Ever wonder why your party's nemesis feels more "meh" than "muhahaha"? In this episode of the RPGBOT.Podcast, we’re diving into the world of villains and antagonists in TTRPGs! Want your baddies to be more than just big bags of hit points? Tune in as we reveal the secret sauce to creating villains so devious, your players will actually remember their names (and curse them for it)! Listen now, unless you want your next villain to just… monologue forever.

Links

RPGBOT.Podcast Episodes

• RPGBOT.Podcast S2E9 – Alignment (part 1 of 2)
• RPGBOT.Podcast S2E9 – Alignment (part 2 of 2)

Articles from RPGBOT.net

• DnD 5e – Practical Guide to Alignment
• DnD 5e – The Monsterizer
• DnD 5e – Encounter Builder

Other Stuff

• ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
• Batman - The Joker
• Beauty and the Beast - Gaston
• Big Bad Booklet, Hitpoint Press
• Colby “Bea” Munro from the Crit Fails Podcast
• Exemplars of Evil (affiliate link)
• Hamlet
• Halo - Forerunners
• Jason
• Fight Club
• Final Fantasy 14 - Emmet Silk
• Fullmetal Alchemist - Dante
• Game of Thrones - Tyrion Lannister
• I am Legend (the book) (affiliate link)
• Jeff Bezos
• Les Misérables - Inspector Javert
• Loki, The Series
• Mean Girls - Regina George
• Moana
• Phantom of the Opera
• Portal
• Prometheus
• Romancing the Stone
• Romeo and Juliet
• Se7en
• Starcraft - Arcturus Mensk
• Star Wars - Darth Maul; Darth Vader
• Stranger Things
• Thanos
• The Cable Guy Movie
• The Mummy
• The Northman
• Voldemort
• Warcraft - Arthus
• Wandavision
• Vecna
• Xanathar

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