Category Archives: HeroMachine 3

HM3: The antlers and eyebrows of the chaps-wearing lion

Some new additions to HeroMachine 3 just went live, including some both from me and from dblade. I also have a number of great items from Me Myself and I that I'll be working on this afternoon.

The new stuff is:

That top row shows two different sets of antlers based off a submission by MMI, now available in Ears-Standard. Next is the lion head (which I've long been meaning to add), in Head-Animals, and finally a nifty pair of chaps by dbalde in Legwear-Male-Outerwear.

dblade also sent in a bunch of new eyebrows, available naturally in Eyebrows-Standard:

HM3: Isn’t it Ionic?

I've just posted an update to the Background-Standard set for HeroMachine 3 with Myro's prize for winning Caption Contest 98. He requested an Ionic Greek column, which I then broke into pieces. I have to say, I'm curious what crazy uses you all come up with for the various bits.

Thanks for picking a great, useful item, Myro!

Printable character stands and customizable dice

The indispensable and incredible Hammerknight has put together a truly inspired set of items you can import into HeroMachine to enhance your tabletop RPGs even more. I've posted them all over on the UGO forums, but wanted to be sure and add a post pointing to them here as well.

He's got printable and loadable templates for d4, d6, d8, and d20; round and square flat character bases; and both A-frame and tri-fold character stands.

Here are a few samples by Hammerknight of the kinds of things you can do with these really nifty tools. Please drop him a line of thanks for all his hard work, and if you end up using any of these in your campaign I'd sure love to hear about it. Enjoy!



HM3: Ren boot

Oops, I forgot one of dblade's other submissions, now in FootRight-MaleStandard, a cool Renaissance boot:

HM3: Spiky-eyed Jungle Colonel

dblade is back once again with some excellent additions to the HM3 stable of items, now available. They are:

Long-requested epaulettes for military uniforms, in ShoulderRight-Standard:

A nifty earring gauge good for gritty urban dwellers and savage jungle tribespeople both, in Ears-Standard:

And finally, a set of super-long-lashed eyes (in Eyes-Standard) and a flesh-embedded spike (ShoulderRight-Standard -- that seems like a weird place but that's where the other single spikes are):

Thanks, dblade!

I'm also working on more of the nifty Chinese Zodiacs sent in by MMI, and Hammerknight's amazing "assemble your own custom dice" codes.

HM3: New items

Me, Myself, and I and dblade have once again come through with some nifty items now available in HM3:

The top row is by dblade, the bottom row by MMI, and they are:

  • Boxing glove, in Right/Left-Glove-Standard;
  • Basic hoop earrings, in Ears-Standard;
  • Big-brain head, in Head-Standard;
  • Dragon Chinese Zodiac symbol in Insignia-Nature;
  • Dog Chinese Zodiac symbol in Insignia-Nature;
  • Plain feather in Headgear-Standard;

Many thanks to both of those guys for drawing these!

HM3: Female torso, turned

Sean David Ross requested a 3/4 view female torso for winning Character Contest 62, which has just been uploaded to the Body-Female-Standard set. Enjoy!

HM3: Jester bauble

Jester requested a twisted jester bauble for his winning jest in Caption Contest 95 (try saying THAT three times fast!), which is now available in ItemRight-Miscellaneous:

Thanks Jester!

HM3: Goat-boy

dblade put together an awesome goat head, now available in the Head-Animals set:

Thanks big guy!

HM3: Chinese Shamrock Zodiacs

No, that's not a new band name, it's just a description of the new items just added to HeroMachine 3 thanks to Me, Myself, and I. First up are some very cool Chinese zodiac signs, each of which features a color2 area silhouette of the animal in question so you can set it to 0% alpha if you just want the glyph:

Those can be found in Insignia-Nature at the end.

Finally, MMI provided a nifty Celtic-themed shamrock knotwork pattern in Background-Shapes:

Many thanks to MMI for providing all of these nifty additions!