100 BBEGs (Big Bad Evil Guys) [Archive] - Wizards Community

100 BBEGs (Big Bad Evil Guys) [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Obsidianjaerc
10-23-03, 07:29 PM Okay lets try to get 100 (and maybe more) BBEGS include somewhat detailed back story and stats. I think that this could become a valubale source for help when inperation is gone or for newbies that need a little push. Oh and be sure to include low , medium , high , and very high (see the level equivilancys in the DMG). One more thing please dont post Epic BBEGS , thank you.
Nightshade22
10-23-03, 07:55 PM 1) nutral evil awakened cane toad who's mother was eaten by frenchmen and now seeks to destroy the cook's guild!!!
(sorry)

Ok REAL, 1) LE Bugbear wizard named Seugh, commands a horde of kobolds who revere him as a god. Mind flayyers on the surface have angered him and so he told hi kobolds to "go northeast and wipe the sucker things off the face of the earth, BAWAWHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!" unfortunately, kobolds have bad senses of direction, and are charging a village. low challenge.
Nightshade22
10-23-03, 08:08 PM 2) Red dragon with a craze for amythyst. wishes to turn himself into an amythyst dragon but needs lots of amythyst to do so. is prepareing to raid a dwarven jewl mine with his 2 half-feind kobold fighter allies. Very High. :behold:

3) TN elf Wizard/psion, convinced that the only way to save the world is to destroy it, (He's crazy) but he doesn't want to kill people. so what does he do? He creates monsters to drive people on to other planes. High.

4)awakened CN (Acts CE) otyugh, basically like a feindwurm. (portal to the abyss in it's stomach) created by the aforementioned wiz/psi. High.
Sheriff Yoda
10-23-03, 08:14 PM 5)LN human Fighter 4 level, raiding caravans using sleep scrolls to keep bloodshed to a minimum.

6)LE human Wizard level 6 is providing sleep scrolls to bandits in exchange for a peice of the action.
Nightshade22
10-23-03, 08:48 PM 7) LG aristocrat/ monk/ sorcerer has an improved rod of wonder. (1000 poosibilities) unfortunately, most of the effects (700-750) are bad. Medium.

8) Ce fallen hound archon druid ghost, wants to destroy celestia for casting him out. prepareing to use artifact as a channeler between the Abyss and celesta. Very High.

9) LN dire crab possesed by vecna, who is about to attack a monistary with hordes of his lesser brethren for trying to discover vecna's true name. Low.

10) collosal baboon.
Nightshade22
10-23-03, 09:06 PM WAIT! what about intelligent/possesed items?

11) intelligent LE +6 kukri with the dominate ability. (DC 25) about to wage war through it's weilder (Human expert 2/ranger4) on NO. 12. Medium.
Faeryl Zauvirr
10-24-03, 12:24 AM 12) Justiarian (LE Male Half-Elf Ftr6/Lily4)

A half-elf Knight of the Lily (Dragonlance Campaign Setting) whose family is being held hostage by the order of Neraka. The only way to ensure their safety is for him to fight in Silvanesti against the Minotaurs. Over time he has become dedicated and loyal towards the Knighthood, corrupted by its offering of power.
Nightshade22
10-24-03, 08:51 AM 13) Yiterbritteum LE mind flayer sorcerer 4 with a petrodactal mount. He seeks to destroy the city of irinisk (metropolis) with his 12 scrolls of meteor swarm, because they refused to give him brains for food while he lived there.
Gothic_Demon
10-24-03, 09:26 AM 14) The Lawful Good Elven King who, with his army of lawful Elven followers, has gone too far and started attacking and subjugating any non-lawful good elven settlement, to 'make the world a better place'
Darkest90
10-24-03, 04:02 PM 15) Margooth CN Blood Ape Fighter 6 / Barbarian 2. The Blood Ape named Margooth was once the animal companion of a powerful druid, who granted him his intelligence with an Awaken spell. He trained in the jungles to protect his colony from a tribe of jungle elves. Now, his old enemy is gone, but a city of high elves threatents to cut down his part of the jungle to expand their area.

16) A neutral half-elf oozemaster 5 who has stowed away on a large human merchant ship and is using his legions of oozes to try and take over the boat for himself.

17) Bedask CN Phase Wasp Sorcerer 2 / Ranger 2. Bedask was once a Centaur Ranger, but he was polymorphed by an ogre mage into a Phase Wasp. Using his intellect he managed to gain control of a large hive of Phase Wasps in the swamplands near an Ogre village. Bedask and his Phase Wasps collected arcane documents from the local Ogre Mages for food and for making their nests, and he and the hive gained magical powers from the sorcerous paper.

All Phase Wasps can cast Ray of Frost at will as a free action without any components needed as a spell-like abilty, each wasp can also cast Poison 1/day and Heat Metal 1/day. For any purpose, they cast as a 1st Level spellcaster. They have +2 INT as well. Each have +1 1/2 to their CR.

Bedask himself wants to attain more sorcery by attacking a farther away elven village to gain more magic and someday be able to cast Polymorph Self on himself and come back to Centaur form.

How's that? Hi, I am new here.
Vumyan
10-24-03, 04:06 PM Can I request a BBEG for a party of third level adventurers. Preferrably someone that would lead a group of orcs or maybe a lackey for the real powerful leader that the players will eventually encounter.
Kalanth
10-24-03, 04:15 PM Can you use links to other web pages?

18) Kalanth Vladermin (http://www.hallofhero.com/npc3e/npc/index.cfm?ACTIVE=ViewCharacter&idHoHC=288)

19) Reilansa McKormick (http://www.hallofhero.com/npc3e/npc/index.cfm?ACTIVE=ViewCharacter&idHoHC=292)

With the info provided at these links, I should not have to say anything more about them here.
Nightshade22
10-24-03, 06:04 PM Originally posted by Vumyan
Can I request a BBEG for a party of third level adventurers. Preferrably someone that would lead a group of orcs or maybe a lackey for the real powerful leader that the players will eventually encounter.

Ok,

20) tyioritag NE orc druid 3/sor 1. Reports to Gruttias (BBEG #21). From the frozen lands of Yathgras, this ice orc (Has the cold subtype) focuses on cold spells. All fire spells he casts are instantly transformed to ice spells. (Ex: fireball becomes coldball) loves to use his wand of infinite frozen missile. (treat as magic missle, does cold damage, but still a force effect)

21) Gruttias, LE orc sor 6/ranger 2. Has obsession with throwing daggers.prize possesion: Yagrax, +4 shocking keen throwing dagger that returns to him via dimension door at the end of his turn.
The Axeman
10-24-03, 06:45 PM 22. Gothog Male Half-Orc fight4/Dread pirate 8

Str 18
Dex 22
Con 17
Int 14
Wis 16
Cha 13

HP 125

Dual wields a Fishgutter and an Orc Razor
attacks are +19/+13/+8/+1 or something

has a 10th lvl wizard cohort

cohort has a 7th lvl monk cohort

He is the strongest, most evil pirate ever to sail for the city of Luskan. Fond of smoke powder and blowing up rival ships. Keeps many slaves and is notoriously cruel but has fearsome reputation +8

23.

Canus male Gnoll humaniod2/Barb2/rng1/bloodhound6

Str 21
Dex 18
Con 16
Int 15
Wis 14
Cha 8

Dual wields scimitars of flame burst +2

4 attacks per round

hp 130

has so many bonuses from blood hound class

Is the most feared bounty hunter in the Silver Marches. Has Run and endurance along with increased movement rate. Can track, hide, move silently etc at full movement without negatives. Can deal subdual with no penalty. Is just scary you don't want him showing up at your door. Would give Artemis a run for his money.
BRJN
10-24-03, 09:20 PM <no number>
Generic: the King of a foreign land. This gives us the King, a dozen Earls, hundreds of Sir Whatzizname, and thousands of just plain soldiers.

Each soldier is an L1 NPC. He has basic equipment and a friend or two along. He could be a Fighter or Rogue.

Sir Whatzizname has himself, good equipment, a mount, and 3-20 soldiers. He can be any class.

An Earl has excellent equipment, a cool mount, some nifty (magical) items, and an entourage (each a Sir Whatzizname).

The King himself should be the highest-level guy in the land. His 4-10 personal bodyguards always come along. Best equipment in the rulebook (hey, he's rich). A half-dozen Earls within earshot.

Use: The King has a plan. He sends minions to carry it out. The PCs somehow goof up one of them. Word goes back up the chain of command, and a Soldier is sent to deal with the problem. Repeat - going higher up food chain each time - until the King declares war on the PCs' homeland in order to get at the PCs (possibly for the maiming of his favorite Earl). Climactic final battle also decides the war.
danman
10-25-03, 11:38 AM No. 24
Jarl Girion, CE Half Dragon (White) Frost Giant
A cruel and dominating creature, Girion lords over his fellow frost giants. He has enough power to force them to work together, or even to raise an army of cold weather creatures. Relatively unknown outside of his icy lands, but one day he may march south to bring eternal winter.
Wields a frost fullblade +2 in two hands for a lot of damage. Can also breathe ice shards.
CR 11, can be made stronger by adding sorcerer levels
Azar
10-25-03, 12:42 PM Number 25 and 26

Alioeen
Female NE tiefling Wizard 12/Acolyte of the Skin 2

and

Skree'ect
Male CE Death Slaad Assassin 3

Alioeen was always a viscous and cruel conspiritor in the Calmiport hierarchy, but, as she continued to delve into the secrets of conjuration and summoning, a voice from beyond the realms slowly called to her. The voice is that of Skree'ect, a rogue Death Slaad who flees from the lords of limbo, and seeks sanctuary in the city of Calimport. Alioeen has taken it upon herself to enslave this being (or so she thinks) and use it to her advantage when climbing the treachorous ladders of the Calmiport hierarchy. Skree'ect is all too eager to comply at first, for he is now in the mortal realms far from his past lords, able to kill any he wishes. Skree'ect soon began to use Alioeen's ambitions against her, whispering to her secrets and promises of dark power, secrets of the skin. He gave her the means to summon and bind a hezrou to her soul and skin in the ritual of blasphemy, a hezrou loyal to Skree'ect, thus putting Skree'ect's plans into motion. In order to control her, he feeds her knowledge of the skins slowly, piece by piece, and along with the hezrou's influence, Skree'ect has gained the upper hand in his and Alioeen's relationship. Now the death Slaad uses the power hungery Alioeen as a front to spread chaos on the streets of calimport.
frostyusa
10-25-03, 01:32 PM No. 27

Drow High priestess. Make war on a specific house that way you can set the BBEG at wahtever lvl you wish and advance her accordingly to the party. Unlimited cohort potential for younger priestesses, and male wizards and fighters.
Kage Wellby
10-25-03, 02:02 PM Just list the core classes (other than Paladin and Bard) on a sheet of paper, along with your favorite Prestive Classes. Get 20 total. Roll 1d20 for your bad guy. Try to set them up like the NPCs in the DMG, so that you can quickly upgrade them.

HINT: So they aren't pushovers compared to the PCs, give these NPCs a powerful race as a base, such as a demon or devil, undead, etc. This prevents you from having to load them down with treasure so that they are at least a little challenging to the group. Also, make notes of particularly neat tricks the PCs pull on you/your NPCs. Do the same thing to them in a couple weeks. It makes them start to reconsider their really cool ideas, because you can always toss them back at the players.

Another thing I'll do is number some of the tastier types on the ranger's favored enemy list, roll a dice to decide, then pick something. Of course, I'm REALLY big on non standard monsters, like epic level griffons with 50HD, Illithid Psions, Beholder Rogues, stuff like that.

One of the more interesting BBEMs of mine was an Imp Sorceror, who had an Imp Familiar from Improved Familiar, and had Leadership and a harem of imps. I made some base rules for how they would swarm the players and how each would assist the other. The party was 6th level at the time and thought that the wizard would fireball all the imps into oblivion, but the sorceror just countered the wizard's fireballs. I did that to prove a point, that even a fireball slinging wizard could be foiled by a lowly imp.
bshugg
10-25-03, 02:48 PM 28. A Wizard with dual personalities one Lawful Evil and one Lawful good. Both personalities are aware of each other and hate each other, but will work together sometimes to avoid detection and in the quest to seperate their bodies.

The Lawful good part will try to lessen any damage the evil part does, and even hire the PC's to keep him in check, but if the party gets too close he will lead them astray to keep his plans from getting unraveled.

The Lawful Evil part tries to find some evil ritual to split the bodies into 2 parts. The party must stop him, but for some reason he always seems to be 2 steps ahead of them, and when they get a lead he is already gone and only has left his minions behind to fight them.

In my campaign specifically it was:

Vortex Moonstone LG Wizard 9 wears white robs and carries a White wooden staff of power, and defensive magics.

and

Vorpal LE Wizard 9, wears Black hooded robe and mask, and carries a "glamered" version of the staff so that it looks like a shard of jagged black iron. The staff is one of the keys to unraveling the mystery, because finally at one time he will mess up and change the color but leave it wood, or the party will see vortex with a white iron staff.
Mazarick
10-26-03, 01:57 AM This is a great thread!

Cher-rot the Magnificent. NE Goblin Wizard 12. Fond of Magic Missiles. Has an ogre barbarian 6 as a mount. Uses a magic crossbow every three rounds over the shoulder of the ogre. Also somehow has a dire bat as a familiar.

Bwahahaha
Firavel
10-26-03, 05:48 AM 30) William the Bloody (CE banditlord); Will maim and murder for fun.

William the Bloody; Human Fighter 5/Lasher 2; CR 7; Medium Human; HD 7d10+14; hp 65;Init +3; Spd 20ft; AC 18 (Breastplate + dex) , touch 13 ,flat-footed 15; BAB +7/+2; Grapple +11; Atk +13 whip, dagger (1d6+5;19-20x2); Full Atk +13/+8 whip, dagger (1d6+5;19-20x2); Space / Reach 5/15; SA Whip Sneak attack, Improved trip; SQ ; AL CE; SV Fort +6, Ref +7, Will +4; Str 18 (+4) , Dex 16 (+3) , Con 14 (+2), Int 11 , Wis 12 (+1), Cha 14 (+2); Skills and feats: Bluff +5 (3+2cc), Use Rope +8 (5+3 cc), Intimidate +4 (2+2) ; Exotic Weapon (Whip), Weapon Focus (Whip), Iron Will, Combat reflexes, Point Blank shot, Weapon Specialization (whip), Blind fighting, Power Attack;
Special Attacks / Abilities:
Whip Sneak attack (SA) :+1d6 damage; target must lose Dex or be flanked;
Close combat (SA): Use whip in close range;
Whip Lash (SA); Lasher can make attack of opportunity with the whip
Possessions: MW Whip Dagger, Mighty +3; MW Breastplate;

31) Uno Orc-Scout; For the difficult Orc missions into the SilverMarches (FR)

Uno; Class Rog4/F2/Orc Scout2; CR 8; Medium Orc (humanoid); HD 4d6+2d10+2d8+24; hp 69; Init +3 ;
Spd 40ft; AC 17, touch 13, flat-footed 14; BAB +6; Grapple +10; Atk +11 Battleaxe (1d8+4;x3); Full Attack +11/+6 Battleaxe (1d8+4;x3) or +9/+9/+4 Orc DoubleAxe (1d8+4;x3) ; SA Sneakattack (+3d6), Fast Movement; SQ ; AL NE; SV Fort +7, Ref +10, Will +2; Str 18(+4), Dex 17(+3), Con 16(+3), Int 10, Wis 12(+1), Cha 6; Skills and Feats: Skills: +15 Move Silent, +15 Hide, +14 open lock, +8 Sense Motive +15 Tumble, +12 Jump, +14 climb; Feats : Two Weapon fighting, Dodge, Mobility, Spring Attack, Power attack, Resist Poison; Possessions: MW battleaxe, MW Orc-Double-axe, Elemental Gem(earth) , Bracers of Armor (+1), Dust of Dissapearance (2 doses), Potion of Cure Moderate (2d8+5), Potion of Bull, 2 Potions of Cure Light wounds (1d8+3) ;
Special Ability: Blend into the Wilds, Uncanny Dodge, Evasion, 3d6 sneak attack
CL
10-26-03, 04:26 PM How about the fallen Hero? Great for PCs because the vast majority of the general populace still thinks their a hero and will be on the "hero's" side. Even the party might assume he is still good. A classic example is the paladin->blackguard, but any class with an alignment change wiould suffice.
So,

32. Cirian CE Elven Ranger 8;
Cirian, from a child, loved the forests that composed his homeland. As he grew, he became a protector of the woodlands, fighting against anyone who wished to despoil his forest, and protecting those with good intentions who happened to pass through. However, as he became more sucessful, he was able to protect a larger portion of the forest, until, he came to the end of the woods. He saw settlements approaching, cutting down trees, burning clearings, scarring his land. The very travelers he was protecting where destroying his land, so he moved to destroy them, turning dangerous beasts loose on settlements, and ambushing parties along the paths which cross his domain. He leaves no survivors, and no witnesses of his actions. He fights his battle in secret, as even his own people seem to still think that civilization's actions are warranted. People now wonder where their elven hero has gone, if even he is able to stop the new menace.
Grimbot
10-27-03, 04:42 PM 33. (From my current campaign) Count Lipohas Nathrach (LE), Human Ex-Paladin and Wizard. Once part of an order of knights sworn to hunt down evil mages, Liophas got on the bad side of his king when he fell in love with the king's betrothed (and she with him). The bigger issue, of course, was that the woman in question, Duchess Cliodan Veldana, was destined by prophecy to marry the king. When the king confronted Liophas, the Paladin slew the king, broke the prophecy, and seriously ****** off his god. Liophas and Cliodan were cursed as serpents forevermore, with Liophas becoming a giant cobra by night, and Cliodan becoming a giant viper by day. Never again would they see each other or hold each other in their arms as man and woman. Nor could they die, always reappearing whole and alive beside each other no matter what trajedy might befall them.

Liophas is a hard-headed fellow and has devoted two centuries to attempts at breaking the curse. The two lovers are still in love, but Liophas has taken a bit of a moral slip. He's completely rejected his god and hisformer kingdom, and while he's still devoted to upholding the ideals of Law he's come to see other people as mere pawns in a game to break the curse. Once a fierce opponent of magic, he now employs its use liberally in hopes of breaking the curse. He's always on the lookout for potent magical items or artifacts that he can either use himself to break the curse, or bribe a powerful entity with to obtain their aid. He won't harm "common folk", but his definition of what that means is also on a slippery slope, especially when it interferes with his plans.

One of his greatest fears is that Cliodan will discover some of the horrible things he's done in the name of love. In order to prevent this, he has several constructs in his employ who are ordered to keep people away from Cliodan "for her own safety".

Liophas first showed up in my campaign trying to bargain for a near-worthless ring that allowed one of our PCs empathy with reptiles. For obvious reasons Liophas wanted it, and the PCs refused to let them have it. He later stole it, and hearing of their plans to recover a powerful artifact Liophas beat the PCs to the punch and stole it himself. He's been a thorn in their sides ever since.

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Obsidianjaerc 10-23-03, 07:29 PM	Okay lets try to get 100 (and maybe more) BBEGS include somewhat detailed back story and stats. I think that this could become a valubale source for help when inperation is gone or for newbies that need a little push. Oh and be sure to include low , medium , high , and very high (see the level equivilancys in the DMG). One more thing please dont post Epic BBEGS , thank you.
Nightshade22 10-23-03, 07:55 PM	1) nutral evil awakened cane toad who's mother was eaten by frenchmen and now seeks to destroy the cook's guild!!! (sorry) Ok REAL, 1) LE Bugbear wizard named Seugh, commands a horde of kobolds who revere him as a god. Mind flayyers on the surface have angered him and so he told hi kobolds to "go northeast and wipe the sucker things off the face of the earth, BAWAWHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!" unfortunately, kobolds have bad senses of direction, and are charging a village. low challenge.
Nightshade22 10-23-03, 08:08 PM	2) Red dragon with a craze for amythyst. wishes to turn himself into an amythyst dragon but needs lots of amythyst to do so. is prepareing to raid a dwarven jewl mine with his 2 half-feind kobold fighter allies. Very High. :behold: 3) TN elf Wizard/psion, convinced that the only way to save the world is to destroy it, (He's crazy) but he doesn't want to kill people. so what does he do? He creates monsters to drive people on to other planes. High. 4)awakened CN (Acts CE) otyugh, basically like a feindwurm. (portal to the abyss in it's stomach) created by the aforementioned wiz/psi. High.
Sheriff Yoda 10-23-03, 08:14 PM	5)LN human Fighter 4 level, raiding caravans using sleep scrolls to keep bloodshed to a minimum. 6)LE human Wizard level 6 is providing sleep scrolls to bandits in exchange for a peice of the action.
Nightshade22 10-23-03, 08:48 PM	7) LG aristocrat/ monk/ sorcerer has an improved rod of wonder. (1000 poosibilities) unfortunately, most of the effects (700-750) are bad. Medium. 8) Ce fallen hound archon druid ghost, wants to destroy celestia for casting him out. prepareing to use artifact as a channeler between the Abyss and celesta. Very High. 9) LN dire crab possesed by vecna, who is about to attack a monistary with hordes of his lesser brethren for trying to discover vecna's true name. Low. 10) collosal baboon.
Nightshade22 10-23-03, 09:06 PM	WAIT! what about intelligent/possesed items? 11) intelligent LE +6 kukri with the dominate ability. (DC 25) about to wage war through it's weilder (Human expert 2/ranger4) on NO. 12. Medium.
Faeryl Zauvirr 10-24-03, 12:24 AM	12) Justiarian (LE Male Half-Elf Ftr6/Lily4) A half-elf Knight of the Lily (Dragonlance Campaign Setting) whose family is being held hostage by the order of Neraka. The only way to ensure their safety is for him to fight in Silvanesti against the Minotaurs. Over time he has become dedicated and loyal towards the Knighthood, corrupted by its offering of power.
Nightshade22 10-24-03, 08:51 AM	13) Yiterbritteum LE mind flayer sorcerer 4 with a petrodactal mount. He seeks to destroy the city of irinisk (metropolis) with his 12 scrolls of meteor swarm, because they refused to give him brains for food while he lived there.
Gothic_Demon 10-24-03, 09:26 AM	14) The Lawful Good Elven King who, with his army of lawful Elven followers, has gone too far and started attacking and subjugating any non-lawful good elven settlement, to 'make the world a better place'
Darkest90 10-24-03, 04:02 PM	15) Margooth CN Blood Ape Fighter 6 / Barbarian 2. The Blood Ape named Margooth was once the animal companion of a powerful druid, who granted him his intelligence with an Awaken spell. He trained in the jungles to protect his colony from a tribe of jungle elves. Now, his old enemy is gone, but a city of high elves threatents to cut down his part of the jungle to expand their area. 16) A neutral half-elf oozemaster 5 who has stowed away on a large human merchant ship and is using his legions of oozes to try and take over the boat for himself. 17) Bedask CN Phase Wasp Sorcerer 2 / Ranger 2. Bedask was once a Centaur Ranger, but he was polymorphed by an ogre mage into a Phase Wasp. Using his intellect he managed to gain control of a large hive of Phase Wasps in the swamplands near an Ogre village. Bedask and his Phase Wasps collected arcane documents from the local Ogre Mages for food and for making their nests, and he and the hive gained magical powers from the sorcerous paper. All Phase Wasps can cast Ray of Frost at will as a free action without any components needed as a spell-like abilty, each wasp can also cast Poison 1/day and Heat Metal 1/day. For any purpose, they cast as a 1st Level spellcaster. They have +2 INT as well. Each have +1 1/2 to their CR. Bedask himself wants to attain more sorcery by attacking a farther away elven village to gain more magic and someday be able to cast Polymorph Self on himself and come back to Centaur form. How's that? Hi, I am new here.
Vumyan 10-24-03, 04:06 PM	Can I request a BBEG for a party of third level adventurers. Preferrably someone that would lead a group of orcs or maybe a lackey for the real powerful leader that the players will eventually encounter.
Kalanth 10-24-03, 04:15 PM	Can you use links to other web pages? 18) Kalanth Vladermin (http://www.hallofhero.com/npc3e/npc/index.cfm?ACTIVE=ViewCharacter&idHoHC=288) 19) Reilansa McKormick (http://www.hallofhero.com/npc3e/npc/index.cfm?ACTIVE=ViewCharacter&idHoHC=292) With the info provided at these links, I should not have to say anything more about them here.
Nightshade22 10-24-03, 06:04 PM	Originally posted by Vumyan Can I request a BBEG for a party of third level adventurers. Preferrably someone that would lead a group of orcs or maybe a lackey for the real powerful leader that the players will eventually encounter. Ok, 20) tyioritag NE orc druid 3/sor 1. Reports to Gruttias (BBEG #21). From the frozen lands of Yathgras, this ice orc (Has the cold subtype) focuses on cold spells. All fire spells he casts are instantly transformed to ice spells. (Ex: fireball becomes coldball) loves to use his wand of infinite frozen missile. (treat as magic missle, does cold damage, but still a force effect) 21) Gruttias, LE orc sor 6/ranger 2. Has obsession with throwing daggers.prize possesion: Yagrax, +4 shocking keen throwing dagger that returns to him via dimension door at the end of his turn.
The Axeman 10-24-03, 06:45 PM	22. Gothog Male Half-Orc fight4/Dread pirate 8 Str 18 Dex 22 Con 17 Int 14 Wis 16 Cha 13 HP 125 Dual wields a Fishgutter and an Orc Razor attacks are +19/+13/+8/+1 or something has a 10th lvl wizard cohort cohort has a 7th lvl monk cohort He is the strongest, most evil pirate ever to sail for the city of Luskan. Fond of smoke powder and blowing up rival ships. Keeps many slaves and is notoriously cruel but has fearsome reputation +8 23. Canus male Gnoll humaniod2/Barb2/rng1/bloodhound6 Str 21 Dex 18 Con 16 Int 15 Wis 14 Cha 8 Dual wields scimitars of flame burst +2 4 attacks per round hp 130 has so many bonuses from blood hound class Is the most feared bounty hunter in the Silver Marches. Has Run and endurance along with increased movement rate. Can track, hide, move silently etc at full movement without negatives. Can deal subdual with no penalty. Is just scary you don't want him showing up at your door. Would give Artemis a run for his money.
BRJN 10-24-03, 09:20 PM	<no number> Generic: the King of a foreign land. This gives us the King, a dozen Earls, hundreds of Sir Whatzizname, and thousands of just plain soldiers. Each soldier is an L1 NPC. He has basic equipment and a friend or two along. He could be a Fighter or Rogue. Sir Whatzizname has himself, good equipment, a mount, and 3-20 soldiers. He can be any class. An Earl has excellent equipment, a cool mount, some nifty (magical) items, and an entourage (each a Sir Whatzizname). The King himself should be the highest-level guy in the land. His 4-10 personal bodyguards always come along. Best equipment in the rulebook (hey, he's rich). A half-dozen Earls within earshot. Use: The King has a plan. He sends minions to carry it out. The PCs somehow goof up one of them. Word goes back up the chain of command, and a Soldier is sent to deal with the problem. Repeat - going higher up food chain each time - until the King declares war on the PCs' homeland in order to get at the PCs (possibly for the maiming of his favorite Earl). Climactic final battle also decides the war.
danman 10-25-03, 11:38 AM	No. 24 Jarl Girion, CE Half Dragon (White) Frost Giant A cruel and dominating creature, Girion lords over his fellow frost giants. He has enough power to force them to work together, or even to raise an army of cold weather creatures. Relatively unknown outside of his icy lands, but one day he may march south to bring eternal winter. Wields a frost fullblade +2 in two hands for a lot of damage. Can also breathe ice shards. CR 11, can be made stronger by adding sorcerer levels
Azar 10-25-03, 12:42 PM	Number 25 and 26 Alioeen Female NE tiefling Wizard 12/Acolyte of the Skin 2 and Skree'ect Male CE Death Slaad Assassin 3 Alioeen was always a viscous and cruel conspiritor in the Calmiport hierarchy, but, as she continued to delve into the secrets of conjuration and summoning, a voice from beyond the realms slowly called to her. The voice is that of Skree'ect, a rogue Death Slaad who flees from the lords of limbo, and seeks sanctuary in the city of Calimport. Alioeen has taken it upon herself to enslave this being (or so she thinks) and use it to her advantage when climbing the treachorous ladders of the Calmiport hierarchy. Skree'ect is all too eager to comply at first, for he is now in the mortal realms far from his past lords, able to kill any he wishes. Skree'ect soon began to use Alioeen's ambitions against her, whispering to her secrets and promises of dark power, secrets of the skin. He gave her the means to summon and bind a hezrou to her soul and skin in the ritual of blasphemy, a hezrou loyal to Skree'ect, thus putting Skree'ect's plans into motion. In order to control her, he feeds her knowledge of the skins slowly, piece by piece, and along with the hezrou's influence, Skree'ect has gained the upper hand in his and Alioeen's relationship. Now the death Slaad uses the power hungery Alioeen as a front to spread chaos on the streets of calimport.
frostyusa 10-25-03, 01:32 PM	No. 27 Drow High priestess. Make war on a specific house that way you can set the BBEG at wahtever lvl you wish and advance her accordingly to the party. Unlimited cohort potential for younger priestesses, and male wizards and fighters.
Kage Wellby 10-25-03, 02:02 PM	Just list the core classes (other than Paladin and Bard) on a sheet of paper, along with your favorite Prestive Classes. Get 20 total. Roll 1d20 for your bad guy. Try to set them up like the NPCs in the DMG, so that you can quickly upgrade them. HINT: So they aren't pushovers compared to the PCs, give these NPCs a powerful race as a base, such as a demon or devil, undead, etc. This prevents you from having to load them down with treasure so that they are at least a little challenging to the group. Also, make notes of particularly neat tricks the PCs pull on you/your NPCs. Do the same thing to them in a couple weeks. It makes them start to reconsider their really cool ideas, because you can always toss them back at the players. Another thing I'll do is number some of the tastier types on the ranger's favored enemy list, roll a dice to decide, then pick something. Of course, I'm REALLY big on non standard monsters, like epic level griffons with 50HD, Illithid Psions, Beholder Rogues, stuff like that. One of the more interesting BBEMs of mine was an Imp Sorceror, who had an Imp Familiar from Improved Familiar, and had Leadership and a harem of imps. I made some base rules for how they would swarm the players and how each would assist the other. The party was 6th level at the time and thought that the wizard would fireball all the imps into oblivion, but the sorceror just countered the wizard's fireballs. I did that to prove a point, that even a fireball slinging wizard could be foiled by a lowly imp.
bshugg 10-25-03, 02:48 PM	28. A Wizard with dual personalities one Lawful Evil and one Lawful good. Both personalities are aware of each other and hate each other, but will work together sometimes to avoid detection and in the quest to seperate their bodies. The Lawful good part will try to lessen any damage the evil part does, and even hire the PC's to keep him in check, but if the party gets too close he will lead them astray to keep his plans from getting unraveled. The Lawful Evil part tries to find some evil ritual to split the bodies into 2 parts. The party must stop him, but for some reason he always seems to be 2 steps ahead of them, and when they get a lead he is already gone and only has left his minions behind to fight them. In my campaign specifically it was: Vortex Moonstone LG Wizard 9 wears white robs and carries a White wooden staff of power, and defensive magics. and Vorpal LE Wizard 9, wears Black hooded robe and mask, and carries a "glamered" version of the staff so that it looks like a shard of jagged black iron. The staff is one of the keys to unraveling the mystery, because finally at one time he will mess up and change the color but leave it wood, or the party will see vortex with a white iron staff.
Mazarick 10-26-03, 01:57 AM	This is a great thread! Cher-rot the Magnificent. NE Goblin Wizard 12. Fond of Magic Missiles. Has an ogre barbarian 6 as a mount. Uses a magic crossbow every three rounds over the shoulder of the ogre. Also somehow has a dire bat as a familiar. Bwahahaha
Firavel 10-26-03, 05:48 AM	30) William the Bloody (CE banditlord); Will maim and murder for fun. William the Bloody; Human Fighter 5/Lasher 2; CR 7; Medium Human; HD 7d10+14; hp 65;Init +3; Spd 20ft; AC 18 (Breastplate + dex) , touch 13 ,flat-footed 15; BAB +7/+2; Grapple +11; Atk +13 whip, dagger (1d6+5;19-20x2); Full Atk +13/+8 whip, dagger (1d6+5;19-20x2); Space / Reach 5/15; SA Whip Sneak attack, Improved trip; SQ ; AL CE; SV Fort +6, Ref +7, Will +4; Str 18 (+4) , Dex 16 (+3) , Con 14 (+2), Int 11 , Wis 12 (+1), Cha 14 (+2); Skills and feats: Bluff +5 (3+2cc), Use Rope +8 (5+3 cc), Intimidate +4 (2+2) ; Exotic Weapon (Whip), Weapon Focus (Whip), Iron Will, Combat reflexes, Point Blank shot, Weapon Specialization (whip), Blind fighting, Power Attack; Special Attacks / Abilities: Whip Sneak attack (SA) :+1d6 damage; target must lose Dex or be flanked; Close combat (SA): Use whip in close range; Whip Lash (SA); Lasher can make attack of opportunity with the whip Possessions: MW Whip Dagger, Mighty +3; MW Breastplate; 31) Uno Orc-Scout; For the difficult Orc missions into the SilverMarches (FR) Uno; Class Rog4/F2/Orc Scout2; CR 8; Medium Orc (humanoid); HD 4d6+2d10+2d8+24; hp 69; Init +3 ; Spd 40ft; AC 17, touch 13, flat-footed 14; BAB +6; Grapple +10; Atk +11 Battleaxe (1d8+4;x3); Full Attack +11/+6 Battleaxe (1d8+4;x3) or +9/+9/+4 Orc DoubleAxe (1d8+4;x3) ; SA Sneakattack (+3d6), Fast Movement; SQ ; AL NE; SV Fort +7, Ref +10, Will +2; Str 18(+4), Dex 17(+3), Con 16(+3), Int 10, Wis 12(+1), Cha 6; Skills and Feats: Skills: +15 Move Silent, +15 Hide, +14 open lock, +8 Sense Motive +15 Tumble, +12 Jump, +14 climb; Feats : Two Weapon fighting, Dodge, Mobility, Spring Attack, Power attack, Resist Poison; Possessions: MW battleaxe, MW Orc-Double-axe, Elemental Gem(earth) , Bracers of Armor (+1), Dust of Dissapearance (2 doses), Potion of Cure Moderate (2d8+5), Potion of Bull, 2 Potions of Cure Light wounds (1d8+3) ; Special Ability: Blend into the Wilds, Uncanny Dodge, Evasion, 3d6 sneak attack
CL 10-26-03, 04:26 PM	How about the fallen Hero? Great for PCs because the vast majority of the general populace still thinks their a hero and will be on the "hero's" side. Even the party might assume he is still good. A classic example is the paladin->blackguard, but any class with an alignment change wiould suffice. So, 32. Cirian CE Elven Ranger 8; Cirian, from a child, loved the forests that composed his homeland. As he grew, he became a protector of the woodlands, fighting against anyone who wished to despoil his forest, and protecting those with good intentions who happened to pass through. However, as he became more sucessful, he was able to protect a larger portion of the forest, until, he came to the end of the woods. He saw settlements approaching, cutting down trees, burning clearings, scarring his land. The very travelers he was protecting where destroying his land, so he moved to destroy them, turning dangerous beasts loose on settlements, and ambushing parties along the paths which cross his domain. He leaves no survivors, and no witnesses of his actions. He fights his battle in secret, as even his own people seem to still think that civilization's actions are warranted. People now wonder where their elven hero has gone, if even he is able to stop the new menace.
Grimbot 10-27-03, 04:42 PM	33. (From my current campaign) Count Lipohas Nathrach (LE), Human Ex-Paladin and Wizard. Once part of an order of knights sworn to hunt down evil mages, Liophas got on the bad side of his king when he fell in love with the king's betrothed (and she with him). The bigger issue, of course, was that the woman in question, Duchess Cliodan Veldana, was destined by prophecy to marry the king. When the king confronted Liophas, the Paladin slew the king, broke the prophecy, and seriously ****** off his god. Liophas and Cliodan were cursed as serpents forevermore, with Liophas becoming a giant cobra by night, and Cliodan becoming a giant viper by day. Never again would they see each other or hold each other in their arms as man and woman. Nor could they die, always reappearing whole and alive beside each other no matter what trajedy might befall them. Liophas is a hard-headed fellow and has devoted two centuries to attempts at breaking the curse. The two lovers are still in love, but Liophas has taken a bit of a moral slip. He's completely rejected his god and hisformer kingdom, and while he's still devoted to upholding the ideals of Law he's come to see other people as mere pawns in a game to break the curse. Once a fierce opponent of magic, he now employs its use liberally in hopes of breaking the curse. He's always on the lookout for potent magical items or artifacts that he can either use himself to break the curse, or bribe a powerful entity with to obtain their aid. He won't harm "common folk", but his definition of what that means is also on a slippery slope, especially when it interferes with his plans. One of his greatest fears is that Cliodan will discover some of the horrible things he's done in the name of love. In order to prevent this, he has several constructs in his employ who are ordered to keep people away from Cliodan "for her own safety". Liophas first showed up in my campaign trying to bargain for a near-worthless ring that allowed one of our PCs empathy with reptiles. For obvious reasons Liophas wanted it, and the PCs refused to let them have it. He later stole it, and hearing of their plans to recover a powerful artifact Liophas beat the PCs to the punch and stole it himself. He's been a thorn in their sides ever since.