Having a hero is great, but a hero is only as good as the villain they battle.
Day 16 Villain
Villains are great. I have talked about villains and big bads, and all sorts of bad guys over the years.
Who have been my favorites?
Yoln, the Shadow Reaper & Hand of Leviathan
Yoln, the bad guy so nice I used him twice. He was a human general that rose up through the ranks to become a Pit Fiend and the general of Hell's Army in the Dragon Wars from my 1st Ed AD&D game. He was defeated there and cast out of Hell into the Astral where he was recruited by the Mad God Leviathan where he became the big bad of my Buffy RPG campaign, the Dragon & the Phoenix. Is he really dead now? Who knows. He might be back someday.
But after that I decided that no big bad of central villain would work for Season of the Witch.
Cult of the Dragon
The cult that gave my first campaign with my kids so much trouble.
Come Endless Darkness
My favorite villains though are demons. In my interconnected Come Endless Darkness the demons are overtly the bad guys with Lolth and Grazzt giving the Order of the Platinum Dragon so much trouble. Demogorgon is behind all the cults in the Second Campaign. And Orcus is challenging all the characters into my Into the Nentir Vale campaign. But all are being deceived by Asmodeus, with the help of Grazzt. Asmodeus in turn is being deceived by Tharizdûn. In the end, Tharizdûn hopes to reign supreme with the devils under his control and the power structure of the demons destroyed.
War of the Witch Queens
My newest campaign deals with the death of the ruling Witch High Queen and the power vacuum that creates. The villains of this piece are Kalek and Skylla. I talked about their involvement last year's #RPGaDAY. I am also thrilled to see that they are getting new minis for the next D&D 5e book. That set also includes the fan favorite, Warduke. Maybe I should add him in for nostalgia's sake.
Looking forward to that set as well as all my players coming up against all these great villains.
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