RPG Fantasy Vikings: Main Characters Based.

I started working (somewhat delayed, compared to the original plan) on these yesterday, and I actually did something that I thought I would never do; I put minis intended for slotta-bases on washers instead.

On the Red Box shieldmaiden I sawed off only half the tab, in order to make the finished mini sit a bit higher on the base, and thus seem taller.

The Hasslefree sorceress had all but about ½ mm of the tab removed

I tried out my recently acquired Loc-Tite brush-on superglue, btw, and it seems a HUGE step forward from the bottles with a long thin shout that always clog up or let the glue dry hard in the bottle.

D&D RPG Fantasy Vikings Project: More Character Minis Arrived!

In the mail today, these two VERY nice sculpts from Hasslefree (I'm pretty sure the male wizard is an ex Red Box mini, btw).

Neither exactly 'viking' in style, but the female is going to be the avatar of my youngest offspring who is playing young apprentice of the settlement's Vǫlva.

Anna and Lea play the daughters of the local Hersír, so the slightly exotic attire of Lea's character can be explained by her father bringing home some stuff from overseas expeditions.

The wizard I plan to use as an arch enemy, threatening the settlement and general area with vile creatures from a lair somewhere in the surrounding fjöll.

Shot from a slightly different angle:

All that remains now is to clean up the models and get some paint slabbed on.

I shall start work on the two main avatars somewhen this week.

I just started in a new job today, and I feel rather chewed up, but I hope to be able to get back to the workable tomorrow afternoon after work.

D&D RPG Fantasy Vikings Project: Some Character Minis Arrived!

These three beauties from Red Box Games arrived in the mail - probably yesterday when we were 10 km outside Haderslev at my in-laws, to cut op some treetrunks that had fallen on their lawn during the storm/gale the previous weekend.

The two fighter types are to be used for Anna's character (they are almost identical, save for the armament) as she loves to shoot the longbow in real life (and is fairly good at it, too), so also wants to purchase one for her character as soon as she has collected the means to do so.

The face on those two even bears some resemblance to Anna, as far as I can tell, and it will be interesting to see if I can catch and accentuate that resemblance when painting them.

The 'hedge witch' I ordered simply because I like it - I have another mini arriving from Hasslefree any day now (I hope), destined to become the in-game avatar of Lea.

D&D Old School RPG Fantasy Vikings Project: Creating Characters

As announced on the 'link-holder-page' I am working on getting some Old School Dungeons & Dragons going with my daughters.

I am creating a Fantasy Vikings setting, using as much historical stuff I can, while maintaining the structure and diversity of the D&D setting.

I let the girls roll 4 dice for each Ability (removing the lowest result), and roll 3 sets of Abilities. Then, based on the results, they could decide which profile they wanted, and which Class to play (they could choose from the 4 Human Classes).

Lea rolled quite well on her first profile, and ended up chosing to create a Magic-User. In this setting, she'll be the apprentice of the village's Vǫlva.

When adjusting Intelligence, I allowed her to raise it to 19; although this is technically not permitted by the rules, I have done so in the past, and it doesn't upset balance (especially not when done for a weak Class like the Magic-User). She'll have a +4 adjustment, and +20% xp, thus probably being able to level up not too long after Anna's Shieldmaiden Fighter Character.

The girls ar filling in Character Sheets (and drawing Characters).
Note that Anna, to the right, is wearing her medieval linen dresses
(she does that a lot)!

I also allow magic-users to wear light leather armour, and, as this is a Viking setting, she was allowed to have a bow. I may allow non-magical one-handed swords/axes, too (Gandalf, after all, wielded Glamdring to great effect).

Anna rolled less well, but she ended up with a manageable +1 Fighter, so should be able to protect her younger sister from intrusive monsters.

As both my daughters are young (11 and 8), and completely new to role-playing, I let their characters start with a full Hit Point dice (+ bonus) worth of Hit Points PLUS a roll+bonus. They need some staying power, and as GM I can do what ever I want ;o)

Tomorrow, we'll choose some appropriate names for the characters, and find some nice minis to represent them on the table (oh, yes, there WILL be minis!).