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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 164731" data-attributes="member: 1106">Given that villains are perhaps the cornerstone of almost any campaign I can think of, are often given little thought to, made as scenery-munching cliches or executed poorly, I can see a lot of use for villain advice.  I think that even goes for DMs who think they've got it in the bag when it comes to villains...do you still refer to the campaign/running the game/adventure advice chapters in the 3E DMG?I'm a big fan of the Complete Book of Villains as an idea generating tome.  Sure, I could do without it, but the inspiration factor, encouragement of attention to detail, and suggestions for ways of making villains interesting and dynamic is large enough that I'm very glad I have a copy.  I consider villains important enough to the campaign to warrant such attention.I suspect that a convincing, memorable, novel and well executed villain, like a well-written adventure, is harder to do than most people think - simply because I've seen so very few memorable villains under many DMs.But I don't think that this is the subject of the Book of Vile Darkness.  It sounds like a set of rules and suggestions or plots based around the idea of "evil", rather than a Villain Construction Kit.  Given that Monte said that TSR/WotC had never done anything like the project before, I suspect I'm right in suggesting that it has a different focus.</blockquote>