More Hero Forge Updates

A few more updates. I usually do Hero Forge on my phone, because my desktop doesn't have a good graphics card. But my laptop does; I'm finding that kitbashing on the phone is fiddly and incredibly difficult, while not so at all with a mouse. I should have been doing this this way months ago. But the next two weeks it's easier than normal.

Anyway, my thought that Fitzhugh and Dominic were too similar in appearance to each other was helped by the swapping of Fitzhugh's hat. Now, he's got a waxed canvas brimmed hat, and Dominic is the coonskin cap guy.

Yeah, both are a bit modern relative to the pseudo-Medieval feel of your typical fantasy setting. But my fantasy setting is deliberately—in select ways—the American West frontier as much as it is the High Middle Ages. Anyway, I made a few kitbash modifications to both Dominic and Ragnar, because I'm frustrated that the leather coat that they wear is an outer coat only, meaning I can't put something on top of it otherwise. And then, so they don't look exactly alike, I put an additional strap on Ragnar.

Most iconic Hero Forge Dominic

Ragnar

Fitzhugh Grimwatch

And, another King in Yellow concept. Just because I had fun using kitbashing to add rags.

Dominic, as you can see, is most well-known, i.e., these are character tags that will be brought up repeatedly, for his sandy colored hair, green eyes, and coonskin cap. He's tall and broad, wears leather and a wolf fur cloak, and uses an old cavalry saber as his primary weapon, as well as being an excellent shot with a composite bow.

Fitzhugh lacks the wolf pelt, wears a brimmed hat and rather than being scruffy, wears an actual beard. His hair is lighter than sandy. He's also a great shot with a longbow (I know, it's the same bow in the model) and wears a thin arming sword. 

Ragnar is taller than Dominic, although a bit less broad. The sides of his head are shaved and his hair is short on top, but he wears a beard. His hair is blonder than his brother's and his eyes are blue. His leather outfit is similar, although weathered differently, and he wears a Brynach half-kilt over his breeches. He carries a crossbow (on his pack horse) and fights with two weapons; a thick shorter sword like a cruciform gladius as well as a tomahawk or francisca, which can be thrown or used in melee. The three scars that just missed his eye on the right side is his most distinguishing facial feature.

His boots are tall and black. His leather is more faded and dusty, because of time spent more in the west (Cactus Balds and the Bosky Hills) whereas Dominic has spent more time in the east. His clothing is weathered more darkly rather than faded and dusty. 

For the Solo Iconics, which includes Fitzhugh Grimwatch, I have less detailed backstory in mind, because I haven't worked on fronts that are character specific focused on some major element of the backstory coming back to cause drama. I've imagined him as a bit more Celtic rather than Nordic, compared to Dominic and Ragnar, and his AI generated images tend to have him in more alpine environments. I see him more as a "normal" hunter rather than like the Winchester brothers from Supernatural. Not that Ragnar and Dominic aren't capable outdoorsmen, but Fitzhugh is specifically and explicitly an outdoorsman, and they are not. Fitzhugh's background, such as it is, is that he's from a former noble family that's fallen from fortune somewhat, and he has a condescending better-than-thou attitude somewhat, which Dominic also does not. He's not unjustified, however; he rolled up so well on stats that he's really better than anyone else in the Solo Iconics group at most tasks, just based on his stats alone. At least at 1st level, until a bit of experience allows the others to somewhat catch up with him. So, in spite of their similar appearance, Fitzhugh has a pretty different background and personality to Dominic and Ragnar, and a different focus as an outdoorsy scout and spy rather than a hunter of the supernatural. 

And here's the revised Oisin in another pose.