For a laugh I joined up in a freeform RP (no no it gets better come back!) and managed to pick up the slot of the BBEG.
/tg/ there is an opportunity here, an opportunity for something awesome. I want your help to become the most metal, over the top LARGE HAM that the other players have ever faced. A fractal LARGE HAM, where even the invocation of his very name calls down a bolt of lightning from the heavens.
Setting is a generic fantasy world so far with a light side 'utopia' ruling the lands up until now. I've managed to tap into the dark side of the soul and decided to overthrow the current regime to install my own.
I was the son of a woodsman that got thrown down a well by a nobleman because we competed for the same girl. At the bottom of that well I half starved to death before I dug my way into a Dark Fortress and I've studied the dark arts there ever since.
Currently I have:
- An aura that powers up anyone nearby (20m radius) that I can extend selectively by playing songs etc. The other players only know about the aura, not what I'm planning to do with it. Namely, in the very first army battle I am going to buff my entire army by giving a Heavy Metal concert.
- Unlimited fireballs. Use of those should be obvious.
- A Goal: Unite the lands under my rule, get a space program going (starting from a medieval techbase no less) and conquering the moon.
CURSES! Posted too soon!
Ahem, anyway. To complete the above list, I also have a Dark Underground Fortress complete with lava flows and pet guard dragon. But what I need is something to take it to the next level. What else would be good to have?How can I best enrage all those who dare stand before me? What are some good ridiculous stunts to pull? One of my first plots is a classic PDAM (Pigeon Delivered Attack Munition) where I send the players a letter that insults them personally and ends with 'PS I prepared explosive runes this morning'.
First off, here's my advice, replace all the treasure outside your sanctuary with mimics, and hide the real treasure behind your dragon. It will inspire the beast to fight harder, now it's not just defending you, but what it will view as its hoard as well. In short, you get to make them repeatedly scream "You bastard!" And make them RAGE when they see you hid it all behind the dragon. Also, if the place isn't already a labyrinth filled with death and despair, make it confusing as shit, places they cannot cross without finding a certain object, etc. Make them HATE you by the time they get your ass.
Turn the place into a labyrinth of death, and make it so they have to find various objects to get to new areas. Think the lovechild of a Zelda dungeon and your current fortress. See how many floors they clear before going insane.
>>43574441
Adding to this, make it a psychoactive labyrinth, populate it with mental impacting monsters, mimics, false paths and the like, with the actual route out a dead straight walk from start to finish and many, many, MANY side paths filled with a variety of mobs, maybe thematic branches on top of it.
Kill any NPCs "close" to the heroes.
And above all else, Sacrifice their closest loved ones at an ultimate death metal rock concert dedicated to whatever deity you serve.
Dress like you are a part of Kiss. It's the only way
>>43575581
I like the way you think. But if we're going to really make this rage-worthy, I'd say have the place be more than 100 floors of labyrinths filled with increasingly insane shit, but with continuous mimics all throughout the giant hell.
To go along with the others make annoying Zelda crap but after the first floors do away with the maze aspect and make them moral dilemmas like make a innocent swallow the key to advance or better yet Escort missions everyone hated Escort missions make them only able to advance if the take a group of people out the maze they just came thru.
>>43575581
I am going for an atheist BBEG. In the sense that he's plotting to overthrow the current gods and take their power for himself. Think metalhead Doctor Doom.
>>43576524
His appearance is pretty much a direct copy of Ahzek Ahriman, close enough.
>>43575581
Yes. YES.
>>43573561
Irony resides in the fact you chose Ahriman for your OP.
Said irony being that Ahriman in 40k is closer to an anti-hero than anything resembling comic-book villain levels of ham.
In fact, he's closer to being the single person capable of using Batman/Xanatos gambits on a regular basis.
>>43577565
In that case, I just got an idea that just might either lead to MAXIMUM RAGE or "You bastard!" You take one powerful servant of each god, and force them to fight the heroes. Now, there's at least three floors between each god servant, so they act as sort of minibosses. Care to provide a link? I will happily be your minion.
>>43577640
Well there's the fact that Ahzek just looks utterly awesome, and the fact that no one ever suspects a ridiculously gauche, one-liner and fire-ball slinging bombast to be capable of subtlety.
>>43577732
Please do not make a necromancer, I have two already and suspect a third one is in the works.
http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/88154-darkness-and-light/ooc
>>43574441
>First off, here's my advice, replace all the towns outside your sanctuary with mimics
FTFY
Also spread a false prophesy about the only way you can be defeated. Also Dire Kittens!
>>43578738
you won't have to be a necromancer but look in on any of /tg/'s mages guild meetings if you want over the top personalities and magical shenannigans as well as shocking disregard for student well being.
>>43577640
>>43578738
Oh, right. I almost forgot.
Read the Evil Overlord List, you know, the one which details most manners of fool-proofing your evil schemes. Then finish up with some good PR and you'll be the villain everyone asked for.
You're doing it all wrong! You shouldn't go HAM as a villain, you should go SUPER HARD HAM as a fake hero! Here, I'll lay out what kind of plan you should enact for maximum suffering of other players.
1. Disguise/fix yourself up to be a pretty boy non-skelebro looking kind of guy.
2. Sneak into noble, high-ranking, and even royal family houses and seduce women into loving you. Make your rounds throughout the different kingdoms and seduce all the ladies.
3. Keep these escapades up, whisper ideas into your now kingdom wide harem so that you can indirectly control their husbands through ideas or desires.
4. Setup multiple "bandit raids" everywhere at scheduled times.
5. Swoop in and "save" these towns/villages/cities from these raids and be hailed as a hero of the people.
6. Gather an army and try to paint every other PC in the game as the true villain. Use your radius buff to buff the people who are willing to fight for you, inspiring your followers!
>>43573561
What ever you do make sure you spread a rumor that you have a severe weakness to something like a rare element or metal or the likes that can only be found in a rare part of the world.
Each time someone brings it up scream in horror and run and bring your minions out. Then in the last battle or when it is time to get a decisive edge laugh and say it was all bullshit.
>>43573561
Become the BBEG by utilizing good will among the nobles.
Do good acts at first. Gain their friendship and eventually save the nobles from an attack with your gallant powers. Hold concerts that bring in people far and wide.
Be the most popular guy in town known for his heroics... all while plotting to overthrow the government while your dark tower has workers funneled into it to create a magical space program using lava to power forges to create a craft propelled by magic to the moon
>>43573561
> Songs and fireballs
Do literally this but with horses, you bet your ass you'll make your presence known.
>>43580054
Well obviously. I was gonna do that on an oak door levitated over the ground. To get that oak door I want to bash down the gates of some recalcitrant fortress.
>>43579270
That would require me to grovel first. Discarded. Like I said the personality of this guy is essentially Dr Doom with a preference for heavy metal, and Doom does not grovel.
>>43579168
No.
>>43578879
May I interest you in a minion position? I offer a pension and healthcare plan, dental included.
Go full Alpha Legion on their asses. Everyone is one of your minions in clever disguise.
The mayor? Minion.
The bar maids/innkeepers? Minions.
Their hire swords etc.? Minions.
The loot? Mimics - who are your minions.
The nobles? Sleeper agents.
The king?You in disguise, the Dark Lord prancing around terrorising the lands is just one of your lieutenants in huge ass armour
>>43580567
>No.
Sheesh. Not that guy, but why not? That seems like a fun idea.
>>43580567
>>43580623
Because he hates fun obviously.
>>43578738
I wasn't going to in the first place? You seek godhood, do you not? And what is a god without a prophet?
>>43581134
As I'm joining and doing a minion position, I'll be namefagging for this thread. I am happy to serve the true god.
>>43580623
Because I desire to rule overtly, not from shadows. This is also why I do not whish to butter up to the nobility before going on a conquering spree. While they are of course free to surrender they will do so in full acknowledgement of my magnificence, not out of some misguided notion of kinship.
>>43581632
Curses posting from my phone took my trip from me. Anyway more tomorrow.
>>43581632
Understandable enough.
Try to come off as goofy to con the heroes into thinking you're not a threat until you're nice and properly feared?Also do you need backup dancers for your music?
>>43581651
Very well, I hope to receive orders from you, my lord.
>>43581664
Oh oh oh! This!! Like Xykon. Everyone thought he was a joke, but the joke was on them. Motherfucker is way, way, way smarter than your average random lich.
