Finished - Ossunilur Broadpike (D&D mini)

My regular D&D group of years is on hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic but I finished the mini for it. Blogging should be up but it is not. It is hard to stay motivated on lockdown. Despite that, lots has been finished since the last entry. Just have to write about it.

For modeling, I swapped the dagger in the left hand for a hammer from WFB and shaved off some of the Chaos icons. The belt scabbard was empty, presumably with the dagger that was in the left hand, so I replaced it with a cut down hilt from a plastic weapon. I built the base up with some shale flakes and sand.

Painting was pretty standard. Black, gold and silver were painted in my standard "base, wash, touch-up, highlight" style. I did an extra blue wash on the hammer to make it look magical. I washed some of the gold with Agrax Earthshade rather than Gryphonne Sepia to make it look older.

Buckle up for some "let me tell you about my character" below.

I started with the idea of a character whose actions were at odds with his stereotypical racial background. I dismissed the idea of a demi-human passing for human (especially the very trite surface-Drow that is done to death) as that would require lots of racial intolerance to be built into the GM's world. Most D&D games function in a race-blind world where gnomes, half-orcs, elves and humans all get along for the most part and are subject to much prejudice. The "go along to get along" mentality is high.


Eliminating that, I am left with a human in a demi-human world. The chiche choice is a human or half-elf that wants to be an elf. I think there is an example of this in the Evermeet book but it has been a decade or more since I read them. Regardless, it has been done and been done better than I could ever hope to do.

I could think of examples of bright and broadly-drawn dwarf characters but I could not think of an example of a human character imitating or trying to integrate into a dwarf culture. I liked the idea of a human trying to adopt everything that is dwarf. I thought about how dwarves would be accepting of an outsider adopting their ways and I didn't see them welcoming others with open arms. It kind of made me think of the typical japanophile. They want so desperately to belong to a culture that may tolleraterate them but ultimately they can never be fully a part of.

I could go on and on like any player about their character's backstory but I'll save you.