New Items And Features Added To Hero Forge
June 11, 2021 by fcostin
We all love a bit of Hero Forge here at OnTableTop to build our characters, never been able to forget Speedo Goblin and his mischievous antics with a perfect belly-button jewel and Fuschia-pink pants. Speedo Goblin does and will always live rent-free in my head.
Decals // Hero Forge
There are some new features available in the popular character builder, so we will take a look at what is new and shiny in the treasure hoard with new items, awesome decals and a look into the new subscription service: Hero Forge Pro.
A new addition to the character builder has finally made its way in. Decals have now been added for everybody to access. So if you are looking to go that extra mile and add some further customisation to your character's shield, banner, animal print, splatter, hair or beard - you can follow your faction through and through with some hardcore hero branding to save the day.
Along with the addition to decals, your character can be upgraded with more armour and more items, prepped and ready for their next campaign.
New Items - Shoulder Pad Collection // Hero Forge
Every Tuesday, Hero Forge update their system with some new and shiny items to plaster on your characters. Bulky chest armour not allowing your character to feel as tanky as they would like? The newest additions to shoulder armour can do exactly that! Your highly armoured warrior can now add the bones of their most recently slain beast, or wrap up with some extra fantastical layers of pure aesthetic beauty.
Along with the addition of the above shoulder pad collection, new alchemist bottles, a variation of drums, and a medieval gown has been added to the bank.
Hero Forge Pro Subscription // Hero Forge
A recent addition and change to Hero Forge may benefit those who use the online builder often. Hero Forge® Pro will benefit players who consider themselves 'power-users', constantly building, saving and creating to make the process even easier for you creative minds out there.
Hero Forge Pro subscribers will have so much to access with Beta access to new content and features, the ability to reuse saved paint sets, an organisation for your stored characters, the ability to create virtual tabletop tokens and so much more. All wrapped up in a nifty badge to show off your pro status with a label.
For those who use Hero Forge a fair amount, you can get access to 1-month, 3-month and 12-month subscription plans depending on how much you would use the online program.
What do you think of the new additions to Hero Forge? And would you consider getting Hero Forge Pro to keep your miniatures in organisation heaven?
"We all love a bit of Hero Forge here at OnTableTop to build our characters, never been able to forget Speedo Goblin and his mischievous antics with a perfect belly-button jewel and Fuschia-pink pants. Speedo Goblin does and will always live rent-free in my head..."
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Nice looking figures the decals a great addition.
Speedo Goblins sounds like a fun chap…I think… 😛
It’s cool to see Heroforge continue to update both the system and content. I wouldn’t be surprised if they added 3rd party sculpts to the mix so they could offer/sell even more variety. The one thing I don’t like (as a consumer) is the vendor lock-in this creates. Being forced into only ever saving your designs in their format on their servers sucks. Paying for that privilege so you don’t lose access if you cancel is even worse. Imagine only ever being able to paint and assemble GW minis at the GW store ? And then having to pay a… Read more »
Eldritch Foundry is getting there as far as options goes and they are cheaper iirc.
29$ for a mini isn’t exactly ‘cheap(er)’ (‘premium resin’), but at least their stl-files aren’t expensive (+/- 4$). They also have ‘premium’ items that add cost to the mini, which is kind of annoying.
And they have the same problem as Heroforge : you can only save on their webservers as opposed to keeping the files on your computer.
Using either as a way to create a stl-file and work from there is an option, but it requires one to be familliar with 3D sculpting.
It’s good to see that there is at least some attempt at a competing product …
Reminds me that I have a load of credit to make some figs and export them as STLs – waiting sometimes pays off