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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 7274046" data-attributes="member: 508"><p>When we make up PCs for a campaign, I always have the players hunt up an image of what their characters look like. These images get printed off the size of a standard playing card, cut out, glued onto the back of an index card, cut out again, their names written on the back, and then covered in clear Con*Tact paper and cut out yet again (leaving about a one-eighth of an inch border beyond the assembled card). The finished product is what we call an initiative card, because after initiative has been rolled for a given fight, the DM can arrange the cards in initiative order (mixing in the appropriate initiative cards made earlier for each of the monsters the PCs are facing). Once a PC or monster has taken his or her turn, the card goes to the back of the initiative deck and we can see who's up next.</p><p></p><p>In any case, here are the images for the PCs in this campaign.</p><p></p><p>First up is Galen Thorne, paladin of Hieroneous, played by my friend Dan. I expect we'll see Galen very frequently in the adventures to follow, because Dan was the instigator for us starting up our original campaign back in 2006. Galen wields a longsword and shield.</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">Galen: <a href="https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/jtv_user_pictures/ken_brightblade-profile_image-c78e953dcc9237d2-300x300.png" target="_blank">https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/jtv_user_pictures/ken_brightblade-profile_image-c78e953dcc9237d2-300x300.png</a></p><p></p><p>Next up is Kaspar Hardstrike, played by my 10-year-old nephew Harry, who lives with us. Harry had a hard time picking out an image for his elven monk, because he found most male elf portraits "looked too much like a girl" - so any long-haired male elves were out, and he didn't like the bald look either, even for a monk. He almost settled on an image of Link (from the "Legend of Zelda" games) that had been painted in a lifelike fashion, but then we found the image he finally settled on. Personally, I think he looks like he could pass as a hobbit from the "Lord of the Rings" movies, but he has sufficiently elflike ears and short hair, so Harry decided that was what Kaspar looked like.</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">Kaspar: <a href="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/12/5f/bb/125fbbdeb5a76fdd8d6e17cb78d57c62--elf-characters-blood-elf.jpg" target="_blank">https://i.pinimg.com/736x/12/5f/bb/125fbbdeb5a76fdd8d6e17cb78d57c62--elf-characters-blood-elf.jpg</a></p><p></p><p>Orion Nightsky, halfling rogue, is played by Dan's wife Vicki. Orion is a dagger-wielder, in that she has about half a dozen of them stashed away in her leather armor, ready for stabbing or throwing. There was an image of a halfling rogue with multiple daggers strapped to her armor that fit the character concept very well, but Vicki didn't like the "sexy" armor or the sleek build of the halfling; she greatly prefers the "hobbit" look and chose the following image (we'll have to ignore the name written at the bottom, on the ribbon - when I made the initiative card for Orion, I cropped off the bottom of the image).</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">Orion: <a href="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f1/99/53/f19953f9bec0a43498f11a9e5f5c2521--character-portraits-character-ideas.jpg" target="_blank">https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f1/99/53/f19953f9bec0a43498f11a9e5f5c2521--character-portraits-character-ideas.jpg</a></p><p></p><p>Finally (for now), we have my PC: Syngaard, the human fighter. I decided I wanted to play Syngaard as a mercenary thug (rather like Jayne Cobb of <em>Firefly</em>), so I looked for "tough guy" images and found one I liked. Syngaard wields a morningstar and a shield, but has a dagger and a sling as backup weapons. </p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">Syngaard: <a href="https://orig00.deviantart.net/613a/f/2011/248/7/2/729835940ae81aba88f2982f5c1895bf-d49072p.jpg" target="_blank">https://orig00.deviantart.net/613a/f/2011/248/7/2/729835940ae81aba88f2982f5c1895bf-d49072p.jpg</a></p><p></p><p>And that leaves only Joey's character, the elf wizard. Alas, as of the time of this posting, Joey has yet to come up with either a name for his PC or an image of what he looks like. Once he gets those figured out, I'll edit his image back into this post. But in the meantime, we went through our introductory adventure last Wednesday, and neither Vicki nor Joey showed. So Logan found a way to split the party into "the PCs whose players showed up" and "the PCs whose players didn't" (he'd planned for just this eventuality) - but, lacking a name for the elf wizard who we met up with in the first adventure, we just referred to him as "Wizard-Pants" at the table with an understanding that in the adventure itself, the term "Wizard-Pants" will have been retroactively replaced with the elf wizard's real name.</p><p></p><p>[Later edit: Joey finally decided on a name for his elf wizard: Daleth Stormsea.]</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">Daleth: <a href="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/51/64/41/516441846f707e848fbaf9d27aca76d4--cartoon-characters-fantasy-characters.jpg" target="_blank">https://i.pinimg.com/736x/51/64/41/516441846f707e848fbaf9d27aca76d4--cartoon-characters-fantasy-characters.jpg</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richards, post: 7274046, member: 508"] When we make up PCs for a campaign, I always have the players hunt up an image of what their characters look like. These images get printed off the size of a standard playing card, cut out, glued onto the back of an index card, cut out again, their names written on the back, and then covered in clear Con*Tact paper and cut out yet again (leaving about a one-eighth of an inch border beyond the assembled card). The finished product is what we call an initiative card, because after initiative has been rolled for a given fight, the DM can arrange the cards in initiative order (mixing in the appropriate initiative cards made earlier for each of the monsters the PCs are facing). Once a PC or monster has taken his or her turn, the card goes to the back of the initiative deck and we can see who's up next. In any case, here are the images for the PCs in this campaign. First up is Galen Thorne, paladin of Hieroneous, played by my friend Dan. I expect we'll see Galen very frequently in the adventures to follow, because Dan was the instigator for us starting up our original campaign back in 2006. Galen wields a longsword and shield. [INDENT]Galen: [URL]https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/jtv_user_pictures/ken_brightblade-profile_image-c78e953dcc9237d2-300x300.png[/URL][/INDENT] Next up is Kaspar Hardstrike, played by my 10-year-old nephew Harry, who lives with us. Harry had a hard time picking out an image for his elven monk, because he found most male elf portraits "looked too much like a girl" - so any long-haired male elves were out, and he didn't like the bald look either, even for a monk. He almost settled on an image of Link (from the "Legend of Zelda" games) that had been painted in a lifelike fashion, but then we found the image he finally settled on. Personally, I think he looks like he could pass as a hobbit from the "Lord of the Rings" movies, but he has sufficiently elflike ears and short hair, so Harry decided that was what Kaspar looked like. [INDENT]Kaspar: [URL]https://i.pinimg.com/736x/12/5f/bb/125fbbdeb5a76fdd8d6e17cb78d57c62--elf-characters-blood-elf.jpg[/URL][/INDENT] Orion Nightsky, halfling rogue, is played by Dan's wife Vicki. Orion is a dagger-wielder, in that she has about half a dozen of them stashed away in her leather armor, ready for stabbing or throwing. There was an image of a halfling rogue with multiple daggers strapped to her armor that fit the character concept very well, but Vicki didn't like the "sexy" armor or the sleek build of the halfling; she greatly prefers the "hobbit" look and chose the following image (we'll have to ignore the name written at the bottom, on the ribbon - when I made the initiative card for Orion, I cropped off the bottom of the image). [INDENT]Orion: [URL]https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f1/99/53/f19953f9bec0a43498f11a9e5f5c2521--character-portraits-character-ideas.jpg[/URL][/INDENT] Finally (for now), we have my PC: Syngaard, the human fighter. I decided I wanted to play Syngaard as a mercenary thug (rather like Jayne Cobb of [I]Firefly[/I]), so I looked for "tough guy" images and found one I liked. Syngaard wields a morningstar and a shield, but has a dagger and a sling as backup weapons. [INDENT]Syngaard: [URL]https://orig00.deviantart.net/613a/f/2011/248/7/2/729835940ae81aba88f2982f5c1895bf-d49072p.jpg[/URL][/INDENT] And that leaves only Joey's character, the elf wizard. Alas, as of the time of this posting, Joey has yet to come up with either a name for his PC or an image of what he looks like. Once he gets those figured out, I'll edit his image back into this post. But in the meantime, we went through our introductory adventure last Wednesday, and neither Vicki nor Joey showed. So Logan found a way to split the party into "the PCs whose players showed up" and "the PCs whose players didn't" (he'd planned for just this eventuality) - but, lacking a name for the elf wizard who we met up with in the first adventure, we just referred to him as "Wizard-Pants" at the table with an understanding that in the adventure itself, the term "Wizard-Pants" will have been retroactively replaced with the elf wizard's real name. [Later edit: Joey finally decided on a name for his elf wizard: Daleth Stormsea.] [INDENT]Daleth: [URL]https://i.pinimg.com/736x/51/64/41/516441846f707e848fbaf9d27aca76d4--cartoon-characters-fantasy-characters.jpg[/URL][/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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