Author Archives: AFDStudios

What should I do about backgrounds?

The current set of Backgrounds features two planets in the “Floor” set. The “Sky” set has a window, a wall, and a street corner. It makes no sense.

I’d like to rationalize these in some way and have them all make sense. But if I go mucking about and change the items, your saved characters will all of a sudden have something totally different in place when you load it, if you used one of the items (like the aforementioned floor planets).

Which would you rather, potentially having strange saved files, or having Background sets that make sense and were grouped sensibly?

"Kronos" by Legatus

I’ve decided to try and post one cool character creation a day pulled from the forums. As usual with me, this will be fairly random. I just thought it would be fun to get a peek into what some other folks are doing.

First up is “Kronos” by Legatus. I like the way the large, muscular torso has been incorporated into the more regular body and clothing styles for a nice brick-style build. You can see all of Legatus’ creations here in the forums.

Ground Eruption to Major Tom

I’ve just added the following “Stuff’s coming up out of the ground FAST” item to Background-Floors:

grounderuption

Faerie Avery Companion

By request, I’ve made this lovely creature available in Companions-Humanoid:

avery

Big Mean Worm Monster

Per request, I’ve just added the big rock worm monster to Companion-Standard:

monsterworm

Avery

A faerie drawing I did for one of my nieces.

avery-fairy

META: Still tweaking

I just wanted to give you a heads-up that I’m still tweaking things on the backend trying to make the blog faster and more fully-featured. One of the main things is trying to get blog posts by me and the other authors (Kaldath, dblade, etc.) to automatically post to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc. That’s the reason I’m putting up so many old images.

Speaking of which, here’s another one, also rejected (partially) by the client!

peterfu

Nightshade

This is a rejected character sketch of Nightshade I did for a friend in the Uberworld campaign.

nightshade

City Block

I just added the following city block to HeroMachine 3 in Background-Cityscapes:

cityblock

Big Monster

I drew this for one of our Champions campaigns back in 2004. I’ll try to dig up the Flash version so I can get the city block in the program if possible.

bigmonster