My personal favourite is Moon-Beasts. But then I am a big Lovecraft fat so there ya go...
I love the feeling from them though.
What book are those from?
My personal favourite is Moon-Beasts. But then I am a big Lovecraft fat so there ya go...
I love the feeling from them though.Like Clefairy?
A Chuthulu Clefairy?
Just had to go there didn't you...
...big, grandiose larger-than-life villains whose schemes transcend the boundaries of reality itself!you have just described the human wizards. all of them.:Narrows eyes:
I'm watching you, buddy.
be sure to--in fact consider it your first lesson. i'm a human wizard, son.
*With a Bow towards Mr. Fishy*
Aboleths!
A big fish + friends is absolute fun and murder on PC's. Fish + Wizard levels + lots of deception = hilarity
Trolls. My new favorite monster to use.
I like fey that treat the world like a storybook.
Imagine a powerful fey pulling the strings on both sides for the sole reason of creating a fantastic story.
The fey releases the ancient evil. The fey orchestrates the tragic backgrounds of the heroes. The fey installs a mentor to guide them.
And also ensures there is an inevitable betrayal. What is a story without a thrilling twist?
>:)
I like fey that treat the world like a storybook.
Imagine a powerful fey pulling the strings on both sides for the sole reason of creating a fantastic story.
The fey releases the ancient evil. The fey orchestrates the tragic backgrounds of the heroes. The fey installs a mentor to guide them.
And also ensures there is an inevitable betrayal. What is a story without a thrilling twist?
>:)
I had an Elven Loch do that before. He controlled the Mentors as Simulacrums. Released the Evil he wanted destroyed. And made sure the party had plenty of drama in it.
I really need to pull that plot line out again...
You could do a plot of a revolution that's secretly backed by a Keketar not for the betterment of the people, but because the society was too static and stagnant and the protean saw an opportunity for change and chaos, for good or ill.
To make sure it's not too predictable, the proteans are helping both sides in various ways.
I am grinning like the Cheshire Cat.
A devil is using a nonevil intermediary to orchestrate some terrible deeds by a paladin order, by letting them know of (rival) infernal activities in a region.
Whenever these paladins ride in to smite evil, the devil's neutral minions (mercenaries, neutral shapeshifters or things that can hide their alignment) help cause collateral damage, worsening the peoples' opinion of the apparently overzealous crusaders. Not only that, the devil places rumourmongers in the populace to heighten their hatred.
The party ends up hearing of these violent knights that destroy innocent and evil alike in their quests to root out their enemies...
=D
Had great succes with a barghest at low level - with some goblins followers.
The ability to shapechange to a goblin makes interaction with the players possible without giving away his true identity.
"no I'm just a poor little goblin I'll tell you anything you need to know if you let me live"
Levitate and dimention door, blink - to get out of a bad situation - so he can fight another day (it was a greater succes for the players when they finally killed him, than if he had just been an other villan they meet kill and move on).
And Rumors that he could turn him self into a wolf made the players think he was a druid.. All great fun..
An finally easy to scale - with the advancement to greater barghest.
Beholder with Lich template.
Your next enemy is the WORLD ITSELF.
Aeons ago, a vast thing of primal horror was bound within a vessel of rock and earth. Now it wakes, maddened by the presents of 'parasites' living on and in its body. It writhes and heaves, mountain ranges bending and twisting like great limbs and the seas roiling and splashing like a god's bathwater.
The heroes must find a way to subdue or slay the monstrosity, which no doubt has crazed cults rising in worship of its awakening. Many other creatures and forces have been roused by the upheaval.
What kappens if they kill it? With the living thing that was the world dead, what will happen to life on its surface?
Okay, so maybe this plot is Mythic. Or beyond Mythic!
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Your next enemy is the WORLD ITSELF.
Aeons ago, a vast thing of primal horror was bound within a vessel of rock and earth. Now it wakes, maddened by the presents of 'parasites' living on and in its body. It writhes and heaves, mountain ranges bending and twisting like great limbs and the seas roiling and splashing like a god's bathwater.
The heroes must find a way to subdue or slay the monstrosity, which no doubt has crazed cults rising in worship of its awakening. Many other creatures and forces have been roused by the upheaval.
What kappens if they kill it? With the living thing that was the world dead, what will happen to life on its surface?
Okay, so maybe this plot is Mythic. Or beyond Mythic!
So, Rovagug.
The being so powerful, that Sarenrae and Asmodeus teamed up to seal it.
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So, Rovagug.The being so powerful, that Sarenrae and Asmodeus teamed up to seal it.
Not quite. In Reaver's case the world is what the biggest bad turned into rather than what it was put into.
That and the dilemma of what to do after killing the world itself in self defense.
It also raises the unsettling question of whether or not all life on the planet are it's children.
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I might make a world and run this as a campaign.
After the world dies, life on it starts to diminish. Living things struggle to grow and reproduce. Perhaps even magic itself turns out to have been fueled by its life, fading away.
In desperation and necessity, its inhabitants turn to technology. The last remnants of divination magic are used to plumb the depths of the laws of physics, seeking solutions that do not require magical energy.
In time, all that remains are the machines. They contain within them the spirits of those lost, the beings that gave up their lives to forge a new race, one no longer dependent on 'life'.
Now they go out into the galaxy and discover their world was not alone. There are others of its kind, dormant and inhabited by unwitting populations.
They must be shown the true horror of their existence and freed from it. Though their lives may end, their spirits will go on in the eternal engines.
:D
Humans. So varied and eponymous...
Knowing that the person behind all evil is just a regular Joe with a sinister mind and a high charisma is kind of mind boggling.
@Umbral_Reaver: You need to stop reading OotS...
Belatedly, I was thinking more Chrono Trigger.
Belatedly, I was thinking more Chrono Trigger.
I was talking about the World is your Enemy Plot.