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<blockquote data-quote="Pants" data-source="post: 1436632" data-attributes="member: 8849">Even better...Have the technomage dude hire the PC's for a couple of seemingly unrelated series of quests.&nbsp; Later on technomage fantastically betrays them and disappears from site for a while.&nbsp; The PC's now have an archenemy, who they hate, who is pretty powerful and quite out of their reach.&nbsp; Their anger will fester and they will want to take out this guy.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />It is quite important that you don't have this guy appear and fight the PC's 'just to show off his power.'&nbsp; This can really piss off some players and there's the relatively small chance that things will spiral out of control and you'll have one very dead archenemy.I'd also stay away from the Deus Ex Machina type stuff, that can also piss off players.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pants, post: 1436632, member: 8849"] Even better... Have the technomage dude hire the PC's for a couple of seemingly unrelated series of quests. Later on technomage fantastically betrays them and disappears from site for a while. The PC's now have an archenemy, who they hate, who is pretty powerful and quite out of their reach. Their anger will fester and they will want to take out this guy. ;) It is quite important that you don't have this guy appear and fight the PC's 'just to show off his power.' This can really piss off some players and there's the relatively small chance that things will spiral out of control and you'll have one very dead archenemy. I'd also stay away from the Deus Ex Machina type stuff, that can also piss off players. [/QUOTE]

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