Favorite villian created or modified

[Stone Angel]

I just wanted to know about the best villian or foil for the pc's whether it was one that was created or one you modified from another source. This should be fun make it interesting. If you are not a dm then how about the villian that was most memorable during a campaign. Details are great! I have to run an errand so I'll post mine in a bit.

 

[greymarch]

The greatest villain to ever appear in my gaming group's campaign is Orcus. In fact one of our players still has his wand. We cant wait until his 3rd edition stats to appear in the Book of Vile Darkness!

My brother and I are in the process of writing up stats for Shan Nikkoleth, the infamous Death Knight Commander of Hellgate Keep. He should be a good villain too.

By the way, you misspelled villain in your subject line.

 

[barsoomcore]

An accountant. My greatest villain was a young woman named Collette who worked as an accountant for a trading family. She terrifies my party more than any demon prince ever could.

She's just sneaky, that's all. Really, really sneaky. She's forever getting them embroiled in huge life-threatening situations, never risking her own pretty rear end. She's gotten them wanted for murder, espionage, theft... They've ended up in duels, in the midst of battling armies, and never seem to get the better of her.

It's gotten to the point where just hearing that she's in town is enough to make them run the other way. They know they'll end up going head-to-head with her and they know they'll lose.

She's charming, quick-witted and as razor-edged and heartless as sword blade. No scheme is too underhanded, no ploy too cruel for her to make use of. I love her.

And she's an accountant. She doesn't even OWN a sword.

 

[Hand of Evil]

The Noble mother of one of the player characters! Worked from the shadows with hirelings. Did not like his 'friends', plot to remove them. Thought he should marry, kidnapped a princess and had her son and is lackeys save her.

It took the party sometime to find out she was the villian behind their adventures.

 

[Neo]

Mines on my site... checkout the D&D page and look for Rakhattis the Dragon King, he's my current campaigns main villain, and his stats as they stand are available for download in PDF format from there.

 

[BluWolf]

My favorite villain for throwing at players in my game is an insane goblin named Zues. I created him back in the late 80s as a ripoff Mojo from the x-men series.

He was the stupid little goblin assitant of a powerful evil mage that was experimented on endlessly until he ended up with innate spell casting ability and a ridiculuous intelligence. Under 2E he was a little mixed up but under 3E I just made him a sorcerer.


The villain I most feared was in a FR campaign I played in back in the 80s. A vampire named Murphus Darkhelm. He chased our party for two years with thugs and various degrees of assasins. We never actually saw him and the campaign ended before we could resolve the plot thread.

 

[Tewligan]

Unfortunately, my campaign ended before I got to use this guy to full effect. I had a small gang of bandits attack the party. All of the bandits were killed except for a low-level sorceror, who the party punished for attacking them by crushing his hands with a sledgehammer. They then released him to fend for himself. Anyway, I had plans for him to grow in power, unifying the area's bandit gangs under his control. Eventually, after being repeatedly hounded by thugs and bounty hunters, the party would have come face-to-face with the local bandit king, who wears heavy steel gauntlets and casts all of his spells with Still Spell, and who is obsessed with revenge on the villains who took his hands. Man, I wish real life hadn't ended that campaign - I would love to have seen their faces when they realized who it was, and the part they played in his rise to power.

 

[Black Omega]

I think the best villains get that way with history, backstory and depth of interaction with the PC's.

Probably my best villain was during a six year run where I was doing Champions. I introduced a NPC called Akiko Masami (Yes, it's two first names, I was younger then.) who was a wood spirit forced into human form as a plot against one PC. The plot failed, he liked her and decided to help her out. She ended up training with him for a time. Then another PC helped her start on working in the scientific branch of the world organization they were with. As the PC's rose higher in the organization, so did she, ending up an assistent to the leader. And then in a situation where Earth was attacked, the guy in charge was put out of action for a while and everything went to hell...Akiko stepped in and more or less took over in a fashion that suggested she had no intention of stepping back down later. And good Lawful Evil fashion, she helped the PC's save the world, in overly ruthless fashion.

She worked out so well because she started as someone naive, innocent, and very intelligent. The PC's thought it was great when she grew stronger willed and more assertive..to a point. Then they started to worry a little. Theh by the end when she ruthlessly used the PC's to help save the world it ended up in a situation where a few players wanted to start new PC's to oppose her because the players thought she'd crossed over to being a villain. but their characters wouldn't do anything because they thought the situation did justify extreme measures.