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Message: <blockquote data-quote="d2OKC" data-source="post: 5822068" data-attributes="member: 97351">I'm not sure if this will help or not. The best villain I ever used was dead before the campaign even began.  I described a person to the players before the start of the game, and asked them to each come up with a reason their character hated him, because he was about to be hung after being found guilty of a string of murders and I wanted all of them at the execution for the opening encounter. It turns out, of course, that the villain never committed any of the acts he was found guilty of, or any of the acts the characters described (he was being controlled by an intellect devourer the whole time), but every time his body resurfaced in the campaign (once at the hanging, once as a zombie bodyguard, once as a flameskull, and finally as a helpful spirit in the final battle of heroic tier) they had an irrational hatred for this person who never really deserved it in the first place.</blockquote>