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Baldur the Stonesoul (Epic Baldur)


Master Ascetic Naaresh (Nihilator Warlock)

Interesting, now lets see the models!

I'm totally digging the Nihilator Warlock.

You've seen whats under the hood. now you must die. BALDUR SMASH!

Baldur looks pissed.

12thRonin wrote:Baldur looks pissed.

If the rest of the factions' dogs keep peeing on your constructs, wouldn't you be too?

Being dead only seems to have made him angry. He's still carrying Tritus by the looks of things.

Oh god, that Skorne warlock looks amazing! Now to see if the model and rules hold up to my hopes.

"WoW-atized"

Ouroborus wrote:"WoW-atized"

I agree with regards to Baldur, as it's all oversized spatulate weapons with glowy effects on a 'HURR--dramatic smash!' dude, but I think the Nihilator warlock holds true to Skorne artwork thus far and he doesn't have any strangely glowing weaponry beyond the arcane feat-runes that by now is characteristic of PP artwork.

Does anyone else think that Baldur's sword looks like the designers were debating what weapon to give him and this was the resulting discussion:

PP Designer 1 - Okay, we need to give him a bigger, better weapon than before.
PP Designer 2 - What about a hammer? I just saw Thor yesterday and Mjolnir -rocked-.
PP Designer 1 - Ehh, it's not EPIC enough. This needs to be epic. This is Epic Baldur. He needs an epic sword! But you're right, Thor's hammer was pretty awesome.
PP Designer 2 - Hey, what if we use Thor's Hammer, but we just have a great huge, honkin' blade coming out of the top of it? It'd be the best of both worlds - a badass hammer, and an epic sword! Win-win!

Death By Monkeys wrote:Does anyone else think that Baldur's sword looks like the designers were debating what weapon to give him and this was the resulting discussion:

PP Designer 1 - Okay, we need to give him a bigger, better weapon than before.
PP Designer 2 - What about a hammer? I just saw Thor yesterday and Mjolnir -rocked-.
PP Designer 1 - Ehh, it's not EPIC enough. This needs to be epic. This is Epic Baldur. He needs an epic sword! But you're right, Thor's hammer was pretty awesome.
PP Designer 2 - Hey, what if we use Thor's Hammer, but we just have a great huge, honkin' blade coming out of the top of it? It'd be the best of both worlds - a badass hammer, and an epic sword! Win-win!

It's identical to his Primal weapon.

George Spiggott wrote:

Death By Monkeys wrote:Does anyone else think that Baldur's sword looks like the designers were debating what weapon to give him and this was the resulting discussion:

PP Designer 1 - Okay, we need to give him a bigger, better weapon than before.
PP Designer 2 - What about a hammer? I just saw Thor yesterday and Mjolnir -rocked-.
PP Designer 1 - Ehh, it's not EPIC enough. This needs to be epic. This is Epic Baldur. He needs an epic sword! But you're right, Thor's hammer was pretty awesome.
PP Designer 2 - Hey, what if we use Thor's Hammer, but we just have a great huge, honkin' blade coming out of the top of it? It'd be the best of both worlds - a badass hammer, and an epic sword! Win-win!

It's identical to his Primal weapon.

I bet the inital design went much like the dialog above. Very funny.

Doesn anyone else hear the term Nihilator and think the Big Labowski. Nihilators, they belive in nothing.

Huh, I thought Baldur was dead. Oh well, at least there's still Lich Lord Kharchev.

And Damn PP for putting out a Nihilator warlock! I won't go back to Skorne I won't!

Noisy_Marine wrote:Huh, I thought Baldur was dead.

It happens rarely, but they CAN resurrect people in the Iron Kingdoms.

He wasn't totally dead. Megalith was keeping him alive.

Generally, ressurection magic in the Iron Kingdoms is bad mojo. Baldur was being kept alive by megalith, which is lucky for him. In the D20 rules, being brought back from death had all sorts of horrible side effects, and a pretty hazy chance of working.

Da Boss wrote:Generally, ressurection magic in the Iron Kingdoms is bad mojo. Baldur was being kept alive by megalith, which is lucky for him. In the D20 rules, being brought back from death had all sorts of horrible side effects, and a pretty hazy chance of working.

I like that. They should add horrible side effects to Resurrection in DnD.

There was all sorts of bad stuff, like coming back with an alignment shift, or withered and aged, or stinking of death, or minus your soul!
Also, healing magic had downsides. Too much healing in one day would make your flesh rebel.
Cool ideas, but not implemented particularly well, mechanically.

Da Boss wrote:There was all sorts of bad stuff, like coming back with an alignment shift, or withered and aged, or stinking of death, or minus your soul!
Also, healing magic had downsides. Too much healing in one day would make your flesh rebel.
Cool ideas, but not implemented particularly well, mechanically.

I think my favorite was the version(I think it's Rebirth?) used by Trollkin where you could come back as an entirely different race!

Platuan4th wrote:

Da Boss wrote:There was all sorts of bad stuff, like coming back with an alignment shift, or withered and aged, or stinking of death, or minus your soul!
Also, healing magic had downsides. Too much healing in one day would make your flesh rebel.
Cool ideas, but not implemented particularly well, mechanically.

I think my favorite was the version(I think it's Rebirth?) used by Trollkin where you could come back as an entirely different race!

Now, that one -was- reflected in AD&D - Reincarnation, I think it was called?

Yep. IKRPG just used the Reincarnation spell with an altered table due to Immorens wildly different wildlife.

Death By Monkeys wrote:

Platuan4th wrote:

Da Boss wrote:There was all sorts of bad stuff, like coming back with an alignment shift, or withered and aged, or stinking of death, or minus your soul!
Also, healing magic had downsides. Too much healing in one day would make your flesh rebel.
Cool ideas, but not implemented particularly well, mechanically.

I think my favorite was the version(I think it's Rebirth?) used by Trollkin where you could come back as an entirely different race!

Now, that one -was- reflected in AD&D - Reincarnation, I think it was called?

Yes, that's it. However, it also had its downsides(the least of which was that half the races on the chart had ECLs to take into effect).

If only the sculpts live up to the concept artwork...

AvatarForm wrote:If only the sculpts live up to the concept artwork...

No doubt, that artwork looks awesome

I dont know this is aaaa...ya

I think Balder merged with Megalith...he should have just died....Lylith 4 eva!!!

Ouroborus wrote:"WoW-atized"

Oh, hi. You must be new here. This is a privateer press product. Thats been their thing for as long as they've been around.

PP art is just getting better and better

Baldur is bald. Who'd have thought..

holy gak.. I just realized how the Skorne Warlock was 'wearing' some of his armor. Haha nice touch... very nihilator/skorney