What's your Bad Guy race like?

[InVinoVeritas]

So, you've got a campaign started, and there's a stock force of bad guys. What are they like?

Do you use orcs and have hordes of brutes rampaging across the countryside? Do you prefer a more regimented army of hobgoblins? Perhaps trapmaking kobolds are more your style.

What are your bad guys like?

 

[interwyrm]

I prefer human cults that worship and follow demons/devils.

 

[Ringan]

My preference is for mostly human-like, intelligent adversaries capable of guile. For example, the trolls in our setting are more fey-like than beasts; they are stealthy and tricky.

 

[Clueless]

'Loths... it's always with the yugoloths with my GM...

 

[BRP2]

No one is ever really completely "bad" in my campaigns.

 

[AbeTheGnome]

high elves. regimented meritocracy. racist as anything. expansionist empire-builders with a strong navy (think high point of the British Empire). they use crossbows and rapiers, and all their warships are equipped with huge ballistae.

 

[Tonguez]

An expansionist cult of human zealots dedicated to the god of War (noble but savage barbarians)

Sahuagin as highly territorial raiders who just see humans as another food source

Aquatic Ogre-Magi (Merrow Magi?) attempting to set themselves up as minor gods

Various powerful spirits in service of the god of depravity each of which has set itself up as a ruler in its own domain (include a Nightwing, a pair of Half-Fiend Trolls, a Ogre-Magi and a pseudonatural otyugh with a human daughter who is his arch nemesis)

 

[Darklone]

I don't care for the races, I want intelligent evil dudes.

 

[Nifft]

Goblinoids are regarded as pests. The default starting kingdom has a "kill-on-sight" policy.

Human demonic cultists, particularly those living out in the Wastes, often undertake hideous rituals which physically transform them into monstrous humanoids (like Gnolls). Yuan-ti also fall into this category, though their demonic cultism is so old and entrenched that they're nearly a separate race.

The Valaryan Republic is largely human, but practices slavery and does not respect monarchy, and thus sometimes comes into conflict with the default kingdom.

The Libertine Federation of Free Islands is largely human, but harbors pirates and resists colonization & religious conversion, and thus sometimes comes into conflict with the default kingdom.

The Thurn (albino cave elves with a spider fetish) are virtually unknown on this world, but they seek to enslave the humans who live on various other worlds.

Demons, Devils and Yugoloths are an ever-present threat.

An army of skinless dead has attacked many nations around the Great Sea, striking the coast or far inland, and then moving on. Their goal is unknown. In their wake comes a hideous assortment of extraplanar scavengers.

The political activity of the Dragons has increased, and their minions are growing more active in all nations. This may be a prelude to more direct action.

There are fey who blame the recent ecological disaster on humanity, and will seek to eradicate further threat from this obnoxious upstart race just as soon as they recover.

Strange bipedal beings have constructed a hive-city far to the south. Some appear human on the outside, but when you cut them open, their organs are transparent, or are actually agglomerations of blind worms, or evaporate into smoke when they touch air. They are unreasoning, they possess powerful sorcery, and they twist natural creatures into hideous aberrations. The Kaorti will become more of a threat the longer they are left alone.

The Efreeti are not particularly friendly, and neither are the Vampire Lords of the far East.

Er... my PCs are in trouble, aren't they?

Cheers, -- N

 

[Evilhalfling]

On the Nameless Isle
Goboons -aboereal goblins - cunning but not long term thinkers
Yuan-ti psionic of course; arrogant, confident, beginning to realize it may be time to kill all the humans again.
Devils - at least 3 who see the island as their private territory for soul harvesting
Necromantic human tribesman who see their ancestors as their first line of defense.
One to five insane elven liches - inwardly focused, caught up in their own private games.
the number depends on how many have already lost the game.

oh and the good guys
- a friendly tribe of primitives, with one fat trader who has gone native. So far their ritual cannibalism hasn't come up.
- One Dragon aka god of Rainbows. not quite as tough, or divine as it pretends to be.
fated to be killed at first opportunity.