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As a GM the easiest way for me to track multiple NPCs, and to make them memorable, is to cast actors in their roles. I don't know how common this practice is but it makes voice and mannerism consistency a breeze. I never let players in on this trick, as it tends to ruin immersion, "Quick, cut off Glen Close's head!"
I won't bore you with my RotRL cast list, but I'm looking for some help with Karzoug. I'm not a fan of the typical archvillain choices (Two parts James Earl Jones, one part Jeremy Irons, add a little Alan Rickman for flavor) - I'd like someone menacing yet unusual, unexpected.
Any ideas?
Michael Douglas's voice.
Make him appear to be a single braided, tall, lanky Al Pacino
I think someone posted about this somewhere else, but I can't remember where.
My vote was for David Carradine (Bill from Kill Bill). He's ancient, wrinkly but still vital, nasty as a cut snake, and would look kinda funny with gems superglued to his forehead.
An evil Mr. Rogers...
"Can you submit to my will? I knew you could!"
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"Greed is right. Greed works.Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms -- greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge -- has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed -- you mark my words -- will not only save Varisia, but all of Golarion." - Karzoug as played by Michael Douglas :)
http://66.235.201.12/videoclips/videomoviespeechwallstreet11uyuyuyu11112222 3.wmv
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"Greed is right. Greed works.Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms -- greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge -- has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed -- you mark my words -- will not only save Varisia, but all of Golarion." - Karzoug as played by Michael Douglas :)
http://66.235.201.12/videoclips/videomoviespeechwallstreet11uyuyuyu11112222 3.wmv
Nice!
Chow Yun Fat makes a really creepy good bad guy (see Curse of the Golden Flowers).
I'd have to go with Bill Nighy. He played the vampire lord Viktor from Underworld and one of the main antagonists in The Constant Gardener. He just seems like a dandy fit for Karzoug.
Geoffrey Rush, aka Captain Barbossa in the Pirates of the Carribean movies (without the "pirate" accent).
Talk is cheap. I say show us whom you'd cast as the Claimer, the Runelord of Greed.
That's right: Whip out your Photoshop (or picture doctoring tool of choice) and show us how those guys would look as Karzoug.
I'm sure we have a couple of people with the right skills here. And lots with the right enthusiasm. If nothing else, it will be fun. And I think a couple of you will be able to make a picture that would assure that their choice would get the role if RotRL were ever made into a movie.
Not to hijack this thread further, I opened a new one and started it off with a pic of Michael Douglas as Karzoug.
Michael Douglas would make a fine runelord, I'd say. He really knows how to portray a ruthless bastard.