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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6987799" data-attributes="member: 7006">I personally think THIS is the much more interesting &quot;twist&quot; you could do.&nbsp; The &quot;twist&quot; is that the patron doesn't in fact want to betray the party!&nbsp; He actually just wants them to do stuff for him!&nbsp; THAT'S much more surprising than any other overdone &quot;secretly a bad guy&quot; trope.&nbsp; Especially if you add in what Bawylie mentions above, with other people thinking he's a secret bad guy.&nbsp; And in fact... the name you came up with is fantastic for that.&nbsp; The party or some NPC will probably solve the anagram at some point and then think &quot;Ah ha!&nbsp; He's a vampire!&quot;, and the guy would be all like &quot;Dude that's just my name.&nbsp; It's just a coincidence!&nbsp; And besides... even if I *was* secretly a vampire lord, why in the hell would I NAME MYSELF THAT?!?&nbsp; What kind of lame-ass secret-keeper does that kind of thing?!?&quot;It's exactly the same reversal of overdone trope that always inspires me to create PCs that have two living parents and a handful of siblings... all of whom are happy together. &quot;What?!?&nbsp; A character who hasn't seen their parents murdered right in front of their eyes as a child, or abandoned in the woods when they were a baby?!?&nbsp; What kind of backstory is that?!?&nbsp; Is that kind of thing even possible?!?&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 6987799, member: 7006"] I personally think THIS is the much more interesting "twist" you could do. The "twist" is that the patron doesn't in fact want to betray the party! He actually just wants them to do stuff for him! THAT'S much more surprising than any other overdone "secretly a bad guy" trope. Especially if you add in what Bawylie mentions above, with other people [I]thinking[/I] he's a secret bad guy. And in fact... the name you came up with is fantastic for that. The party or some NPC will probably solve the anagram at some point and then think "Ah ha! He's a vampire!", and the guy would be all like "Dude that's just my name. It's just a coincidence! And besides... even if I *was* secretly a vampire lord, why in the hell would I NAME MYSELF THAT?!? What kind of lame-ass secret-keeper does that kind of thing?!?" It's exactly the same reversal of overdone trope that always inspires me to create PCs that have two living parents and a handful of siblings... all of whom are happy together. [I] "What?!? A character who hasn't seen their parents murdered right in front of their eyes as a child, or abandoned in the woods when they were a baby?!? What kind of backstory is that?!? Is that kind of thing even possible?!?"[/I] [/QUOTE]

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