D&D General Nominate your favourite D&D villain!

[Tonguez]

Gary - who played a rogue and would always pvp the party!!!!

 

[lowkey13]

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[Tonguez]

can we forget the Spider Queen

 

[lowkey13]

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[Urriak Uruk]

can we forget the Spider Queen

"Hey the villain of this module is a Spider Goddess, what should she look like?"

"Put a woman's head on a spider?"

"BRILLIANT"

 

[Sacrosanct]

"Hey the villain of this module is a Spider Goddess, what should she look like?"

"Put a woman's head on a spider?"

"BRILLIANT"

Just makes sense. I mean, all mythological spider goddesses were like that. Greek Arachne , Sumerian Uttu, and African Anansi

 

[Jacob Lewis]

I thought he explicitly did not change to Cyric.

Man, now I gotta dig up info from like 2 or 3 editions ago! Hang on...

The death of Bane during the Time of Troubles in 1358 devastated Fzoul. Following this, and an encounter with Banes successor, Cyric, Fzoul reluctantly converted to the worship of the new god of strife, death, and murder.

~Villain's Lorebook, pg 26​

 

[Bitbrain]

No love (should I say hate? ) for the Dragon of Tyr? This guy is awesome. Burning Athasian dreams, 25d12 of superheated sand at a time.

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Seconded, and with a second, more “metal” picture.

BORYS, THE DRAGON OF TYR

A lot of other villains in various modules and campaigns attempt to take over a world/ascend to godhood.

He’s about the only one who begins the campaign have already achieved victory some ~2,000 years prior . . . Namely by permanently damaging the planet’s ecosystem.

Oh and godhood? Pffft, he tried his hand at being worshipped like a god, only to find it boring. It wasn’t enough of a challenge for him.

Seriously, his 2e stats are ridiculously OP.

 

[Legatus Legionis]

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[MonsterEnvy]

I did not have one on my computer of her in her dragon form.

Besides, people might mistake her for tiamat in that form, and I wanted to keep the two separate entities

They are considered the same entity nowadays.

To advance the worship of Takhisis (Tiamat’s name on Krynn)

 

[Legatus Legionis]

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[Urriak Uruk]

They are considered the same entity nowadays.

I'm pretty sure they are not, but I'm not going to actually check...

 

[MonsterEnvy]

I'm pretty sure they are not, but I'm not going to actually check...

I just posted a quote from the DMG.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

I just posted a quote from the DMG.

Doesn't make a lot of sense considering in Dragonlance Takhisis dies but in Forgotten Realms (or Baator) she's alive and imprisoned, but the DMG does indeed say in a magic item's description that Takhisis is Tiamat's name on Krynn.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Doesn't make a lot of sense considering in Dragonlance Takhisis dies but in Forgotten Realms (or Baator) she's alive and imprisoned, but the DMG does indeed say in a magic item's description that Takhisis is Tiamat's name on Krynn.

Gods can have different manifestations on different worlds. A true death on one would just result in permanent banishment from it.

 

[JeffB]

Maybe not the greatest of all time, or most well known, but the ones I have had fun with torturing..errr..springing on...players over the years

Acererak (going by several different names depending on the setting)
The Slavers
Sanbalet
The (Chaotic) Cleric at The Keep
The Lich King (13A)
An unnamed EHP of Bane in my FR campaign. they never found out his name and it drove them crazy.
Zargon.
The Great Kingdom

 

[Wolfpack48]

 

[Morrus]

OK, I'm creating the poll now. I'm including all those who posted a villian name and a picture. I'll post the link once the poll is ready.