Questions tagged [villain]
For questions about creating and/or playing villains in RPGs. A villain is the main antagonist of a story, adventure or a chronicle.
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How high level should my party of 4 be before facing the lich bbeg?
A bit about the story of my campaign- the party is an elite adventurers guild employed and funded by the emperor. When they complete the quests of delivering the items to the emperor, they discover ...
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What magic items would a commoner need to go head to head with a party of 4 (Lvl 15) adventurers?
I run a mostly open-world-ish campaign set in the spelljammer setting. My adventurer's overarching goal is to further a religion based around some camel they found (awesome, right?), so what better to ...
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What happens to an abandoned army of the undead?
I had two high-level necromancers summon close to an army of undead and now they have left the area and not re-asserted control. I know a lot if not all of the undead will wander now but how many ...
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Looking for a way to make a cursed swarm item (squirrels, rats, flies...) while the item is slowly taking the person over [closed]
One of my players has a wicked idea for a story hook:
He wants some kind of cursed item, that has like another person, god,... in it that slowly takes him over.
Every time he does take over, he emits ...
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How to Scale a "Player" Character to Be a Villain/Boss?
I've been searching around, but I haven't been to find what I'm looking for via Google queries; but I presume that what I'm attempting would be pretty common.
Anyhow, are there any resources that ...
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If my BBEG is a warlock of an archfey vampire, would their subclass be that of the Archfey patron or the Undead patron? [closed]
The BBEG in my campaign is going to be the descendant/follower of the Archfey Vampire Kannoth.
If a follower of Kannoth made a pact with Kannoth as their warlock patron, would they level through the ...
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I have a problem with a hexblade warlock with pact of the blade and improved pact weapon (they can use a bow and smite with it) any ideas? [closed]
I want the campaign to be balanced for all players
They have:
Pact of the Blade
Hexblade
Improved Pact Weapon
Eldritch Smite
They want to ranged smite. Help, I need something to balance it. What I ...
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How prepared is "too prepared" for an endgame-like NPC?
I'm currently running a guild heavy campaign with the two major guilds being the Bandit's Guild and the Adventurer's Guild. The bandits guild runs in territories where noble rank and lord rank bandits ...
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Shortcuts for GMs preparing a boss sheet
Due to time constraints, I simply do not have the time any more to read through the list of all the feats, all possible enchantments, and all the prestige classes, to then build a boss.
What are the ...
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BBEG Ideas for my campaign? [closed]
So I'm planning on starting my own campaign for the first time. I have the story planned out and what the BBEG's motives will be. However I want to have him be a combination of classes, and I was ...
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How do I introduce my BBEG's power without my pcs rushing in to fight them?
I made a homebrew creature that's supposed to be impossible for them to fight at the moment as that creature is the BBEG. I wanted to show the strength gap between the pcs start and how strong they ...
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The BBEG wants to delay the party in the final battle... (spells)
I have thought of a few methods they might accomplish this. The easiest, mechanically, is to give him spells to accomplish this.
Some details about the campaign/fight (major spoilers for Paizo's Ruins ...
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The BBEG wants to delay the party in the final battle... (narrative delay?)
I have thought of a few methods they might accomplish this. In this question, I am wondering about a potentially more controversial option. I am considering having them attempt to monologue or engage ...
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How can my half-dragon villain aim to become more draconic?
The villain in the adventure I'm currently running is a half-dragon druid. Their motivation is that they want to claim some of the power and glory of their draconic ancestors. At the moment, I'm just ...
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Is it okay to have a DMPC who is also the BBEG (Big Bad Evil Guy)?
I don't want to make my DMPC (i.e. Dungeon Master NPC) star of the show by any means, I realize how important it is to let the characters do their own thing. I want this character to act in the ...
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