Getting Into D&D 5e Adventures

I recently received a prize to create my own HeroForge 2D mini (thanks OnTableTop team and HeroForge!).  I honestly wasn’t sure what I should make.  I started looking through the Dragon of Icespire Peak module to see if there were any monsters or villains I should make into a custom mini.  I really couldn’t find anything that I felt was really needed…until I remembered my first Dungeons and Dragons character I played in High School.  He’d be fun to make!

Thanks to my hoarding superpowers, I still had my character sheet and original mini.  I named him Su Park after two of my first TaeKwonDo instructors.  This game used AD&D 2nd ed rules.  They didn’t have a Monk character class at the time, so I ended up making him a Cleric. I used special class in the Priest Handbook and skills from the Ninja Handbook to create a Monk that worshiped animals.  Pretty much he ended up being a Shaolin Monk.  Like many first time players and teenagers, I ended up in the Murder Hobo category…or maybe my alignment would best be described as Chaotic Dickhead.

Thinking of this characters original adventures, including a trip to Ravenloft resulting in a cloned body and heart replacement, loss of an eye to gain low light vision (kinda an odd story), and betraying his companions a few times.  I thought he’d make a great member of the Neutral Evil adventuring party that has and will continue to mess with my current players.  The Stone Cold Reavers.

I used my original drawings of Su Park to make my new Hero Forge 2D mini.  I think this looks a lot closer to my original concept of the character than my small metal mini.  I’m also impressed with how my painting has improved since I first painted up Su Park so many years ago.

I’m looking forward to making Su Park and the rest of the Stone Cold Reavers to fight the adventurers 🙂