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Message: <blockquote data-quote="radmod" data-source="post: 5316974" data-attributes="member: 93008">My favorite villains are the ones who annoy the bejeezas out of the PCs and then have a little twist at the end.2e D&D:a) NoBudge, the Troll. Yes, he lived underneath a bridge. Unfortunately, the party had to cross the bridge anytime they wanted to do anything interesting. He would accept as his Troll Toll horses, goats, or hobbits (preferably). At low levels the party paid. Finally they got high enough where they thought they could get away without paying by attacking him. He would then just grab anyone who attacked him and jump off. Hey, he regenerated! And why should he care if his dinner was tenderized a bit?b) My absolute favorite was created because I DM'd stupidly. The PCs did a much better job than I expected of looting a temporally displaced town of ghouls. They got so much treasure that they threatened to skew my treasure system up. So I decided I needed someone to take some of it away (yet I still wanted to reward them for the great job though). My first thought was a pirate, so I stole from Disney's TaleSpin the character of Don Karnage. I made him a half-orc sky pirate with an artifact ship which gave him special powers. He would routinely show up (with a high pitched: "Hello, my good friends. It is I, Don Karnage, how are you doing today?") and demand a 'tax'. (I, of course, intentionally gave them extra treasure so they weren't really out.) The twist: The main villains in this world were several tribes of orcs and the like that were ruled by a Hobgoblin Overlord. The Overlord had a special psychic sway over the tribes;the more evil he was, the more evil the tribes became. The Hobgoblin had also usurped the power from, you guessed it, Don Karnage! So, in the end, to make the world safe and at peace, the party had to risk life and limb to rescue Karnage from the Hobgoblin and crown him Overlord! (They almost refused to do it.)</blockquote>

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