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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MaxKaladin" data-source="post: 205767" data-attributes="member: 1196">It's not *too* hard to find pictures and sketches of more or less stereotypical adventurer types out there.  What I'm looking for is pictures of the non-standard people adventurers run into so I can represent some of my NPCs.  It's easy to find a musclebound barbarian or a bearded and robed wizard.  It's a lot tougher, for instance, to find a fat barkeep, his young stableboy, the plump, middle-aged woman who cooks for them, the street urchin begging for coppers outside who happens to know where the PCs adversaries are staying, the old crone who the wizard buys herbs on the edge of town, and the old but weathered caravanmaster who is looking for guards for his next trip.  Where could I get them?  I've seen programs like that Heromaker and Character artist for CC2, but they focus on young, fit adventurer types.  The problem, of course, is that most of the above people don't fit that description.  The innkeeper and the cook are overweight, the stableboy and street urchin are kids (who are shorter and proportioned differently from adults), the urchin is probably also skinny, the crone and the caravanmaster are  both old and the crone is hunched over.  And, of course, any one of them could be ugly or non-human.  Those programs don't address this and neither does most fantasy art as both focus on young and fit heros and heroines who are likely to be handsome unless they're a half-orc orc something like that.  Modern pictures really aren't appropriate since the clothing is all wrong.  Is there some source for this that I'm missing?  What do others do for NPC pictures?</blockquote>

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