Mongrelfolk Pig Collection (DND / TTRPG)

Here are some assorted pig-like Mongrelfolk that I put together for my Curse of Strahd campaign. I wanted to have an encounter with a TON of these and while I printed a lot from Hugolours (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6426635) I wanted some more variety and some more "commoner" variants that I could glue together onto a single baseplate to create swarms. These are hungry (starving) creatures that have very loose vestiges of their humanity and will swarm/stampede if they're let loose.

The prompt for the image included humanoid pig, bat, crab etc... but it mostly just generated a humanoid pig which is fine. There are two primary models here - commoner1 and commoner2, the first is really just in a standing position and merge together so much I couldn't really pose it. The second I did a fair amount of posing and added some weapon variants as follows:

• Howl: Head up and howling, includes a variant with a club and dagger
• Ready1: Head tilted and arms out, "food time? food time??"
• Ready2: Same as above but arms down, less of an aggressive posture
• Squat: Sitting, huddled, rocking back and forth
• Step: Actively approaching, include a club and dagger variant

They're a bit smaller at around 22mm tall, Mongrelfolk are medium in the books but also only 3-5ft tall so kinda like a dwarf. I printed without the baseplates as I intend to turn them into swarms manually glued on 32mm/3mm baseplates.

I added a CR1 Mongrelfolk Swarm statblock for these critters here which you can see as the last photo. I had intended to use a swarm calculator but I didn't want them to have 90hp etc... so I used animated armor as a template for hp/actions. The standard Mongrelfolk statblock has 3 actions bite, claw and dagger which are all identical so I just changed that to "simple weapon" which can be any of the main three physical damage types depending on what you want. A few really notable things here is that I changed the multi-attack to two attacks like the 2014 animated armor, used the swarm calculator boost to strength so it has +3 to grapple/push and it can switch to a ranged attack of throwing rocks etc... Individually they'd have a sense of self-preservation but in this swarm I would expect they'd be so confused they'd fight to the death or if bloodied they might start eating each other so you could rule that as a possibility too..

For printing I recommend printing on their back. Given their size on FDM their tails probably aren't going to print well - mine all lost their tails during support removal and I don't want to glue them back on. The sitting one also lost part of its foot which was weird but maybe that foot is thin... I had also just swapped to a new spool of PLA, updated orca slicer and have been experience all sorts of weird print issues so could be a factor with lower print quality here but, thematically, I think they should look rough.

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