Best Bad Guy Threat

[Arrgh! Mark!]

Lets hear them!


From one of my great demons, named by humans as the Dark Longing -

Imagine, night upon the blasted plains. A single knight, leading a ragged and unconcious band of adventurers on horseback. Through the night, a cold wind. In a voice not loud, but as deep as the cracking of mountains -

"Come, Nicht - I have waited for you. Your first death shall be a sunset in an eternity as I take you to the shadow and h feast upon you until even your god forgets your name!

 

[Nightfall]

Best threat IMHO:

d20 Modern,

Villian, my own Dark God from times past:

"When I'm done with you, there won't be enough left of you to put on life support!"

 

[RandomPrecision]

Throwing a table at the PC's.

That's about the best you can do for a villain that can't talk (or at least, I figured things with an anatomy similar to an iron golem couldn't talk).

Best from something that can talk, I might have to think for a while.

 

[ajanders]

One old, one new

"I like you. As a result, I would experience unpleasant emotions for about five minutes after I learned you had died writhing in torments.
If you ever breathe a word of anything we have discussed, I will endure those unpleasant emotions. What you will endure, I need not describe. Good day. Mind the step."

"You think you're very brave to insult that fighter. That's because he won't hurt you. He's a paladin of Heironeus, sworn to defend the weak and live in honor. He's too noble to hurt you.
I, on the other hand, am a rat-bastard of thief who's killed men for their shoes. And if I ever see you near him again, I'll wring your gods-damned neck."

 

[Viktyr Gehrig]

This is one of my better ones, though you probably had to be there:

"You're pretty young, for an elf... probably got another five hundred years in you yet. Probably think that makes you better than us mere humans. Probably consider your long lifespan a blessing.

This bag contains a few things. Couple of magical rings-- regeneration and sustenance, if you must know. Got a necklace of adaptation. A few applications of sovereign glue. And some fresh cuttings from Sigilian razorvine.

You have five minutes to tell me what I want to hear. After that runs out, you'll have five hundred years to regret not being born human."

A PC pulled this one on me:

The little girl sat next to the hobgoblin, confident the charm person effect would hold him. "We're just having a friendly conversation. You are my friend, right?"

The hobgoblin nods.

The little girl smiled. "That's good. Because if you weren't my friend, this would be an interrogation."

The hobgoblin gulped. "What's 'interrogation'?"

The little girl manifested her mind blade. "Interrogation is where I do bad things to you until you answer my questions."

 

[Keeper of Secrets]

From a horrible and nasty villain in a supers game, who was horribly burned and was hidden at the time he spoke, a voice only used by a voice box (which really added to the creep factor).

"I only remember my past after the burning of the flames. The smell of my own flesh burning is a horrible but sweet memory that I shall soon allow you the honor of knowing."

 

[humble minion]

Star Wars game. PCs are imprisoned by a mad doctor, a clone who is fanatically loyal to a master the PCs just killed. Dr Clone has done an experimental brain-swap operation on the master's body, and is now demanding the Jedi PC use Force healing to try to revive the patched-together master...

Jedi PC: "And if I don't?"
Dr Clone, brandishing a vial sinister-looking liquid: "Then my Master will die. And if he does, I will take this experimental strain of Yaghul's Plague and release it over your homeworld as you watch. I will send remote camera droids down to the surface, so you might witness the last moments of your family, your friends, and all you hold dear as they die in unpeakable agony over a period of days. And then I will return you to your planet, to wander alone among the silent cities and the festering bodies of your dead, to live with the knowledge of what you have wrought."

 

[Berandor]

My next Bad Guy is always my best Bad Guy.

 

[F5]

Best threat that comes to mind right now wasn't from a villain, it was from my PC, told TO a villain. A low-end lackey-type who had just been beat down.

"If you ever try anything like this again, I will find you. I will polymorph you into an orange, I will peel you, and then I will dispel the polymorph. When you change back, twitching and skinless, I will make sure you have ample, agonizing time to regret your poor decision before I let you die. Is that clear?"

Don't know if Polymorph Any Object would work that way, I was totally bluffing, and I couldn't cast PaO yet, anyway, but the threat was effective.

 

[Lasher Dragon]

Not BBEG but funny nonetheless...

In the game where I play a Pale Master: The rest of the party has been informed that if by some bad circumstance most of the party should die, and I was on my own, not to worry too much about it. I informed them that I'd be more than happy to get them resurrected. They will, however, have to walk their (un)dead arses back to the town cleric under their own power though.