Does Your Campaign Have a BBEG? Does it Need One?

billd91 · Tuesday at 3:52 PM

I don't think a campaign needs a single BBEG - but several more localized BBEGs based on antagonists that PCs may take on in the course of the campaign are probably going to crop up. It could be the dragon sitting as the apex predator of a wild region, a guild master of a city thieves guild, a mummy lord serving as the central curse in a haunted tomb, a giant chief directing his forces to raid the local farmsteads, etc. Sooner or later, PCs are going to encounter a situation with a focal motivator that will only be solved by neutralizing that motivator.

Hand of Evil · Thursday at 10:19 PM

A lot of them. NPCs, cults, organizations, governments, ancient evils, BBEGs are everywhere it is the causes that are fun to send against the players. Nobles are normally the most used BBEG.

Examples:

Noble mother that wants the very best from her son (party member) and dislike the group he is hanging out with, has money and henchmen to arrange things. from starting adventures, to rescue mission for marriage scheme, to paying Bards to create stories.
Cult that worships an ancient evil that mostly does land grabs (to uncover ruins) and selling weapons to races that don't make them. They are just always causing chaos.
The Crime League, just a BBEGs that sell knockoff dwarf ales, drugs, slaves, and such. Just troublemakers that seem to have a lot of resources and do a lot of bad things.
Dungeon Hearts (stolen from the game), Demons that have gained a connection to the campaign world by a rift and is building a "dungeon" to support them and open a breach to for then to come over.

Faolyn · Friday at 2:16 AM

Hand of Evil said:
Noble mother that wants the very best from her son (party member) and dislike the group he is hanging out with, has money and henchmen to arrange things. from starting adventures, to rescue mission for marriage scheme, to paying Bards to create stories.

I may have to steal this.

el-remmen · Friday at 3:30 AM

No. But there may end up being one based on what happens in the campaign.

Does Your Campaign Have a BBEG? Does it Need One?

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