The Foundry

Hey gang! Got another thing for y’all, this time for a particularly special item. Now, I’ve posted a lot of Risk of Rain stuff before but I’ve wanted to take a crack at converting the survivors. Problem is, RoR is a REALLY sci-fi setting so doing a straight conversion seemed like a bad idea, or at least an ill fitting one. So, I decided to turn their abilities into magic items instead. It makes sense, really. Most of the survivors’ abilities come from items anyway, so why not follow that path? Now I’ll obviously have to do something else for some of the stranger survivors, like Acrid, but I have ideas.

Anyway, as the name would imply, I first took a stab at this idea with my favorite character, Loader. She seemed like a perfect fit and was actually what inspired the idea in the first place. Her entire kit comes from the big exoskeleton she wears so it was a perfect fit.

Fairly happy with how she turned out. Ended up being a bigger page than I expected but it worked out nice enough. Though that said it’s only after I already have her done that I have ideas for a different, and I think better, way to do her. Thinking a base frame for the armor with all of the abilities as modular upgrades with some other stuff and maybe some things from the original Risk of Rain. It would be more thematic given that I went with an Eberron origin for it. You’ll likely see a rework of her at some point but in the mean time this is still a pretty good version of her in my opinion.