Celebrating Indie TTRPG Characters!

Character Spotlight: Nekumo Yamanakakida

TTRPG: Grimoire of the Heart Creator: @pixxyofice (bluesky and tumblr) https://artfight.net/~Pixxyofice Character's Artfight Page: https://artfight.net/character/7805219.nekumo-persona-ttrpg

Fun Facts:

She based her human appearance on four humans

She doesn't participate in combat

She has a phobia of heights!

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Nekumo is in the real world, and she has a human form along with her spider cat one… but even as she's here for the new things about it, like fun items… she's here to search for her friends that went missing. She's using the fact that she kind of looks like them all to her advantage… and then has to be cautious because shes kinda a scan object hazard.

Character Spotlight: Lady Lorelyn Pembroke of Somerley

TTRPG: Good Society Creator: @quietsnooze on tumblr and bluesky https://artfight.net/~quietsnooze Character's Artfight Page: https://artfight.net/character/3083475.lorelyn

Fun Facts:

Lorelyn’s father is an oracle/High Priest, which is a rarity in general but led to a sheltered life

Lori inherited her title over her father and was given a requirement condition said that she was to marry before anyone knew of her inheritance lest they greedily try to take the title through trickery (as part of her Good Society desire card)

She wears a dagger on her thigh but abhors violence as she’s a medical doctor who vows to preserve life. Her dagger also happens to talk to her…

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Desire: To find a love match engagement by the end of season. Role: New Arrival Family Background: Clergy Reputation tags: Kind, Helpful | Out-of-touch, stuck up

Character Spotlight: Cassandra Romanov

TTRPG: Thirsty Sword Lesbians Creator: radiopeep.bsky.social on bluesky, https://artfight.net/~radioactivepeep Character's Artfight Page: https://artfight.net/character/4536679.cassandra-romanov

Fun Facts:

They were the Investigator, and kept a journal (diary) in a language they invented

Fun fact they super died in the campaign and was reincarnated as a robot with no memories of their life! They got their body back eventually but dang

I have used them for several fiction projects cause I jus like em

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These were the moves from their original playbook that they retained throughout the campaign! They like to figure stuff out and read people.

Character Spotlight: Aleo

TTRPG: The Darkest Hour Creator: @recovering-vamp on tumblr, https://artfight.net/~recoveringvamp Character's Artfight Page: https://artfight.net/character/8353400.aleo

Fun Facts:

1. Canonically established answer to 'would she fuck her clone' was that her clone would in fact put her in a saw trap and psychologically torment her 2. she gets super carsick 3. when she has writers block she starts fights on online forums to get the creative juices flowing

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Her hunter archetype.

Character Spotlight: Zilya Petrovna

TTRPG: Eureka Investigative Urban Fantasy Creator: @toy-dragon on tumblr, https://artfight.net/~voiddragonqueen Character's Artfight Page: https://artfight.net/character/8355515.zilya-petrovna

Fun Facts: 1. She is on a cross-country road trip to see her great granddaughter. 2. She tends to adopt younger people during mysteries and looks after them. 3. Her becoming a catgirl was relatively recent and she has thought she was the only weird occurrence.

Character Sheet:

The sheet is significant because her skills and traits make how she investigates mysteries different from other characters. Her best skills focus on social interactions with other characters, and her worst are around her ability to be physically capable in a more direct way. She's older in a way that makes her more fragile. She is a calming presence to those around her. She loves helping people. She's a catgirl, which comes with its own challenges and a need to hide that fact from other people.

Character Spotlight: Lil'Zak

TTRPG: Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy Creator: @galileo156 and @galimation on tumblr , https://artfight.net/~Galileo156 Character's Artfight Page: https://artfight.net/character/7125877.lil-zak Fun Facts:

He was dared to solve a series of murders, after annoying his roomates by deducting who ate his last slice of pizza

His roomates call him Kid or Goat, as they are each associated with an animal (Like Badger and Fox)

He is surprisingly knowledgable about — and surviving in — nature

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Character Spotlight: Irma Kortalo

TTRPG: Fabula Ultima Creator: @galileo156 and @galimation on tumblr , https://artfight.net/~Galileo156 Character's Artfight Page: https://artfight.net/character/8354734.irma-kortalo Fun Facts: 1. She is "Curiosity killed the Cat" personified; always interested in what others are doing 2. Her magic works through deals and offerings made to the Spirits inhabiting the world 3. She learned how to cast magic/make deals from her grandmother; a dastardly good businesswoman, even if she only runs a small general store

Character Sheet:

Irma is a Spiritist and Orator (+ Elementalist, but that's not important here); the features shown here display her character quite well I believe. She cares about other people, helping and trusting them, even going so far as to offer her own vitality to make sure a spell goes through! I just hope she won't go too far in the future.

Character Spotlight: Cyril

TTRPG: Occulteas Creator: @fengtianshi on tumblr, https://artfight.net/~fengtianshi Character's Artfight Page: https://artfight.net/character/5086100.cyril

Fun Facts:

He dresses weird, a mix of whimsical and magical and elegant and "I went to a thrift shop while blind and chose how to dress there".

He lives in a old fashioned house which he never leaves. He turned the house into a tea shop to meet new people.

He is very airheaded and very dramatic, but it is the consequence of something terrible he suffered that scramble completely his magic and his mind.

Character Sheet:

His main three features are:

Alluring (he can easily seduce someone if he wants, 3 slots);

Connections (he always knows someone who knows someone, 3 slots);

Fae blood (it gives him a very long life and stronger powers than other witches, 4 slots)

Character Spotlight: Ysmay "Mayfly" Slate

TTRPG: Harvest Creator: @wyllora on tumblr, bluesky, artstation,itch , https://artfight.net/~wyllora Character's Artfight Page: https://artfight.net/character/7778714.mayfly

Fun Facts:

Her nickname comes from the islanders saying she was "not long for this world"-- originally meaning that she was always looking over the horizon, planning her departure.

She enjoys playing sailor's card games, smoking her clay pipe, and brooding out over the ocean.

I took a lot of inspiration from Carpenter from the Silt Verses for Mayfly!

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This is the final advancement of The Slate House Broadside- the Power of the island that lays claim to Mayfly. I played towards this end the whole game as a tragedy awaiting poor Ysmay. She is a Homecomer, a islander who many years left the idyllic island where Harvest takes place. She had intended never to return, but after the outside world hardened her, taught her to lie, and how to say no-- it broke her heart. She came back to the island that once tried to kill her. And the Slate House, her severe and ancient family home. The Slate House, that she burned to the ground when she left, still standing despite it. Her family, who one by one fell to the Sacrificial Knife-- a man who once, she would have called family too. Mayfly took his family in return, in a vicious fued that ended with his knife in her chest. She stood before him, meaning to protect the Island's proper sacrifice, her successor, the would-be lover she handed over to the Knife in a moment of bitter betrayal. She woke on the cold floor of The Slate House, knowing her own sacrifice did nothing to stop the Island's own. And that the island loves her too much to ever let her go.

Character Spotlight: Thomas Bellspring "MUTT"

TTRPG: Lancer Creator: @spacediscoverer on tumblr, https://artfight.net/~spaceDiscoverer Character's Artfight Page: https://artfight.net character/4605352.thomas-mutt-bellspring

Fun Facts:

He loves jellied products!

Enjoys photography

Is heavily inspired by Isaac Clarke from Deadspace remake [The stompies are so satisfying!!!]

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This is the weapons part of Thomas' mech sheet. Redroom is equipped with a lot of weapons, some of which do not fit an engineer and most of them were retrofitted to work like industrial tools for ease of use. The weapons are named after some of the most well known logical paradoxes, something that Thomas' hacker brother influenced a lot.

There's the Occam's Razor, Ship of Theseus and Lincoln's Ax combined into one, a pair of cannons on one mount which references the All Ravens Are Black logical paradox with a reference to Odin's ravens. Canis Major is a deep cut because it refers to one of the oldest paradoxes; Laelaps and the Teumessian Fox - a hound that always catches its prey and the fox that always escapes. The chase between them went on until Zeus turned both to stone and cast them into the stars as the constellations Canis Major and Canis Minor due to their contradictory and confusing nature.

All of these paradoxes essentially foreshadow Thomas' backstory which involved boarding an abandoned ship to salvage some tech that dealt with paracausal technology, which often times can go horribly wrong. For seeing what it did to the ship, Thomas and his brother became a target of the company they were hired by.

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