Bored on Hero Forge

I like to design minis on Hero Forge when bored for fun. Curated by @airdeck.

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Cosmo

Cosmo is a sad little demigod who despite having some power, has absolutely no respect. I sort of feel like Ronan the Accuser is his main inspiration, as I always got a super weaselly vibes from him. Cosmo is essentially a loser who just happens to have some power and wields a weapon made out of antimatter or something.

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Neon

This mini is from around the same time as I made Mr. Inverse, where I was trying to simulate shader effects with the paint materials. Definitely inspired by the neon powers that Fetch has in Infamous Second Son, with some good ol’ 80′s outrun vibes as well.

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Phosphorus Max

I was designing sci-fi minis a month or so ago when I was playing around using the glow setting in the paints. Definitely inspired by visuals like Tron, but I also had a sort of Brian Graggs vibe from the Daemon/Freedom™ novels too.

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Coach Dickenballs

One night my wife challenged me to make a D&D character called “Coach Dickenballs” and this was my answer to it.  

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Desperate Times...

Might as well keep on the gross theme from earlier this week. I designed this mini back at the start of the pandemic in April when Hero Forge released their April Fool’s update with the censor bar. This was a callout to the great toilet paper shortage of 2020 when it was impossible to find TP in stores, and as such previously good people resorted to paper towels, tissues, or in some cases... their least favorite book. 

Do you remember that? April? Feels like a lifetime ago now. What a fucking crazy year it’s been and it’s not even ¾ over yet.

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Pooh Bear

This was my entry into Hero Forge’s “Create a Hero” Bearfolk contest. 

...I don’t think it’ll win. 

Based on the work of Alex Solis.

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Liberty

What if the Statue of Liberty came to life when no one was looking in order to fight crime?

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Bird Army

A self-organizing group of birds decide to go on an adventure. Sort of like a Swarmkeeper without the swarm.

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Midas

One of the backlog characters I want to try in D&D is someone affected my a Midas curse. I don’t think the character would be the King Midas, but maybe a king or ruler of a small town that becomes the same fate.

Mechanically, this would be a sort of tricky solve. A literal “touch anything to turn it to gold” would be too OP, as you’d be able to negate any battle simply by touching the foe. Similarly, not being able to eat or drink would probably pose some health issues – although that could be hand-waved with some good old fashioned ambiguous magic. The scale if it would need to be dialed in as well - can you turn an entire castle to gold, does your clothing turn to gold, etc.)

I think a good in-between could be worked out though. Make it similar to any sort of spell, where the creature touched needs to make a saving throw. Maybe there’s a range of the effect - e.g. it turns a part (arm, leg, etc) to gold, or there needs to be three successful touches for the full effect to take place. Maybe to balance it, there are no other skills or feats, or there’s a health punishment. And 

I’ve always been interested in special feats that increase or worsen at scale with the level (e.g. any object you touch has the change to turn to gold. Roll 1d20 and beat your current level, otherwise the object instantly solidifies.)

The above depicts a before and after – Midas at the start of the campaign, embracing his power, and Midas towards the end, starving and weighted down by clothing turned to solid gold.

I first started this character as the “statue” painted version above, before fleshing it out into a deeper character.

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Dr. Orc

Wear a fucking mask. Or else.

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Slog

Slog was an attempt to make a something like a mutated brute, sort of like the Hulk, Sloth, or Kuato, or any health-heavy tank minion from a game. Slog may not the the sharpest tool in the shed, but he... uh... has fists.

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Fish Guard

Created this guy a while ago, playing around with some of the other race options on Hero Forge. (I think this was before the merpeople were added.) This fellow would have been apart of some sort of imperial guard for an underwater kingdom. 

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Daddy Horse

I have an adult-sized purple unicorn onesie and my 3-year old daughter loves it when I wear it. This mini is dedicated to all the other “daddy horses” out there.

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Elizabeth

Ok, got on a sort of kick with the weird arms thing. Elizabeth is a Victorian-esque vampire hunter who is cursed with extreme physical strength, but at the expense of having the skin stripped from her arms and hands. The newfound power is a delightful curiosity to her, even if it comes with an unsightly demonic appearance. 

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Vlad

Vlad’s ivory-white bone arm is the result of curse, and is only kept alive by the golden shackle fueled by necrotic magic. His face bears the scars of battles won but not without cost.

Vlad is one of my backlog characters that I’d like to explore for a future campaign. I don’t have a lot planned for him, other than he’s an expert warrior from a faraway land who has made some sort of pact with an evil deity that has resulted in his undead appendage. 

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Death

Just Death in his iconic cloak with his iconic scythe, accompanied by his beloved companion.   

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Dice Ghoul

I created this... thing... a while back, and I’m not so sure it was a good idea.