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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Zardoz" data-source="post: 3060027" data-attributes="member: 704">For setting villians I am actually meaningfully familiar with, I have to stick to Dragonlance.Throw yet another vote in for Lord Soth.  He is a particularly well developed and appealing villian.  To me, he is the iconic Death Knight.  Extra points to him for having a chance to avert the Cataclysm, but deciding just as he reached Ishtar to turn around, go home, and accuse his wife of cheating on him one last time.  After all, accusing your wife of adultury is much more important then redeeming your good name and averting a divine apocalypse.Lorde Toede, also from Dragonlance, is also a very appealing villian, if you have ever read book 5 of the Villians series of novels.  More funny than evil though.On a related note, I think that the best D&D hero would have to be Huma, as written 'The Legend of Huma' by Richard A. Knaak.  Given what the setting demanded of the character, it would have been very easy to create a character that was disappointing.  But with one book, we end up with a charcter that is not preacy or angsty or immature.Getting away from Dragonlance, I would say that the Awnsheghlien from Birthright made for intresting villians.  I would also suggest that the Red Dragon in Dragon Mountain makes for a dangerous villian as well.  And Greyhawk has created more iconic villians than any other setting.And while we are on that subject, have there really been any compelling D&D villians created since early 2nd edition?  About 90% of us will recognize the name Acerack, even if we have never gone up against him.  Same for Vecna, Iuz, and Rary.  But I dont really think that any compelling villians have been created recently.END COMMUNICATION</blockquote>

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