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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenada" data-source="post: 9398783" data-attributes="member: 70468">The campaign I am running does not have a BBEG. It’s not about thwarting someone else’s plans. It’s about what the PCs are doing. For anyone interested, I try to post <a href="https://www.enworld.org/search/3133643/?t=post&c%5Bthread%5D=682741&c%5Busers%5D=kenada&o=date" target="_blank">recaps</a> in the five words commentary thread.The things that drives threats are their goals and motivations. Natalia (a vampire ally) wants to sire more vampires. The bandits are looking for high tech loot for their home country. The raiders want to exfiltrate the fallen kingdom’s treasure to protect it (but only their leader knows this the rank and file don’t know this). Firlax (a fire dragon) wants to keep the kingdom’s treasures where they are. The expeditionary forces are there to stabilize the area and claim/control territory. The fiends and celestials are an alien threat, but they are sequestered and on the defensive.I systematize how threats pursue goals in my homebrew system. Factions will have mechanics, so I can’t just decide on a whim that the game is about what I want my (ab)using my GM role to rig things in the favor of a particular threat or faction.I liked Nyrissa in Kingmaker because I killed or banished more than half the party and their cohorts in the final fight. Otherwise, I can’t think of any in the sense that’s being used here. It’s not something I particularly like myself.</blockquote>

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