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WalkerNinja
Senior Scribe
USA
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 Posted - 24 Jan 2007 : 22:45:51
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For awhile now, I've been trying to gather visual representations for people, places, and things in the Forgotten Realms to help my DM narrative have more... reality to it. Some of these I sketch by hand, others I find photographs for.
I don't know why I thought of this latest find, its not an NPC that I plan on my players encountering soon... or, ever really.
The Manshoon...
Christopher Walken
Thoughts?
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*** A Forgotten Realms Addict since 1990 ***
Treasures of the Past, a Second Edition Play-by-Post game for and by Candlekeep Sages--http://www.rpol.net/game.cgi?gi=52011 |
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Thauramarth
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
731 Posts |
Posted - 24 Jan 2007 : 23:48:07
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| I once kept a list of actors and actresses to represent Forgotten Realms NPCs. I think I had Sam Neill for Manshoon... Lemme see... I had Christopher Walken for Szass Tam (after all, the man has experience playing the undead), Al Pacino as Elminster, and Robert de Niro as Khelben. I had Uma Thurman down for one of the Seven Sisters, I think. I really should dig up that file somewhere... |
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Pasta Fzoul
Seeker
USA
79 Posts |
Posted - 24 Jan 2007 : 23:50:13
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I don't know... there's the difficulty of getting the players to divorce their preconceptions of a well-known actor's personality from the character you're trying to represent.
Unless, of course, you want them imagining the archmage of Zhentil Keep requesting more cowbell  |
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Drunken Master
Acolyte
USA
39 Posts |
Posted - 25 Jan 2007 : 03:45:44
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Szass Tam - Gary Oldman
Elminster - Sean Connery
Khelben - Alan Rickman
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
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Posted - 25 Jan 2007 : 05:52:02
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Artemis Entreri - Antonio Bendaris
Lucy Lui - any crazy @ss Baenre or other Drow chick |
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
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Ergdusch
Master of Realmslore
Germany
1720 Posts |
Posted - 25 Jan 2007 : 08:18:53
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stange! I never even thought about representing NPCs with actors and to be honest - it strikes me as really odd!
Just my thoughts, Ergdusch |
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Kaladorm
Master of Realmslore
United Kingdom
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Posted - 25 Jan 2007 : 09:22:43
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Not strictly forgotten realms (sorry) but word is in the dragonlance movie Kiefer Sutherland is playing Raistlin.
So long as he uses the samr voice as in Phonebooth it'll be great  |
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WalkerNinja
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 25 Jan 2007 : 22:19:17
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| Erg, I actually tend not to use actors. Mostly I troll for fantasy art, barring that, comic books or magazine ads. Most frequently, I just illustrate it myself. But I saw Christopher Walken the other day and thought "OMG! MANSHOON!" |
*** A Forgotten Realms Addict since 1990 ***
Treasures of the Past, a Second Edition Play-by-Post game for and by Candlekeep Sages--http://www.rpol.net/game.cgi?gi=52011 |
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boddynock
Learned Scribe
Belgium
258 Posts |
Posted - 26 Jan 2007 : 09:15:25
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I just look for pictures on the internet of people who look like the character I have in mind. (I try to find pic's of only their heads). I don't use actor's 'cause I think people will see Antonio Banderas and not Artemis Entreri, etc.
But I have to confess, when I saw Elminster in 3'rd edition I was thinking immeadiatly on Sean Connery :-) |
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marchingpig
Acolyte
Norway
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MaxKaladin
Seeker
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Posted - 26 Jan 2007 : 16:15:23
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Originally posted by Pasta Fzoul
I don't know... there's the difficulty of getting the players to divorce their preconceptions of a well-known actor's personality from the character you're trying to represent.
Another problem is that most pictures you find will be of the actor or actress in modern clothing rather than proper clothing for the Realms.
I'd love to be able to draw pictures myself, but I'm just not a good artist. I've had some success looking at fantasy art, but that also tends to be have limits. It's easy to find pictures of "adventurer" types, but it's generally harder to find pictures to represent a tanner, a merchant or a street urchin.
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You oughtta be in pictures...
