Whatever happened to Bargle in your campaign?

[SpiderMonkey]

As Title.

Bargle was the adverserial character in the red Basic Boxed set where I learned to play/DM. I placed him in the lower level of the dungeon provided in the DM's booklet, but no one ever played long enough to get to him before we went on to 2nd ed. AD&D and other things.

So Bargle escaped in my game. I sometimes think of bringing him back as a sort of "Flagg" character from the Stephen King novels (a reality-hopping chaos maker). I fear, however, that at least one of my players, who is familiar with Bargle, might find the idea ludicrous.

So what about all of you?

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Bargle always escapes in the end, to return to menace the PCs anew. One day, I might let them kill him for good.

In fact, now that you mention it, it's about time for him to pop up again, complete with a cunning plan.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

My Karameikos campaign was set post-WotI, so Bargle's not in Karameikos, but my campaign, if it had lasted, would have had them going to his ruined tower and from there into a pocket demiplane to recover a McGuffin he used on behalf of Hendricks, back in the day, the Anvil of Screams.

 

[Agent Oracle]

Oh! You mean Admiral Bargle, of the HMSD* "Red Box"**?

The same one my players are currently under the command of?

Yeah. He's doing just fine. Bargle is living his dream, global conquest on a day-to-day basis. Though he is kind of bored, seeing how he has now conquered countless worlds, but always from orbit. He never gets to go down and get sacrificial blood under his fingernails anymore.

*House Mezzebone System Defense: The nice way of saying the Evil Dragon empire's conquest-happy space military.

**The HMSD "Red Box", biggest, most frightening carrier-class ship in the campaign. (My players still haven't figured it out.)

 

[SpiderMonkey]

Oh! You mean Admiral Bargle, of the HMSD* "Red Box"**?

**The HMSD "Red Box", biggest, most frightening carrier-class ship in the campaign. (My players still haven't figured it out.)

Awesome.

 

[blargney the second]

Damn mage got away, and it still bugs me!