I cannot believe we're debating the ethnicity of friar tuck....
Ok- no intentions as yet for friar tuck to be black. Thought the way you guys are going on, I'm tempted to do it just to annoy you...

If it makes you feel better, his current face code is the same a Jeremus's as that's the companion i used as a base. (though he's way tougher in combat that Jeremus ever was)
I will put tuck's bio up soon (I need to do will scarlet's first, as you meet him before tuck)
Here's a quick update if anyone cares:
As far as companions are going, I've done the fight with LL Cool John (as he's known these days) on the bridge (see pretty screenies!).
This was more time consuming than you might think as I've been learning all about drawing a river in a scene.

I have another quest and a half to go before it's time to rescue will scarlet from his dungeon, and then the quest after the quest after that will be have Tuck joining you as a reward. (this is all rpvisional, I may change things)
In other news, I have got a map, on which every location is different to native, and I have effectively disabled kingdoms and native parties for the time being. (At the moment all you meet is looters) This makes it easier for me to work through the quests so far. I will make sure the map is nice and busy on release. There will be only be six towns- Nottingham, Derby, Sheffield, Lincoln, Leicester, and Stafford. They are geographically accurate as are the rivers. The forest will proabbly not be geographically accurate but then, we don't know how heavily forested central England was in 1192 anyway, so I am just going to make sure there are many, many trees.

Not all my bridges are in place but some are (important as LJ is met on a bridge)
Anyway, I'll keep working away....