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Character Designs for HeroQuest Glorantha

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For The Coming Storm, I worked with art director Jeff Richards to create a lineup of 75 NPCs to populate the setting. Each character had to visually communicate specific cultural and personal character traits visually, and be recognizeable if reproduced in multiple formats.

Here are a few of the lineups.

Character Illustrations from Glorantha's The Coming Storm
Character Illustrations from Glorantha's The Coming Storm
Character Illustrations from Glorantha's The Coming Storm
Character Illustrations from Glorantha's The Coming Storm
Character Illustrations from Glorantha's The Coming Storm

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8 responses to “Character Designs for HeroQuest Glorantha”

  1. Cultist of Sooty
    Cultist of Sooty
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    Okay, these are lovely. Illustrations of NPCs from The Coming Storm. Sadly OOP. @chaosium.bsky.social really need to do themselves a favour & make this & The Eleven Lights available again. It’s some of the best material ever written for #Glorantha
    http://www.portablecity.net/character-de...

  2. Brazen Head of Criswell (owner/operator)
    Brazen Head of Criswell (owner/operator)
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    I treasure all the HQ: Glorantha material (esp as someone who struggles w/ the rules crunch of modern RQ) and wish it hadn’t been written off so quickly. Cautiously optimistic that we’ll see more with the release of QuestWorlds.

  3. Jason at Myth-forged
    Jason at Myth-forged
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    Oh, nice. I really liked that art. It still really fits with modern look too. There was another artist in the HeroQuest era that did those amazing pencil sketches too. Didn’t fit the modern vibe as much, but they were absolutely gorgeous. I need to look up who that was.

  4. Brian Duguid
    Brian Duguid
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    Maybe Mike Perry? As per this example: wellofdaliath.chaosium.com/kingdom-of-w…, although I think he mostly just did illustrations for the Guide to Glorantha.

  5. Jason at Myth-forged
    Jason at Myth-forged
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    Those are good too, no the person I was talking about. Noticed it was signed, so figured out it was Regis Moulin.

  6. Jason at Myth-forged
    Jason at Myth-forged
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    Another artist I really liked in Sartar: Kingdom of Heroes was this one. I think, based on the artist initials in the corner, that its Bernard Bittler, but I’m not 100% certain. Anyway, I’ve gotten us off-topic here, lol.

  7. Jason at Myth-forged
    Jason at Myth-forged
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    While I absolutely adore the modern RQG art (and think its the best the line has ever had), this was was also great. Some of it has that more viking vibe that was unique to the HeroQuest/Questwords line, but I’m a sucker for pencil art. Really shows the craftsmanship of the artist in a unique way.

  8. Jason at Myth-forged
    Jason at Myth-forged
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    The only thing I think RQG “lacks” is some of this soulful b&w art. I understand that some people look at b&w as old fashioned or lesser, but it hits different. Maybe its because I dabble in art myself, but it just amazes me how sick this all looks, without cool or even ink