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I'm an old time roleplayer who became a soldier who became a veteran who became a developer who became a dba who became a manager who never gave up his dream of a better world. Even if I have to create it myself.

Monday, February 27, 2012

Awesome Tool: Character Portraits

There is a site that hosts a few thousand images, originally indicated for Baldur's Gate purposes, but excellently usable for PCs and NPCs in your own tabletop game.

Perfect for my Orc Barbarian!

http://portraitcity.blackwyrmlair.net/

(Obviously many of these images are copyrighted elsewhere and shouldn't be used in your own published materials)

What I really enjoy doing with these is roaming around, finding an unusual portrait, and building an interesting character concept from the image - like this guy, who is obviously a blind bard that wears magic spectacles of pink headband detection.

His name?
"That Guy."
Yea, it's Vietnamese... ish.

Enjoy!

1 comment:

  1. Or this guy who was viciously savaged by a grapefruit as a young child.

    http://www.blackwyrmlair.net/~chevar/Portraits/JPG/M1497L.jpg

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