My Hero Forge 2.0 Creations — Ragnara, Psychic Warrior: Update
So I've posted about her before, but here's the rundown for whoever may have missed it.
Back when Wizards of the Coast took over Dungeons & Dragons, one of their decisions for the new third edition (as well as the 3.5e that soon followed) was to develop “Iconic Characters” for each character class, for consistency in art direction and to aid in marketing.
In addition to the Iconics for the classes from the Players' Handbook, classes introduced in other sourcebooks like the Psionics Handbook got them too.
Out of all the Iconic Characters, my favorite was Ragnara, who was the Iconic for the Psychic Warrior class. (I have a thing for crystal swords, OK?) While there have been both official and unofficial miniatures of her in the past, I had wanted to recreate her in Hero Forge to have my own take on the character.
That's a render from Hero Forge's 3D builder, and this week I finally got a physical print.
I particularly like how well their translucent plastic coloring options turned out. That alone puts this version well ahead of the official and unofficial ones.
I also feel she's a good match for the reference art I was working against. In particular, Hero Forge had a crystal shield that looked like it was taken right from Ragnara's Epic Level portrait.
Additionally, it took a few iterations as more facial decal options were added, but I was able to find a good approximation of her eye makeup (tattoos?). These are even quite distinct on the physical print.
For comparison, here Wizards of the Coast's Official Mini. For something mass produced for blind boxes, It's serviceable, but I do like mine better. Where this one does excel however, is her unique one-sided scale mail armor, something that can't yet be done in Hero Forge
Third-Party miniatures manufacturer Reaper had their own unofficial, legally-distinct-for-purposes-of-IP-law take on the character, originally named “Dara, Psionic Warrior” (but it looks like they may have re-titled that catalog number entry since then). I took inspiration for the posing of her sword in my version from here.
