But I want to turn people into dinosaurs...

[Shades of Eternity]

We have all seen the meme.

How would you use this in your game‽

What game to use?

How do we deal with the aftermath?

It doesn't necessarily need to be Marvel, so feel free to redo this in the world of choice.

 

[Reynard]

To me, the specifics are less interesting than the general idea: the powerful BBEG has the capacity to do good in the world and actively chooses not to. The BBEG isn't misunderstood or tragic or bound by fate -- they are just a jerk. Too often in trying to create complex and sophisticated themes for our games, we forget that beating up on plain old jerks is more fun.

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

This is basically Mordain the Fleshweaver's modus operandi in Eberron.

 

[aco175]

Why does he want to make people dinosaurs. Is he just crazy or have a past trauma that causes him to fixate on dinos? Maybe there is a coming and he believes this will save people and that he is acting noble. This can be something such as global warming and he thinks that lizards are more adapted for the heat over mammals. Maybe he has a bet of a dollar with his other crazy-rich friends to make people dinos, or he is just the patsy between Randolph and Mortimer Duke for their entertainment.

 

[MGibster]

It’s kind of a problem with a lot of super villains. How much better off would the Rhino be if he went into construction, demolition, or earth moving versus criminal endeavors? They addressed this in an issue of Superman where he stops someone with a jetpack from robbing a bank. Shoes is like, “You invented a personal flying device and your first thought was to rob a bank?”

 

[Micah Sweet]

A lot of super villains fixate on revenge after they get beat the first time, and unfortunately all their effort goes into that. Thus are rogues galleries born.

 

[aco175]

A lot of super villains fixate on revenge after they get beat the first time, and unfortunately all their effort goes into that. Thus are rogues galleries born.

I saw a short video on this same thing the other day. The man who invented the rotary dialing telephone was a funeral home director and suddenly the other funeral home in town started to get all the business. Come to find out the other guy's wife worked at the telephone switchboard and would connect anyone to her husbands funeral home instead of to the first guy. After the law refused to get involved, he took it upon himself to cut her out of the equation and it worked. He ended up making more money off the patents of the phone, but still liked being the funeral home director.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

To me, the specifics are less interesting than the general idea: the powerful BBEG has the capacity to do good in the world and actively chooses not to. The BBEG isn't misunderstood or tragic or bound by fate -- they are just a jerk. Too often in trying to create complex and sophisticated themes for our games, we forget that beating up on plain old jerks is more fun.

I feel like it's kind of making a comeback for perhaps obvious reasons lol.

Certainly we're increasingly seeing that people doing horrible stuff worldwide IRL are not doing it for complicated reasons, but because they're just horrible people with no morals and no connection to others, no empathy, no decency, often solipsists (much worse than narcissists), who genuinely just want a world that will be objectively worse for the vast majority of people, just better for them and maybe their friends and allies (if they even have any, rather than just lackeys/minions!).

We're also seeing very clearly for the first time in decades how willingly some people embrace being minions and lackeys and lickspittles and so on. Some people just absolutely wanna be Renfield. I wouldn't have believed how many people want to be Renfield or Mook #3 or "generic goon" even say, 5-10 years ago.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

If being turned into a dinosaur is a bad thing, DCC RPG.

If it's a good thing:

 

[Shades of Eternity]

well for starters.