Hero Forge Style Guide

Hero Forge is the preferred source for all character portraits and tokens for use in Foundry. It allows for a consistent across across non-player and player characters alike.

Hero Forge Skin Tones

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  H6

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  H5

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  H4

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  H3

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  H2

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  H1

File Names

Filenames for generic tokens take the form of:

[base]-[tag]-[meta][gender]-[skin]-[clothes]-[tag]-t.png

Hero Forge Colors ^[edit]

Color	Code
r	Red
o	Orange
y	Yellow
g	Green
u	Blue
v	Violet
k	Black
b	Brown
w	White
p	Pink
e	Grey

• [base] is a general description, describing the general use of the token, something like casual, convict, or cutter.
• [meta] is the character's metatype: h for human, d for dwarf, e for elf, o for ork, t for troll, or x for none-of-the-above.
• [gender] is the character's gender: m for male, f for female, o for other, x for none.
• [skin] describe the character's skin tone, generally a two-letter code from the list to the right.
• [clothes] is another two-letter code, using the values below. Generally speaking, the first letter is the primary or upper-body color and the second is the secondary or lower-body color.
• [tag] is optional in either position (drop the extra hyphen when unused), but available for disambiguation if needed. If using more than one word, separate them with an underscore, not a space.

Hair Color

The jury is still out, but users on one of the Hero Forge Facebook groups suggest the appearance of hair can be improved with these settings:

• 55% Roughness
• 15% Fuzz
• 40% Metal High
• 30% Metal Mid
• 20% Metal Low

The idea is to more accurately reflect the sheen of human hair and how it interacts with light.