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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sniffles" data-source="post: 2931000" data-attributes="member: 30035">Xanatos was voiced by Jonathan Frakes.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> My villain picks:Naraku from Inu-Yasha. His constant scheming and manipulating while remaining mostly behind the scenes would drive many players wild with frustration. He's very good for keeping the characters on task when searching for the MacGuffin. A villain modeled on Naraku would be great for summoning demons and devils into the Material Plane to harass the heroes, or creating undead for similar purposes.The homunculi from Fullmetal Alchemist. Imagine an organization of doppelgangers created by magic, now trying to make themselves 'real' people, or perhaps trying to take control of the reins of power. Doppelgangers are always a good villain anyway, IMHO, but doppelgangers inspired by the homunculi could have both a very sinister side and provoke a little sympathy from some characters. It would be even more disturbing if these doppelgangers were somehow imbued with the spirits of the dead - characters could run into villains who contained the memories and personalities of old friends or family members.Anything like the Borg from Star Trek or the Cybermen from Doctor Who. Villains who were once human but have had their humanity stripped from them and now consider any creature not like them to be inferior. The Borg are scary because they want to make everything else like themselves, and they adapt everything to themselves instead of destroying it. The Cybermen are a little more of the classic 'if you aren't of us you deserve to die' type. Warforged are an obvious way of adapting either of these villain types to a fantasy/D&D setting, but you could also make these villains out of some sort of spellstitched template or undead or constructs.</blockquote>

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