Pretty decent stock art. Good for visualizing NPCs. The art is reminiscent of the illustrations of the Gothic-Punk motif of the mid 90s. If you want a quick character portrait, I would consider this product.

I loved the name of this product. I downloaded it just because of the name. It's useful. You should use it, too. And it's free! What do you are.

They lied ! it s not terrible, wich makes it even better.

Many free/pwyw packs lack consistency between images. That's not the case here, with high quality black and white images. While not all of them will be useful for everybody, more than half this pack should be usable for any given author/dm/player.

This is a great collection of art for use in RPG-related documents. They're simple, so they don't impact the ability to print, and they add spice to something that otherwise would be blocks and blocks of text.

The name of the product is very unfortunate. These are not terrible portraits (I know, it says that in the product description). These are GOOD portraits by 'A Terrible Idea'. A valuable resource.

Very cool artwork and a wonderful selection to boot! Useful characters over MANY genres!

Nothing terrible here! These are awesome and you can not beat free art! 5 stars my friend!

I hold these up any time I introduce a new (prominent) NPC. They add a little life to the game without completely ripping the players out of their imaginations. Keep it up. I would definitely kick a few bucks over for another batch. Great work.

So let's talk about character portraits.

I've been using character portraits at the table for nearly 4 years and determined that they are among the most versatile and indispensable items to help players visualize and remember the most important parts of the game: the characters that make up the world.

I started with a Smallville game - a game where a web of characters is literally the first thing created in play. I used Creative Commons licensed portraits from flickr, photoshopped nice bold text onto them showing their names, and when I put them out on the table, people immediately recognized them. For annoying or dastardly characters, all I had to do was put them out and the players would immediately start groaning and responding. It was thrilling to see how just a visualization could help them get into the game.

Even more importantly, it helped them stay in-character. No longer were they saying "I go and talk to that one guy", they would call him by name, remember his face, refer to him in dialogue. This simple aid improved my groups' roleplay immeasurably.

This free product (free?! what?!) is 108 character portraits, in .jpg format, licensed under Creative Commons. Unlike the color photos I got from flickr, you won't need a photo printer to use these - they're bold line drawings and well-shaded with good contrast, so they will look good on your regular old normal printer. The portraits are divided into sections including "cyberpunk" and "scary" and "elf" and so on, to make it fairly easy to find the portrait you need.

As a free product in a category that has been one of my most proven methods of improving play, I absolutely give this product my highest rating. You have no excuse not to try using these! The only game that they won't improve is a game where characters do not play a central role - and that type of game is awful anyway. Put more characters in your game, people care about and respond to characters more than they do to animals or the weather or whatever it is you have in your game other than characters. And use this free product to start!

This is my go-to product for character faces for my various base class products. It's served me will for 6 months and will continue to do so for at least a couple more years. Sir, I salute you for your generosity!

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Love it! I'm always needing pictures of bad guys.

Good product...some of the protraits will inspire character ideas for sure.

This download gave me a set of handy little pictures that I can use for characters and NPCs in many of the games I deal with.

I really enjoy it.

An excellent product, especially when you consider that it's free, free, free. I hope these fine folks will continue to produce additional artwork.

An excellent selection of multi-genre portraits, with everything from zombies to knights to pirates.