Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Undead

I've been playing around with making wights in Hero Forge. It's been fun. I've got plenty of undead, actually. Here's a selection of some of them. This will be good as I finish up CHAOS IN WAYCHESTER and start thinking more about CULT OF UNDEATH which must follow. 

A barrow-wight with a hook hand.

A land-wight

Blind pirate wight

Pirate wight

Not originally meant to be a wight, but I actually think it works better as one. Maybe I'll add glowing eyes too, but maybe not.

An older library wight. The eyes actually aren't working for me anymore.

My original attempt at a wight. It still works, but I like my newer ones better.

Some liches, of various provenance. Some of them are old ones that I made, others are ones I found in the library. I actually haven't made any new ones recently, but some of these are still good enough to work.
This one looks cartoonish to me now. I should probably get rid of him.

This is fine, but I don't know that it looks like the lich archetype exactly.

A real classic. I wish I could take credit, but it's a library lich.

This one too. I like the poncho look, which is a trick with a hidden extra arm and a banner.

Maybe a little too over-the-top Dark Lordy, but not bad. Reminds me of Disney's interpretation of the Horned King from Lloyd Alexander.

One of the real classic library liches.

I have lots of vampires too. Some of them I've made, but many are library grabs.

Classic Dracula look

Classic Nosferatu look

People forget that when Jonathan Harker first meets Dracula he's rather old and wizened, and needs to feed regularly to regain his vigor; which is why he wants to relocate in the first place. I have several older, withered vampires

Ugly vampires, barely stepped up from ghouls.


A couple of Orlock/Nosferatu style vamps

Very classic Hammer film Dracula

A militarized vampire king

A count Strahd interpretation, including the original module cover art coloration and lighting. Quite a nice work of art, I say. (Library. I'm not responsible.)


Couple of classic vampire renditions

This shirtless vampire gladiator always struck me as weird, but I can't bring myself to get rid of it. Even if it's a weird idea, it's well done.

One of my early nosferatu style efforts.


Old Draculas

A named character that I'm already planning for CULT OF UNDEATH.

Some mummies and a few other assorted undead.

Hammer Film mummy

Undead knight of some kind

Ghost killer

Actually, the pirate LeChuck from a rather silly video game. It's a cool image, though.

Ghost Rider in the Sky


A couple of attempts at a ghost

Very classic fantasy mummy. Could almost be a Tomb Kings character.

I dunno. Some kind of undead rider.

Clearly modeled on Ankh su Namun from The Mummy

Basic skeleton archer

Another ghost

I dunno. A foreigner undead. 

After the success of Game of Thrones, winter undead are all the rage.


Two angles of a wraith

Derf, who does Hero Forge tutorials, made this undead cultist. Couldn't help but grab it.

Not exactly undead, but at least a Necromancer.

A Nizrekh ancient one. I haven't actually thought about what that is yet.


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