Ultimate BBEG - Millions of offspring?

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

First check out this great ( brief ) article:

Warlord Khan has 16m male relatives alive now, says study

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,906044,00.html

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Wow!

I can imagine a campaign BBEG with similar practices and "appetites" living for twice as long as Kahn - or longer. I think the gaming potential here ( or even concept for an entire new setting ) is fantastic.

Does this inspire any game ideas for you? Too non-politically correct to consider? Or can you top this with an even better BBEG idea?

 

[DMH]

Bastion's Minions has a critter, the seeder, whos unique "power" is to convert humanoid males so that their offspring are seeders. The long term consequences (either 10 months or decades to centuries) can be staggering.

 

[interwyrm]

That story about the Khan Y chromosome is made of pureed awesome.

Of course... a person doesn't have to be a 'bad guy' to do that. Some rock stars/actors/etc. could probably manage to father just about as many children in a lifetime as ole' Ghengis. Of course, with modern child-support laws... that could get expensive.

 

[Irda Ranger]

Does this inspire any game ideas for you? Too non-politically correct to consider? Or can you top this with an even better BBEG idea?

16M Luke Skywalkers.

Seriously. Being someone's parent doesn't grant you mind control. Just ask yours.

 

[Aeolius]

You've never met any of my hags, have you?

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

Does this inspire any game ideas for you? Too non-politically correct to consider? Or can you top this with an even better BBEG idea?

I've used a Villian based on myths about the First Emperor of Chin.

Background: Basically the first Emperor of Chin (so sue me I use the old spelling ) Qin Shi Huangdi was a tyrant of incredible proportion. His reign saw so many atrocities and deaths that in what I've heard attributed to rural myth he took on the trappings of a dark and malevolent spirit/minor deity. That to this day rural people of the region do not like all the digging and work around his tomb because of the myth that he could stir if he was disturbed.

So I took these ideas and emphasized them, in a fantasy context. An ancient god-king of a forgotten empire of times long past who rested in a tomb under a mountain. Which of course was completely forbidden because if his tomb was disturbed this terrible figure might wake up and once again march forth to reconquer his empire.

Of course the obligatory ambitious nobles from a decadent city-state looking for a tool to unseat their own sorcerer-king started poking round the site and it was wakey wakey time for the BBEG. Massive undying legions of skeletons, various golems, and elementals began to issue forth from the necropolis buried under the foothills. Basically he was an uber-lich on the scale of the FRs Larloch Shadowking.

 

[Dirigible]

In my Mutants and Masterminds game, there is a collection of villains called the Khan family, spread all over eastern and central Asia, Europe and the Middle East who all claim Genghis Khan as their ancestor (though not all 16 million people with a trace of Khan's genes are part of this group, obviously). They tend to share the attributes of extreme intelligence, capability, and ruthless bastardiness.

 

[Huw]

It's amazing how quickly genes can disseminate through a population from one individual. I remember when Pocohontas was released in the UK there were protests from Pocohontas' descendants who were still living in the UK (where she had died, in complete contradiction to the film, hence the protest). There were rather a lot of them.

Similarly I read somewhere (can't find the source, sorry) that about 25% of Inuit have African features. The reason is due to one black arctic explorer, Matthew Henson, and his "socialising" with the locals.

 

[delericho]

Hang on...

Surely Genghis Khan got that Y chromosome from his father, and would have shared it with all his brothers? And, of course, it would have come from Genghis' paternal grandfather, and also be shared by his cousins, and so on. So, while there may be 16M relatives of GK around, it doesn't follow that they are necessarily descendants of his.

 

[Particle_Man]

In a D&D game, there are much quicker ways to spread your influence than waiting for children.

Lycanthropy, Undead, the Psion "Mind Seed", Chaos Beasts, etc.

If you like the "childbirth" idea, well, Slaadi, but they are the very definition of chaos, and so are uncontrollable, I guess.