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Writeups.org is an encyclopaedia of characters in genre fiction — super-hero comic books, video games, action movies, etc. It offers illustrated, researched profiles. These also include technical data for role-players. If you need a robust understanding of a character’s abilities, personality, history, etc. this is *the* place to be.
First version of a review of the tools we’ve used to create character portraits on writeups.org (for original characters, or those without usable visuals). Mostly it’s stuff from video games, though most of it is free or real cheap.
Since creating portraits or full-body models of original characters isn’t a rare need among various sorts of role-players.
This article is updated from time to time. See its table of content.
This is a Humble Bundle offer to download the books for the TABLETOP RPG version. The old stuff from Mike Pondsmith, which I quite liked.
Starts at $1 as usual.
A big, heavily illustrated article about rifles, shotguns, submachineguns, etc. in fiction. So that’s useful to have.
This content used to be presented in the same article as Weapons Locker – Modern firearms – Chapter #2 – Small Arms, part 1. But the article was getting too big and with too many photos for slow connections and less powerful devices, so it’s better to cleave it in two.
Recent additions:
— Large-bore air rifle
— Drum-fed shotgun
— Badass tommy gun
— Badass Mosin-Nagant
— All-Inclusive Assault Carbine
— Integrally Suppressed Assault Carbine
— Four-barrelled combination gun
— Microwave gun
— Rimfire submachinegun
A Weapons Locker about small melee weapon (knives, tonfa, batons, hatchets, etc.). Lots of photos and videos. Dual-statted for DC Heroes and Mutants & Masterminds.
As of September of 2017, this has been upgraded to include new style DCH stats as well as the old style.
Recent additions :
– Additional picture of period cesti, plus video showing cestus boxing.
Chapter four (and thus the fifth part) of our body armor series. Wot discusses stuff you put on your head to protect it.
This ranges from low-tech to tacticool, and also discusses how and why model helmets in DCH. It’s all absolutely helmtastic and hatterific.
Recent additions :
– Sports light face protector.
Big article about all of ’em guns in Old West stories. Lots of illustrations and videos, simple explanations about all the important things. Dual-statted for DCH and M&M.
Latest additions :
– Chain revolver.
– Dual-cylinder rifle.
– Octorevolver.
A selection of weapons — ranged and melee — from the Warframe video game.
New weapons and pictures get added as I play. Additions since the original release :
– Twin Gremlins machine pistols.
– Boar assault shotgun.
– Fixed missing illustrations, added some.
– Orthos poleaxe.
– Miter launcher.
– Vectis precision rifle.
– Kohm shotgun.
– Ignis flamethrower.
– Nagantaka repeater crossbow.
– Pandero pistol.
– Amprex electrical projector.
– Rogga flintlock shotgun pistol.
– Synapse beam emitter.
– Lenz launcher.
– Phage emitter.
– Pox biological payload.
– Castanas throwing… things.
Just a recap of places where there are Writeups.org posts.
Frex, to know when there are new articles up, or to provide feedback.
A young and redoubtable Amazon and Gorgon officer. She’s cool, in more ways than one.
Delphyne primarily appeared in Marvel’s Hercules and Amadeus Cho stories.
And yes, she looks awesome.
A gifted Elf mage, ex-slave and Grey Warden. Child of beggars, mother of a King.
For now the article covers her youth and her time as an elite battle mage focused on EXPLOSIONS.
There’s another Humble Bundle that might interest a lot of our readers.
It’s Modiphius’ Conan tabletop role-playing game, in e-book form. As usual, the first tier of the bundle is just $1.
One of the main Russian (and formerly Soviet) Marvel Comics superhumans.
Reflective force-field, beefiness, hammer and sickle.
As of November of 2020, this profile is being entirely redone as a two-parter.
DC Comics’ Davy Tenzer is the Biblical King David, but as a 1970s immortal anti-terror international singing super-spy.
Sometimes, he fights snake aliens.
An obscure opponent of the Fantastic Four (well, the Thing and Tigra).
Big tough robot.
As of November of 2020, this profile received heated Mutants & Masterminds stats.
A short message for those who are subscribed to the Yahoo! Group space but ain’t reading the e-mails.
One of the major Russian super-heroes. Darkforce powers.
This is the second half of her profile, with links to the other parts.
An enigmatic and powerful alien seen in a few 1970s Justice League of America stories.
A killer, urchin and hardened thief dragged into an unpopular army of paladin commandos.
Duncan is a pivotal character in Dragon Age: Origins, though most of his material is in the The Calling prequel novel.
A time traveller from the early Silver Age of comics.
Darius Tiko chiefly appeared in Jack Kirby’s Challengers of the Unknown run.
S.H.I.E.L.D. bare-handed fighting expert agent.
As of October of 2020, we decided to buff this profile with M&M stats to make it punchier.
One of the major Russian super-heroes. Darkforce powers.
As of October of 2020, this profile is being entirely redone as a comprehensive two-parter. Что отличный.
A somewhat obscure, powerful 1970s enemy of the Justice League of America.
Otherdimensional alien feeding off fear.
Mmm, this image is very tall. I prolly should add some text here so it doesn’t feel weirdly empty, especially for people not familiar with the site. So how are y’all doing. I’m doing good. I have some delicious flan left to eat, and I love flan.
So yeah, anyway, Nekron. No, not the demon lord in Underworld Unleashed (or Underwear unwashed, according to one of our contributors who hate that crossover). The 1970s, space one.
The final part of this profile, with links to the other bits.
This cover Maric from the Dragon Age saga as King of Ferelden. From the taking of the throne up to his death.
It’s time for the last of our thrice-yearly calls for donation for 2020 !
As always, this doubles as a summary of what’s been happening on writeups.org (and why) since the previous call.
This primer profile presents the world of La Horde du Contrevent, a major French sci-fi setting.
On this planet only a narrow equatorial band is semi-inhabitable, but it also funnels immensely destructive winds.
From the early 2010s Gail Simone series The Movement, in the DC Universe.
Renegade Laotian-American ex-cop with an attitude, a sword, wings and two angry angry fists.
As of October of 2020, this entry hawk-received Mutants & Masterminds hawk-stats.
The core Russian heroes in the Marvel Universe since the late 1990s.
This team profile explains all the basics so the individual character profiles do not have to.
Another agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., mostly for those Marvel Universe campaigns where S.H.I.E.L.D. plays an important role.
More of a technical type, but fairly senior.
A minor good guy in 1980s heroic fantasy schlock movie Hawk the Slayer.
Smooth-talking Dwarf fighter-rogue.
These are obscure Green Lantern/Green Arrow/Black Canary 1970s characters.
They apparently were active during prehistory before being exiled off Earth, which is interesting.