleThe Temple Statues
So, the last couple of weeks with the DDC, combat has revolved around two statues animated by an eidolon spirit. These undead spirits are created from the faithful by gods as protectors of sacred (or...
View ArticleNPCs – Pure Flame Mob
The write-up of yesterday’s game will give some context to this, but for now here’s a group of violent religious extremists revealed to play a part in Hope’s back story I’ve been making up tokens, but...
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