Cool villians never die! They just change settings.

[Dareoon Dalandrove]

I just had a look at the GI joe comercial and had a thought. One night when we were playing we started talking about GI joe. I brought up the Destro as a cool DnD villain. He has memorable style and is tuff as nails. I mean come on he has a metal head!!
Have any of you taken villains like Destro and brought them into your campaigns?

 

[Tom Cashel]

I don't know if anyone reads Hellboy, but I've used the Mike Mignola image of Rasputin as the template for a Red Wizard in my Forgotten Realms campaign. He wanted to "join" the party and they refused to take the bait....

But he'll be back! Mwa ha ha ha ha ha!!!

Come to think of it, Abe Sapien might be a cool character too. Or even Roger the Homunculus. D20 Hellboy!

 

[Mark Plemmons]

I used a western version of DC Comics' "Felix Faust" as a recurring villain in my Deadlands campaign for a while.

Actually, the whole town the party used for a 'base' was named after (and sometimes resembled) characters and things from real life or fiction.

Elizabeth Phair (Liz Phair the rock star) worked in Entelmann's bakery, the butcher was based off a combination of "Ham" and "Monk" from Doc Savage, Doc Brown from Back to the Future was the town blacksmith, the mysterious young genius Verner (based on Sherlock Holmes) had a house on the outskirts of town, etc etc etc.

Surprisingly, it wasn't comedic at all. It worked out pretty well. Maybe because I knew exactly what the NPC's personality should be whenever the party encountered them.

- Mark

 

[Cor Azer]

Speaking of Destro (well, GI Joe), I once used twin villains named Tomax and Xamot, and their orc legion was the Crimson Guard

 

[Dr. Confoundo]

D20 Hellboy!

Nope... GURPS Hellboy. Coming soon.

Doc

 

[Deedlit]

My campaign is currently focused on fighting Myotismon.

 

[Tom Cashel]

GURPS Hellboy, eh? Better than a d20 party of 6th level Hellboys, I s'pose.

How about using alien nasties from Krull?

 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Krull you say? yep the Krull monster has reared his ugly head in my groups campaign a time or two, complete with "laser" wielding armies.

Unfortuenatly no body in my group has harnessed the power of love, so we can't kill him with the lame handfire/flamethrower attack.

 

[Ace]

I don't know if anyone reads Hellboy, but I've used the Mike Mignola image of Rasputin as the template for a Red Wizard in my Forgotten Realms campaign. He wanted to "join" the party and they refused to take the bait....

But he'll be back! Mwa ha ha ha ha ha!!!

Come to think of it, Abe Sapien might be a cool character too. Or even Roger the Homunculus. D20 Hellboy!

How about GURPS Hellboy coming soon....

 

[Dr. Confoundo]

How about GURPS Hellboy coming soon....

Didn't I just say that?