So, what is your Favorite "Villain" race these days?

[Voadam]

When I ran IG, I added in Orc bards with electric amplifier back packs.

In Scrapwall I turned the cleric Nalakai into an Orcish Randy the Macho Man bard radio televangelist who also did the hyped up intros when my monster truck Hellion came out for arena gladiator shows.

So many ways to take an Orcish Thunderdome theme.

 

[payn]

Oh! Speaking of particular mindsets from particular games, I'm reminded of a time a few years back when I got my group (not the same group from the 80s) to try Champions for the first time.

Now we did agree on a darker campaign. So when they killed a villain in one of the early sessions I wasn't bothered. But then they looted the guy's apartment. We're not talking super science gadgets and mystic artefacts. Just stuff. Some nice art on the walls. The cutlery. The blu-ray player and the TV. That sort of thing. All wrapped up in the curtains.

Had to have a whole conversation about genre and genre conventions.

Yeap, its cartoonish how some players get about stuff. Like stripping out the copper wire and plumbing from dungeons lol.

 

[aco175]

Yeap, its cartoonish how some players get about stuff. Like stripping out the copper wire and plumbing from dungeons lol.

Are you saying that it is not worth taking the broken goblin arrows and casting mending on them- cause that stuff is like free money that the DM did not take into account.

 

[Krachek]

High elves.
They are smart, long life span, elitist,
They live long, but feel that they should be rather immortal, so they plan to access immortality.
Aside immortality they also want to oversee everyone else business. Being the sole guide of all other lesser races.
That make them perfect villains.

 

[MacDhomnuill]

Goat-men, anyone who has spent time around goat will find the though of human sized intelligent goat-men terrifying.

 

[cbwjm]

Goat-men, anyone who has spent time around goat will find the though of human sized intelligent goat-men terrifying.

Oh damn, that made me think of the potential of goosemen, that'd be the ultimate villain race.

I do like slaughtering the goatmen in diablo though, they die well.

 

[Voadam]

Oh damn, that made me think of the potential of goosemen, that'd be the ultimate villain race.

You should probably check out the Honkonomical Bundle then.

 

[jdrakeh]

Humans remain unmatched in the propensity for villainy. No fantasy race can hope to compare. So, humans.

 

[TheSword]

Always had a soft spot for Mind Flayers.

I feel they have become a bit too mainstream recently now it seems half the sword coast has a tadpole in their head!

 

[jdrakeh]

Always had a soft spot for Mind Flayers.

I feel they have become a bit too mainstream recently now it seems half the sword coast has a tadpole in their head!

One of the coolest RPG products I've had the honor of working on uses Similar But Legally Distinct Brain Gorgers as the high tier baddies on the material plane (there's a higher tier non-material baddie running the show). Love 'em.