What is YOUR antagonist trying to achieve?
>>46483188
Trying to reclaim her throne stolen from her.
He just wants to kill off the nonhumans. He's not even really an antagonist, just someone that the PCs disagree with.
Growing up in a warzone as a child soldier, all his life he knew nothing but death and the rule of the strong.
One day, in his mid-teens, he saw a recording of a TV show from a far away land. It was an eating contest. These people had so much food they were seeing how much of it they could eat, just for fun.
Something inside him snapped. Now he will avenge himself on the decadent and the privileged, taking as many of them down with him as he can.
>>46483188
Wealth and power.And he's paying the PCs to work for him. He'll cut all the loose ends soon and betray them.
>>46483274
"Someone the protagonist conflicts with" is the definition of an antagonist, you clod.
The daughter of a legendary mob boss, forever living in her daddy's shadow, resolves to forge her own legacy.
The old order of crime families emphasized prudence, dignity and careful planning.
She will throw off the established way of things and prove that she can become more powerful and feared than her father ever was.
>>46483290
That's not how poor people think though.
That's how western SJWs imagine people from a third world country to think.
>>46483354
It's how this one particular poor person thinks, because it's a made-up story with characters serving as narrative devices, not real.
The Head of State is an immortal lich. Electing her was a good idea at the time, 100 years ago.
Now she's refusing the let the land modernise and stay competitive. People are dying of disease and famine which could be avoided.
She must die.
>>46483384
Even within his own character it's inconsistent. You said yourself that he obviously knows and respects the rule of the strong and then people on the other side of the world being more successful than him is driving him over the edge? After serving years of service as cannon fodder for rich warlords?
Sorry no, not convincing. Reads a lot like a clichey agenda piece, putting the message above internal consistency.
>>46483463
Pic related
>>46483188
Well, there's
>An old god who intensely dislikes the PCs messing with his turf, whose goal is to chill and subtly make existence miserable in his domain, and will spring a trap ensuring the party is doomed to an eternity of torment in his personnal pocket realm.
>A new god, born of the ashes of a old one and of the millenia of will and work of his servants, who will stop at nothing to ensure both his promise of paradise to his minions, and his promise of assimilation to every other soul in the continent, will be kept.
>A misguided and maddened, but powerful servant of that same new god, who is ready to erase this World's most beautiful and precious city and one of its gods to speed up the birth of his master.
>A advanced shapeshifter, invisible to any form of divination, who seeks revenge on the party and the gods they serve.
>A pragmatic and ambitious would-be ruler who wouldn't shy away from using the PCs as her tools to grab the throne, being right in believing the current system is corrupt and inefficient and needs radical change.
In my settings, "Gods" strongly resemble Morrowind's Tribunal at its peak, being entities that walk amongst mortals, though vastly superior in power.
>>46483188
Eat every single person, place, and thing
The main antagonist is trying to control trade in a region. By hook, by crook, and by mook.
Other than that it's a fairly uninteresting character who isn't really capable of putting up an actual fight against the heroes should they decide to try and force it. Knowing my players, they probably won't and everything will be hunky-dory.
Most minor antagonists aren't even really related to main antagonist. They're players in the trade markets, random monsters, nefarious teacup ninjas, etc.
What does he want to achieve?orgasm
>>46483188
Control of the Holy Roman Empire, like pretty much everyone else in the setting.
>>46483521
>>A advanced shapeshifter, invisible to any form of divination
This has promise. But i shy away from ALLs and ALLWAYS. It should be invisible from MOST forms of divination. Except from specific techneques that only apply to him.
Kill of everyone on the planet with nbc weapons in order to replace them with master race cryogenically stored inside ancient space station.
Kill all non-beastmen in an attempt to appease demon Lords intent on slaughtering all mortals.
Gentrification.
>>46483336
Peridot pls
>>46483274
Actually, would 'Reasonable Hitler' be the perfect opponent for a party of PCs that refuse to take an interest in the plot? You know, that gang of mercenaries, edgelords and 'not what my character would do's?
You inundate them with news about this guy. Every day he's doing something new. NPCs they meet tell them about how Mr Hitler is going to save the kingdom from itself. Elves they meet complain that they feel like a target. But he never messes with them, so the party does nothing. He doesn't kill the questgiver or their NPC friend or send minions to rough them up. So the party carries on what they're doing, and Hitler carries on growing in power.
Before you know it, they're required to apply for adventuring licenses and to carry a weapons permit with them. Spot checks everywhere they go. They get an offer to work for the local government as hired thugs. Later they get an offer to put down an Elvish riot.
Eventually weapons are banned for all non-governmental personnel. The Elves begin to disappear. The PCs begin to run out of work. But he's still not messing with them, so they carry on doing nothing.
Then you start dropping atrocities in a few at a time. Eventually they'll conform to the system or be executed as subversives.
See how long you can drag the farce of PCs refusing to take action in the face of overwhelming evil out for. Turn the story from one about the duty of good men to one of hopelessness. There's nobody left to revolt because they missed all their chances.
Then if you want to save the campaign, have the Hitlersville declare war on the Fire Nation.
>>46483188
>Antagonist 1 : Wants to Uplift his people to be neo-gods
>Antagonist 2 : Wants to secure Antagonist 1 at all costs, she will break the world if she can hug him one more time
>Antagonist 3 : Trying to secure his domain, and create more of his people in an endless tide of soldiers.
>Antagonist 4 : Trying to make Antagonist 2 love him and kill Antagonist 1 and throw the world into an endless Darwinian Anarchy.
It's post apocalyptic
Well he's just realized that he's wasted more than a decade on training a complete failure of an Inquisitor, so right now his main goal is to track down the force sensitive stormtrooper she failed to notice. He just doesn't know that she's still alive because that stormtrooper found her and went on the run with her.
Re-establish control of the human race and remove free will from us after god interview mucked it up for him, he's been mostly creating fake religious narratives to make the smarter of us think he's a rebel underdog and the dumber of us make god look like an ass
>>46483345
What sort of PCs would fight against that?
I'd love to play a game based on ushering her to the top, even if she was a DMPC and not a PC.
>>46483890
To be honest that's quite brilliant. Might copy that as framework for a future game.
>>46483188
A rich merchant family who the party managed to piss off. They are now buying off plots of land and property around and within the little town the party tends to reside in and worked to build up.
>>46484002
Anyone that stands to lose something once the gang wars start.
If the Dons are likeable in their way you have a reason to side with them but to be honest, any game of this nature should allow the PCs to move between sides at appropriate times.
It shouldn't be easy, but when a boss goes down they should be allowed to join someone else so long as they can prove their sincerity. Have them cultivate a jovial relationship with the other gang leaders even as they raid their safehouses and gun down their mooks. It's nothing personal, just business.
>>46483890
I would enjoy that campaign, please assassinate my GM and take his place.
>>46484115
Still the mafia princess does sound like shittons of fun. Like the sort of girl you could run all sorts of fun jobs with.
>>46483188
Well basically i came up with an antagonist / BBEG from reading the posts here.
First i must tell you about the setting.
Setting is basically NOT Venice, a country called Gatonia, that is Neutral. Gatonia has come under attack by a consortium of Mercenary companies. These companies comprise of highly trained mercenaries with cutting edge gear. Most of the fights revolve around mobile suits. These suits are not gigantic but actually the size of tau crisis suits. The Gatonian suits tend to be smaller and less advanced or specialised, but their mane advantage is that they can move amphibiously without significant modifications. The majority of the game will revolve around scavenging better gear from the merc's and undermining their plan.
It is not understood why the Consortium of Mercenary companies would attack a neutral country or what it wants with it, but it slowly comes out that their leader is a Savant Military Simulator Analyst. He may or may not be autistic, but his plans are of byzantine complexity. Its unknown what his true intentions are but it slowly transpires that he wants control of the worlds tax haven banks, by using a neutral country.
>>46483188
He's an avatar of the God of Destruction. Take a guess.
>>46484242
Settling down and opening a bakery?
>>46484256
Close. It's a deli.
Antagonist is one of the world's original three Gods. He was for a world with simple, logical rules and interactions extrapolated from those rules. He was much more reasonable than his partners—he was willing to allow those rules to be loose at best, and would even permit such things as magic to exist.
Before they could create the world, his two companions betrayed him and locked him away. They then proceeded to create a world with almost no rules. Land spirals through the air, light comes from nowhere, and the seasons are magically generated. Of course, such a world is complicated to maintain, so they created a large number of sub-gods to help them manage it, and built a mighty temple to all of them in the center of the world. After they'd done this, they vanished, to run things behind the scenes.
Every few hundred thousand years the one they betrayed gains enough strength to make an escape attempt, but always fails. During this time, the two overgods are more concerned with fighting him than anything, so the Undergods are vulnerable to the use of certain magical artifacts. When the battle is over, the two overgods have a brief meeting with the undergods, then disappear again.
Unfortunately for the world at large, the betrayed overgod's escape attempt succeeded this time. He looked upon the world and saw what his two partners had wrought. Cosmic brats with divine power treat mortals as playthings, huge beasts laugh at limitations as they destroy cities and enslave the innocent, and the most evil tyrants find magical ways to eternally escape justice.
Obviously, this world is lost. The betrayed must destroy it and start again—this time, without even allowing magic to exist. Simple rules for a simple world. Sure, that's going to involve killing everything currently alive, but it's a small price to pay for the long-term benefit.Tried my hand at writing a neutral-aligned "destroy everything" antagonist. How did I do?
No idea. It's a clusterfuck full of drow rising up to kill off a town for their god. But someone's also behind using the drow for their own ends. It's some machiavellian shit and I can't find who's pulling the strings of all the various parties yet.
>>46484281
Idk. If he doesn't care about the people residing on the world then why does he care if their world is fucked.
Maybe put a secret plan that he wants to reincarnate the world's inhabitants onto his world once its destroyed, and the PCs dont know that or something.
>>46483188
They're trying to be the most popular band in all of history, as are the heroes, and will stop at nothing to achieve their stardom. It's an all-bard campaign.
>Lived in a place where profound emotions were meant to be blessings (specifically great mourning)
>His father was killed when he was a child by one of the original beings of the planet in attempt to solidify their relationship
>Antagonist spends his entire life serving the original being whilst infiltrating the setting's more stable civilization
>Rises through the ranks, is a hero to the people, all whilst serving the original being involving experimentation on orphans
>Even more all the while, he has been secretly trying to find a weakness to kill the original being
Not supposed to be relatable or seen as an ends justify the means sort of guy as much as a man selfishly searching for a catharsis he has been cultivating since childhood.
>>46484374
He cares about the long-term good. Right now, several billion people are living in tyranny. If he destroys the world, that causes some amount of disutility. He thinks that the utility of people living in non-tyranny for the lifetime of a universe far outweighs the disutility he will cause by committing omnicide once.Note: I am not a utilitarian and I think his logic is flawed.
>>46484281
Seems like a pretty good idea. He wants there to be order and make a more just world, but that just so happens to fuck over the inhabitants currently in the world. He's not exactly evil and wants to do good, but that comes at the expense of everyone currently there.
>>46484430
He should command the PCs to build a boat and put two of every animal aboard.
>>46484609
And beat the crap out of every single one of them?
>>46484532
That's the idea.
I'm not going to play him as some tragic hero, though. He definitely has an arrogant streak, and I want it to be ambiguous how much is genuine, and how much is a "Fuck you" to the people that created the world without him.
>>46484609
I don't think that would work, considering the fact that he's destroying all of existence.
>>46484631
And that's why any time a bunch of animals are together, it's called a zoo!
...Unless it's a farm!
>>46483489
To be fair, those citizens didn't earn it because they were just born in a luckier place.
>>46483188
Get his best friend back.
The primary antagonist is extremely old with an ability that allowed him to see the entire fate of a person upon contact. He found himself in a situation where he was most likely to die but was saved by a young knight. There was no way either could have known at the time but the knight that saved him was essentially God.
Naturally he shook his saviors hand only to see all of creation and existence fill his head in an instant. The knight would forget about this event and ascend to godhood whereby all of creation would be retroactively made. That being said the antagonist had become overwhelmed with the burden of reality.
Through the ultimate truth he realized that God only existed through the power of thought people had in their world. He made a plan to instill the fear of God unto all people by subtly pulling the strings behind major wars and quietly pushing the central beliefs of his faith.
He eventually made a huge mistake and has since then developed long term memory loss. He no longer understands what he's doing and why but had the foresight to write down his plans at least so that he may keep them. He is at a loss knowing the dark deeds he does are heinous in nature but trusts that his previously sane self knew the truth.
So in short is just following his own plans in order to preserve the creation of God and subsequently the entire universe but he and anyone else for that matter are not aware of this. I'm not really sure what should be done to stop him but many of his plans result in mass genocide of certain cultures. Some are even pacifist monks that preach inner tranquility and thus actively take away from the thought giving God power.
A bunch of necromancers somehow tricked all the races in our world to duke it out in a huge war. They steal the bodies of the fallen and are trying to make a giant flesh golem worm thing called "The Devourer." Everyone who knows about the necromancers plan think they're retarded.
There's six of them, all of which are Old Gods, Fey Lords, or Demonic Tyrants, and they all want to achieve apotheosis with this world and merge their will with reality. Not anything super nebulous and there's nothing "special" about this reality except that it's boundaries have been substantially weakened lately. It's just routine expansion of their domains for the most part, while also scrambling to fill a power vacuum in the "other realities" they inhabit, which this conquest would achieve.
Can't really elaborate much more, I know for a fact my players browse tg
>>46483188
Human supremacy. Not gonna lie, gm has written his arguments to be very convincing.
>>46483188
The primary antagonist had a near-death experience when he was younger and it terrified him of death beyond normal. He decided to avoid death by any means. He's not much of a fighter and relies on his underlings to do all the dangerous field work.
Right now the players are basically running into his servants and getting glimpses of the guy's plan through them.
>>46483188
Destruction. Pure, clean, simple destruction. Well I mean... The REAL bbeg.
The current one is a necromancer that the PCs are trying to stopwho is the only one who currently knows about the real bbeg and is only trying to create a force strong enough to defeat him through necromancy. It's going to be delicious when the PCs kill the mancer, decrypt his journal/necromancy research book thay contains the prophecy about the real BBEG after killing the nexromancer and realize what the true threat is. The best part is that they already know the prophecy and think it's a silly children's rhyme
he's an eldritch being trying to reproduce
unfortunately reproducing entails fusing an entire species's souls together through instrumentality and hijacking the mass that comes out of that
and he's only doing that because dad told him to
>>46485121
>he's only doing that because dad told him to
Well you don't want your eldritch son spending all his time watching anime and have waifus instead of meeting people.
Revenge on the immortal Empress who betrayed him almost one thousand years ago.
>>46483226
If Fire Emblem taught me anything, it's that PCs usually flock to such causes, what makes yours different?
>>46485165
>Well you don't want your eldritch son spending all his time watching anime and have waifus instead of meeting people.
kind of ironic given we're playing AdEva
don't worry, eldritch son is having the time of his life pulling a gigantic bait and switch on the players
i would post more but i'm 100% sure that at least one of my players goes on /tg/
>>46483188
Build a slave army capable of unlocking all the secrets of Anchorage. Then bring the wastes to heel under a tide of said secrets.
>>46483188
Discover what made a certain ancient civilization great. The problem is said civilization was a bit too much into human sacrifice and summoning Elder Gods, and what not.
>>46485445
Sounds like a fallout campaign.
>>46483188
He wants power, money and bitches.
Old Campaign that ended that I DMed but the Antagonist as the players perceived only found out later that he was actually involved in a prophecy that required the sacrifice of thousands if not millions of people to protect the entire world from an even greater threat, He had good intentions but was rather antagonistic due to his perception of self righteousness in being the only one who felt he could do it.
His mindset was to let 1(million) man die if it's to save 10(million) people The PC's main goal was trying to mitigate the collateral and find a 3rd option, They managed, barely.
Really isn't one. Or there could be like 30. Depends on how you look at it. They'really all just trying to win, while making sure everyone else loses, because if more than one wins at the same time, shit gets messy.
>>46483188
An erection.
Old age is a bitch, even for vampires.
>>46483188
Testing her new generals for the war in the heavens against the old gods
>>46485001
Because they're right
Well OP do i have an antagonist for you. Currently about to start season 4 of a grueling campaign where the various outcomes and storylines are coming to a head. Our Antagonist Was once a PC who went so far, gave up so much of themselves, denied every opportunity for redemption, and eventually became an enemy who could possibly destroy the Imperium of man (Rogue trader campaign btw)
His character started out as an astropath who was basically enslaved by our current Rogue Traders father, our PC RT freed him and let him do anything he wants but instead the (lets just refer to him as the antag. for now) decides hey Im just gunna fuck over this guys family name. So we begin our adventures of making money and the antag generally fucks with stuff and makes it harder to accomplish our goals. but is at least half on board most of the time. Over time he becomes more and more ...overt with his bullshit and his character's morality degrades and it comes to a boiling point where we're on a xenos space station in the middle of uncharted space. He dicks around with some eldar and gets shot up and runs to find medical assistance from some shitty hole in the wall doctor and mind controls this guy. he tries to offer the doctor a place aboard our vessel but the doctors wife comes home and understands something is wrong. The Antag then losses all morality and forces this man to kill his husband, a tear in his eye as he chokes the life from her. and then forces him to kill himself.
*earlier we lost our astropath and antag is trying to find his soul in the warp*
*instead finds demon prince and makes a deal. 1000 souls for power*
Fast forward a little and the antag now has an underground drug ring and is being used by lower deck chaos worshippers to be part of a full scale rebellion.
he single handedly walks around murdering over 1000 civvies and basically becomes a demon but hides it via magic n stuff. several things lead to his attempted assassination but GM has plot plans so fuck me.
he escapes and becomes a pirate and becomes an NPC
friend creates new character who was a adopted daughter of this guy and for some reason calls this guy back to "help"
We now have an entire season of dealing with basically a demon prince who was once a PC right next to holy terra.
>>46483188
he's trying to take over a kingdom and give his family the status he believes they deserve
>>46483188
The antagonist in the siege they just won was trying to get access to a Mammoth Graveyard in their city. He's a Deathlord. You can do the rest of the maths for yourself.
>>46483188
The antagonist has been deluded into thinking that conquering the world and rendering everyone into undead will let him harness their souls to power his ascendancy to Godhood.
>>46483489
Not really. What about what he saw would indicate they were the ''strong'' and not simply the privileged?
I mean, the kid saw an eating contest. Thats not usually a font of ''strong'' people, especially not the sort of ''strong'' that your average child soldier respects since they often focus more on willpower and ''warrior spirit'' and shit than actual muscle power.
Trying to raise an army of undead to kill off a bunch of cities at the same time to summon Orcus, and return his staff.
She's trying to have a healthy baby, but as a result of her actions, the standard of living for many people has greatly improved as well as general living conditions for much of the wasteland. Unfortunately despite being a fellow PC we are in opposition.
>>46483188
First wealth, then the bitches.
Then THE WORLD
Plan a:Eliminate high ranking officials and replace them with shapeshifters.
Plab b:Take the trial to god, literally about whether or not humanity should be nerfed to death.
Can you guess what setting he's from?
>>46486419
How is that bad or in opposition?
>>46483188
coming back to life to fuck the pompous ass that put him down the first time and wreak havoc on his spoiled brat kids running the kingdom
In the beginning, the creator god created an immortal, indestructible being to be the spectator of his work for all eternity.
But all eternity is quite long for one with the mind of a mortal, and for whom time passes so painstakingly slowly. The watcher begs for death, but is denied so. After countless pleas, and countless rejections, the creator god, irritated and shameful of his spectator's reaction, concedes him the right to die - but only when all sentient life will leave the world.
So of course the smartass tries to speed that up.
>>46486491
Not really bad, she's just the antagonist. My character is in opposition to her at least because he stole her car, which is pretty important/famous. That, and helping out another player who stole her baby, she wants me/us dead.
Kill the son of God, nuke the planet and reinstate the old empire with himself as the Caesar
He wants to:
1) Repair the crashed alien spaceship.
2) Prevent any megacorps from replicating its FTL drive.
3) Use it to create a utopia on a new planet, and leave the old world behind.
He views the world as utterly irredeemable, and believes that the only hope for humanity's existence is a fresh start on a new world, with nobody from the old world coming along for the trip. A population bomb with AI caretakers to create a perfect society that has never known greed, never known division, never known prejudice, and most of all never known about the world they left behind.
And he doesn't care what he has to do to make it happen.
Harvesting her own species to fuel the Imperial war machine, proving both her value and ruthlessness to Palpatine with an eye towards one day replacing Vader.
On the side she's still trying to hunt down her Jedi master who disappeared during the Clone Wars, both to personally make sure he's dead and to pry his last secrets from his cold hands.
Eat all the other gods.
>>46483188
I'm pretty sure the players in this game are the antagonists
>>46488147
Nah mate, they are the protagonists since they are the characters around which the narrative is centred.
You can be the bad guy and still be the protagonist.
>>46488176
I'd hesitate to call us "protagonists", really. The action is done to us, yes, but we're not exactly the kind of people who are going to save the kingdom.
>>46488201
Protagonists ain't gotta save the kingdom. They dont even need to be the most important character in the narrative.
Ask yourself this: Around whom does the gameplay, narrative and plot revolve? If its your pcs, they are the protagonists.
>>46488259
I usually associate "protagonist" with "hero" or "anti-hero", not a party full of genre-savvy Chaotic Assholes.
Free the sea from the scourge of piracy and build a golden age of free trade, progress and peace between nations.
Depending on your point of view, they're either trying to destroy a particular blend of socialism because they think spoiling the common people will place too many demands on the economy for no gain and plunge the world into a miserable depression, or they're trying to conquer the capitalist nations who launched an attack against them to ensure they can never attack again.
Just depends who the antagonists are; the socialists or the capitalists?
>>46488310
See, theres the thing. Protagonist just means ''person around whom the plot and narrative unfolds''.
But to make it simpler, what are the aims of the person opposing your pcs? If theres multiple, what is the aim of the most significant one?
>>46488375
We don't know yet. Right now we're trying to either kill him or steal some things back from him to give to a warlord that hired us.
We just got finished selling off all the slaves/livestock/goods we could from the LAST city we were INVITED INTO, so we're kind of just following the rails at the moment.
Numenera is weird.
>>46488310
you should stop that. Protagonist is the label that applies to the person or persons the story is following. Antagonist is who or whatever is opposing them.
>>46488408
Fair enough.
>>46488435
Which I understand perfectly well, but there's lanes of thinking I fall into a little.
>>46483188
A king who got cucked and is extremly angry about it.
I'm serious.
>>46483890
This actually makes me sad that my players are too /good/. They'd never play such plot wrecking chars.
Trying to plunge the world into chaos because he thinks it will give him inspiration for a musical masterpiece. Of course he only decided on that goal after the ruler of the elemental plane of fire became his biggest fan.
>>46483188
The undoing of the mortal world. He thinks the whole thing is pretty shit.
>>46483188
BEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSThey are bee farmers and he is a rival.
>>46488794
The group I play with will play plot-wrecking characters, but they won't intentionally wreck the plot. It'll just... kind of happen.
Happened with a Savage Worlds/Evil Genius homebrew our resident This Guy made a while back. Best campain. BEST campaign.
>>46488844
Bee... Farmers? Not keepers? Jesus Christ how horrifying.
>>46489147
They don't keep the Bees, They farm them. They are Bee plants, Look the entire setting is fucking confusing and WAS supposed to be a one shot.
A general who was abandoned by his king was left for dead after winning an inspiring but costly victory full of heroism, death, etc. seeks to create his own state where kings and monarchs will not rule, where the nobility does not recklessly waste lives in futile conflicts against those they have no right to be fighting against, where officials and other folks of importance are appointed to their position by merit, seniority, and devotion to the cause of freedom.
BUT AT WHAT COST?
>>46484761
But they did. They fought tooth and nail to be born there.
>>46483913
Sounds like a SMT plot.
So being as the game has not started yet there is no true antagonist but their are factions the players can piss off
> Faction 1: Wants to instate their ruler (who they believe to be the daughter of a god) as sole supreme leader of the world.
>Faction 2: A council of 12 nobles who are trying to compete with each other to expand their empire. Though some of them are trying to make an attempt to usurp the other 11.
>Faction 3: Trying to combine every single plane of existence into one super plane.. Which they of course shall rule
>Faction 4: A Magi nation attempting to find a way to possibly harness the powers of dead gods to bring the entire nation to ascension... Which they of course will then take over the world
>Faction 5: A built on the backs of an undead workforce seeks to try to complete a grand artifact that according to legend will lead to millenia upon millenia of peace and prosperity. This may or may not allow them to also rule the world.
Basically a shit ton of poloticking. And because of the super weapons that each nation posses full scale war means utter doom. So its up to the PC's to do... Something... Still haven't figured out a general plot yet
>>46491445
> A nation built on the backs of an undead workforce*
Fuck I cant spell
>>46483188
He's an industrialist working in his own rational self-interest. He knows that he has more money than he'll ever need, but he can't take it with him; next step is to become immortal. It's not his goal that makes him evil, but the fact that he'll do anything to reach it.
>>46483188
Love and understanding
For his decades long plan of manipulating popular media to desensitize the Kine to the existence of Vampires to come to fruition. After more than a century of careful social engineering in the Western World to make it a tolerant and accepting place to all individuals the Masquerade will be abolished and the Kine will willingly take their place at the feet of all Kindred.
There will be a false-flag attack using a U.S. black ops team to annihilate a grouping of his rivals recorded and broadcast to the unsuspecting people of the world and soon after mountains of evidence will emerge pointing at Vampires being a repressed minority for centuries for seemingly archaic and regressive reasons. Dominated pillars of the scientific community will produce a vast body of studies proving that Vampirism is a biological condition and not supernatural at all while blocking and discrediting any and all research done by free minds. Vampires are real. Vampires are oppressed. Vampires are sexy. The youth of the entire Western World will willingly heap privileges on the newly outed Kindred.
Simultaneously, a shadow war will wage against all Kindred that dare resist the new vampire order. The world will no longer be a gilded cage and the Kindred will finally take their place as the rightful masters of Earth.
Wake up primordial evil now so it destroys everything and then starves to death. Someone eventually has to do it, and the longer the world waits the stronger it gets.
>>46485501
It is exactly that. Seattle based. The midwest brotherhood got taken over from within by the enclave remnants. They want a slave army to take Anchorage back, players are attempting to stop their slow and secretive incursion to the west
>>46483188
Depends on which antagonist?
First layer antagonist just wants to trade drugs.
Second layers antagonist is using the guy that wants to trade drugs to distract the city and it's heroes so that he can regain power over multiple aspects the city that his father had many years ago and he is using third layer villain to help him out.
Third layer villain is a congressman that actually serves a secret organization and she is using her metahuman genius son to create a teleporting machine using hyper-crystals. Drugs are, hence why drugs are hard to trace because first player villain is using shitty weak teleporting machines to get the drugs from cuba and other shitholes.
Fourth layer villains are ancient telepath cult that formed a hivemind and are trying to distabilize and conquer the world, then through chain link of powerful telepaths consume all of humanity into their hivemind because they believe that hivemind is the single most rational and productive entity that has ever existed on this planet and it's good for mankind to join it. Also they have telepathic ninjas.
A minor demon of ambition who's attempting to steal a really important fey WMD and use it to strongarm the fey into getting him power, recognition, and belief. He hired the PC's to steal it, and they kind of just fucked off with it. He basically reads like a slightly more competent, slightly more bitchy Zim.When your PC's are low level, villains aren't all that intimidating.
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(In my setting, demons are made up by people unconsciously believing in concepts or things. Like if urban legends became real if they got popular enough. If enough people start consciously believing in them however, they can be gods. This is how pretty much every pantheon happened.)
>>46483188
Make his nation great again
>>46483463
some one just needs to give her the D
the DEATH
>>46488843
Kerghan is that you?
>Antagonist 1
A former army colonel gone rogue, now a warlord in Africa. The war is over, but he keeps fighting.
>Antagonist 2
Greedy international corporation that wants money. They spend crazy amounts on PR are are so compartmentalized that not even their CEO know about most of the evil shit the company does. The CEO is a genuinely good person and something of a celebrity, and would quit in an instant if he knew about half of it, but he doesn't.
>Antagonist 3
Dreams of immortality. When the largest international genetic engineering research program was shut down, he stole their work and continued in secret, without the red tape of ethics committees or the bloat of contracts and inspections.
>Antagonist 4
An elusive phantom whose motivations are unknown, and whose actions appear random. In reality, the events are all unconnected.
>>46483188
Failure
In his life, he always succeed and fate itself seems to want him to, whether it is a good or evil action. So he put a flawed plan and hope some adventurers thwarts his plan.
>>46483188
Getting laid.
>Antagonist 1
The commander of the nation's military and a close advisor to the king with strong political influence. He hates adventurers because of an event from his past and is attempting to rid the land of adventurers as best a LN man can in such ways as offering free renovation to taverns across the nation and rebuilding them circular (so there are no dark corners for shady quest givers to hide), killing all the goblins and kobolds in order to make trade routes safe (and also so there'll be no 'weak' monsters for fledgling adventurers to fight) and tempting existing adventurers with a respectable change of career (one of the PCs is now a knight under his direct command). The ten-foot pole tax has yet to be introduced.
>Antagonist 2
Mindflayers who crossed into the Far Realm in search of an old one whose power they might borrow to conquer the world. The experience had a debilitating effect on their bodies and minds but they found a viable being and are now trying to summon it into the mortal world.
>Antagonist 3
A lich who derives amusement from building dungeons and coercing adventurers to challenge them. He now considers the party (who have prevailed through two of his dungeons) his rivals and builds with them in mind.
No idea.
But we're going to kill him because he's a wizard.
He's a faggot merc.
We're going to kill him for HONOUR.
No idea, again.
But we're going to kill him because he attempted to nuke us and he's a wizard.
>>46492575
ALL HAIL 'MURICA!!!!!
>>46483188
>Hitler
>Antagonist
Good joke OP
>>46483188
He wants to understand the artifact he has found, hoping is will one day lead to a better world for all.
Of course, the path to that destination is not all sunshine and roses.
She's trying to destroy everything that someone else loves because that person killed her fiance in a terrorist attack on a diplomat.
Her nemesis is the OTHER major antagonist of the game but is honestly the less dangerous person than the woman on a warpath.
>>46483290
Reminds me of a real life story. North Korean family is thrown in work camp, children too. Youngest kid grows up knowing nothing but work camp. Tortured, starved and overworked every day. Only priority becomes food. Sells out mother and older brother for food because she gave his brother more food than him. They get executed. He feels nothing. A nice man from the outside world is thrown in the work camp. Tells him stories about other countries and the food they have. These stories of feed become the motivation for the escape attempt. Not freedom, not safety, not and end to the torture and pain. Only hunger. During their escape attempt, the nice man is fried by the electrified barbed wire, the kid has to use his friend body as a bridge to cross. Only after escaping to the outside world and eating as much food as he can does he manage to evolve other needs and priorities than food, and confesses in interviews that he was essentially like an animal because of the hunger.
Tell me what you think. Not exactly from session, but still.
>Antagonists are group of people that supported PC for long time.
>During last battle, PC fucked up and was gravely wounded, but saves himself by backup plan that make his body teleport and regenerate for 15 years. Nobody know about this.
>PC side won the war and now pretty much disbanded, taking part of land for their own.
>PC wakes up after 15 years, his mind is damaged and he don't remember anything except few things. He found letter written by himself that suggest him to find his true name to get power and knowledge back and don't let anyone find out who he really is (as his body was transmutated and magically enhanced)
>Players decisions (It is CYOA) will determine if old companions will try to stop PC or help him. Some will join him without word, some won't believe and some will try to stop him, depends what he will do.
>>46483188
he's trying to make me stop lurk /tg/ and get back to work
my boss is my antagonist
i take refuge in the fact I'm a hero
There's a growing school of thought that holds that the party are the antagonists now. Supporters of this theory are local government, the media, the vast majority of the populace, the police force, and several other powerful people.
Our party holds that they're simply misunderstood, and their bloodthirsty quest for revenge is entirely justified. We weren't wrong when we started, but our decision to use large quantities of explosives to solve most problems has probably crossed a line.
Being the last lieutenant of a heretical order the PCs of two campaigns essentially crushed, he wants to get revenge on them. The current party is working for one of the allied factions of these previous games, so they're in the crosshairs too.
The guy has no capacity to achieve this on his own, but due to a combination of luck and circumstance, he is poised to resurrect Acererak, the legendary necromancer. If Acererak kills him, he'll accept that, since everyone else is going to go down too.The PCs have fucked up and it's essentially inevitable at this point.
>>46483188
Further research into necromancy which is pretty unanimously illegal and imoral across the known world. Also trying to create perfect artificial life.
>>46485271
Not him but if it were my setting I'd make the current ruler who "stole" the throne exceedingly competent and from what the players can tell, better in every regard at ruling than the antagonist. But the antoganist DOES have the legitimate claim to the throne which she successfully uses to garner support and raise a rebellion.
>>46485482
Although I recognize that Bloodborne isn't exactly the first to do something like that, I can't help being reminded of Bloodborne from that description.
>>46483188
He's trying to go back in time and save his wife and children from a colossal disaster. He can't stop the disaster, but he feels a terrible guilt that he wasn't there to save them from it at least.
>>46496149
I remember reading about this, dude was still having to make an active effort to feel something after years of just being a beast. It was admirable that he was able to recognise there was something wrong with him after all that time.
I really with I could find the interview, it was great.
Reuniting the remnants of a small Australian city in the aftermath of an apocalypse. It sounds nice, but he's turned the gangs, police, army, navy and special forces into his own personal military so he could establish a junta. He runs all trade, water collection and food production, keeping his army fed and populace under strict control.
We're currently working with what's left of the government outside his territory to infiltrate and remove him from power, so hopefully we can free the people trapped there.
>>46483188
Fix the mistakes of his past and save the world from a reality-devouring, ever-expanding Lovecraftian horror he created.
>she
>her
obvious fapbait is obvious
Trying to save his homeland from an army of hobgoblins and the very real threat of Tiamat manifesting in the Material Plane.
>>46484366
Illithids!
>>46483188
This isnt a simple question but...
Right now the party is fighting the leader of a local thieves guild. He is motivated purely by the money the next antagonist paid him and because THAT antagonist is hot and he wants to fuck her.
She is trying use an alien spaceship buried underneath the town to provide the final power source for her boss's doomsday device.
Her boss is another antagonist and a demi god. He is the offspring of the god of machines and he wants to destroy non machine life and kill his parent.
His parent is likely the true antagonist. Thats a god. It is however a new God, and it has limited influence over the world because it only recently acheived deification and it is still trapped in a physical form. That antagonists goal is to be released into the world.
>>46483564
THIS GUY GETS IT
>>46491736
Is he Sabbat?
>>46491736
This is actually really funny!
I'm sure werewolves will be depicted as violent, hate-mongering religious extremists?
People will go around saying stuff like, "Jesus was a vampire!"
>>46483188
Devastate the population of the world with a plague so that he can rebuild it better and ensure the same mistakes aren't repeated.
>>46483354
that's actually similar to what lots of people think because the world has heaps of people with heaps of opinions
>>46483354
>>46498270
not to forget that the only person in this thread who made any claims as to what 'the poor' think was you
>>46483290
Fucking lame.
Got told by god to kill brown people, some if those brown people really are nasty folk but as the party consists entirely of brown people, they're not too keen on her.
Learn what makes Technomancers tick.
>>46484281
Sounds like a Pokémon plot line. I can dig it.
>>46496574
Well, I admit that Bloodborne may have a bit of an influence, but the idea came because I was reading a book about the Indus Valley civilization and The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath around the same time.
Running a god/religion/divine heavy setting with countless gods.
He wants to kill them in order to free the mortal races from the 'Divine oppressors'.
>>46483188
4 are the leaders of the state religion who want ascend by replacing their respective gods within the pantheon.Secret antagonist number 5 wants to use a similar process to become a conduit for the god that was previously part of the aforementioned pantheon but ascended further to an even higher level off existance (turning most of its dedicated followers into monsters in the process), thus allowing it to directly manipulate the plane of mortals again.
Arachna and Aquamarine of the Yōma are trying to secure the continued survival of their race. Their total population is down to mere hundreds and it takes so long for new ones to be born.
They'll do whatever it takes to ensure their continued survival.
Dracula, self proclaimed 'original' Vampire, is attempting to bring about a vampire revolution and claim ruler-ship of the world.
The rest of the council hate this idea but are to afraid of sparking a civil war among the vampire people.
The Illuminati already ruled the world and just sort to maintain it.
Now that they are gone there is some real fears for the future.
'The Princess' is an enigmatic and charismatic girl who is thought to want to bring about a New World Order.
Many people, including the remnants of the Illuminati, don't actually have an issue with this.
Astarte is a secretive witch of impressive power who seems to be the true BBEG of our campaign and whom we have helped to a large degree because she's been aiding us every step of the way as well.
We hope her goals mostly align with our own so we may remain friends and allies but she's told us in no uncertain terms if we knew what she was trying to achieve, we would try to stop her.
Why she would help us if we will be her enemy when all is said and done has left us confused and we hope it wasn't just to clear out the rest of the opposition.
The Antagonists are demonic clones of the protagonists who seek to destroy their originals for abandoning them.
>>46483188
He's a 500 yearold cyborg who's bored as shit because he got everything he ever wanted, so now he antagonizes wannabe heroes looking for someone strong enough to finally either kill him or prove him wrong.
>>46491736
true blood?
>>46483188
Admiral Teach, Anne Barbanegra
Primarily acquisition of power and money, and lots of it.
Anne Barbanegra Teach the Lesser, daughter of Anne Teach the Greater and Captain Barbanegra, is a willful and selfish lady. Inheriting her fathers seafaring skills and her mothers shrewd political mind, she quickly rose to fame within the Royal Navy and before long had surpassed her own father in rank.
As the colonies in the Lapis sea, far to the south at the very edges of the Empire, became mired in pirates and freelancers, a plan was devised to raise a fleet to police the waters. Admiral Teach, seeing opportunity far away from all-seeing eyes of the crown, volunteered to lead.it.
Due to logistics, supply and communication issues close to half a world away at the very edges of the Empire, she's been given a letter of pardon signed and sealed by Empress Aina of Caledonia to excuse any actions she or those in her service undertake in representing the ideals of the Empire, with the sole criminal exception being high treason.
She's set herself up as governor of all Caledonian colonies, queen of three separate island nations and a demi-goddess figure on one more.
She holds all of the liquor and spice trade in a stranglehold, controls the slave trade and collects 'protection' funds from the Pirates in the region lest they 'happen to be spotted' by the navy.
The only metaphorical pies she doesn't have fingers in is coffee, tea, precious metals and minerals trades as that would probably constitute high treason.
We, however, care nothing about the politics. We oppose her for the simple reason that Pirates, now that they pay to be unmolested by the Navy, have gotten far bolder. Many have even started to band together for greater profits.
Whilst Teach and the Empire may wilfully ignore the people beyond the borders of the map, it's a prime target for enterprising privateers.
Now we just need a plan to take her out that won't set the world-spanning Empire hot on our tails.
>>46483188
The Antagonist is tryinghe actually sort of succeeded, it's just the outer planes are currently in in a state of total war to undo his workto rid the world of the many gods ruling over mortals, by cutting them off of the Material Plane, and subsiding himself as the sole benevolentand equally vengefulruler of all existence, so mortals can cease to be playthings in petty rivalries between greater beings, and over time, develop a world that lives in harmony with itself.It's just that he kind of needs to get rid of everyone who'd stand up against the new god of the universe. You understand.
So, my major antagonist:
>A former angel who during the great war in heaven was on neither side - instead, she's without a home and will do anything to get back into Heaven. She needs to make Heaven notice her again, though.
Three other major antagonists are her thralls:
>A man who wants to protect his minority group at all costs, and sees nothing wrong with doing to others what they have done to his people
>An occultist who communicated with this angel, but lost himself in the process. Where his soul used to be, there's now the pure energy of the spirit world, in all its chaotic, schizophrenic glory
>A scientist with a terminal illness, willing to go to whatever lengths are necessary to find a cure for himself
Aside from this, there's all sorts of other small groups at play:
>A group of holy men who realise that the apocalypse is inevitable, but are actively trying to cause the end of the world early on their own terms, in order to make sure it's the Christian apocalypse that "wins"
>A cult attempting to break down the barrier between Earth and the spirit world, letting magic flow freely into the world and making it impossible for the masquerade-conspiracy which the PCs are part of to continue
>The abusive family of one of the PCs, who will stop at nothing to drag her back home and remind her of just how much they love her.
So, a mixed bag. But I feel that by and large, my villains all have understandable motivations.
Spread the abyss and become the most powerful being on the material plane
>>46484804
Details?
Well he's basically my universe' version of the antichrist so bringing the material plane to its knees for him.
Power power and more power
>>46504602
you seem like a quality storyteller
>>46483188
He's trying to make the PCs see reason and stop being self-destructive.
So.. a madman.
>>46483188
She wants equality. In universe a number one driver for war is Religion and Race. Naturally after usurping the throne she orders that anyone who doesn't renounce their faith be put to death. Then she ordered that special races must be breed out of existence until there is just a uniform human race.
Turn an entire world into her summer home where she can pursue her art in peace. Likewise, her takeover and reconstruction of the societies of the world are part what she considers will be her magnum opus. A world in her image. To her, no art could ever come close.
So basically she's a vain bitch who would actually improve the world, but only to inflate her own massive ego.
Trying to kill all mages and eradicate all knowledge of magic ever existing. They're ironicly led by a 2000 year old archmage who came to the conclusion that magic is too dangerous to leave in human hands and thus wants to and conquer the world to impose his will on everyone else (though he does actually believe this is for the good of all).
They're dangerous because while they don't use magic, they're basically ww1 tech level in a fantasy setting and are all crazy levels of indoctrinated.
>>46483188
Nothing fancy. Just unparalleled power for the sake of being a big man.
He justifies some stuff by saying that with him in charge, the greater good will be served, but there's no big philosophical drive behind that.
>>46483188
Godlike power to recreate the world in his image.
And he'll sacrifice every lesser being on the goddamned planet to do it if he has to.
>>46483188
Expanding their empire by subjugating a technologically unadvanced (but psychically gifted) planet with a biodiverse populace of potential slaves and massive amounts of raw materials, as well as small amounts of an ancient, powerful bioweapon.
>>46483188
multiversal domination by an alliance of his alternate universe selves.
>>46483188
We're pretty sure that ours just wanted to take over a school.
It was a very nice school mind you, but it was still just an overblown pissing match over who got to be the principle.
>>46483188
To attain godhood by purchasing it with an unimaginable amount of wealth.
She wants to turn the planet into a big starship and gives zero fucks about the environmental catastrophes that would ensue.
>>46483188
trying to horde/steal enough luck to give everyone a shot against the Cthulhu wannabe that's gonna show up any day now to pick up her "kids" (the things responsible for superpowers in setting)
The BBEG is a Paladin who is seeking to purge the players after they were convinced by the real BBEG to join him in deviant wrong doings. The seeds of evil were planted early on as the Lich used some magic what have you to see how he was destroyed, and then murder/raped the deity who writes our destinies, in turn also making the deity's testicles an additional phylactery. In doing so, destiny now has become written by the individual. Nobody really knows how the lich managed to enter the realm of the gods, but did and did some mcguffins. Because his powers rose so much, he was nearing the moment when he mantled the wisdom of the gods. The players encountered the lich, and were quickly swayed when the lich admitted he could not mantle the gods alone. So he offered his assailants a single chance to aid him in mantling them. For some reason the players said yes, and were given deity status. The mantling occurred just as the lich promised, and they took their places. Only one catch though, they would live out their mortal lives until they became the true gods. So they are committing terrible acts, and the Paladin is attempting to slay them one by one so they will take their role as his gods and end their debauchery. He knows his mission is ironic, but is the only option.
>>46483188
Sick of life. Sick of injustice. Sick of war. It's not enough to just kill himself, so he has to climb a giant sky bridge, kill a dream god, and wipe out his sphere of existence with a dream bomb.
>>46483188
I stole a LOT from Starcraft and Exalted.
Antagonist 1: Last physical survivor of progenitor race, attempting to recreate its race
Antagonist 2: Collective psychic memories of aforementioned progenitor race's oligarchy, who is not about to let its legacy go from mist-shrouded legend to the inbred spawn of peasants.
Antagonist 3: Dead souls of progenitor-race's peasant class, trapped in what is essentially hell as the only alternative to oblivion, who's only remaining animus is spite at all living things, though they put the other manifestations of their former race on the top of their shit-list for leaving them behind, but the rest of the world is up next after they foil all their cousin's plans.
Antagonist 4: Ihuman creations of progenitor race now posing as gods of the world, unable to directly oppose the progenitor race remnants due to the ancient pacts that bound them outside of reality.
>>46484654
>I don't think that would work, considering the fact that he's destroying all of existence.
How is he going about doing this though? I know smashing atoms to bits and rebuilding from nothingness is en vouge, but consider something classical, like a flood or storm...
Break into the Akashic records to learn how to rewrite reality more to his liking
>>46483188
The restoration of his Clan's power and wealth, the freedom to practice sorcery and magic without condemnation, and to achieve rulership over the Kingdom as his forebears should have. Oh, and genocide of course. Because those fucking barbarians just over the mountains keep trying to kill all the colonists he sends into the jungles to get wood and minerals that he needs to make life better in the windswept, treeless steppe.
>>46483188
Disregard tribal law, acquire other people's sheep.
>>46483188
Returning America to its proper place as a European colony.
> The Old God
Wants to unite all the planes under his rule and to abolish free will
> The Planar Police
Wants people and things to stop using planar magic to fuck shit up
> Lucifer
Wants to turn all planes into the embodiment of CN
> Undead plane
Wants to absorb all planes into it self and infect other planes with zombies to also absorb them
>>46517185
>antagonist
She's there to make sure the PCs complete their mission.
Then she's going to nuke them.
>>46483188
He's a powerful immortal who just wants to see his dead wife live again, and is willing to crash the multiverse with no survivors to accomplish it.
>>46483188
From lowest to highest power level:
>Take command of his family's throne
>Retake a kingdom for red dragonborn
>Get revenge on everyone on the south half of the continent
>Carve out a dynasty for use in a divine-level war
>Turn the universe's 'system' into freeform
A villain falls in love with a princess.
Unable to confess...
>>46517829
>Villain is confronted, party asks him why he went to all of the trouble
>Villain explains in stammers his affection to the princess
>She overheard him
>She would have accepted, had he not revealed himself to be a creep who would kidnap and kill rather than muster up the pound of courage it took to talk to her like a regular goddamn person
>Spaghetti intensifies
Will they even have to fight him?
Be smug and beat the heroes of the world up.
That's literally all he fucking does.
>>46496566
This is why you fucking murder the pretenders during succession, otherwise you get bullshit civil wars like this.
>>46517880
sounds riveting...
He was the savior of the realm thirty years ago and was believed to be the only one capable of leading the realm in the aftermath of all the gods dieing. Now he believes the only way to protect humanity is to eradicate all sources of magic left in the world.
The rogue actually agrees with him but has more faith in the opinion of the party and our wizard has actually been questioning his own existence.
kill everyone with noble blood Varsuvius style
World Peace through a collective conscience, not realizing that he invented Necromancy, not mind-linking magic.Guy went off the deep end when he realized that he wasn't saving people or making life easier, and that he was rotting and not agreeing with anyone, but controlling them. Dude killed millions trying to make his Human Hive Mind.
He failed about 3,000 years ago and put his conscience into about 40 different artefacts as well as a little of his power. Now the artefacts give people necromancy magic, and cast a continuous, low-key Suggestion spell to try to convince them to seek out the other artefacts. Most of them want [insert cheesy Protoss Archon reference].
Basically Nagash Alexander the Great as a Ravenloft-tier poor bastard who legitimately thought he was the good guy, with a subtle Rotti Largo note thrown in for good measure.
>>46512612
I've got the reverse, mine is the merged consciousnesses of an old conclave of mages. It was buried atop a mountain and forgotten millennias ago, and now it reemerged, hell bent on returning things to "normal".
>>46483188
Trying to end his existence while not letting the universe fall to shit without his presence
She wishes to found a nation for Trolls and is prepared to go to any length to do so, including craving one straight out of the neighbouring kingdoms.
Ever since her youth where she escaped a witch hunt for simply being the student of a famous Wizard who was found to dabble in Necromancy, she has found solace and even kinship in the small, scattered communities of Trolls that dot the mountain range and forests.
As she grew she saw how Trolls were near universally scorned and hunted. The sight of even one Troll would spur on hunting parties that would scour the region for several leagues around.
The witch, Haaklem Tsyads, as she's adopted from the Troll tongue, or Troll Mother and the Ghoul Queen, as she's become known among the human lands grew despondent at seeing her new family hunted as readily as her previous one.
Her own hatred of humanity grew till she lashed out violently, leading raids across many small settlements and military outposts till the seed of a plan was planted. She would found a true nation for her adoptive people so they would be free from persecution and the judgements of man.
In enacting her plan, she ended up kidnapping one of the Princesses of the closest kingdom both as a hostage to help stay any armies from attacking but also the Princess is quite learned in the ways of politics and running societies.
Despite being a hostage, the Princess has helped in setting the foundation for this fledgeling country and brought forth the start of a structured government.
Others see her as a horrific necromancer, a debased debaucher who'll steal away wives and daughters to breed them to her Troll children and that the fate of Princess Scheherazade herself fate is to be a prized breeding sow for the mightiest of her Troll champions.
There are several large, behind the scenes struggling against and cooperating with one another to make changes to the world that they deem best for humanity. The actual "BBEG" is just a very powerful but ultimately smalltime mercenary that personally offended the party. It remains to be seen if the PCs can take a step back and figure out the bigger picture.I also don't have any players; I'm just developing all this on the chance that I might get a motivated, dedicated group to put up with me someday.
