Some more Hero Forge

I've done my Gaskarfells dark pseudomages, which my son-in-law pointed out looks quite a bit like Harry Dresden, even though I was actually imitating the necromancers from Scarred Lands Hollowfaust. But here's a few other Hero Forge items I've done lately. 

I feel like I'm no longer on the cutting edge of Hero Forge. I'm still not great at kitbashing, and I'm just getting started with body customizer. But, hey, you gotta start somewhere!

These three angles of a plague doctor "alchemist" were largely based on something Professor Dungeon Master did with his Reviled Society campaign report. He had some other plague doctor minis, but I decided to make my own criminal alchemists and this is what I came up with. Three different angles, but same mini.

I call this guy Abdul Alhazred, but he was originally based on the Darkest Dungeon Occultist. Made him even more creepy and weird and I'll call him a scary sorcerer well on his way towards corruption and insanity. Appopriate, though, since the Occultist was clearly based on Alhazred to begin with...

This was another take on the Darkest Dungeon bounty hunter, but with an eye towards not necessarily being faithful to the original so much as utilizing the new (at the time) chain mail.

I dunno; just a guy I was messing around with. Looks like a Tarushan or maybe even Terassan thief.

I was never happy with Little Beatriz, so I thought I'd start over from scratch now that I could use body customizer to shrink the hands to a realistic size. The feet still seem big, but I didn't really get the hair that I wanted. And, at the end of the day, I don't feel like my choices for her dress were quite what I wanted either. Also; I just looked at the date for that Little Beatriz post; I can't believe I came up with that in 2011. Time is really flying...

Speaking of Hollowfaust, I didn't like it as much as I remember liking it on re-reading it (which I did on my recent trip to Mexico.) I still like the main idea, but I think Eberron did it better with Karrnath. I also read the second Black Raven (of two) collected semi-linked episodic stories by Seth Skorkowsky. I'm kinda disappointed. While mostly relatively well written, there are a few things that consistently bug me:

• There's some kind of fantasy race (I think; possibly it's just a human ethnicity) called quellen, and they appear a lot. But he never describes them, or if he did, it was early on in the first book, and he never revisits the description. I have no idea what they are or what they're supposed to look like, which is a major oversight and kind of distracting when I keep reading about quellen characters.
• The Black Raven himself kind of has a dumb nickname. What other color would a raven be, and why would a supposed top tier criminal leave a distinctive calling card? At least it wasn't that he left the water running...
• For a supposed top tier criminal, we rarely see him actually being all that competent. Most of his jobs go sideways, because he just happens to bump into someone while stealing whatever.
• He's also super beta, and the girl that he seems to really like is... I guess an exciting kind of character for a gamma dude, but isn't very likeable to anyone else.
• Speaking of, his relationship with his mafia-esque organization is pretty beta too. Maybe I'm spoiled with Conan and Tarzan type stories, about men who take charge of their own destiny and don't take flak from anyone. 
• In all, after reading the entirety of Sea of Quills, I started to find the main character and his shenanigans kind of cringy. Granted, I've read pretty much all of them now; and if a new Black Raven book came out, I doubt I'd even notice (I stopped following Seth's YouTube channel a few months ago. He was kind of on the fence for me anyway, because his content isn't enough of what I want, and his presentation is kind of cringy, but when he replaced his twitter contact info on the channel with gaysky contact info, I knew I couldn't do it anymore with him.) So I will almost certainly have no idea if he produces more Black Raven content. But if it does... I think I've had enough of it anyway.

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