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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 2657594" data-attributes="member: 5948">Well, the NPC my players hate the most isn't even a bad guy, particularly.Darien Skye is an enormously muscled holovid actor (Star Wars campaign) with political ambitions and a set of policies that come directly from one of his staggeringly stupid action flicks.  And yes, I came up with this idea before certain political developments in California a few years back...Why do they hate him?  Because I do ALL his dialogue in a horrible Austrian accent, because he is amazingly stupid and yet his wealth and connections always seem to save him from the consequences of his actions, because he hit on the Force-sensitive noble so obnoxiously he almost got himself Force-lightninged to death in the middle of a Senate cocktail party, and because, for a group full of pilots and Jedi, a guy who makes vids with titles like 'Lightsaber of Vengeance', Starfighters of the Fire Planet', and 'Death Prince of the Jedi' is like a red rag to a bull.  Especially once they got wind of his involvement in a political plot and did a bit of research by subjecting themselves to some of his work...This all happened by accident.  I've had less luck generating hate for the main villain, ironically enough.  Sure, they FEAR him, but they don't hate him as such.  I think the key is personal contact.  It's really hard to generate visceral hate for Zorgon the Dark Lord who seeks to escape his ancient imprisonment in the dread volcano fastness of Splurgoth.  But the guy who you actually have to spend time talking to - that's another matter.  It's just a matter of keeping him alive long enough for the hatred to properly mature.</blockquote>

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