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12 months ago ::
Jul 28, 2012 - 3:00AM
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Date Joined:
May 14, 2010
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My personal favorite ... probably an elf wizard who had lost his daughter to literally random circumstances. So, to seek revenge ... he was going to destroy randomness. Everything would proceed perfectly, like a perfect machine, for the rest of eternity.
The final battle with him (and some creatures he summoned, of course) took place on a small demi-plane of perfect order. No dice were rolled; all results were considered to be dead average. Your d20s were all 10.5 (round down to 10). d6s were 3.5, so 1d6 was 3, 2d6 was 7, and so forth.
My players were flabbergasted; they were basically used to relying on lucky shots to win fights, and now, there was no such thing as luck. They actually had to *gasp* use tactics.
If your group was full of min-max then they would be like *yaoming face* we got this. Or maybe they would join his cause and spread his perfect madness?
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12 months ago ::
Jul 28, 2012 - 6:28AM
#12
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Date Joined:
Jul 23, 2010
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My favorite has to be Garaat, an orc shadow priest (a cleric variant, back in 3.5). Think about Revolver Ocelot from the Metal gear saga: a cunning, backstabbing, magnificent bastard, who played his enemies (the PCs an their patrons) as well as his "allies" (the demonic council) to fulfill his selfish plans.
Once, he managed to catch the PCs by surprise and forcing them to surrender. They were expecting to be disarmed and imprisoned, but in fact, he was just looking for a chance to talk to them. He revealed them the specifics of the council's plan in the region, the one plan the PCs were trying to foil, and left, wishing them good luck. The PCs had no choice but to follow his directions to complete their mission before it was too late, and they succeded. A bitter victory, because they knew they just played into Garaat's hands, helping him to fulfill whatever crazy plan he was after.
Cool character to roleplay, especially since you probably won't expect a big orc dark priest to be a master of subtlety and manipulation.
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12 months ago ::
Jul 31, 2012 - 7:38AM
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One of my favourites was an aboleth psion (3.5E) the PCs encountered around 1st- or 2nd-level... and then they re-encountered the aboleth when they were around 19th- or 20th-level and realised that they had been subtly manipulated for the entire campaign by this same aboleth. Over a year had passed in real life and everything about the campaign suddenly made sense. My personal favorite ... probably an elf wizard who had lost his daughter to literally random circumstances. So, to seek revenge ... he was going to destroy randomness. Everything would proceed perfectly, like a perfect machine, for the rest of eternity.
The final battle with him (and some creatures he summoned, of course) took place on a small demi-plane of perfect order. No dice were rolled; all results were considered to be dead average. Your d20s were all 10.5 (round down to 10). d6s were 3.5, so 1d6 was 3, 2d6 was 7, and so forth.
My players were flabbergasted; they were basically used to relying on lucky shots to win fights, and now, there was no such thing as luck. They actually had to *gasp* use tactics.
That is seriously brilliant.
Cheers
Imruphel
aka Scrivener of Doom
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11 months ago ::
Aug 01, 2012 - 10:35PM
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Hardly a Big Bad but funny nonetheless. I had my group tracking a group of drow slavers in the underbelly of the city, once they got to the main base and engaged the leader of the drow it was a pretty smooth fight, well 'cept they set the room on fire (it was covered in webs). The drow leader Moia, was meant to be a throwaway bad guy, shed run away and the party would chase her and see her talk to the REAL big bad who would kill Moia for failing her yada yada.
Or so I thought.
At the end of the fight when Moia ran away greviously wounded, the party decided to put out the last few fires, loot the room and discuss what they thought had happened. I was so surprised that after about 10 minutes of this I actually broke flow for a moment and asked "Uh arent you going to chase Moia?". They all stared at me in shock. They had completely forgotten about the enemy THEY JUST DEFEATED. Made even better because they are usually very astute and pay close attention to these things. Needless to say Moia had evaded them and now instead of a dead flunky she is now nursing one hell of a grudge against the party and will make some grand comeback.
And hey, who knows? Maybe they'll kill her this time
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11 months ago ::
Aug 01, 2012 - 11:53PM
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Date Joined:
Jul 18, 2012
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There was a vampire girl who was fighting the party in anabandoned town. Three of them were inside the building with her and one was outside on guard duty when the fight happened. She was wounded eventually and fled outside, where the other party member decided to try and grapple her. She was able to not only overcome him, but teleport them both away in an attempt to escape. A thousand feet straight up in the air. Then she turned into smoke and flew away. Surprisingly, the player survived, but only after some tricky flight work from another party member. Which, incidentally, stranded them both on top of a mountain for three sessions. Fun times!
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11 months ago ::
Aug 05, 2012 - 12:37AM
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Date Joined:
Aug 15, 2011
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My PCs were exploring an abandoned dwarven market located in Stonefang Pass. Behind ever storefront was a storage room, and some of those storage rooms held hidden/illusory doors to the area where the good stuff was kept. In the corner of an otherwise nondescript and ransacked storage room, the PCs found a pile of orc weapons and armor, along with what appeared to be a smashed ladder. They investigated the celing and discovered a hidden trap door, which led to a vertical shaft, a chimney of sorts that was lined with shelves stocked with all sorts of fabulous items. One of them activated his boots of levitation, lit a torch, and floated right up into the shaft, ogling the loot. When he looked directly above him, he saw a beautiful glistening orb descending slowly toward him. Mistaking it for a magic item, he reached up to grab it...and was himself grabbed. At the top of the shaft lived a giant, bloated bola spider that used its silk like fishing line, grabbing anyone that opened the trap door, reeling them up, and cocooning them for a later meal. It was the kind of enemy that the PCs would have had little trouble with on level ground, but the narrow chimney caused them all kinds of problems. Plus, the idea of being reeled up into the darkness toward a ravenous arachnid horror really freaked them out.
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11 months ago ::
Aug 07, 2012 - 10:59AM
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Date Joined:
Jul 18, 2012
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Krung the Barbarian. He was an epic level chaotic good barbarian, though the players were only level 13. He isn't a bad guy, per say, just destructive. For instance, the players were assulting an airship full of enemies. They killed everyone on the ground and were ready to take the interior. Krung had the same thought, unfortunatly, and went into a rage. He crashed into the ship, heading for the engine room. Most of the players thought it would be smart to follow. One stayed behind. They climbed to the top of the ship and worked down several levels. Long story short, the ship starts shaking violently and they attempt to escape. Well, they don't. At the last second, one of them planar shifts the party away from the exploding ship, stranding them on the Abyss (and later, the astral plane thanks to a portable hole/bag of holding mishap). The player that stayed behind saw Krung burst out of the ship, picked himself off the ground and walk up to him. Krung's only explanation for the whole ordeal was "I pulled the wrong lever"
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11 months ago ::
Aug 17, 2012 - 6:02AM
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Date Joined:
Aug 17, 2012
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Story about us destroying the Book of Vile Darkness
You forgot how Rhogar was eaten by the same behir in two different encounters, and how he rolled a 2 on his will save and just jumped straight into the well at the beginning of the fight.
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11 months ago ::
Aug 23, 2012 - 5:11AM
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Date Joined:
Jun 22, 2011
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My Fav Big Bad is the dude my pplaeyrs have yet to meet  . Thats all I can say and some of they guys might be reading this...... But he is cool, he is bad, and quit particularly evil. I like him, the sort of villain you think you know where you stand with him.
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