What is the Smallest Way Your DM has Driven Home how "Evil" a Villain is? #3

[@scottmclean7579]

I had a DM once describe a mob boss by saying, "He hands his used cigar to his subordinate, who throws it on the ground for him. A second subordinate steps on it to snuff it." Left a good mental image of this dude's influence

[@DoremiFasolatido1979]

Mostly tells me that the guy's almost nauseatingly easy to manipulate. The villain's only as clever as your DM. And that kind of display, really makes your DM seem a bit dim. But, I don't know the guy, so maybe he was just trying to play dumb.

[@ironwraith852]

@@DCBruinsMedia yeah. What reason does he have to do literally anything, if he’s so incredibly rich.

[@mackenziebeeney3764]

More people working for you indicates you are more wealthy and can afford their time. Doing so for something so petty is just a bigger indication that their time is just that much cheaper for the boss, indicating they are just that stupid wealthy. It’s such a subtle reference to power dynamics and wealth distribution and I like that.

[@ninz_0]

@@DoremiFasolatido1979 you have the reading comprehension of an amoeba

[@Xmasta420]

@@DoremiFasolatido1979 how do you get any of that from this tiny detail about a character,

[@GEWB2105]

Mr. D. Trench sounds like the physical embodiment of the phrase 'The road to Hell is paved with good intentions'. A spectacular villain to say the least.

[@ZakanaHachihaCBC]

Though we all know the road to hell is really paved with door to door salesmen

[@skycastrum5803]

Ehh, wouldn’t even call him a villain. Certainly one who paved roads though.

[@alexanderartaza2173]

@@skycastrum5803 a really Chaotic enabler for sure tho

[@TheManofthecross]

that is one who you got to kill on sight.

[@marcusc9931]

he sounded like a villain Neil Gaiman would come up with.

[@levisallade1976]

Mr Trench was definitely giving me serious "Yes Man" (from Fallout New Vegas) vibes. "I was programmed to be helpful and answer any questions I was asked. I guess nobody bothered to restrict who I answer questions for."

[@Kobe379]

I thought the same thing

[@danielflin3877]

"That was probably pretty dumb, huh?"

[@adriannaranjo4397]

When no one was looking, Lex Luthor took *forty* cakes. He took 40 cakes. That's as many as four tens. And that's terrible.

[@HazeEmry]

Oh wow, that's at least 3

[@jessenielsen7218]

That was originally written for a children's book and was eventually made canon as a thing he did in highschool

[@eeveefan132]

Dear God! The humanity!

[@atlane01]

fuck you for making me remember the image that goes to this

[@Bennyboi789]

GOOD GRIEF!

[@aukima771]

maybe the real villains were the friends we made along the way

[@realmless4193]

Oh no...

[@66666Ray]

@@realmless4193 Oh yes

[@Pherim_]

In my Campaign it was

[@sadfrostnoises9191]

Had a campaign like that, it was a hell of a time

[@ryanhamilton2579]

No. I want my fucking gold.

[@1029384756y1]

I had a human bard in an evil campaign who did nothing but "small evils". He was actually a good guy but he was under the incorrect impression his crush liked "bad boys". So, he fell in with an evil party to try and bump up his street cred. His crimes include: -Not giving a big tip to the bar maid -Filing his taxes late on purpose -Stealing free samples -Purposeful spelling and grammar mistakes in documents -Eating with the wrong fork at fancy dinners -Also slurping at said dinners -Using aliases like "the bard of badness" and "the musician of misery" -Playing music at the dinner table -Putting the roll of toilet paper under, not over, on purpose (almost caused pvp) -Cooking with too much garlic -Also cooking with too much butter -Putting his feet up on things -Walked out of a store without paying for socks he was trying on (he actually forgot about them in truth) -Buying teenagers booze (not cigarettes' though) And a host of other actions that made sure you knew that he was a "bad enough dude" to hanging with the evil party.

[@Matthew_Calmert]

That toilet paper one is hardcore

[@gabehudson4981]

The madman

[@Circ00mspice]

@@Matthew_Calmert Yeah how did that almost cause a fight?

[@hogfry]

Almost caused PvP... Almost. Caused. Pvp! You can't leave us hanging like this. We need to hear the story behind that!

[@averythegamer4949]

Speaking of toilet paper, one of my favourite things to do when putting it on the wrong way is to unroll it a bit and then reroll it so that it faces the correct way. Really fucks with people when on their 3rd wipe the toilet paper roll is suddenly the wrong way and they have no idea why or how.

[@darkpit37]

Mr. Trench hit way too hard. He's barely even a villain, yet he's simultaneously the BBEG.

[@chee.rah.monurB]

Trench fuucking scares me. Hollywood WISHES it could create what the first DM made. There's probably people like him in reality. The trope "obliviously evil" really applies to him. He's the type to burn a forest down so firemen could do their job. Another commenter made a comparison to Yes Man from Fallout.

[@TheVnator]

He reminds me of Thomas Midgely Junior, the guy who invented leaded gasoline and CFCs which made a hole in the ozone layer. Everything "good" he tried to do just ended up killing or hurting millions/billions. Even when he was in the hospital, he tried to make a series of pullies to lift his body up so he could move around, but they ended up suffocating and killing him.

[@kramerfortuna7228]

I've been running games for almost 20 years now, and by far my most hated villain has to be Taskmaster Rho. No, she wasn't the big bad of the story. In fact, she was so low-ranking that the BBEG didn't even know she existed, despite the fact that she worked for him. Rho was many things- a bitter, broken, vengeful, untrusting, and sadistic person who loathed her life and constantly made it everyone else's problem. The only thing that made her feel like she had any value/purpose was flexing her power and authority over less fortunate beings. Her ruthlessness earned her the role of Taskmaster, ordering around and breaking in the newly arrived slaves at an underground mining colony. And that's where the party comes in. The party had been sold into slavery to atone for their crimes against the empire, and, of course, they ended up under the "supervision" of Taskmaster Rho. When it came time for her to issue their first orders, she didn't even care enough to look at the party let alone learn their names (besides, they'd either be dead or transferred by the time she'd learn them anyway.) So she didn't even look in their direction as she talked down to them. Instead, the Taskmaster's gaze fell upon a small beetle crawling across her desk. Rho drew her dagger and pinned the helpless insect beneath the flat of the blade. She then proceeded to pick it up and pluck off each of its legs, one by one, as she continued speaking in the same cold, almost bored tone of voice. When she finished, she gently set the writhing, legless beetle back on her desk, still more interested in the bug's struggle than the party she was bossing around. Taskmaster Rho would go on to give the PCs hell, but that little incident with the beetle is what really stood out. I mean, normally you wouldn't even bat an eye if anyone, let alone a villain, killing a common bug, but it put her on the fast track to being my most despicable character to date.

[@Taygon45]

Wow. That's pretty gruesome. I play a lot of kindhearted characters, sometimes druids, so seeing that would have made my blood boil.

[@mackenziebeeney3764]

My ranger/hunter doesn’t even like bugs but the excessive cruelty would leave him wanting to alleviate this situation with haste.

[@hogfry]

Subtle stuff like that is great story telling. If it was a film the scene would be 10 seconds long but would make the audience hate her; like she was one of those people that just leave their shopping carts in the middle of the lot and just drive away.

[@Supperdude9]

That's quite subtle and very telling. Condescending and sadistic was immediately brought across.

[@VenomQuill]

I love that little tidbit of info, that tiny scene. Good storytelling there, mate!

[@tdog152]

We had a teleporting minor villian that everytime we failed to capture him he would steal 1 item from each of us. Not swords, not potions, not anything important. Only socks, cutlery and shoelaces

[@themasterprocrastinator4933]

Please don't tell me he steals a single sock, or multiple socks from different pairs. That's just pure evil.

[@tdog152]

@@themasterprocrastinator4933 He only stole items in order to inconvenience the party, so 10 socks, no pairs. take all the good forks and only leave the one that were slightly bent, steal all the good paper and drip some water on the shitty paper.

[@themasterprocrastinator4933]

@@tdog152 Okay that's just evil-

[@mangouschase]

I wanna do something like this: major asshole, no harmful

[@samfish90212]

Stealing the lace from your boot is so damn inconvenient that I would desire to murder him more than an eldritch.

[@dikkekater]

"Ignored a dying paladin because they could be fined for returning a library book too late", this is just pure gold

[@Nozerone]

I once was playing a game with a group of friends, and over time I had come to realize that many of the things we had done weren't actually all that good. At the time yea to us it seemed like the right thing to do, but in hind-sight not so much. The rest of the party still saw themselves as good though, so I decided not to say anything because it gave me an idea, for in case my character died. After about a year of playing, we got into a fight with a dragon. A fight in which my character died, and by this time we had done many, many more "good" deeds that weren't actually all that good. I saw my time, so when I went about making my new character I talked to our DM about what I had planned. He absolutely loved the idea and told me to run with it. So I made myself an Inquisitor, and the story went that I was on a mission to find someone and bring them to justice. That's what I told the party though, my character's true back story though was that he was sent by the holy church to join the party, monitor them and decide if the group was as evil as the stories made them out to be, or if the stories were just made up. They wanted to be sure, because we had done a few great deeds that actually were really good. The moment my new character joined, I started keeping logs of the things we had done, doing my best to keep them as an inquisitor with a miss-guided sense of right and justice that only religion could bring would do. Over the next 6 months I would create "reports" to hand to the DM so he could decide how the church would have reacted. Things for the most part went as normal, until our DM called me up one evening to talk to me about what was going to happen. We had just finished killing a lich and it's horde of undead, returned to an inn and that's where we had ended on our previous session. Our next session starts, and my character is no where to be found. I finally show up near the end of the day (half way through the session), and gave some BS about how I had gone out shopping and what not, and that while I was out I had come across a man needing our help to retrieve some valuable items. The quest supposedly paid well, and we wouldn't have to travel far. Sounded like an easy job for some easy money. What my party didn't know is that it was an ambush, and when we got to where the quest was suppose to be, the Church's Inquisition appeared with about 2k soldiers. I then got to read off their crimes, told them they were all under arrest, and a fight broke out. My character once again died, cause they focused me down due to the betrayal, then they managed to escape. After this they finally accepted that they were indeed evil, and we started to go down that rabbit hole more and more. And yes, we did have a "Nobody ever expects the Spanish inquisition" bit, and had a good laugh about it.

[@kingcyclops4079]

What were some of the crimes they commited?

[@themasterprocrastinator4933]

This is pretty creative!

[@Nozerone]

@@kingcyclops4079 I don't remember all the crimes exactly, but there was theft of a holy relic, child endangerment, exploitation of children (had a habit of getting kids to gather information and do small things for the group), involuntary manslaughter (We brought down a few buildings over the course of our journey), manslaughter (killed the mayor of a town), and a few more.

[@GreviousGKoopa]

I would have loved to be in this campaign.

[@samfish90212]

@@Nozerone oh man so really by proxy in many cases. Negligence can get you in so much trouble

[@SympatheticStrawmanVA]

I remember my DM came up with a fantastic villain for our party a few years ago. He hasn't been able to replicate the depth since. The campaign had started off as a laid-back, not very serious adventure where our characters were well-meaning but inexperienced morons who were still getting their adventuring legs under them. Midway through the third arc, the DM introduced Greg Goodman, a town innkeeper who's whole bit was being one of the nicest people ever, as well as way more reasonable than other NPC's. He had a loving family, a thriving business, and everyone in town loved him. He gave our party free room and board at his inn, as well as discounting all our drinks since we were on a quest to save the town from an inbound orcish horde. Our wizard was your stereotypical sad sack character, who was always miserable that people were better off than her, and was comically mopey all the time. Imagine a beautiful elvish Eeyore. While the party was getting drunk at the inn, Greg got to encouraging her to not give up on life and keep trying. Our wizard got upset that he, the guy who had everything work out for him, was lecturing her. And because nobody makes good decisions while drunk, she decides the best way to get him to shut up would be magic. Our DM had her roll to see the severity of the spell she cast on him, with 20 being an outright attack, and 1 being knocking herself unconscious. She rolled a 17, and portalled him into another plane of existence. We all had a good laugh at poor Greg's expense and moved on. He was just an NPC, they got caught up in our antics all the time. The DM even made sure to phrase the incident like a silly one-off gag. Fast forward to the 7th arc of this story, and we're about to face off against the Lord of Calamity, the BBEG of the entire campaign. My ranger and our barbarian push open the doors to the throne room, and who should we see but Greg Goodman, standing with his back to us, facing the window. His beef isn't with most of us. He recalls us as well-meaning idiots, worthy of pity and little else. But the wizard? He hates her. He DESPISES her. Because she took away his whole world. Greg spent millenia in that other plane, unable to die, in a place where only extra dimensional gods could exist. He was lucky enough that one of these gods took pity on him, and protected him from the others. Greg never stopped trying to get back home to his wife and children, but no matter what he tried, he was never powerful enough to tear open a gate back to our plane. The DM described the planes like a river. The wizard had thrown Greg downstream. Trying to go back was a thousand times harder. Eventually, Greg's protector god was too weak to keep protecting him from the other gods, and Greg, now a powerful wizard himself from years of study and practice, devoured his only friend. Imbued with it's god-like strength and magical power, Greg went on a one-man rampage through the plane, defeating and devouring god after god, adding their power to his own. Always with the hope that he could return home, that his family had not forgotten him. Once the plane was a blasted hellscape, and Greg was it's supreme being, he was strong enough to tear open a hole in reality and return to our world. He found himself standing in the BBEG's castle, in the throne room, before the BBEG himself, a terrible lich-king. Greg destroyed him with a thought. Greg went back to his home town, hoping to reunite with his family, only to find the town abandoned. Our party had completed that original arc by leading the townsfolk to a safer place where they could rebuild a new town. The battle against the orc horde had left Greg's old inn destroyed, and no sign of his family. He followed the trail to the new town, and found his wife and daughter there... With someone else. Greg had been presumed dead during the orc attack. His wife and children had grieved... And moved on. His wife had remarried the butcher, a hardworking and stoic fellow. When he came to them now, a terrible god filled with unworldly power, they were terrified. The whole town begged for mercy, begged to be spared. They didn't recognize him as Greg Goodman. Greg had lost everything. And it was our fault.

[@jameselsbury9478]

Best (most hated) evil guy we faced as a party was actually just a high ranking minion of the main BBEG- he walked up to the party, without weapon or armour, explained how we could easily kill him (his hit points were like 7 max) and that the only magical item on him was his necklace. His necklace, which had a glyph of warding that would summon a greater demon in the middle of the town square if he died. He was really only there to pass on a message from the BBEG about some hostages, but the way the DM played him and how he’d manage to prevent us attacking him, really got under the parties skin.

[@Tom_Cruise_Missile]

"I declare an unarmed attack." -everyone

[@gameinsane4718]

Basically pulled that scene in the Dark Knight when the joker shows up to the crime bosses… but made him a nameless goon too. NICE

[@soulweaver64]

Most evil character my players ever dealt with was a lot of terrible things; mafia boss, murderer, drug dealer, extortionist. But the one thing that drove home how utterly irredeemable and terrible they were? They only performed business transactions in electrum.

[@calebleach7988]

you *monster*

[@burningsnow9870]

Truly a man of unspeakable malice and contempt for all life!

[@ironwraith852]

What’s electrum?

[@soulweaver64]

@@ironwraith852 Its an alloy of gold and silver. An electrum coin is worth .5 gold. It's one of those things that's hiding in the source book somewhere but not very obviously.

[@burningsnow9870]

@@ironwraith852 Oh my sweet summer child, its something nobody uses or cares about because the conversion rate is terrible

[@impofstpete727]

The word " small" seems to be lost on people here. He burned down an orphanage full of puppies. He was secretly causing all of the misery in the land. He crucified a bunch of kids. These things are not small ways, they are massive. How about he kept a little girl's tear stained doll after returning her during a hostage negotiation? That's evil but not the kind of red flag crap I keep seeing here.

[@kathrynck]

I agree.

[@lastboss4268]

A handful of these are also "The party were the bad guys all along". I came here to find some tiny ways to make my party hate a BBEG, not stories about how the party turned into the bad guys.

[@dylancarter9290]

One of the best examples I've seen in media of this done well was in the Walking Dead. The bad guys rolled in and took everything, including all the mattresses from the good guys while they just watched, unable to fight back. The worst part? They later found all of the mattresses burnt nearby. They didn't even need them; they just wanted to take them

[@just_gut]

@@lastboss4268 I saw the word evil in quotes and assumed this would be stories about how the people weren't actually evil.

[@loganicfilms1388]

The first story technically was minor. “Insert butterfly quote here” and all that.

[@bmyers7078]

A few years ago I was kicked out of a D&D group for saying OOC “I thought we were playing an evil campaign.” Our group of murder-hobos were known for kicking in doors, killing everyone, & stealing everything not bolted down. I was a pyromaniac wild magic sorcerer because of this (wrong) impression. The Paladin gave a nasty speech of “how I couldn’t be more wrong if I tried,” before calling the player vote to kick me out. Only the Cleric abstention kept it from being unanimous.

[@ButlerOfChaos]

Sounds like they did you a favor. I've heard of evil parties doing LESS than that. Imagine kicking someone out entirely based on a misconception and not just say... Having then remake now that they know. That level of murderhobo doesnt even sound fun.

[@HappilyHomicidalHooligan]

It makes me wonder what the DM is thinking since most activities that would be called Murder-Hobo WILL be a Severe Violation of a LG Paladin's Code of Honor and cost them their Paladin Abilities until they Atone to their Deity...which should be a MASSIVE Quest/Campaign all on it's own...

[@GabbyIsFine]

It is always the Paladin.

[@blushworthyspeaks]

This is a great narrative setup honestly.

[@admthrawnuru]

My D&D group rarely played serious RP, so we had a running gag that the traders guild only hired super elite warriors to keep shops in order to prevent adventures from doing that. We went so far as to roll up some lol 100 NPCs to sub in when new players tried some shit (we used it as a hazing joke, let them get their shot kicked in by some nondescript). So in one of my high level gestalt planar campaigns, they lured one of the big bads into a village market and got the stall owners to blow him up.

[@phookadude]

I once shocked a few people new to my group, I had played with them and "evil" was simply a tag the "villains" wore. So I was running Stalking the Night Fantastic (think James bond meets the x-files) and the mission was to stop a evil Druid who was raising animated trees with human sacrifices to stop a housing development. A young girl had been kidnapped as the latest sacrifice and the party showed up to stop the ritual. Two animated trees had the girl stretched out over an acorn as the druid approached with a knife, the party shot the druid and one of them lit one of the trees on fire with some gasoline. The look on the new player's faces as the tree used the little girl to beat out the flames was priceless.

[@snowblizz8701]

Wow. Ok that is brutal

[@hag8752]

Oh I’m using that

[@phookadude]

I personally think that one of the most important things that is lacking in most D&D games is mortality. If the players are not afraid that their characters might die then they don't get as invested in the game. My favorite trick to point this out to new groups is to introduce a NPC that I treat as "the DM's pet" for awhile, just enough to get the players a bit annoyed, who I then brutally kill.

[@snowblizz8701]

@@phookadude if the players already dislike the a npc and the npc dies, will that be a good enough reminder that death exists in the game? Im thinking of hving the bbeg use one of the npcs as a meat shield and it dies, does that work?

[@GreviousGKoopa]

Idk why but this made me laugh.

[@themecoptera9258]

Here is the story of how I convinced the party to kill someone who had never once been anything but genuinely generous and nice to them, and who never did anything evil in front of them. The party are an order of knights working for a Duchess, the golden princess Sabrina Wolfenchrist who happens to be one of the most well connected people in the setting. She is a likely candidate for the bride of the next emperor, her father is the pope, and her magic (a sign of authority in the empire) is both very strong and thematically appropriate for her position. The only blemish is that last year she was caught in an explosion which presumably killed her, however miraculously she survived unscathed and washed up in the south. At least this is the official story. She was always extremely kind, helpful, and patient even as the party through incompetence often made her life difficult she never complained. She bought them armor, weapons, and horses and expert teachers. She also gave them access to high society and called in favors to make their missions easier. The party are working for her as her knights, defeating cults, setting right domestic conflicts, and ultimately traveling to the west to steal a magic fruit from the elves. Typical DND stuff. The problem is that the elves live on an island surrounded by cliffs and the party lacks any way on. To solve this one of the characters makes a deal with an Unknowable entity. The deal is simple, the party must kill a certain elf before collecting the fruit then when both are done the party will be transported to Sabrina Wolfenchrist. Suffice it to say the party is successful by the skin of their teeth, and the members (literally only one character and a bunch of corpses) find themselves in a basement. Before them is a child the party does not recognize sleeping on the stone floor. She lies before a tall amber crystal which radiates soft golden light, inside the crystal a child no older than 13 is trapped, frozen. The left side of her body has been mostly melted as though she survived a terrible explosion. This is Sabrina Wolfenchrist the real duchess, being kept alive in stasis. Asking the sleeping child revealed that the duchess had been interred since last summer, almost a year ago which lines up with when the explosion happened, the party had been given orders by who they thought was Sabrina Wolfenchrist only a month ago. This implies that the person in charge of a major duchy and most likely to become bride of the emperor is not who they say they are. This is how the party decided to kill their boss.

[@RWAKitty]

I love this story, such a great reveal!

[@meherinmouly]

Oooo!

[@lydiac9118]

Ooooo this rocks!

[@aleisshiki3649]

Okay but.. who was the boss tho? Did they have any other proof before they killed her? The burnt child might have been the evil one or an illusion for all they know

[@themecoptera9258]

@@aleisshiki3649 that’s a complicated story. The fake Sabrina Wolfenchrist is a hyper competent and extremely powerful doppelgänger, perhaps the most powerful version of such a creature in the entire setting. There isn’t really any good evidence that she’s actually evil though, as it is possible that most of the really bad stuff was done by the pope. The real Sabrina Wolfenchrist is just a child with strong magic she can barely control, and who was never trained to be a noble. Her mother took Sabrina and disappeared into the south to keep her out of the hands of Lord Hugo Wolfenchrist, the pope. She was raised there as an ordinary child until her mother died at the hands of cultists. The party focused first on saving the real Sabrina as for various reasons her situation was unstable and her immense uncontrollable power bottled up was a recipe for magical Hiroshima at the heart of the imperial capital. This was ultimately successful but gave the fake Sabrina the ability to steal the fruit of the elves and disappear with 81 unconscious children across the ocean. Meanwhile the party took their duchess to a dragon to get her healed. This worked but the dragon insisted that she would not release Sabrina into a world where the fake Sabrina exists as it’s just too dangerous. The party couldn’t really contest this as at level five you can’t really fight an ancient silver dragon. So the party resolved to strike down the imposter and traveled across the ocean, but she still had loyal knights including several former PCs at her disposal, and was training a full order of strong followers. After several difficult battles against former allies the PCs would eventually realize that the Fake Sabrina had so closely engrained herself within the other kingdom, which happened to be an imperial ally, that any real attempt to kill her would probably cause a huge international problem and might endanger the real Sabrina. So the party formed a begrudging alliance with their former party members and sailed to kill an ancient silver dragon at level 6. This was something that they managed thanks to good planning, skill, and a bit of luck. The party used the fame of slaying a dragon to launch Sabrina’s political career. Meanwhile the fake Sabrina is plotting something big in her exile, just waiting to spring it on the party.

[@TheMartyredextras]

My first villain was also one of the best characters I've ever written to date, and crucially, the party didn't even realize he was the villain at first. The party knew that around 10 years ago, a plague of powerful monsters, all somewhat beast like and rotting, had begun to ravage the land, forcing most people within city walls to remain safe. The king of the human kingdom, Italis, erected massive thousand-foot walls in 2 concentric circles around his kingdom and its central city. Recently, the monsters had become more of a problem as the attacks were getting more frequent and aggressive, so the party were all in search of a way into the central city. Some of them had family there, some were looking for safety and others, for answers. But the central city, as they discovered, had been closed off. 2 years ago, the king had become paranoid and ordered the gates sealed shut. Since then, only a few orders had been sent out of the capital by bird to the rest of the Kingdom, but the small towns littered throughout the land within its outer walls had mostly been left to govern themselves. Surprisingly, they were doing pretty well without their King. Regardless, the party's journey had hit a roadblock. Cue a long campaign of traveling the beast ridden world in search of answers, and a way of getting into the capital. Their journey's eventually brought them to the dwarven city, an underground town within the mountains which sat at the top of layers of mines and ancient caves. The guards were instructed only to let dwarves in, but were willing to make an exception if the party did them a favor. A massive force was gathering on the hills to the east and they wanted to know what their intentions were and if they were a threat to their home. So the party set out to spy on them. Failing to stealth their way up, the party was noticed and quickly surrounded by a kobold army, pointing Spears at them. A calm and strong voice told the army to "Hold." As their leader stepped out of a tent onto the snowy ground, a tall, very tired looking wyvaran. He asked them their business and they told the truth. That they'd been sent for information. He ordered his men to lower their weapons and invited them inside his tent to tell them a tale. His mace flipped open to reveal the inside of it functioned as a lute and began to sing them a song. "Oh, many years ago, we were heroes But then one day, they came The human armies marching And drove us all away They burned down our villages Set fire to our homes No place on earth was safe again We hid among the stones But then came a hero named magnus The prophesied warrior's rise He slayed the old king and his dragon And claimed his royal prize" He ended the song on a somber note and set down his strange instrument. When questioned, he explained that the first half was real history, and the second, simply wishful thinking. This magnus that was prophesied to kill the evil King was less a person and more a concept, a stand in for whoever would truly rise up to do what had to be done. A beacon of hope for his people. Though he knew the truth, that it was nothing more than a story to keep up morale. They spent a couple days here, helping him fight off the monsters at the border of their camp and learning more about how the old human king had forced his people of their land and killed his mother and girlfriend, leaving only Caffen and his father in hiding within these mountains. One player even vowed that he would become this magnus and right the wrong that had been done to Caffen's people. After their time their had concluded, they returned to the dwarves, found the oracle they were searching for within the caves below their city and finally found their way into the capital. After helping out a guard who could guide them inside in return, they made their way through the sewers and up into the central city, only to find that it had somehow been overrun by the monsters and everyone within had been slaughtered. They made their way through the city, seeing the destruction as they collected the keys of the high council members who had all been turned into monsters and gained access to the king's throne room, where they slayed a massive, rotting dragon in an epic final clash. The beast fell to the ground with a thud which echoed down the halls, there was a brief silence as things settled and then another sound... footsteps walking into the throne room from behind them, then the sound of a lute and a familiar voice. "Oh, many years ago, we were heroes But then one day, they came The human armies marching And drove us all away They burned down our villages, set fire to our homes No place on earth was safe again We hid among the stones But then came a hero named Caffen, The prophesied warrior Bard He slayed the mad king and his dragon And now led the beasts in their charge Five fools found their way to the throne room But alas, two years too late With their swords they had struck the final blow And sealed the old king's fate." He snapped his lute shut into its mace form once more and began to explain, in occasionally alliteration. "I have to thank you. I had hoped it would be a human to end his evil existence; a fitting finish for a man so proud of his people. Poetic. To be turned into what he hated most... and killed by his own kind. In case their was any doubt, that beast is the old king; or rather, was... still I hope their was some small piece of him in there somewhere such that he could see when I had him slaughter his own son... now what to do with you. In truth, I am indifferent. I've already won. But, I suppose continuing to control this kingdom doesn't sound all that bad. And if I let you go, you might tell someone... so..." He held his weapon at the ready and the fight commenced. They discovered rather quickly that the magical song he played was slowly driving them mad and transforming people into the monsters they had been fighting throughout the entire campaign. And it was the same player who had promised to kill the human king that finally took down the wyvaran and put an end to Mad King Caffen. The villain was the real focus of this story and they were merely players in his tale. When the campaign began, he had already won and was now merely waiting around for someone to give him the poetic ending he always desired. Since he was a kid, he wanted to be a bard, but when his people were slaughtered in front of him, he learned to fight as well. And during the years of taking care of his aging and abusive father, he had studied magical music and created one of the most deadly spells in history. The Ballad of the Mad King. Once his father had died, he put his plan into motion, slowly overrunning the world with monsters he could control until one day, he blew a hole in the northern outer wall of italis and snuck into the capital overnight. When the king's patrols discovered the hole, it made him paranoid so that he sealed the central city to protect himself. But Caffen was already inside, and spent the following days turning the people into an army of monsters that he could march into the throne room and use to transform the king as well. He had sent occasional messages out of the capital by bird to quell suspicions until a team of heroes could finally finish his plan by killing the king. When the players came in through the sewers, the only entrance, they had passed through a permanent alarm spell that notified him they were there and gave him time to get there and prepare for his performance while they collected the keys. He was my greatest villain because his reasons for wanting revenge were sympathetic but he had long since crossed a line, driven Mad by his own song and was now willing to sacrifice anything to get what he wanted, scheming and waiting for his poetic ending he was so obsessed with.

[@charityprice754]

Why doesn't this have more likes?!?!?!

[@TheMartyredextras]

@@charityprice754 cuz it's long so people don't usually read it

[@azmitzy]

The scariest evil in the world isn’t someone Who dose evil for fun it’s someone who honestly believes that they’re doing a good thing

[@haydensmith7968]

The kind of evil that doesn't realize that it's evil... is the worst kind there is... ” -Weather Report

[@kaizoisevil]

It’s the most realistic evil

[@danielwilson8604]

"Gandalf as Ring-Lord would have been far worse than Sauron. He would have remained "righteous", but self-righteous. He would have continued to rule and order things for "good", and the benefit of his subjects according to his wisdom (which was and would have remained great). Thus while Sauron multiplied [illegible word] evil, he left "good" clearly distinguishable from it. Gandalf would have made good detestable and seem evil." Tolkien's letters. evil has at least the potential to draw a line. someone willing to go as far as necessary for a cause they genuinely believe in may not even comprehend a line exists.

[@LoudAngryJerk]

I tricked one of my players characters into sending a vengeful serial killer after another pc's family. So, one of the players said he wanted a gun early on. Which I was fine with. However, by that point in the story he had spent a good portion of it murder hoboing around the campaign. So to try and show why that's a bad idea, I put a really strong pistol in the hands of a friend of an ally. When given the opportunity, when they were alone, he killed her, then took the pistol. He explained it away, saying that she was taken and he did what he could. Rolled high on deception. Not high enough though. This character had a best friend. The best friend, who we'll call Dave didn't feel right about this whole situation. Dave was also a friendly, affable guy who had saved the party more than once. The party all liked him. After Dave stopped being an ally to the group, he went away for a little while and then returned. When he came back he revealed that he had found her body, and brought it to a spellcaster who could cast speak with dead on it. Then he offered one of the other party members the chance to save his family. He revealed in a previous session that he had a clone waiting for him back on the mainland. When he died he would simply be resurrected in his estate. One of the other players was a noble, they had a family back on the mainland. "There is nothing for me here,"said the former ally, "so I will be returning home. But when I do, I will make it my life's mission to kill every single member of your family... unless-" he pointed at the murder hobo, "you all kill him right now." They of course refused, and spent the next 45 minutes fighting this guy who wanted to die, while trying to knock him out instead of kill him. After mortally wounding one of them, nearly killing them, he threw himself off a cliff. When they managed to escape the island, that PCs family had all died under mysterious circumstances, except for one- the sister who wanted him dead. But that's a tale for another time

[@hermeticinstrumentalist6804]

Damn, that's a badass story.

[@ironwraith852]

Yeah, he deserved that. I don’t think I’d ever be capable of Murderhoboing.

[@C00kiesAplenty]

"Dave was a friendly, affable guy" Also Dave: "I'm going to kill your entire family because somebody else killed a friend of mine."

[@ironwraith852]

@@C00kiesAplenty The Man's either a simp, or he thought of her like a sister.

[@rai4119]

@@ironwraith852 People still use the word "simp"?

[@n0brainjustvibes]

Mr. Trench feels like a sadistic genie, without the magic powers, and I'm living for it.

[@fabiansuckfull9446]

The villain: A zealous witchhunter of the church of the silver flame The crime: He slapped the lovely old lady who was running the players bar. The result: The wizard cast silence so nobody would hear the deed, the barb instantly turned both fo the villains henchmen to mush and then they beat him into a pulp with even the warlock forgoing his ol' reliable for a bar stool because "he doesn't deserve a quick death". All of this happened in the middle of the day in one of the busiest towns of the continent.

[@Rqptor_omega]

Damn,gotta love these 🅱️rutal moments xD

[@Rqptor_omega]

@@annoyanceking oof,good reason to not be homophobic

[@Rqptor_omega]

@@annoyanceking eh it's fine, especially if they got the revivify spell ready to bring him back to life after he dies for more beat ups 😈

[@TheRusty]

The first villain I ever faced in a steady D&D game was also a very zealous Paladin of the Silver Flame. Extremely arrogant, racist, violent, and absolutely, totally assured of his own righteousness. He was the villain because the party - a duo of my gnoll barbarian and a changeling thief - had just robbed the largest temple of the Silver Flame in Sharn, via the rogue mugging and stripping a priest, and my gnoll lying (with shocking success) about being a paladin and fighting wererats in the underbelly of the city. In this one scene, we bludgeoned and pantsed numerous acolytes, destroyed the fane (accidentally! Honest!), blinded a priest (less accidental), emptied the coffers, and stole a priceless artifact that (unknown to us)might unleash a demon lord on the city - a city that is now facing a sudden panic over the possibility of a lycanthropy infestation. And that's how this utterly dickish jerkbag of a Palafin very nearly went from being the BBEG of a 1-7 campaign to the hero of Sharn. At least until he ate a battle axe to the face.

[@ironwraith852]

You sound like a real, Mr. D. Trench.

[@susanwalls3580]

This fits the theme of this video so well. The bard in my party tried to convince the BBEG (big bad evil guy) to turn good & join them on their adventure. The BBEG says the following ~ "Fool! I am evil incarnate. I've done the three most evil things know to mankind." The Bard ~ "Re.. re.. really? If you don't mind me asking, what did you do exactly?" The BBEG ~ "I've left the toilet seat up, ate a bowl of cereal with orange juice & my personal favorite, I've taken candy... FROM A BABY!"

[@Notokdario]

Reminds me of the "good" party a friend once had, with literally only one person being really good, the one session they missed and the PCs not only started several wars, killed multiple people etc. But also killed the good PCs pet and their family, when the PC came back, they changed their alignment from neutral good to chaotic neutral from the trauma, but also killed every single PC, then revived them only to make them suffer, but in the end, they were imprisoned in a demi-plane, the now chaotic neutral PC then grabbed a soul crystal with part of his neutral good soul, and broke it into 4 new people before comitting seppuku and so, a now remorseful group of players became good,

[@anonymousanonymous9587]

HELP HE COMMITED S U D O K U

[@Notokdario]

@@anonymousanonymous9587 thanks, it has now been corrected from autocorrect

[@lexsamreeth8724]

My campaign has a LOT of villains. Most of them are wardens in a prison city competing to become the next matron or patron. One of them ran into the party, and she was described as looking at them more like goats at a market than people.

[@2to5Raccoons]

My most terrifying villain isn't one of my NPCs, he's an old player character of mine in a multi season game run by the other GM in the party. He is a selfish bag of sass driven by revenge and spite. He is cold and calculating and totally willing to play the long con. Perfectly neutral evil and willing to go against his own impulses for the sake of his goals. He is now a god dual wielding two mythological swords despite disliking gods to this day. But he'll accept the power bump that comes with divinity and the friendship he's developed with the evil dragon goddess. I look forward to facing him with genuine fear and devious glee. As for my own game, I'm taking pleasure in making potential allies dislikable and enemies very likable. They're starting to uncover the backstory of one of the good guys they've hated since the moment they met him and are greatly frustrated that he's actually likable /and/ tragic. They haven't yet uncovered the "villains" nature but oh boy, they are going to be so mad. I'm slowly revealing more and more about him and I'm surprised that they haven't gotten more suspicious. "Oh, you're in this picture from fifty years ago and don't look a day over 30 then or now despite being human? And you were going by the name of someone who was supposedly executed for treason shortly after the photo was taken? And you've confirmed you died - painfully? Sounds good. No more questions asked. I think I have a crush on you."

[@ironwraith852]

People sure are blind.

[@2to5Raccoons]

@@ironwraith852 Turns out they're not that oblivious. The other day it was casually brought up that he's a bit suspicious, they just have better things to do like become a police officer, get into the stock market, commit mail fraud, tinker with cars, etc etc

[@ironwraith852]

@@2to5Raccoons Good to know they aren't completely blind to the truth.

[@johnaeryns5364]

Saw the title and had to comment. Most low tier, evil thing I've ever seen IRL was watching someone push a shopping cart into a handicap spot and leave it there. There was a cart coral right next to their vehicle, but they chose to do this.

[@hogfry]

I HATE people that do stuff like that. It's not evil it's the one thing that may be worse. Self serving apathy.

[@johnaeryns5364]

@@hogfry I have no doubt that they heard me say aloud "you fucking piece of shit"

[@zacryecrowe3157]

I have had one time in my DMing experience that I was most proud of in making a party hate a villain. It was a two part session where the party had to escort the daughter of a noble out of an encirclement and back to enemy lines. She was apparently a key leader in a small war going on between two noble houses and gotten herself surrounded. Her 'handler' was a man named Captian Ortez Maurad. Name was evil but he seemed just curt and quick Party escorts her back through 10km of territory and ends up getting in a scuffle and the noblelady gets a blackeye during the fighting. Party panics due to their charge getting hurt but gets her back quickly anyways. Ortez Maurad was waiting for them and looked at the noblelady as she was taken to give an account of the what happened and said about her eye: "What, did she talk too much or give you folks too much trouble?" Party goes quiet and, with quiet rage, understand what is going on here and why she was so skittish. Proceed to negotiate and then leave. Second part of the adventure had them being invited to a grand party, being hailed as heroes by this faction they had helped. Their actions had denied the other side a victory they were looking for, and allowed them to be conquered. As the party arrived and attempted to look nice, they made their way to the banquet hall. They found the noblelady from before sitting at the table with all the important people and I mentioned something as the rouge made his perception check. "It seems that she still has that black eye from before... wait... its on the other eye" and the table gasped softly. The rouge leaned over to the gunslinger and said "we are going to kill him, right" - "yeah." The big announcement of the part was that Ortez would be given the lady's hand in marriage and so she ran off to a top level of the castle. Ortz folled, party sheningans ensued and it lead to him being thrown out of a 7th story window onto the estate of the castle and then being shot twice in the back of the head. Party hated the villain and gave him a suited death.

[@nowhereweareagain]

Not quite a villain, but my favorite NPC I’ve made was an ancient gold dragon disguised as a half elf. He was the highest general of the largest army in the setting we played in. But every time the party interacted with him he was always alone. No guards, no minions, just him. At one point there was a huge peace summit for a war and all the factions show up with elite guards. But he still came alone. That single detail made him seem like the most bad ass npc ever, which was complicated because they never trusted him. Even as he helped them a gave them quests and resources, they thought he might be the BBEG simply because they figured someone that powerful couldn’t be a good guy.

[@obesus787]

Mr. Trench is really just… bloody perfect.

[@eluvianii]

I find it interesting that the question asks "...ways your DM has..." but the stories are most if not all from the DMs themselves

[@Balila_balbal_loki]

I played a short session that had a very interesting bbeg. You see we have been playing the same campaign for over a year the campaign had many team wipes and new characters made and the world is composed of islands each island is different with different bad guys and different events, I'm a little fuzzy on the details i played while intoxicated however i think i remember the important parts. Party reaches an island and the island is split by 4 major cities with separate roads connecting each one to the other three if you were to describe it, it's a square shape with and X connecting the diagonals. There is a castle at the center and everyone the party claims they are having bad luck because of a warlock we try to enter but it's stopped by 4 barrier each has a source located in the other cities. The first city has children vampires we do the quest and get rid of the curse that turned them into vampires and they all die from disease because apparently they are sick and in the notes we found vampirism is what was stoping them from dying and a device that made the cure of their disease which was making noise that hurt them was actually curing them slowly. The same device once disabled removed a barrier at the center castle. The second city has a lady who is a judge about to be getting executed by the lord. Apparently the lady used to be blind so as a child during which she stopped conflict between people with words as to say blind justice and ever since people would come to her to judge what is fair. She grew up to be a judge but she herself hated the world because she couldn't see it. The court mage a man in love with her gives her eye-sight but she discovers he is also blind so leaves him. Because she left him he leaves the city and the people are plagued with problems and she is put on trial. We find his notes with him perplexed as whether or not he should take his own life and we also find out that he made a deal with a demon that to give her eye-sight he must lose his and that he can't tell her how she got it. At her execution we learn she judged herself unfit and deserving of death she thought the mage had killed himself and without him their entire city is suffering. When she died the second barrier was lifted. In the third city there is a drought there is no water coming from the mountain. We go to check only to see a large broken dam with a half pair rotten arms suspended in the air one placing bricks very slowly and the other one floating in place with magic holding the water backwards. The city people break seal which shuts the arms off causing the dam to rupture only to lose their homes and other family members . When the arms fell the third barrier broke. In the forth city people have been complaining of back luck ever since the first barrier around the castle in the middle of the island was there. A bystander from the other cities says that when the magical sigil broke in the first city with the vampire kids the castle lost a barrier so the people made a mob and were going to tear down the sigil. We lost 2 party members protecting that sigil we don't know what it's for and we aren't planning to find out. During day break the sigil lift and time rewinded with our party members who died resurrected so we read a journal and find out the spell was stealing luck to give it to those who are worthy of receiving it (us) and to boost another spell that tricks time. We split up and go to the first city and slap the parents around and strap the kids in agony until they get healed. We go to the forth city and see that it's sigil is a circle with it's edge reducing upon inspection we realize we have until sundown before its depleted so we don't know what it does but we went to make things right. We go to the city with the drought and start burning houses the people all flee up the mountain and see the hands so they repair the dam and let some stream trickle down to stop the fire. We go to the second city and show the judge the mage's notes and tell her what he has done for every city. She flips the book to the side and we read the name of the forth city with the words 12 years of life for 12 hours of second chance. Apparently he was smart enough to know in case there is a fuck up he'd have a second chance to fix things. She doesn't die and upon sunset the 4 barriers break and every person from every city there he is blind without arms with his knees to his shoulders on the ground, the barrier was put so that he is protected because if he died the spell of the second chance won't work. So she is there holding a man with no arms with the 4 lords of each city. The lords kneel, the people kneel, the judge kneels and we kneel. They do some gesture she understands and she judges him fit to be king. Next thing we know he ascends and becomes a god and apparently it was all a trick he made a bet with the other gods that to become he has to make people suffer and then make them thank him for it and then become their king while blind with no arms. So that's how we made the strongest BBEG who is known and baboozleo God of manipulation. He made the disease, he broke the dam and he blinded the girl when they were kids. Then we get party wiped.

[@hermeticinstrumentalist6804]

That is absolutely hardcore. Was the fight where they got wiped cool?

[@greensky1127]

Short?

[@Balila_balbal_loki]

@@greensky1127 3 hrs from start to finish is short compared to long storylines that take 50 sessions in a year yeah.

[@greensky1127]

@@Balila_balbal_loki Can’t believe you fit all that into 3hrs. You must be a really good dm

[@Balila_balbal_loki]

@@greensky1127 I wasn't the dm lol just the bard. We played together for over a decade so it reached the point were we all barely have time to play now so we adapted a faster gamestyle for instance i as a bard skip most if not all persuasion checks in a game and the warrior skips strength checks etc so it makes interactions and fights way faster.

[@zohaibmehmood3027]

I like how every single one of these is about a DM talking about their own characters, not people talking about their DMs characters

[@alertedcoyote7892]

Had a sect of religious soldiers who the party encountered, the party likes to try and talk their way around things, so I designed them to be philosophers, intellectuals, etc. One of them kidnaps the cleric and while the rest of the party are trying to mount a rescue, they get to talking. The soldier is stiff, yet relaxed, exudes power and is irritatingly perfect. He clearly doesn't care about the inevitable rescue attempt, in fact, he's counting on it. The cleric challenges him, saying that this soldier claims to be holy, yet he butchers and maims in his god's name. The soldier simply replies that it was what his god commanded, thus he was holy in the eyes of his god. The cleric say that he is just a puppet, doing things only because his god says so, never questioning, and that if the cleric were to go against his god, he would survive. The soldier replied; "Did your god tell you that? And you believe that because your god said, and no other reason?" The cleric has kinda copped at this point that these guys aren't just bundles of hp, and the soldier matter-of-factly delivered one of my favourite villain monologues I've ever come up with - "You believe in your god, yes, but you do not have faith, for you ponder disobedience and fear it's consequences to such extent that you had need to clarify your own safety. I have never given thought to such matters, for I am faith incarnate, and thus have nothing to fear from my god. I shall never falter. And that is why you cannot win, try as you might. You are poisoned by doubt." The cleric was shook to say the least.

[@lochiegriffiths4712]

"Because they're cute and cuddly!" "Wait, you think I'm cute?😳"

[@Aaa-bi8ly]

My character would think that they were hitting on her and basically rage harder than a barbarian (my character is a bard btw), and NUKE them beyond the ends of the earth, BEYOND the edges of the realm and BEYOND the end of time, with a bag of holding stuffed with +1 blunt daggers

[@aswd90]

While all this stories are awesome, none of them can beat that first one, that one was amazing

[@goldenapplesaga5446]

Imma be Honest with you, Mr. Trench sounds absolutely amazing and I love him

[@deepseastonecore3017]

A star walks into a black hole but doesn't seen phased. The black hole then turns to the star and says, "I don't think you understand the gravity of this situation."

[@jerryferguson5]

I loved every bit of this. Cute and cuddly indeed. *lights fuse and walks away*

[@Gh0stWh33l]

One of the players is playing a Creation of the Villain. Said PC is one of a set of several Warforged, all made as an experimental elite unit during the Last War. Boss of the First Area ends up having one of the other Warforged as a henchman. Cue "I don't wanna fight you, brother" speech from the PC, with the only response being a rage filled growl. Skip to the end of the battle, PC does a ceck on his fellow Warforged and discovers a device with BBEG branding implanted in the head. Has to do quick street surgery or the device will reactivate and cause the Brother to go berserk again. We have to restart the campain, because of reasons, and same PC meets another of his Brothers. They kept getting more and more modified in the old game, and all of it was against their will. This time I had one of the Set he didn't get to see in the previous game drop into the plot, actively trying to return thr PC to the BBEG. Had previously been implied to be one of the weakest and smallest. He was now a Warforged Colossus. The conversation? "What did they do to you?" "Look, I'm useful now!" Now you're probably wondering 'who is it that would treat Warforged not just not as people, but as property to be modified on a whim? Who would do things like invasive brain surgery to implant a device that triggers a Berserker Rage? Most bad guys in Eberron just treat them with either disdain or as fellow comrades.' His name is Doctor Ivo Robotnik. The PC is Gamma. The Brothers are the E series robots. I did a lot of other things that showed how much of an evil bastard he was, but going 'You're useless, I'm going to rebuild you until you are useful' on a sentient creature is one of the smaller, yet more impactful things he did.

[@Zippo5767]

"It's a matter of perspective. From mine, I see people in the path of uniting the world against a common foe. A foe of my own design, yes, but one ultimately necessary." - my BBEG who had been caught by the party using a man he'd tormented and driven mad (via spells that slowly ate away at his mind for example) as a scapegoat to unite warring nations against an evil of his own design, with his plan being to manipulate the world from behind the scenes, and further an agenda I'm not gonna go into details on because the campaign is ongoing. Needless to say, my party can't decide if he's good or evil. And the longer it takes them, the more the world is changing.

[@jamessolano7881]

One of my groups favorites villians was actually an ex player. His background had his villiage cursed and killed them to ease their suffering. While he was with the party, his vengeance and ruthlessness cuased a rift, but not one enough for them to separate. The village was then raised as undead, which he and the party defeated. After that he was done with all of it, and he became a dangerous nihilist. He viewed death as cheap and useless, he saw magic as being a sore and blight on reality and saw even gods as overpowered children who let it get this way. He left the party when he started a genocide in order to prevent a war because, "there can be no war if there is only one side". After that, he reappeared several times after the party had done a quest to offer those negatively affected to join him. His goal was to break down everything to its base components (the planes, magic, gods, everything) and rebuild everything from the ground up. He even convinced two party members to sit out of the last fight.

[@markuhler2664]

I love Mr. Trench. & he's a good opener for this video since he was never really evil except in a literal genie type of way. I was hoping for something more along the way of stealing coppers from a blind beggar despite a pocket full of gold or forcing a mother to tell one of her several children that she hated him & he was the cause of everything bad, just to save the other kids.

[@milomateer6565]

The BBGE in my campaign casted power word kill on an NPC we were talking to to get our attention. We turned around and he was flying in the sky on his bone dragon. The way the DM visualized power word kill was horrifying. It was just an old lady we were helping out, and all of a sudden she starts to shutter and seizure, then her entire skeleton burst through her flesh flying at us for a moment. It then crashed to the ground crumbling as well as her flesh, organs, and skin where she once stood in a bloody mess.

[@maddoomdog]

10:20 after the "because there cute and cuddly."my character would reply with "wait! so you think I'm cute?" The lower the charisma the funnier it is.

[@scar2618]

Dragonball z abridged, frieza says the quote to goku and he replies "are... are you coming on to me?"

[@Godzillawolf1]

I'm playing Rime of the Frostmaiden with my friends, and while it's one in the module as is, our DM used one thing to establish how monstrous Auril was early on before we ever even started the journey properly: In the starting town, while getting supplies before the first side quest, I had my character do a simple perception check to see if there was anything of interest...and she witnessed a member of the town being sacrificed by being forced to walk into the wilderness and freeze to death, learning the reason then and there. At the time, my character was meek, shy, and hadn't become confident enough to do anything about it (an intentional flaw I'd worked into her as a character arc). We later got confirmation in the Cold-Hearted Killer side quest that yes, Auril was directly involved in this and had cultists or agents in the government to let her personal assassin get away with killing those who had dodged the knife. This resulted in our whole party developing a hatred for Auril, our Gunslinger Fighter especially. This all came to what is one of my favorite character moments when we were at Auril's palace trying to get the Codicil of the White and find out the door only opens if you pass Auril's tests. We all collectively decided, having seen how cruel Auril is and expects her followers to be, we weren't doing her tests because we know how cruel she'll expect US to be, with my character calling back to that first day and resolving not to be too weak to do the right thing this time. Instead we stealthed our way in after the guards came to check on the Codicil, but we were planning to go upstairs, subdue the frost giant, and make him open it had that not happened . It remains one of my favorite moments of the campaign, both because our DM used it to establish what was happening at the very start, but also because it gave the party enough knowledge of Auril's cruelty to not take the bait and play her games, which also let me put a major check mark on my character's arc and growth as a person. And also avoid what's considered one of the most horrible parts of the entire module, but mostly the character moments it resulted in.

[@SmokeADig]

One of my favorite bad guy lines (after being provoked): “Dig in your heals gentlemen, and prepare for levels of violence never before seen. I will turn your lands to ash, and I will call it peace..” 😈

[@HappilyHomicidalHooligan]

The most Evil Character I've ever played was in Shadowrun (2nd Edition), he was a Human Fire Elemental Adept (can only cast Combat Category or Fire based Manipulation Category Spells and Conjure Fire Elementals) named Garrett Mason, he was also a Complete and Utter Sociopath with Psychotic Tendencies... His ONLY Saving Grace was he had an Unbreakable Code of Honor - he will NEVER harm his Friends, Family or current Team Members and if someone threatens them, he WILL do his best to Kill you... His favorite Spell was Hellblast (Think Fireball on steroids)... He knew he was Insane by Societies Standards, he just didn't give a damn...Annoy him and he'd shoot you in the knee, Piss him Off and he'd either shoot you in the head or use a Spell to remove your head entirely, spreading it across the local environment as a fine red mist... Someone once tried to steal a briefcase he'd just retrieved from a Dead Drop and Mason blew his Brains out through his ears with a Manabolt Spell without a pause, then got on his bike and drove away as if nothing had happened...(that was a MINOR thing for Mason, when he gets REALLY Ticked, entire neighbourhoods tend to disappear in explosions of fire) - he's killed 70% of a Street Gang at once by simultaneously casting 4 Hellblasts at the same time with overlapping areas of effect...he couldn't get the last 5 Gangers because he couldn't yet pull of a 5th simultaneous Hellblast without killing himself with Spell Drain... God, I miss playing Mason...he was SO much fun...

[@jordanwhite8718]

So basically Kimbly from Fullmetal alchemist?

[@HappilyHomicidalHooligan]

@@jordanwhite8718 I haven't seen FMA so I couldn't say...

[@chrisflanagan7564]

Can't remember what edition it was, but I had a Shadow Run magicuser, who was all about elemental summoning. During character creation I'd spent points on pre-bound elementals who owed him favours/tasks. At some point a run went sideways in a restaurant, and I panicked and dropped the fire elemental to deal with the mess. Turns out ordering a fire elemental to "burn it burn it all, or burn it to the ground" is not smart or clever. Sure the evidence of whatever we did in that restaurant was destroyed, but it turns out fire elementals are pretty much unstoppable without some serious magical SWAT team.

[@ogalog]

These always help me come up with ideas for my campaigns, idk why

[@davemakesnoises]

Hmm yes i have no idea why

[@ogalog]

@@davemakesnoises Well it’s not the case that I copy ideas, but the videos just get me thinking

[@Doublemonk0506]

@@ogalog, it's easier to think when you have an object of focus

[@yusukerizuno9442]

Because that's how reference works. Be it in visual art, written art, or any other art.

[@derrickhaggard]

During a Mysteria campaign that I was a part of when I played D&D 3.5 me and the party were tasked with tracking a group of criminals and the leader subtly mentioned that they kidnapped young Lupin girls and sold them as Sex Slaves

[@discordlexia2429]

That's not small mate.

[@МатвейКим-з9ф]

@@discordlexia2429 yeah. Sounds like a routine to me

[@jonassturgeon5870]

Me, who’s original character died 4 times before becoming BBEG: ~is in a cult, is a necromancer, made organ bombs, tried to drink a goblin’s brain before, and went to the cult’s summer camp where kids learn values like how to best cook human flesh, how to make good elf ear scarfs, how to best make a new serrated sacrificial knife out of orc teeth, and those who had the lowest score were fed to the rest of the camp, before being brought back as a skeleton which would belong to the camper with the top score. They also learn a camp song which I named ‘Cannibalism, and what to do with remains’~

[@colenewer]

i need that camp song please

[@plagueofjoe]

The best villain I ever ran was in CoS. I modify everything I run to heavily involve the players backstories and so it is with Curse of Strahd (Minor spoilers, not much as it's modified). The first was a Ranger. Her backstory that we came up with collaboratively was that she was a scout for a wood elf army, who's captain was the pampered son of a famous elf hero and politician. The son was glory hungry living in his shadow, which came to a head when the forest was attacked by a small party of savage, cannibal druids and berserkers. The attack was repelled easily but during the first wave the captain snapped his bow string and, enraged and humiliated, demanded the squad quickly pursue the fleeing savages and cut them down. With the ranger taking point they gave chase at reckless speed... right into an ambush of twig and needle blights. The squad was decimated and the druids and berserkers took many of the elves, including a younger elf Yenisi who was the Ranger's best friend, presumably to be eaten. When the survivors returned the captain blamed the ranger for leading them into the ambush and not spotting it, and feeling enraged, disgusted, and devastated at the loss of her friend she simply fled, not even waiting to see what potential punishment awaited her. Cut to Curse of Strahd, when the party was staying in a house in Barovia, the ranger was being especially paranoid, so deciding to fuck with her I had the vampire Escher walk up the wall of the building and greet her outside the window. Surprisingly she started talking to him, and he offered to answer any question she would ask if she came to the front door. She agreed and he did, then said he would answer another question if she came outside. Again she did, and he told her how lonely he is in the castle and how the Barovians are dull, soulless creatures and that she was the most interesting thing he'd seen in years. He said if she would take a walk with him he would answer any other questions, as well as sing her a song of her people. She did and he did, then gave her a music box that played the song and, after it was done, revealed a hidden compartment with a sending stone inside. The two developed a relationship as the party continued, and eventually she slept with and allowed Escher to bite her, and he stole a magic bow from the castle treasury to give to her. Still they were both terrified of what would happen if Strahd found out. When the party finally encountered a big group of the cannibalistic druids and berserkers Yenisi was there with her. She had been converted/brainwashed and was now a druid worshipping Strahd along with them, and blamed the ranger for abandoning her. She fled the first encounter, but in a later one by sheer chance she wound up the last enemy standing at close to full HP with one party member down, two very low and next to each other, and the ranger at full. Strahd was above on his nightmare watching the battle, but over the course of the fight the party kind of forgot he was there. Yenisi thunderwaved the two other party members and managed to take them both down, leaving her and the ranger standing off 1v1. She then drew her own bow and said "Let's have an archery contest, for old time sake." Yenisi crit one shot so it was very close even though it shouldn't have been, but ultimately the ranger put her down and, spitting blood and clutching the arrow in her chest Yenisi managed to choke out "You were always... the better shot." As she fell though Strahd swept down, caught her, bit her, and flew off with her back to castle Ravenloft. The ultimate villain moment came when the party went to have dinner at the castle. There was Yenisi, now a vampire and openly in a relationship with Escher, who was still desperately trying to hide any ties to the ranger. Yenisi spent the dinner fawning over Escher and insulting her former friend while Strahd watched, forcing the ranger to be on her best behavior. The duel was amazing and not really planned, I just saw the opportunity and took it, but the dinner really set it on fire. The ranger did a great job with it and loved it but she said she legitimately felt like every emotion toward her. Pity, guilt, sadness, fury, and jealousy all at once. It was amazing being able to get that out of one of my players.

[@nonaerenada]

Nice team four Star reference at the end

[@sionstrong9375]

As the DM, I had this one campaign that had three different BBEGs that existed within the same timeframe and the party had to deal with all of them. I will touch down on potentially the most evil one, and the most distasteful. To give context, the universe this was taking place in was a warped version of Faerun, where a kingdom rose from the northwest part (Basically Swordcoast plus Icewind Dale) under the brand of my very first PC. She was a very benign Queen and mostly handled outside affairs, leaving her inner affairs to be managed by her right hand man, and her master of spies. Said master of spies, who I'll call Mosley from now on, had created a network of agents, spies, and generally people who do bad shit for good causes that I promptly stole the name for from Peaky Blinders. I called it "The Red Right Hand" because the name made sense. They were people who were red-handed who's job was to catch other people red-handed. Two of the party members were either recruited or straight up started as members of The Hand. They got orders directly from Mosley after a certain point and became one of his most important assets. One of the PCs had a serious problem with a person he had never met, and that person is the BBEG in question. His name was Martin. That's it. Just Martin. The reason that was the name was because for the longest time, Martin was the multitool name I resorted to whenever cornered to give a name for a character. So I found it rather fitting to introduce a villain somewhere around level 14 with that name. This Martin did nothing but be one step ahead of the party. He always stole vital information from them right as they were about to get it, he made life really difficult, and he has been eluding The Hand for years upon years. Going as far as to outright defy them and start his own underground criminal organization. The culminations of his actions always sent the party off edge because the name "Martin" was canonically present in the world as the most common name. And Martin always and I mean always left a note that said "Martin ;)" in the place of anything he stole from the party. Be it information they were about to get, something they had and he stole outright, et cetera. They could never catch him. This was elevated much further when his actual official intro took place as a complete diversion away from a cave the party was headed in. They were clearing out a band of Drow slavers. Martin promptly showed up and struck a deal with them. He'd give back the slaves for a measly fee of 500 gold pieces as payment for the damage the party had caused since he showed up in the midway of a very long dungeon (No seriously this was the third sesh for the party inside that dungeon) and had a small army of drow with him. The party tried to attack him, only to realize that this was a simple illusion and that his voice was actually active inside all of their heads. He then showed his real self, or so they believed, and continued the bargain. They were outright furious with this villain, and the best part is he was hiding a portal that smuggled mindflayers into Faerun to supplement the army of the other BBEG who was setting the stage for a full scale invasion by the third - and biggest - BBEG. The party never knew about the portal and it was going to bite them in the ass hard later. Sadly this campaign got cancelled because of a lack of motivation, time management, and the players being absolute douches about following the story in a campaign I had stated was going to be story-focused from the very beginning.

[@therighttrousers343]

My god, the power of bringing your own tea set and tea and then proceeding to insult your tea as though the person whose house you're in gave it to you, is supreme.

[@recursiveslacker7730]

Absolute sigma chad move tbh

[@SonicDraco]

That last one sounds like it was paraphrased from Dragon Ball Z Abridged.

[@camdenthompson4307]

yep, it was, still funny though

[@FizzieWebb]

It absolutely was. Freeza: "I'm going to drown you. I'm going to drown you like a sack of dumb puppies!" Goku: "What? Why would you drown puppies?" Freeza: "Because they're cute and cuddly~" Goku: "Are... are you hitting on me?"

[@MitchellTF]

So...I introduced a character in one of my 40K games, straight from the module...who was first seen having a conversation on if it would be more efficient, to replace the hand-activate elevator...with a lobotmoized slave-bot, as it would be more efficient. The players IMMEDIATELY latched onto him as an utter jerk, hate him incredibley...and HE IS NOT EVEN THE VILLAIN. He's the Red Herring.

[@MitchellTF]

Oh, hey! I know that 40K module.

[@MitchellTF]

Also? I introduced a Dark Eldar mook. Who was seen petting a pet pig. Which she was feeding the remains of a farmer she just murdered. And was perfectly friendly, explaining about how this planet is theirs, and the PCs are free to leave. INSTANT hatred and such. Because they KNOW what she's doing.

[@sergeantsharkseant]

I mean using servility’s for everything doesn’t seem all that evil comparably considering it’s 40k

[@movespammerguyteam7colors]

That quote at the end was from Team Four Star. It really just works well to establish how evil a person is.

[@selfiestick1589]

the thign about drowning puppies bc they are cute and cuddly?

[@movespammerguyteam7colors]

@@selfiestick1589 YES.

[@AidanWR]

6:43 I have a character similar to that. She has a "shock collar" on her that whenever she has lustful thoughts shocks her. I roll every time, and on a natural 1, I have her take 1 point of damage. Party has yet to figure this one out yet, as I have not rolled a 1, and they haven't picked up on the subtle hints I've given them

[@zephyrstrife4668]

Currently doing a one-player game for one of my friends and I have two antagonists that I have introduced. Lady Valethar, the red dragon in control of the lands my friend's character lives in... and Endarius Dracul, the duke in charge of running the region for her. Rumors within the game say that he is one of her half-blood descendants due to his sorcerer capabilities. He's meant to be like the main villain from Gargoyles because he is a noble, actively in charge of making sure that the glory of Valethar is available for everyone to see and is quite a gentleman. My friend's introduction to Valethar was a flashback to his childhood about how, when his village refused to send spellcasters to Duke Dracul's army, Lady Valethar flew out to their village and personally ate the chief and the top 5 warriors of the clan. Stating it as a rather reasonable punishment for failing to follow her orders. That way they could fix their transgression in the future rather than be razed to the ground.

[@ArshikaTowers]

One of my favorite villains to play was a man attempting to gain controll of a city. After learning who the pcs were, he introduced himself as a merchant to the party. Everyday for nearly two months he constantly sent them dramatically insulting and clever messages via sending spell attempting to demoralize them. It worked and the party ended up leaving the city.

[@1Worluck]

I’m DMing a homebrew steampunk story that’s partly inspired by D&D and Warhammer. Warforged, Elves, Vampires etc.. Had lots of fun concocting sociopathic pirates, corrupt governors and boastful snipers. But my main villains of the story are the Rattus, inspired by the Skaven. Their hobby is the torture and devouring of cats. That was my small thing to make them evil. And as you can see, it was very easy to get my party to hate them because they are all cat lovers both in game and real life.

[@Ridlay_]

Ah I love DnD. I’m glad this channel was recommended, instant sub. I appreciate commentary that isn’t TTS to.

[@Enkrod]

My favourite villain was a recurring NPC quest-giver and one of twelve lords of a city. Every time the party met him, he was somehow involved in the death of a creature. Stepping on a cockroach, building a rat trap, skinning a deer, signing documents to send a convicted arsonist to the gallows, retrieving his sword out of the body of a dead goblin, pinning a butterfly into a display case, on his way home from hunting - his hands red with the blood of a freshly killed boar. Only during that last meeting did the party know that he was the mastermind behind the deaths and disappearances of the other lords of the city. And they observed how he washed the boars blood from his hands while denying their accusations. The symbolism was just *chef's kiss*

[@Version0111]

Mr. Trench's description describes me perfectly. Not only physically but a little personally as well. I didn't know I was evil. This was a real eye opener for me.

[@boomkruncher325zzshred5]

The DM did a thing where one of the players was trying to find their long-lost people (Genasi had not been seen in the world for forever), and they happened upon a pirate queen while tavern-hopping who smiled in a weird way whenever this character mentioned their quest. Party later learns that this VERY SAME PIRATE QUEEN had relocated the ENTIRE GENASI VILLAGE to keep their location a secret. The Pirate Queen found a Genasi, COULD HAVE SAID SOMETHING WHEN THE PLAYER MENTIONED THEY WERE LOOKING FOR THEIR OWN PEOPLE… and the BIATCH just smiled in a knowing TAUNT of a smile and SAID. NOTHING. The player was frothing at the MOUTH with rage when they found out 🤣

[@jefthereaper]

"the party put fighting her on hold as they are highly conflicted" The chaotic/evil party member(s): Starts casting multiple 9th level Meteor Swarms to level the entire town.

[@thewovenmantis6813]

4:33 You have an absolutely *flawless* Starscream impression!

[@DelphanGruss]

My first campaign had a group of undead bounty-hunters constantly pursuing the party from place to place from atop an undead skeletal dragon. Part way into the campaign they found a cave full of pseudodragons who were trying to stop anyone going into the cave because there was a highly cursed egg further inside, covered in runic symbols and long since hatched. They discovered that the undead bounty-hunter cleric had basically corrupted a pseudodragon egg beyond belief and mutated it to create their skeletal dragon mount by torturing an unborn pseudodragon into becoming a total monster through arcane experimentation. He WASN'T the big bad before they found the cave - but they collectively decided afterwards they wanted him dead more than the Council of Vampires, and resolved to try and rescue the skele-dragon.

[@bedrock30_40]

It wasn't a DND campaign, but I do a lot of worldbuilding with my friends and I was writing a story based around the main villain of the world we made. Three of our characters were in a sports tournament against two other teams of three when the Jumbotron fell from overhead and crushed one of the competitors. The villain was the one who caused this, but I had also purposefully included a tiny segment in which one of the other characters, who's been watching from the stands, gets up to "use the bathroom" just before the Jumbotron falls. This was meant to be the first indication that said character is secretly working with the villain, since they knew what was about to go down and left to avoid possibly getting involved.

[@chalkwarrior5542]

wow that is one hell of an opener. the DM would make a great writer

[@MarkEdwardRom]

10:23 The absurdity of the line delivery was why I burst out laughing.

[@SKy_the_Thunder]

The last one is a quote from DBZ Abridged, between Freeza and Goku. It continued with Goku thinking Freeza was flirting with him by effectively calling him "cute and cuddly".

[@wingedparagon4448]

The wizard who was part of an "evil triumverant" never actually did anything to anyone. He just used the evil and chaos caused by others to further his goals. Even the party's successes helped him in some way. His "partners" were a homicidal half dragon sorcerer/monk and a death cleric who couldn't die. Really, his only "evil" act was working with them and being the voice of reason to keep them on track.

[@ironwraith852]

*Triumvirate I'll head back to the abyss now. Sorry for bothering ya.

[@wingedparagon4448]

@@ironwraith852 No worries, that word always trips me up. XD

[@ironwraith852]

@@wingedparagon4448 It's fine bro, It's not a common word to use.

[@derpyshark3305]

It would be a cool detail if the dm secretly replaced the PCs alignments good with evil and take how long it takes them to relize

[@coleyonmcdouchebag3842]

Let me tell you EXACTLY how that 2nd story played out irl. DM: Then he tells you your tea sucks and he dips out. Player: We don't drink tea, just tons and tons of fantasy booze. DM: Oh! Yeeaa-rrrr-uhh well thats... that's just it! He's such a bitch he brought tea, pretended it was yours, said it sucked and then ran away giggling! Player: Id question this but then I'd have less wiggle room to back up why I should become a lich later on.

[@mezec4317]

Imagining a scenario where the "good" party arrives to face off with the BBEG, only to be stumped when the boss assumes they are there to apply for a job.

[@mene1in]

I once had a homebrew where the villain wanted to kill off a rival non-evil faction in a highly structured kingdom. One of the methods was disguising his men as members of that faction to kidnap and sell innocents and anyone they hated and sell them as slaves to the hobgoblins. The players learned about this when they woke up at the beginning of the first session in a cage, stripped of their stuff and about to be sold. Nothing says "I'm evil" to players like taking away their stuff. Or making them solve a problem without hitting stuff with their stuff.

[@jamescallaghan9911]

10:22 just missing the last line from DBZA PC: "A-are you coming on to me?" *punch*

[@linksstruepower7443]

Loving the TFS reference at the end there. Those guys truly have permeated pop culture in almost everyway.

[@aeonise]

I've got two, mainly because one never got his real moment. The first was actually a character I played in a sorta mixed game where about half the party was evil. The thing that made him evil was that he believed himself to be just a soulless, automaton-like thing animating the dead body of his creator. He believed he was nothing more than a tool created to fulfill his creator's dying wish (take revenge on everyone involved in razing his home), so his "moral" compass replaced all considerations of morality with considerations of whether a given act would bring him closer to fulfilling his purpose. The thing was, this was rarely very evident because most of the moral quandaries we encountered didn't directly impact his goals. What really tipped everyone off to how much evil he was willing to do was when another character asked if he knew who was responsible for razing the town: he started listing the soldiers of the legion involved, the officers, the commanders, the queen of the nation that sent the legion, the armorers, the wagon porters, the cooks, and everyone even tangentially related to the legion's attack. Even more so when he was asked what he will do when he completes his purpose and responded with "I will be no more". The other was a more classic villain in a game I was running. The world was broken up into 7 "realms" divided by vast stretches of only recently navigable seas. One realm was full of undead, including a rare type known as Nightmares that regain their pre-death minds and memories but become horribly warped physically and mentally in the process. One of the Nightmares was gathering an army of undead to overrun the living settlements in that realm when he learned of the other realms, so he started a years-long plot to induce a major noble from another realm to start a crusade against "the land of the undead" and send a huge army. The army was of course going to be walking into a trap that would see them slaughtered and turned into more undead. The party encountered him early on in disguise as a client (hiring them to discredit a noble resisting the crusade plan, of course), and he was very noticeably cold and emotionless. They finally got tipped off that something was wrong when they reported their success; they met him on a balcony overlooking a square with public executions going on, and the only emotions he showed were enjoyment of the executions and disappointment that there were not more. They were supposed to encounter him a few more times (basically reinforce that he enjoyed death) before he revealed how much they had helped him and taunted them from the deck of a ship back to his own realm (probably the last of the ships of crusaders headed there), but the game never got to that point after a couple people had real life issues interfere.

[@kanate1444]

As DM, I was running a lancer campaign and my Antagonist just kinda chilled as the party met them for the first time. All they did was try and bait the party into attacking them first. The kicker here though? The party had been sent to get the Antagonist to do the exact same thing.

[@superiortroodon3112]

I feel kinda bad because my friends and I had started a campaign for mutants and masterminds with me as the dm, and we never finished it. I had planned a multi chapter adventure but we only got through the tutorial and the first chapter. What i was most excited about was the party’s arch nemesis, a sociopathic genius wearing a robotic scorpion suit named death-stalker (i even used a text-to-speech for his voice lines). He wasn’t the biggest villain in the story i made but he was perhaps the most twisted, and i made sure to keep his identity secret as he was secretly the team’s “guy in the chair”, but he had multiple robot doubles to trick the pc’s. His introduction was particularly menacing, as he came in after the team had successfully beaten the tutorial boss (a notorious gang leader) and brutally killed him before making his escape. A shame they never discovered the identity of who their nemesis was, i was so looking forward to that.

[@Number_5]

Mr. D. Trench deserves a movie, a series or something

[@Ummarth9]

My friends had a campaign that we would hash out after playing to sort of homebrew the adventure together. In it, the paladin I had been playing would fall from grace and become the BBEG for the next campaign and we just had to sort of let the adventure work its way to that. I wound up moving away and didn't get to finish the campaign but I was informed of the progress along the way and basically, the paladin descended into a realm of debauchery and addiction slowly driving them mad and eventually they encountered a lich that helped them go fully down the rabbit hole. Very intrigued to see if I can get the full story from the group one day.

[@a_angry_bunny]

Mr. Trench seems like the classic "Devil's Deal" character.

[@clairegolder3683]

This was my first ever time as a DM, and it was homebrew. The most hated villain wasn’t even the BBEG, but one of his hired hands. The guy had connections to one of the PCs past that he was trying to get away from, and had done some other bad things to endanger his mom (long story from his background). What had really done it though, was he kidnapped the street urchin the party had basically adopted and tried to use her as leverage. They killed him last, cut off all his limbs, but off his junk, shoved it in his mouth, and tried to melt his face to keep it there, all while he was alive.

[@shadophaxx2401]

My party once freed an octopus from an aquarium, only for the BBG to immediately pick it up and experiment on it

[@rnrgaming4579]

Reminds me of the time Cadeuces told Trent Ikithon to "Empathize" with the command spell and discovered he failed the saving throw and didn't resist the effect but rather didn't have the capacity to empathize

[@NotMyRealName6]

5:50 Ah, the classic "Murder, Arson, and Jaywalking" sort of villain.

[@silentfate]

That Vampire broke into a home, rearranged all the furniture bought a cheap tea set and complained to the home owners to get under their skin. That's so small it's unexpectedly evil and a perfect way to piss anyone off.

[@harryguidotti3815]

I think I speak for everyone when I say I love the concept of Mr. Trench. I just wish I had thought of him!

[@hogfry]

I'm real glad to hear Mr Trench made it in here. :D But I gotta say I LOVE the second story. Deciding to kill a vampire for being Extra about TEA is just. It's so British and I love it!

[@theofficerfactory2625]

Oh I loved that last one.

[@just_gut]

According to my group, the most evil NPC I've ever introduced was the Lawful Good new mayor of the town out of which they operated. He was very altruistic and they just couldn't ever believe he didn't have an ulterior motive. He did a bunch of small things to help others improve the town and to defeat a cabal trying to unmake the world operating out of the capital. What made it most "evil" in the minds of my players is that there was never a turn of the screw. He was just a guy who wanted to do the best he could for the most people possible.

[@daemonic1317]

That last one was Frezzer in DragonBall Z Abridged lol

[@No_Named_Nobody]

Holy crap... Mr. Trench! Brilliant I love it

[@TeaTime0300]

In a "Homebrew" (read: various video games smashed together) I had a Villan that could see Nearly 49 days into the future. Had them create laws to ban specific people and then disband them immediately after.

[@NatsumenoKage]

My villain was a PC I planted in to the party after two sessions. I had informed the rest that I had one more player that would be joining late do to work conflicts. A paladin being played by a friend who I let in on how the campaign was to, run who was free to do as she wished as long as it fell within my guidelines, and she introduced her self the way I planed. A small paladin dressed in dingy steal armor road in to town on a old thin dark horse to meet the rest an the inn. They met her outside the inn she saw a stable with a few other horses in it an old bay, a sturdy chestnut plow horse, and a black gelding there were also two children hanging around the stable she gave the kids a few coins to tend to the horse. She joined the party, and went in. She told them she was a paladin, and wouldn't be drinking but she would go get a table. She chatted up a city guard (rolled for persuasion) who left giving her the table. they chatted she told them she was a paladin with an oath of devotion, and she was on a holy quest to bring her goddesses blessing unto the world. They left the inn neither the horse or the kids were there. She reported the lost of the horse, and they left town. The horse wasn't hers she framed the kids who were the inn keepers kids. the horse she reported missing was a the black gelding that had been at the inn. the old horse was owned by a palace guard. The Black Gelding was owned by a farmer that worked for the neighboring baron. Which she had "returned" the next time they passed through the town about two months later. She was a Paladin of Beshaba goddess of misfortune. the horse thing caused the inn to be sold to save the kids, the palace guards to be replaced do to the loss, and mistreatment of the old horse, and a war between the to local barons over the gelding. The party never asked who was the goddess only kept asking for her blessing on things. Not realizing that they had been spreading the misfortune that they were trying to stop.