Hero's deserve less to start

[Daedalus]

A tavern fight could be a fun way to begin a Quest. Big Bene created one in the Play-by-Post Game Room once--great idea.

[mitchiemasha]

One thing I'd like to do one day is create some Quests that start the Heroes off at even a lower power level than beginning Heroes. Such beginner Quests would require even wimpier monsters like giant bats and rats. They would serve as origins stories, each solo but maybe culminating in four-Hero Quests. Clubs and daggers would work well in these formative Quests, I think.

My initial idea for the redesign was based on something similar. Bored youths at the local Inn keep hearing of tales of the Spirit Blade and Borins Armour. How it lays with a mighty barbarian who with his companions saved all of man from a great evil. This rag tag group of friends decide to go on a Quest to discover it. Unfortunately awakening a past best left untouched. All the original items are reworked into the quests (which cuts back printing). All the new mods are brought into the quests, through the quests, lots of extra twists and turns, discoveries to the story. Like how the Talisman of lore (which the Wizard uses to get the extra spell set) is what the 'evil guy' needs to increase his Mind and stop running out when trying to infuse Borins Armour, from Borin stone, a name for a very rare mineral rock, A magical process involved in making extremely powerful Chaos warriors.

A lot of those ideas are interlinked here... Click Me! But that was thrown together for a group some time back. It's not finished but it does stand on it's own as a full campaign! The INN start and returning to town (Dragon strike board) isn't worked into it. I wanted the Character Creation process to be an actual quest in town.

The idea is meant to be based around us... the older generation, showing our kids, grankids, the game of our youth, returning to it, actually returning but the next generation. Not that I have kids!!!

[Daedalus]

That's a nice re-tread. The reuse of familiar elements is inspired.

[burglekutt]

One thing I'd like to do one day is create some Quests that start the Heroes off at even a lower power level than beginning Heroes. Such beginner Quests would require even wimpier monsters like giant bats and rats. They would serve as origins stories, each solo but maybe culminating in four-Hero Quests. Clubs and daggers would work well in these formative Quests, I think.

Excellent idea! I just happened to order 4 giant spiders & 3 Bats that i was gonna put in anyway which can take the place of a few enemies.


Now I just need a few more creatures like Attack dogs, Giant snake, etc

Thanks Daedalus!

[Anderas]

I recently bought some of those cute dungeon critters from Warhammer Quest: A snotling, a spider, a bat and a rat in one sprue. Love it. I also have the murder of crows from Zombicide: 21 bases with four or five crows on each. Spraypainted in 5 minutes. I mean. Crows are black.
May the vermin quest begin.

[knightkrawler]

I mean. Crows are black.

Yeah, but... what colors did you use to convey crows' black which isn't really really black?
What if you someday need something to be really black, and I mean, in contrast to the crows?
Where's your artist's heart, man?
You mix your own black from a dark umber and a dark true blue, Banause!
And then, for crow's feathers, you put in a little more blue for the base and let your imagination do the highlights and shadows!

I'm pulling your strings, of course
Myself, I'm thinking of doing all figures and furniture for one quest pack of mine all in grayscale. Or B&W TV colors, tans and beiges and dark violets and so on...

[Anderas]

Black.

Ah well, yes... and some white from the airbrush.

No, the models are not perfect, they are swarm models, and (not on the photo but) in total 21 bases of them, so i aimed more for the mass effect and not so much for each model to be perfect.

[knightkrawler]

Give them a blue-black wash, and that's an order!

[j_dean80]

Crows have a shiny tint to them when the sun reflects...just sayin

[torilen]

Oh man - I've seen birds flying in "swarms" before. But, you think about if those birds are
hostile and flying in a great big "swarm" like that...like gnats...that's a bit terrifying.

Great model.

I'd have to agree with other comments, though. Give them a tiny blue-black color, and
finish off with a VERY light spray of a shiny glitter-black, or a pearl coat or something.
You've got a banging monster mini right there!