Was wondering if anyone could give me advice on where I could find good representations of the three guests of Zeech that are not pictured in Prince of Redhand. (A "cute" evil halfing, an impossibly fat dwarf, and a shocked gnome nobleman.) Been thumbing through other issues of Dungeon to see if I can find anyone, but I really want to be able to present pictures of everyone at the feast, since my players will likely ignore anyone who isn't pictured.
For Miszen Mitchwillow (cute halfling) I used the image of Midnight from Dungeon 135: Chains of Blackmaw (cropped the picture to just head and shoulders, removing the dagger).
For Toris, the shocked gnome fellow, you could use Karl Manderholm from the same issue/adventure, but I used (and prefer) the picture of Darin from Issue 137: Tealpeck's Flood. He looks so worried/disturbed...
For the fat dwarf (Hoff, I believe), you could use either Galguth Shund from Issue 127: Dungeon of the Crypt (he's overweight but he's not terriby-dwarfy-looking), but what I did was re-use the picture of Ragnolis Dourstone from Issue 125: Three Faces of Evil. (He looks like a dwarf, and none of my players realized they'd seen the picture before - YMMV.)
Oh, and I recommend using the picture of Lashonna from Library of Lost Resort, and the picture of Prince Zeech from the section on Alhaster, rather than using the full-body picture of Lashonna-with-wine-glass and the crowd picture for Zeech. That way, everyone has head-and-shoulder images so they look better as a set.
I copied all the images I wanted into a Powerpoint document (you could do the same in MS Word) and cropped them as necessary. I re-sized them so the images of small folk (halfling, gnome) were correctly proportioned compared to the other images. I added text boxes with names, and printed everything in black-and-white, which eliminated the differences in artist style of the images I'd taken from other adventures.
Cool!
Could you post the file online? Maybe on the RPGenius site?
http://therpgenius.com/Default.aspx?alias=therpgenius.com/ageofworms
Oh, and I recommend using the picture of Lashonna from Library of Lost Resort, and the picture of Prince Zeech from the section on Alhaster, rather than using the full-body picture of Lashonna-with-wine-glass and the crowd picture for Zeech. That way, everyone has head-and-shoulder images so they look better as a set.
I used that pic of Lashonna also, rather than the one from the ball that was provided. I found the full-body shot too...insinuating as to her inevitable role in the Age of Worms. Plus, she has a nice profile, and she has a softer expression in it. Interestingly enough--and I can't say whether the pic contributed or not, but--the party has become quite trusting of her. Excellent...
Give me a little time and I'll post the pics I used.
Thanks for the suggestions! I also think one should use the headshot pictures of Zeech and Lashonna just so that everyone gets fair treatment.