I have written a speech meant to be a monologue spouted at the player's characters as they fight who they think is the BBEG.
He is a difficult and frustrating enemy to fight. Not because he is so strong, but because he has a lot of HP and a lot of magic items and spells that he uses to cast Gate constantly.
The players need to whittle down his health as he uses Gate to jump about the room and animates a bunch of skeletons from all the bones in his chamber, and sets them on the player's characters.
He is not a particularly dangerous enemy to fight because he does not care if he gets killed since his death is the culmination of a centuries-long plan to unleash the real BBEG upon the world.
He needs to die, and he knows it and has prepared for this moment, but that will not stop him from having fun and tormenting the characters.
Here is his monologue:
Do you think that by killing me, you will win?
Foolish mortals. Death is only the beginning!
I have already spread myself into every kingdom, every race, every creed across the entire wide world from end to end.
So go ahead, struggle and fight, kill me if you can - I care not, for through my children I have become immortal, I will live forever and never die.
Kill me, and two shall rise to take my place, then four, then eight, then sixteen, then thirty-two; and so it shall continue until you no longer face one man, but an infinite legion of souls.
Yet still, you struggle; still, you fight.
It would be amusing if it were not so pitiful how you make your little stand against the inevitable.
“For The Love of God, Montressor!”
You have already lost, and you don’t even know it.
When he is finally defeated, his final lines are:
“Victory!
The chains are broken.
He is he is coming”
So, what kind of BBEG does this sound like, and what does it sound like the real BBEG might be?
A rather cliché one? And without knowing anything about your campiagn, the setting, the characters or anything else it's pretty much impossible for anyone but yourself to answer that question.
Starting out with a speech is obviously not the best way to make a villain but you seem to have at least a miniscule of ideas of what you want that villain to be. Start there to build a character that has more than one or two dimensions and then work to come up with a speech that would suit the character, not the other way around.
Based on the lines "I have already spread myself into every kingdom, every race, every creed across the entire wide world from end to end." & "Kill me, and two shall rise to take my place, then four, then eight, then sixteen, then thirty-two; and so it shall continue until you no longer face one man, but an infinite legion of souls."
I would say a very powerful follower of Juiblex or Ghaunadaur, they both deal with oozes and by that comment you could heavily imply that Oblex have taken over varioous factions etc. The two shall rise etc sounds like a ooze splitting and reforming.
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Do you have a contingency planned for if the players don't kill him? If I heard that speech, I wouldn't try to kill him, I'd try to imprison him somehow.
Do you have a contingency planned for if the players don't kill him? If I heard that speech, I wouldn't try to kill him, I'd try to imprison him somehow.
Hi,
I have written a speech meant to be a monologue spouted at the player's characters as they fight who they think is the BBEG.
He is a difficult and frustrating enemy to fight. Not because he is so strong, but because he has a lot of HP and a lot of magic items and spells that he uses to cast Gate constantly.
The players need to whittle down his health as he uses Gate to jump about the room and animates a bunch of skeletons from all the bones in his chamber, and sets them on the player's characters.
He is not a particularly dangerous enemy to fight because he does not care if he gets killed since his death is the culmination of a centuries-long plan to unleash the real BBEG upon the world.
He needs to die, and he knows it and has prepared for this moment, but that will not stop him from having fun and tormenting the characters.
Here is his monologue:
When he is finally defeated, his final lines are:
“Victory!
The chains are broken.
He is he is coming”
So, what kind of BBEG does this sound like, and what does it sound like the real BBEG might be?
A caffeinated nerd who has played TTRPGs or a number of years and is very much a fantasy adventure geek.
The real BBEG could be a tarrasque that is somehow unleashed upon the world at that guys death, however I don't know what BBEG that sounds like.
A rather cliché one? And without knowing anything about your campiagn, the setting, the characters or anything else it's pretty much impossible for anyone but yourself to answer that question.
Starting out with a speech is obviously not the best way to make a villain but you seem to have at least a miniscule of ideas of what you want that villain to be. Start there to build a character that has more than one or two dimensions and then work to come up with a speech that would suit the character, not the other way around.
Based on the lines "I have already spread myself into every kingdom, every race, every creed across the entire wide world from end to end." & "Kill me, and two shall rise to take my place, then four, then eight, then sixteen, then thirty-two; and so it shall continue until you no longer face one man, but an infinite legion of souls."
I would say a very powerful follower of Juiblex or Ghaunadaur, they both deal with oozes and by that comment you could heavily imply that Oblex have taken over varioous factions etc. The two shall rise etc sounds like a ooze splitting and reforming.
Do you have a contingency planned for if the players don't kill him? If I heard that speech, I wouldn't try to kill him, I'd try to imprison him somehow.
That's a good point, I would do the same thing.
I'm curious about the Poe reference. Is the fake BBEG named Fortunato? Is there a cask involved?