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Evil protagonists from fiction - or 'Examples of how to play the bad guy without being a total jerk'
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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 8288103" data-attributes="member: 8461"><p>If you're running a super high-level game, then I'd say <strong>Ainz Ooal Gown</strong>, from Kugane Maruyama's light novel series <em>Overlord</em>. While it's also a manga and an anime, I'd recommend the novels, as they offer much better insight into Ainz's character.</p><p></p><p>An ordinary person who thought it would be fun to play a powerful lich with the maximum negative karma value (that game's version of an evil alignment), Ainz places extreme importance on the people closest to him, with other people mattering only insofar as they're useful in reaching his goals. While some of it is due to his undead state (e.g. making it difficult for him to experience guilt about killing, since any strong emotion he feels is immediately suppressed), he's ultimately a person who values his party above all.</p><p></p><p>It helps that that the magic system in <em>Overlord</em> has parallels to D&D Third Edition. Notice the use of metamagic when he's buffing:</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]6dxICJHd518[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 8288103, member: 8461"] If you're running a super high-level game, then I'd say [B]Ainz Ooal Gown[/B], from Kugane Maruyama's light novel series [I]Overlord[/I]. While it's also a manga and an anime, I'd recommend the novels, as they offer much better insight into Ainz's character. An ordinary person who thought it would be fun to play a powerful lich with the maximum negative karma value (that game's version of an evil alignment), Ainz places extreme importance on the people closest to him, with other people mattering only insofar as they're useful in reaching his goals. While some of it is due to his undead state (e.g. making it difficult for him to experience guilt about killing, since any strong emotion he feels is immediately suppressed), he's ultimately a person who values his party above all. It helps that that the magic system in [I]Overlord[/I] has parallels to D&D Third Edition. Notice the use of metamagic when he's buffing: [MEDIA=youtube]6dxICJHd518[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
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