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[Ironworker]

Ok so I'm working on my D&D campaign I'm running for my family and a friend of ours. Anyhow the Cult of Hexor (evil war god) is going to play heavily in it. The heros have already encountered the cult but they don't yet know whats in store for them. Eventually they will be infiltrating strongholds of Hexor and fighting off large numbers of his minions. I've decided to use several of the Malvernis figures to represent various individuals and troops of the forces they will be fighting. I'm removing the malvernis markings and I'm going to paint hexor's holy symbol on their shields and other things. I'm trying to decide though on what colors I'm going to go with.

I have about 11 or 12 of these guys.

Men at Arms

This guy will serve as a fairly powerful villian.

Mangu

As will this guy.

Inquisitor

This guy here I also have and he will make a good champion for the men at arms.

Legionnaire

Hexor's symbol is a black gauntlet clutching several red arrows. I'm trying to come up with a third background color but I'm having some difficulty deciding. It would show up well on white and be heraldically correct but white shields just don't say "Evil War God" to me. Yellow/Gold would also be an option and I suppose if I didn't make it bright yellow that might work but it still seems a bit bright. Not really sure what else would go well with the symbol though. I've considered just making the symbol all black and going with a red background but I'd like to avoid that if possible. Any suggestions?

[Joe Kutz]

Getting in the wayback machine...

Dragon #67 "Deities and Demigods of the World of Greyhawk"

Hextor - The clergy dress in dark red robes adorned with white skulls. The symbol is a Fist holding 6 red arrows.

I would probably go with steel for the metal bits (don't want it to look to clean...these guys should have bloody armor you know). Dark Red for the cloth and what not. Do up a white skull where you want to do the symbol...and put the symbol over the skull.

The yellow/gold wouldn't work IMO depending on how closely you want to follow the written stuff. Hextor's half brother and sworn enemy is Heironeous and his people are associated with yellow/gold and blue.

[Ironworker]

Getting in the wayback machine...

Dragon #67 "Deities and Demigods of the World of Greyhawk"

Hextor - The clergy dress in dark red robes adorned with white skulls. The symbol is a Fist holding 6 red arrows.

I would probably go with steel for the metal bits (don't want it to look to clean...these guys should have bloody armor you know). Dark Red for the cloth and what not. Do up a white skull where you want to do the symbol...and put the symbol over the skull.

The yellow/gold wouldn't work IMO depending on how closely you want to follow the written stuff. Hextor's half brother and sworn enemy is Heironeous and his people are associated with yellow/gold and blue.

Oh that's great info. I think I'll go with the skull thing. I knew the D&D gods were the old Greyhawk gods but I never played much in Greyhawk so I didn't know the older backstory about them. One of my players is a Paladin or Heironeous.

[Joe Kutz]

There is a picture in one of the magazines/books which showed a line up of the Greyhawk priests in their robes. It has been a long time since I had scene it though. If I remember correctly though - it looked kinda like the Punisher wearing a black bath robe (think it was in Dragon...150 area). If you want I can dig around to see if I can find that too.

http://www.wizards.c...specthextor.jpg

http://www.legendgam...iest_hextor.jpg

[Sergeant_Crunch]

If these are just going on shields have you considered printing decals instead of painting. Would be more consistent and faster than freehand.

[Ironworker]

If these are just going on shields have you considered printing decals instead of painting. Would be more consistent and faster than freehand.

Actually they will probably be going on several things and the shields on the men at arms are two different sizes. I think i still have some decal sheats from the two or three box of plastic skellies I have laying arround for differnt projects if I decide not to freehand.

[haldir]

anther tidbit info is Hextor & Heironious (sorry spelling didn't want to look, ha ha) are half-bros ,one is good the other is evil, so you could implement that into your gameplay.

pretty sure this is current info but this is what I use for my Savage Tide pbp here whenever I need to bring up a god or goddess in play

<a href="http://dndrealmsofadventure.tripod.com/rel...he_flanaess.htm" target="_blank">http://dndrealmsofadventure.tripod.com/rel...he_flanaess.htm</a>

wiki entry (funny, you can find allot of D&D info on wiki, something I was really surprised when I started using it awile back)

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hextor" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hextor</a>

suggestion for Mangu--how about a blood red armor with deep almost to black shadows on him & then highlights of red but not a bright red, like he bathes his armor in the blood of his enemies (Heironeous (see did it again, ha ha)) before donning it.

If you campaign is high enough, how about a Blood Golem of Hextor?? pretty cool golem for Hextor stuff

Pic here (mini from DDMs) BG of Hex mini

want more info let me know on it

some other info

Background
Hextor is the half-brother of Heironeous (AH HA), and as diabolic as his brother is angelic. He delights in torture, bloodshed, and strife, and preaches a creed of iron-fisted dominance. His priesthood consists of two factions: the Bringers of Strife, and the Legion of Battle. The Bringers are traditional priests, and typically have two or more lower-ranked members of the Legion as guardians. The Legion is a military order organized much like a feudal knighthood, consisting of clerical warriors (crusaders). The Bringers keep the populace in line, while the Legion spreads the word of Hextor to those who will convert, and death to those who refuse.

(keep editting this, as I'm getting ideas in my head....:) )

how about have "Mangu" have a sword like those Halloween sword that have a chamber for "blood" to trickle down for effect, but something like that for a weapon. Sword has a inner chamber that boosts the blades nastiness for something like that. Sounds like a fun campaign, good luck with it.

RM

[Ironworker]

I found some undead decal sheets that have some decent skulls on them if I decide not to free hand. I know I have more than this one sheet laying around somewhere.

[Joe Kutz]

Few years back in order to do a lot of skulls on the cheap and quickly I came across a pretty good solution. The hobby store had small paper punches that were for Halloween in the shape of a skull (it was maybe 1/4" from top to bottom of the skull). I also had a few sheets of decal paper...the white background. Punch-punch-punch and I had several dozen skull decals.