Been awhile! Would you mind helping me come up with a Villain Motivation?
My friends and I are picking up 5e after some time away and coming back together for a one shot. For this one shot, they are reincarnated heroes who were felled in one way or another by the BBEG, the players know this and have built it into their characters.
They know the BBEG, they have memories of him, and are starting at level 5 as a party coming together to face him.
I have planned that the first scene is an interlude of them facing this Being and being felled again and left behind, but not before he takes something from each of them. (Agreed upon by the players). They have each told me something their character remembers about the villain-- He placed a curse on my family for defying him, He seems collected but breaks when you outwit him, He slayed my family because we stole something valuable from him, and He has disrupted the flow of Life and Death, I have to correct it.
Honestly love what they have come up with and they have built up an imposing villain they look forward to love hating. Though now I wonder...
What motivation could this Being have?
Concept- He is an Astral Mage who lost his original party members and sought a divine being to resurrect them, but because his Wish was misinterpreted it ended up reincarnating them instead? Along the lines of "I want my companions to return to me." In a bid to see them again, he turned to darker magicks to become a Lich, and by the time the party reformed and saw him again they couldn't recognize him or accept what he had done to become this way; so he accidentally made them his greatest enemy?
I hope this isn't too broad of a question, we are really excited to play and I want to make something good for them. Thanks for looking!
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Been awhile! Would you mind helping me come up with a Villain Motivation?
My friends and I are picking up 5e after some time away and coming back together for a one shot. For this one shot, they are reincarnated heroes who were felled in one way or another by the BBEG, the players know this and have built it into their characters.
They know the BBEG, they have memories of him, and are starting at level 5 as a party coming together to face him.
I have planned that the first scene is an interlude of them facing this Being and being felled again and left behind, but not before he takes something from each of them. (Agreed upon by the players). They have each told me something their character remembers about the villain-- He placed a curse on my family for defying him, He seems collected but breaks when you outwit him, He slayed my family because we stole something valuable from him, and He has disrupted the flow of Life and Death, I have to correct it.
Honestly love what they have come up with and they have built up an imposing villain they look forward to love hating. Though now I wonder...
What motivation could this Being have?
Concept- He is an Astral Mage who lost his original party members and sought a divine being to resurrect them, but because his Wish was misinterpreted it ended up reincarnating them instead? Along the lines of "I want my companions to return to me." In a bid to see them again, he turned to darker magicks to become a Lich, and by the time the party reformed and saw him again they couldn't recognize him or accept what he had done to become this way; so he accidentally made them his greatest enemy?
I hope this isn't too broad of a question, we are really excited to play and I want to make something good for them. Thanks for looking!