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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KirayaTiDrekan" data-source="post: 6600271" data-attributes="member: 6755061">That would be perfect.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  See the sblock for more details and questions.  All others...spoilers!  Don't look!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />[sblock=CB only]What I'm thinking, and I'll work up the stats, is a villain who has time traveled so much that they've met themselves quite a few times and collaborate with their own temporal doppelgangers.  They thus form a sort of network or organization comprised solely of themselves.  So, the PCs will meet variations of the same person and even kill them on occasion, only to have them pop up again.  Their ultimate goal is intensely personal - create a divergence in which their loved one (spouse, child, lover, whatever) is spared death.  Every timeline the villain has created by changing events has always resulted in the loved one's death.  They've gotten desperate enough that no price is too high, even if millions must die, they will do whatever it takes to prevent the death of their loved one.The villain's ultimate defeat will only come when the PCs find a way to prevent the villain from ever being born - likely at the end of the campaign - because the villain and their loved one exist in an eternal paradox - the loved on cannot live while the villain does but the villain doesn't realize this or refuses to accept it.What do you think?  (Feel free to suggest tweaks.)[/sblock]</blockquote>

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