Recent content by The Great Bear King

Also Gary, I think that villains, as well as heroes, should at least be reasonably intelligent. See Peter's Evil Overlord List for details. Any decently intelligent villain will at least attempt to follow these tips and rules. In fact, I just might use the List for my yet unnamed nobleman.

So you prefer villain type number two. Well, that's pretty much how I envision a typical red dragon, just red-scaled, clawed, fanged, fire-breathing, magic using and the size of jumbo jet. Red dragons are basically Gordon Gekko with the looks and physical abilities of Smaug and the magical power...

Well then I hope you can finish it soon. That said I have a literary/Role playing question for you Gary. What type or types of villain would consider best for either stories or campaigns out of these three varieties? The first variety of villain commits horrifically evil acts for no other reason...

Well, actually the young nobleman considers exploiting Princess Celia's potential death as plan A-2. Plan A-1 involves intentionally sacrificing her would be assassins by having them executed for attempted murder (unknown the hired killers of course), claiming they were employed by the dragon...

King Honore Lambert's only problems are with his military spending and his own fear and paranoia directed towards his neighbors. His reason for this vast military and defense spending is very simple, he has four daughters and we doesn't want to even imagine the horrors they would face if his...

Hello Gary, Speaking of complex dragon related ideas; I started toying around with the thought of an adventure based around the usual task of rescuing a princess or other child of nobility from a centuries-old dragon. The twist is that the king or other noble was overspending and borrowed money...

I tend to associate D&D necromancy with organic change, degradation or improvement while transmutation deals with inorganic change or altering mass, time, space and gravity.

Does anyone have any comments or critcisms at all?

I previously posted this class on Wizards and Giant in the Playground Forums under the names Devil Gnasher and Duke Malagigi. Yes, I use different names on different boards on a whim. I know that doesn't sound particularly sane but it doesn't bother me. Please tell me what think about this...

Don't worry, I will. I might even get Dirks, barbarian #2's player, to come along. However, Randy, the fighter's player is actually a rather fair and decent DM, he's just a nightmare of a player. Also the party druid and his bison tended to behave like Shaggy and Scooby. They were master cowards...

I just remembered it wasn't a normal lunar moth it was a gloomwing that was held sacred by a temple that worshiped darkness. By darkness I simply mean the absence of visible light, not an Evil deity other dark power. The party fighter figured that anyone who worships the absence of visible light...

I have to agree with your comments on paladins and assassins Gary. From what I've seen in my own sessions, neither assassins nor paladins are required to cause party strife and infighting, nor would they make anything worse. No matter the edition or rule set used dysfunctional parties will...

Nah, Xykon should be voiced by Hugh Laurie (as prince George) with Redcloak and the MitD voiced by Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson, respectively.

Hmm. I'm thinking of an orcish Sparta in league with a kobold Venice, a fantasy version of Japan (run by humans of course) and a dwarven version of the Nazi party, before its rise to power. I'm trying to make a campaign setting with those forces.

To me Chaotic Neutral would be best represented by two real life figures, Alistair Crowley and Ayn Rand. Both reflect individualism untainted by cruelty and malice and uninfluenced by mercy and compassion.