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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Bowman" data-source="post: 7317870" data-attributes="member: 6925649"><p>One Idea I had is what if you had a game where one player wanted to play the villain, you give him a character sheet, the rest of the players play the heroes, the villain attempts some scheme and the other players try to foil him and a neutral DM adjudicates between them using the rules of the game. One of the players will have to accept that the encounter will likely result in the death of his character or his otherwise coming to a bad end. A PC villain on the other hand doesn't have to hold back, as he is not the DM, he is under no obligation to be neutral or to fight fair, while the DM&nbsp; might be tempted to pull some punches, a PC villain is not! You ever try this? One time I played a PC villain with a separate DM and a group of other player characters who were my target. My PC villain got defeated in short order, I guess I wasn't so good. The only actions a PC villain controls are his characters. My villain was a high level wizard, he had a crystal ball, and was scrying the characters as they were shopping in a town, so using a wish spell, he wished that a Tyrannosaurus Rex would suddenly appear and attack the group of town players in the town square. The DM has a lot of fun with this, the encounter didn't make any sense from the other PCs perspective, but it didn't have to.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Thomas Bowman, post: 7317870, member: 6925649"] One Idea I had is what if you had a game where one player wanted to play the villain, you give him a character sheet, the rest of the players play the heroes, the villain attempts some scheme and the other players try to foil him and a neutral DM adjudicates between them using the rules of the game. One of the players will have to accept that the encounter will likely result in the death of his character or his otherwise coming to a bad end. A PC villain on the other hand doesn't have to hold back, as he is not the DM, he is under no obligation to be neutral or to fight fair, while the DM might be tempted to pull some punches, a PC villain is not! You ever try this? One time I played a PC villain with a separate DM and a group of other player characters who were my target. My PC villain got defeated in short order, I guess I wasn't so good. The only actions a PC villain controls are his characters. My villain was a high level wizard, he had a crystal ball, and was scrying the characters as they were shopping in a town, so using a wish spell, he wished that a Tyrannosaurus Rex would suddenly appear and attack the group of town players in the town square. The DM has a lot of fun with this, the encounter didn't make any sense from the other PCs perspective, but it didn't have to. [/QUOTE]

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