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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 5010701" data-attributes="member: 813">To me, any decent BBEG worthy of an entire adventure path will have a maze of friendly, neutral and unfriendly factions working toward his goal, knowingly or not. The T(ruly)BBEG will manipulate Good Guys into helping him reach his goal. He will lure other bad guys into his plans with promises of power. He will trick dangerous bad guys into being his patsy so that any Heroes in the area become busy dealing with that BBEG and the TBBEG flies under their radar.In fact, getting the party to work for the TBBEG (unknowingly of course) is just the kind of thing that makes for fun final confrontations.How? Well, you first need a goal that isn't too personal. Conquering warlords general aren't as subtle as the TBBEG I'm talking about but they make good distraction BBEGs that the TBBEG can camouflage his true goal with. Heck, the TBBEG could hire the party to defeat the patsy BBEG. (And once you start running these things through your head you eventually make the "patsy" the TTBBEG.)</blockquote>