Old School vs. New School RPG characters

[auronlu]

Above: My 30-year-old hand-painted D&D figures face off against my Final Fantasy figures for the last remaining die from my basic D&D set.

(heavenscalyx painted the woman in front center with the staff and hammer, my longtime fighter-cleric Moy Ruadh; to her left are a D&D Ranger (archer) whose name I've forgotten, a Magic User in blue named Gadrath the Unfortunate (Mom's main character), Dad's Haakon in full plate mail and shield at far left, and a bunch of fighters behind them including Gaon Birchlurcher the Elf in the blue cloak (my very first character), Raknar the Dwarf, my grog/retainer fighter Gregor Trueheart with the red-striped green shield, a couple halflings and a random fighter, and in the far back, my Aunt's thief Ralph Tharn beside my poor old cleric Brother Brussels (as in brussel sprout) with his vegetable coat of arms on his shield. Most of the better-painted figures were done by my mother — including Tharn, unfortunate shemagh and all — whereas the messy and garish monsters in the back are my feeble attempts.

Note: I've made a table of all the D&D monsters ported into original Final Fantasy bestiary. It's nearly everything except the bosses, and even some of those!

Comments

[auronlu]

Not an ending, but they certainly got together! Goldenrod was...a little overwhelming for my young godmody self. In a good way.

@%#!@ waking up at the crack of dawn every morning to stand basking nekkid in the light of sunrise. Good think she was an elf and probably didn't mind being woken up that early. I would've KILLED him.

(Ack. I can no longer remember Goldenrod's real name, unless it was Freyson?)

[heavenscalyx]

It was probably Freyson Something or Something Freyson, yeah. I may have the notes for that game around somewhere -- I wouldn't have shredded them with the other game things I shredded in the Big Cleanout.