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Vanguard: Different Lives by Lou Frank
I am uploading a series of commissioned illustrations that depict a fraction of the 500+ NPCs I've created for my Super-Hero universe, "Vanguard". I created it on August 5th, 1988. Since then, I've run different campaigns in that universe about 10 times. I have also written about a dozen short stories. The last tabletop RPG campaign in this setting ran for four years. Maybe five. I forget exactly how long.
This is the only image I plan on uploading showing non-anthropomorphs. I don't want to break the unspoken code of this great site by doing so. These three, though, in this setting represent much of what I want to accomplish with this fictional setting. It is the poster art for one of my earlier Vanguard campaigns called "Vanguard: Different Lives". It features three of the villains from the game: Napalm, Acid Rock (mind-altering, sound production), and Solitaire (induces suicide in those who meet his gaze, wants to die, but is -frustratingly- immortal).
It's a great universe and I'll always be fond of it, but I demolished it in my last campaign. It was on purpose: I wanted to raze it all and have no more sacred cows. By the end of the game, the United States had fallen and been re-built, the Middle East was in flames, and the heroes had to take what they could of Pyrrhic victories.
What can I say? I ran the game during a very dark time in my life.
My players were saints for putting up with me.
This commission was drawn by
wom-bat (Lou Frank).
This is the only image I plan on uploading showing non-anthropomorphs. I don't want to break the unspoken code of this great site by doing so. These three, though, in this setting represent much of what I want to accomplish with this fictional setting. It is the poster art for one of my earlier Vanguard campaigns called "Vanguard: Different Lives". It features three of the villains from the game: Napalm, Acid Rock (mind-altering, sound production), and Solitaire (induces suicide in those who meet his gaze, wants to die, but is -frustratingly- immortal).
It's a great universe and I'll always be fond of it, but I demolished it in my last campaign. It was on purpose: I wanted to raze it all and have no more sacred cows. By the end of the game, the United States had fallen and been re-built, the Middle East was in flames, and the heroes had to take what they could of Pyrrhic victories.
What can I say? I ran the game during a very dark time in my life.
My players were saints for putting up with me.
This commission was drawn by
wom-bat (Lou Frank).
Category All / Human
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 817 x 1094px
File Size 52.6 kB
Of all the characters in the game, the one that actually pissed me off the most wasn't really one of the big-bads- Ace of Spades. His obsessive focus on Goblin REALLY was likely to be the death of him. _I_ didn't hate him, I'll note, but Goblin... Definitely. He was almost a polar opposite of her. She was all 'use power because you have responsibility to do so' and he was all 'I have power and I'll do what I want. On TOP of that, he was wasting his talents.
Which all in all probably makes him a very good character.
As to the characters imaged here, Acid Rock (the mohawked fellow for those not in the know) is prolly the most dated of the Vanguard characters; however, mohawks and punkish music do keep coming back, so. Solitaire (the guy with the trenchcoat) Has the ability to cause people to commit suicide- he basically rams his own feelings down their throat, overwhelming their own. He's really not a bad guy, just REALLY REALLY messed up. The remaining figure is (I think) Napalm- First Vanguard to appear, first villain. He has a flaming oily goo coming from his pores, and these chemicals also threw his brain out of whack too. Hes a touch nuts.
In the years of Vanguard I think I only ran into Acid Rock once, Solitaire two or three times, and Napalm has at least shown up in every campaign but the one set in the future.
Which all in all probably makes him a very good character.
As to the characters imaged here, Acid Rock (the mohawked fellow for those not in the know) is prolly the most dated of the Vanguard characters; however, mohawks and punkish music do keep coming back, so. Solitaire (the guy with the trenchcoat) Has the ability to cause people to commit suicide- he basically rams his own feelings down their throat, overwhelming their own. He's really not a bad guy, just REALLY REALLY messed up. The remaining figure is (I think) Napalm- First Vanguard to appear, first villain. He has a flaming oily goo coming from his pores, and these chemicals also threw his brain out of whack too. Hes a touch nuts.
In the years of Vanguard I think I only ran into Acid Rock once, Solitaire two or three times, and Napalm has at least shown up in every campaign but the one set in the future.
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