Draw Your Party thread

Slightly outdated.

Oh this is a really cool idea. I should do this for more of my parties. I prefer pixel art myself.

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So far I've done only two characters from my party.

Here's mine. Campaign started with just two players, as a side thing to our normal group. Eventually we added a few more people from our group as situation changed. There are quite a few deceased characters I've left out, Nathan and Enoch are the only ones left from the beginning. We are hoping to go back to this campaign soon, opening with our 45th session, where Nathan prepares to battle an old friend who has been hired by the kingdom to hunt them down, as the party tries to free a frontier town in the frozen wastes from the draconian rule of an evil lich and his bugbear minions.

I also made this little scene of the group facing down a fleet of enemy airships.Basically it's a steampunk setting mixed with fantasy, so there are trains, airship, etc.. At one point the characters decided they wanted one of the kingdom's super-sized 400-foot "dreadnought" airships so they stole one. They also got involved in an anarchist plot to take over the city just because Enoch wanted his own airship. Then once the anarchist was in charge, they realized he was actually even worse, so they ended up killing him instead. The campaign has had so many epic battles it'd be hard to fit them into one post or even thread. I could upload my campaign notes if there is interest, they might prove an entertaining read.

Formatting is shit but the art is good, you need to clean up the white spaces but that's mostly cause OP's template has shitty JPG artifacts and was drawn by someone who has no idea how the fuck MSpaint works.

That said your party seems god-tier. Two female players, two gender-benders, or one of each?

Ido seems like an extremely entertaining character. I might steal him to use as an NPC.

Both are IRL females in their late thirties
Dalheorn and Alesten are my IRL buddies.
Ingwald and both ladies I knwo from RP-heavy MUD, but we had few IRL meetups since then
We play on Roll20 since we all live in different cities now.
I tried also to make group sligtly larger by inviting randos through LFG, but as it can be seen they flaked out so I guess it's better to play just with people I have more solid contact. (Can't say they were bad players outside of disappearing though, especially the hobbit player was quite good)

Small size isn't a bad thing. My best experiences are in groups of 2 to 4 players. It's cool you actually played some LotR though, i always felt like running in Middle Earth would feel really limiting.

It actually is limiting, but in a good way. Sure it does put some constrains on the story's theme, on which characters would be viable, but it's a genre thing. I for sure prefer it over standard kithcen-sink with dozens of races and flashy classes.

If you mean "limiting" in the sense of "there is little to do if you don't want to stretch the canon", I guess nope, it isn't really. I thought it would be but The One Ring, especially it's fluff supplements, kind of showed me the contrary. There are many "blank spaces" in Tolkien's world that can be filled without contradicting the estabilished lore and feel, even when acting on quite "epic" scale.

That's pretty cool. I love the feel of the Lord of the Rings world, where it's not like Star Wars with 100 different races and classes. I like when most of the party are warrior or thief types with 1 or 2 spellcasters at most.

What's the most epic battle you've had? I'm curious how far you can go.

I didn't do anything really epic as of now, since characters are still not very experienced and I don't do much combat at all, for now it was like one combat encounter every other session - including some brigands,
orcs, a wight and mewlips. But since I'm going with the Darkening of Mirkwood campaign, it will eventually come to battling a dragon, fighting nazgul Lieutenant of Dol Guldur, and participating in battles deciding the fate of nations.
Currently they're trying to dispatch easterling sorcerer, former apprentice of Sauron who escaped the fall of Dol Guldur, have taken residence in abandoned elven tower over the Anduin and builds up his own force.

damn that's pretty cool. I always figured the history of Middle Earth was pretty completionist due to its level of detail but I guess it's not. I'll have to check out TOR and the Darkening of Mirkwood campaign. I'd love to run in middle earth.

It is al set in Wilderland after the Hobbit.
Since LotR characters are only crossing Wilderland for a short time and through it's southwestern frontier only, all the info about what happened there since Bibo's quest comes from LotR appendices and is quite limited. Basically boils down to
>founding of Beorning folk
>rebuilding of Dale and it's succesion line
>Nazgul retaking of Dol Guldur
>the War of the Ring in the region
That's actually much of free space to set things, and TOR (mostly fluff supplements, The Heart of the Wild and already mentioned Darkening of Mirkwood) do a great job with filling this area with points of interest and plothooks. The Darkening of Mirkwood itself focuses on the struggle of the Woodmen of Mirkwood against the power of Dol Guldur growing anew, but there are also things like dwarves trying to retake their old halls in Grey Mountains, power struggles in the rebuilt Dale, conflicts between the clans of Anduin Vales and much more.

And another update on the party. 7 more characters to go.

Shit, forgot pic

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no descriptions, sorry. The greatsword guy is a barbarian who became a ranger who became a forest reeve and now plans to turn his tribe into defenders of nature, the left-most elf is the one wielding the MacGuffin sword and is the super-legolas of the party, the halfling is an ultimate magus (combo of sorcerer and wizard, has a ton of spells per day), the other elf is the group's NPC cleric, and the guy with the mace and rapier is the bard, who has been named heir to the town the characters are from.

I like It. Specially Nathan and Poppy. Can you share something about their adventures? Also, what system do you use?

The fire Guy seems interesting

He's the party's resident hard ass military officer and fire mage. He got his powers from an experimental heart implant done by the guy to his left who is a mage who focuses on biomanipulation (both of them don't know this because fire guy was knocked out obviously and biomage didn't bother to remember the face of just another test subject). The heart was the heart of a witch and although it gave him her powers, it ended with him being possessed by the soul of said witch without anyone noticing. Long story short, in the end, the party encountered a god like being later on and the witch took her chance to escape his body and become even more powerful. Fire guy regained control of his body and retained some of the witch's powers. The witch is currently still running loose but the party is currently more concerned with fighting in the Great War that has just broken out. She'll probably be revisited in the future.

The party I DM for in a tribal setting. Most of the characters originate from mongolian-like clans.

>Un-Ramah
Female centaur storm druid. Sleeps with everything she can, bad temper, believes every problem can be solved with lightning. Likes to run around naked in the rain. A loner born from a gregarious race. She can float, which is useful against the centaurs' greatest enemies, namely stairs.

>Olgoï-Khorkhoi
Male half-orc ranger. Believes himself to be the son of a snake god, and acts accordingly. So far, his cult is comprised of three small but very enthusiastic children. Ambiguously zoophiliac. Stoner. Has a snake companion, and a small myconid friend.

>Chuluun
Male centaur bard/sorcerer. Longest standing party member, in fact the only survivor of the previous party setup. Comes from the same clan as Un-Ramah, though he was subtly, rather than overtly, kicked out as well. Pretty mellow, usually the party face. Likes to rock out epically. Plays the drums.

>Uuruubuukuuruu
Male human bard from the far North, latest addition to the team. Just sort of started following them, though he quickly made friends with Chuluun over mutual love of rocking out. Attracts orcish stalkers. Usually sings songs of his homeland. Pretty useless as a fighter, but likes buffing others.

One thing I do regret is that in the previous party setup, I had another bard who died before Uuruubuukuuruu joined the team. A three-bards team would have been hell for the combat parts, but pretty funny roleplay-wise, I think.

>manic depressive alcoholic wizard
>sexy fighter lady that flirts with everyone.
>meta gamer ranger obsessed with getting better bows
>half-orc barbarian savage

Almost done. Four characters done and then I'll write their names and descriptions. Gonna take a break for now though.

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We play Savage Worlds.

I think our best battle was when they arrived at a gnoll city built into a hillside, a bit like Edoras from the Lord of the Rings, but with towers everywhere and long walls that led to airship docks. They were in a wagon they had armored and attached a gatling gun to. Upon first encountering the gnolls they immediately shot them with the loudest guns possible. Then when some more gnolls came to investigate, they killed those as well. Then, rather than falling back and scouting the place out, they decided to go full speed ahead, driving into the city, Enoch blazing away on the Gatling gun. Arrows rained down on them from the towers, but they fired back and even destroyed one of the towers with a mini-cannon. They headed up a switchback road, with very tight hairpin turns, and saw a group of gnoll cavalry coming down from above. Rather than turning down, they plowed straight through, breaking the wheel. Enoch went to fix it, and almost fell off the wagon and off the edge. However, Nathan caught him. By this point the gnoll airships had taken off and were raining down gatling gun fire on the wagon. The characters made it to the top, broke into the castle, fought their way along the walls to one of the gnoll airships, and hijacked it. One NPC character died and another NPC got a permanent injury, but the player characters all escaped unscathed. This was before Poppy & Vyden were in the party, though.

Pic related, my campaign notes.

Made this a while back

A lot has been lost in your party. Still interesting though

Looks great!

That seems fun.

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Something like this. There's usually an NPC or two tagging along.

The pixel art is pretty cool.

Did this up for a dragon age campaign I was in a while back

Sounds like a blast

I like RPG games but don't really like fantasy settings, So me and my friends have been using a Custom set of rules for a Fallout RPG that I created. It's kinda sad though, there's only 3 of us so I am both the GM and play Rick, which is probably why he get's the short end of the stick the most, so the other players don't think I'm putting myself first.

W-why is everyone so obsessed with sex?

Notice the lack of medic. These three are constantly holding their intestines in themselves, with the occasional doctor's visit or stimpak far far between.

Waifus are vital to capturing the feel of the dragon age games.

Another player did the descriptions though, and probably hammed it up for meme value.

>tfw every time you betray your party the GM just takes your character sheet and brian slaps you across the back of the head

>You will never actually play a villain

>A state ruled by orphans?
Stealing this

unfortunately, my party is 90% special snowflake.

I'll try to find some fanart some people made though

Here's the party I DM. It's out of date, but close enough.

Using HeroForge is actually quite clever. It's probably a lot faster than the requisite 9000 MS Paint hours.

Because its Dragon Age and half the lore of that game relates to Homosexualiy

Jesus fuck, is that still going?

Seriously, fuck that guy.

>Small size isn't a bad thing.
Tell that to my girlfriend

Trail of Cthulhu campaign with loads of weird war.

Gibe system
Gibe

Sounds stupid.

Pic related.

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Apparently the Paladin is the one who started shit/got NPC'd.

Your party looks a lot like mine

Is this some sort of comic?

it's a long standing legend of Veeky Forums a guy from an old draw-your-party thread who did regular updates in great detail over a long running game, although it'd very possible that the game itself fell thru and the guy kept going with the story on his own, kinda like fanfic.
warosu.org/tg/thread/33436921

What does that mean?

This is fucking great, esp. the Rubix cube part. Usually I hate characters who look lulz-random but these guys are great.

thanks, friend. I'm working on one for my other post-apocalyptic group, hopefully it will be done bfore thread dies.

Thanks. The characters are cartoonish exaggerations of the people actu ally playing them so the odd combation of. Trats, I feel, fleshes them out more.

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Makes sense.

Bump, stay alive thread so I can finish my other pixel art.

Pump a bumb-ump

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im getting there on finishing the art for my other party, book mark the thread and I swear I will post it before thread dies

Because orphan is already a verb.

Here's my player's party. I created most of them and they choose which one they wanted to play as, giving them some small backstory they could develop on, when they die the player would create their own character. It is my first DM campaign and the first RPG ever to some of my friends.

>Herwulf
Age: 27 Height: 8 ft
His name is the combination of Hercules and Beowulf. He's the typical strong and dumb(borderline sentient) barbarian. Born on a ship and spent most of his childhood on the same, the only intelectuall subject he had ever mastered, and really well, is navigation. It's ritualistic for him to get on a bar fight on every new town

>Rick
Don't remember the age or height, but he's the youngest
Novice paladin with a strong sense of justice and faith in his patron god Duodeno, arguably the leader. As a kid he was kidnapped by the Chess Bandits(a guild of bandits themed as chess pieces) as a slave, he had to excell in the game to achieve his freedom, he later enlisted in the Prince's personal army. He noticed his affinity with the holy and sense of the wicked during a battle of the civil war that the opposing side used some kind of dark magic to manipulate the events(magic is consired a war crime in this setting). He's on a journey to understad what happened at that battle to gather proof and frame his enemy

>Laurel
Age: 212 Height: 7 ft
A pecualiar figure to spot at the streets of a human village. A well dressed and overly feminine(his package gives it away) High Elf trying to pull scams on gullible townspeople. Born noble but disowned for reasons he refuses to share, he's a master of disguise and forgery aswell as stealth, he still remember his fencing lessons of his house. Committed to return to his social status through gold
Was killed on a espionage mission

Are heroforge miniatures worth the money?

>Guan Shu
Age: 1000 according to himself Height: 4,5 ft
After a night of booze, Guan woke on a distant land he had never heard of. Planning to return to his homeland but not before expirencing what this new world had to offer.
Was killed by 4 lizardmen and a wererat at the sewers

>Ezekiel
Also don't remember, but he's the oldest of the humans
A very weird scholar with fondness to Demons and Celestials who did not think twice before selling his soul to a devil for power. With his new abilities he was able to become even more powerful. He only later realised he had come to a point his soul would be enough to power the next attack on the mortal plane by his patron. The sollution he came up with was to become immortal, the challenge is discovering how

>Karl Rex
Age: 49 Height: ???
Substitute for Laurel
Lives in a cabin at the woods and suffers form amnesia, occasionally having visions of the past. Helped the party at killing a Troll that had been terrosing a hunter village for some years. Plays the cavaquinho and easily befriends animals

>Murdoc
Doesn't have a lot of backstory because I only made him so a friend could join briefly. He was a snob and only helped the party for his own interests

>Audor
Substitute for Guan Shu
He's a "That Guy" character. Really, he's what you would expect from a tiefling rogue and that guy player. Got btfo'd by the party after trying to assassinate them(this wasn't a that guy moment, I actually inserted him this way to make more sense) and is now being held captive by them

I only use it to recreate the characters. Never bought one, sorry

trust nobody not even your party members

goddamn it thread don't die

Depends on the material. I've bought them in metal, the new dark plastic and the bronze.
Metal - Isn't worth it. tough little fucker but all the detail is lost and it looks gritty.
Bronze - very detailed and pretty looking, but absolutely not worth the cost. The sort of thing you get yourself when you retire a PC after a long ongoing campaign and you're really attached to them.
Premium plastic - brilliant and totally worth a buy. I've got a few and they've all been very resilient and paint up nicely with great detail.

This is the group I'm currently running a pathfinder hexcrawl for.

what bout the shitty 15 dollar plastic that is the only one my poor ass can afford?

They're kinda shit and lose a lot of the detail.

damn. Alright I guess I'll have to save up 30 bucks one day then.

Left to right
>Kaelin Spade, of Raven's Crest
>Terrin, Son of Torn
>Mel, Emissary of the Al'Throc

I dig the style

bump, almost done

the latter three characters make me think this is some kind of porno. I guess the first one does too a little bit.

I applaud your use of lego crests

Okay finally done. This is the apocalyptic campaign I ran for a while where one of the characters severed a woman's spine.

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Oh god I remember you. Your group is proper fucked up.

Gib or gibe is an intentional corruption of "give"

They are asking you to give them a link so they can download your system and read it.

lol. yeah they are kinda edgelords. I really like the potential for character development with her and him though.

>Special eyes

>MY BRAND!!!

>running 1-player campaign in quasi-Egyptian bronze age setting and the player gets her character's fashion cue from Dejah Thoris

Okay. It's not well organized, it's no DM manual, just an explaination of my system and an unorganized wall of text. But it's a good adaptation of the fallout game system

Here: [
drive.google.com/drive/folders/0Bz5Uomze6wJ_Znp6aFZhZmxZTTA?usp=sharing] is my whole setup, I honestly come up with alot of stuff on the spot because I care more about story than tedious numbers, and I come up with what the party does next the week before due to their "Sparatic" Nature.

As far as the things you could really use:

The basic info on how to play it (Sorry it's not well organized or described, I never thought anyone else would see this besides me.

Character template: docs.google.com/document/d/1E2yaAy6Fa8io81JEb4ZcgXbI0Ygru31e5_9_NImUft4/edit?usp=sharing

Perks (one per level, again not many as I am Kind of creating this as I go along): docs.google.com/document/d/1E2yaAy6Fa8io81JEb4ZcgXbI0Ygru31e5_9_NImUft4/edit?usp=sharing

Some generic enamies (The crusaders are a faction for my story, btw, sorry): drive.google.com/drive/folders/0Bz5Uomze6wJ_ZEQzTmU5c1EwTFU?usp=sharing

Sorry for the terribleness of it all. I never thought anyone else would see it.

wut?

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