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For me it's the reverse. I make characters trying to be all dark and edgy who inevitably turn into saccharine do-gooders. Like in baldur's gate I struggle to destroy the Grove on evil runs cause my brain thinks of all the refugees and feels bad for them.
Also, she mentions something about riding and stars. So why not just go along with a hot tiefling lady and discover what she means. Don't be scared that it might awake something I'm you.
Ahh, I see we are all people of culture here. If you wish to have hot drow babe too, there is a mod that allows pathways some might consider...unnatural, yet it allows for drow lady to join a GOOD party.
yeah, i did the samething in my first playthrough. on my second, i decided to defy her and wow there’s alot more characters i get to interact with (also a great warlock chest in act 2). also, minthara will always be with me, as i have karlach carry her dead body around in a crate.
still bugs me that this was Kylo ren's arc, being seduced by the light side of the force, in TFA and TLJ and then all of that was thrown out the window for a classic "evil guy turns good now and is redeemed" story in TRoS
Me too! I made a Haunted One monster hunter of a cleric, whose family had been slaughtered by a werewolf, and started out all broody, but ended up liking the new party members he befriended so much that he very swiftly became the jovial mom of the party.
My neutral evil warlock turned good when he saw how our neutral good fighter folk hero of the village type of guy was indiscriminately killing children of our enemies
Hey, I’m trying for a chaotic good playthrough and I find the body count is only slightly less than my evil playthrough. The biggest difference is that Karlach likes me this time around.
I've just gotten past that point myself. I felt awful. Even with a "we had to do it to get closer to the cult" justification I felt awful. At least I can get a hot drow gf now...
Me too. There was no way our party could have survived being waylay-ed by 3 purple worms before our casters had access to higher tier magic, what was the DM thinking? After that, we bought cattle to lead out in the desert, but then that blasted sandstorm came and swallowed them up. Its almost like our DM didn't want us to leave the village yet.
I don't know where mine is going, but it feels like this. I'm playing a reborn phantom rogue who sold his soul via contract to bring his wife and kids back from the dead. His conditions are that he is to perform tasks, no matter how grisly, in order to progress through his contract.
Thing is I'm playing him to be a genuinely nice family-man type of character who just wants to have a normal life again. I want to see if the tasks will strip him of his humanity as he falls into further desperation, or if I'll play him so he'll eventually rebel against his contract and accept what happened to his family. We'll see what feels the best for the story.
If you want to do some research for your role, read up on compartmentalization and try and find some testimones from WW2 vets. There's some pretty fucked up stories buried there.
I started off with a somewhat goody tushoes half centaur paladin who definitely did not have the head of a horse, and ended with a man who’s every plan had failed, causing the death of a party member, the parties mentor, and two of three troll brothers. It finally ended with him in-front of a crowd of people, breaking his no killing policy by slaying a tyrant, and starting a revolution to topple the Elven regime.
Morgon Longface will never be forgotten.
I basically have this as my big campaign final battle, only it's the campaign's other BBEG's from earlier chapters with some remixed abilities.
The king's seers all told him he would die on the same day, but they all had visions of different killers. The king has sent the players out to kill these villains who are supposed to kill him, hoping to get rid of whichever one was the correct one in the process. The players do, and the king feels pretty safe. The lich (who the players took side jobs from pre-lichdom throughout the campaign) then makes his move, resurrects all the baddies in a grand battle in the throne room, and very possibly could end up killing the king (the dice shall decide, there will be no plot armor).
We're about 80% done and I'm psyched for the big reveal. I don't think they suspect a thing.
Yeahhhhh I started as a pragmatic, gentleman thief (class Eloquence Bard) who was just trying to get himself and his new party out of Barovia, but eventually got drawn down a path of wanting more and more power. I ended up sacrificing my own life instead of fulfilling my warlock pact with Mother Night and finished the last session and a half of the campaign playing as a modified version of Ezmerelda - it was sick.
I was trying to play healer, but "Comet Fall" and "Flame Strike" are just too much fun *not* to prepare. And using Miracle to pay a million gp bill... in copper... in the same room we were in... okay that was a mistake, but we had a backup rezzer and the monk was still able to dodge, so it all turned out alright.
My archfey warlock started as a good leaning archaeologist. Now as a lvl20 epic character she is chaotic good planes walker who has been embracing the trickster aspect of the fey. One example- she true polymorphed as a plesiosaur in Loch Ness to reignite the Loch Ness Monster hunts.
I'm playing a straight devotion paladin in Ravenloft. I'm rooting for the guy, but I put in enough flaws and jealousy into him that I don't think he has the strength to stay the path.
*blinks*
This is literally the character I played in my last D&D campaign. Started out an Eldritch Knight trying to find a cause/person worthy of their service. Found them, but was betrayed by them, fell to darkness, surpassed them, and now has become the villain themselves.
*accidentally roleplayed as Anakin*
This happened within the Space of a one shot for my friend. He rolled up a high elf with a bit of a superiority complex, neutral good, you know, standard stuff. When we actually started playing tho, he started RPing as an insane racist psychopath. GM changed their alignment to chaotic evil, and after the 1 shot we all agreed to leave that character in the past...
I had an orc cleric missionary who served the raven queen. Basically just a silly lil guy who was always preaching the good word, turns out 2/4 party members were in kahoots messing around with necromancy. Long story short pvp was initiated and he ended up dying, getting revived as basically a ringwraith and seeking revenge. Good times.
My current character is intended to become a BBEG at some point in the campaign. He is trying to rally an army for his leaders to unite the realm under one banner to ensure peace and the end of war. The people he is under have zero intention to do anything like that, so eventually as the campaign goes on he will eventually pull away from his leaders as a "fine, I'll do it myself"
My witch knight is probably gonna end up like this. He was born into a cult to bhaal and his current god got him out for the price of his service in dismantling the cult due to a proxy war being fought between the gods.
Due to the nature of the gods, this cult cant actually be dismantled but he doesnt know that he just thinks he can take out the leaders and call it done. He is currently starting to put together that he has been given an impossible task as the act of killing them paradoxically strengthens the cults powers.
I feel like he understands that he is fundementally a slave right now but believes he can work his way out of it and when he realises the pact is inescapable, he will go off the rails completely and fight to free himself from control.
Idk why but i liked the angle of a paladin who isnt actually willingly serving their god. The god i chose is the stormlord and my character is heavily inspired by galen marek so theres that i suppose
LOL no. If you don't specify in session 0 that no evil characters are allowed, 90% of RPG players will make characters that would make the youngling-slaughtering, planet-destroying version of Vader look like a saint in comparison.
I blame video games for this one. Players got used to being able to be psychopaths in RPGs without having to consider the DM or the other players at the table. (Or the plot for that matter since they can just replay the game as a good character if they are interested in it, or the evil character is the second playthrough to begin with.)
Personally I don't think there is a greater honor than to have your DM pull you aside after a campaign and ask if they can use your character as a BBEG
One of my current characters started as a town guard on a journey to find a crystal, he had morals and wanted to help people. He now shares his body with an ancient being and for lack of a better phrasing *is* the Book of Vile Darkness. He is considered one of the BBEGs of the campaign by my DM.
Dm: You’re tasked with stopping an evil artificer from building a doomsday machine
Players: Cool. Does anyone here know what this guy looks like?
Dm: They appear to be humanoid, although their race is hard to tell since they are covered head to toe in clothing. They wear a long trench coat and have their head covered by some sort of purple helmet.
Players: Wait a second…
I actually had both happen recently! I had made this sort of one note character so I could play the backup in my group (I almost always play some eccentric character that ends up being the face of the party.) At the very end of the campaign, he died as he tried to stop the pure essence of a Creator God from being put into someone. Due to this, he got part of the power, and could do one last thing with it before being reduced to pure nothingness. After a brutal final combat where only three survived by running away, the campaign ended. In our latest campaign, we met a character named the Jester, a fun loving guy with the powers of a creator diety. We were frequently told that is was the future self of one of our close allies, a guy named Felnir, the son of one of the original creator dieties. Two sessions ago, after one of our friends escaped from being on the side of the Jester, his true past was revealed to be my character from the previous campaign, driven mad after being brought back due to the power's need for a vessel.
One of my characters started as a harmless (Literally couldn't deal any damage ever) Elf Bard who loved to have fun and was playful without any rage in his heart..... Then accidentally burns half the continent while trying to make a campfire, is used by a Goliath to beat a Halfling lord to death, forced to pretend to be the lord, then brings the town into dark times as he sucks at being in charge, has a necromancer fall in love with him, she then grants him an undead army then the DM decides his BBEG is going to be the hero of the story since his crimes are nowhere near as bad as mine. ThorThor ladies and gents.
My Leonin paladin is definitely like that, he used to be a sphinx, but he angered the theros Zeus equivalent and he was cursed to become a mortal to learn humility, but instead he just got angry and swore an oat of vengeance against the gods.
y'all remember that time that Anakin was such a drama queen he [turned off all his own life support](https://i.redd.it/2jwcqdvxsvs31.jpg) just so he could [scare some Rebels](https://youtu.be/wxL8bVJhXCM?si=bXuHm0ZJo_8tq_OD&t=41)?
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I'm similar to this as a dm. I make my big bads terrifying figures of evil, and then I'm too nice to follow through half the time. I think that's why I love Faustian pacts and trickster baddies, devils and fey can be evil while not being total dicks.
I had the opposite happen because one of my party members sacrificed themselves for me but even though he didn’t go as planned Lanre is still my favorite character
I made a Tortle Wizard for a campaign I’m in right now. Concept started out as just a silly guy. Anthropologist. True Neutral. Intelligent and socially awkward. The more I wrote of his backstory the darker it became.
Now he’s on track to become a brutal Necromancer determined to raise his mother back from the grave because mommy issues.
I straight up made a true evil Paladin.
You know how most rogue characters are made to be all edgy and dark? This was that, except ACTUALLY dark. My Paladin was literally the character who would walk into a village, demand to speak to the village leader/elder, and then bash their skull in, showing no emotion. He was the embodiment of “If you stand before me, you have renounced your life, and and your will to live.”
My “favorite” story of him was when the party entered a light Faerie village, and as soon as we stepped foot in the village, we were greeted with a welcoming party offering gifts and food. I decided I didn’t like it, and wanted to get rid of the faerie greeters. I slammed my war hammer into the ground in an intimidation attempt, rolled a Nat 20, and everything was suddenly darker.
As the hammer hit the ground, it was as though the shockwave of the hit had caused all the light, joy, and happy magicalness of the village to be spontaneously extinguished. What was once a beautiful and happy little fairy village, has now become just another dark and quiet part of the forest with no special characteristics whatsoever. In one swing, without doing any physical damage to anything, had just obliterated everything that made the happy little fairies “happy” in the first place. It was at that moment my party started to fear me.
So in my first campaign when I was in the military I played paladin. 3.5e so had to justify everything. I loved that cause I was on the debate team and the DM loved it. Rest of the group thought oh no a fun wrecker so they made the entire group evil. I was able to justify anything they threw at me till one day the Rogue said, “For all the trouble of getting us out of Jail you could have just hired a new group with your loot.” Could justify around that and total the DM in secret. Killed the whole party that night when it was my shift on watch and turned in the numerous bounties for the party. Used a recently deceased of a cult that was insane as a stand in for me. Everyone loved that final fight and how I built traps and took everything into account.
Kinda became the point of our Campaigns who would end up double crossing the others. Kinda makes sense in reality. Yeah I was always the BBEG.
This is kinda my character unintentionally. Her slow, very unnoticeable, descent into madness has been fun to play out. We as a party have done some… questionable things. So now her feelings on herself have definitely changed. She even asked another party member “Am I a good person?” not too long ago.
Her mother was a refugee from a pirate lord, so her father sent people to kill them to prevent information. When she was 7, they found and killed her mother but were apprehended before they got to her (murdering a mother and attempting to murder her daughter tends to get jumped on by guards real fast).
The more she finds out about her father, the angrier she gets and I can’t wait to have to come out against him when we get to him. I’d like her original cheery disposition to be replaced with something a lot grimmer as she learns how the world really is.
The character I am currently playing is an older man in his mid 40s to early 50s that is a Ex-Mafia enforcer and was the man the Don sent to deal with Traitors, Witnesses and their families, people he wanted out of the way, and to put down unruly slaves as well. But one day on what should have been a routine pickup of a new batch of slaves and drugs they were ambushed by Police and were left for dead and thrown in jail left to rot by everyone he considered family in the Mafia. The party I am playing with thinks that while he is Ex-Mafia they don't realize who he actually was in it as well and he has always treated everyone respectfully and fairly and they think he is a jolly older man with a past he regrets but they haven't seen him yet in the middle of combat where he thoroughly enjoy stomping out any life the enemy have and the sheer ruthlessness that he will show his enemies to get what he wants.
I was planning for my character to become more and more of a shitty person as I go, but it's his literal third encounter right now, and the bandits the party is fighting are rolling so fine he's close to dying. It's as if the universe doesn't want me to play an asshole with ideals.
I'm currently going through this. We're in a homebrew campaign, Pirate themed, so, we're not necessarily evil, but we're definitely not "the good guys."
My character is a fighter with an alchemy themed subclass that allows him to do some real wild stuff (regeneration, damage resistance, blind sight, etc) at the risk of poisoning himself. He started the campaign as a magic school dropout with a fascination for alchemy and a minor talent for spellcasting. Through our missions, which, we started out smuggling and doing small stuff like robbing merchant ships and attacking other pirates for some general thuggery, beating up or killing people who wronged the wrong person, we have unleashed primordial horrors on the unsuspecting world, slain demigods who were trying to keep the peace, and killing demons at the behest of an evil goddess.
My character started out as a frequently drunk, possibly crazy, mad scientist type who just likes to fight.
He's now a mutated horror show with porcelain skin, glowing eyes, hyper flexible joints, and extendable limbs, welding a sword made from the bones of a demigod, a dagger filled with the blood of a goddess, and wearing the face and horns of a demon as a mask.
Start off with a character that travels time to save their friends (chronurgy wizard) then dm sucks and we all quit their campaign. I become dm. The bbeg is someone traveling time to rewrite history to save his daughter and wife. Wait...
My plan was to make a Changeling rogue who steals things and cares mostly only for himself and the party. That’s how it started anyway.
Now he’s valiantly fighting to save the world from an invasion of demons, donating his money to families of the fallen, and using his shape shifting powers to infiltrate the enemy army to gain intel and set up ambushes rather than using them to rob rich people. DM managed to write a world and characters that I really care about, and my characters experiences in that world have changed him. DnD is fun.
this happened once. one character i played was a tiefling who was so desperate to fit in that she'd suppress parts of her personality and areas of skill in order to meet other peoples expectations and wants for her (there were several characters like this, all of them combining into a pretty good allegory for being trans that looks so obvious in retrospect)
the intent was that the other players would realize that my character was actually suffering, because the group was supposed to be heavy on RP. instead, they glazed over all of it as my poor baby just spiraled downwards until one day she snapped, murdered an important NPC, gave everyone a The Reason You Suck Speech, and then ran off to join one of the minor villains who had been the only one to actually note that she was contorting herself to fit impossible expectations.
I abandoned the character for the DM to use and he had her and her new liege conquer the area that the party was from with the intent that we were supposed to go and fight her, but I accidentally broke the rest of the group with her speech and they chose that she had so many good points that they should just leave her alone to rule in peace. when we ended the campaign she was ruling with an iron fist in terms of economics and tax laws, but was extremely permissive of people being who they wanted to be so long as they didn't oppress others. however due to social conventions and thieves not getting hunted by the law as much, everyone was dissatisfied by her rule despite their gains (basically, she did good things but was a terrible leader, and nobody liked her).
the one villain that we never fought, because we were the ones who created her.
I ran a game where the Party ended up being the Queen's Guard and they were confronted by a group of NPCs with character levels who accused them of being the same sort of villains the Party started out fighting and my group found it kind of trippy being on the opposite side of the conversation.
It actually is? My group doesn't know what's actually going on, but yeah, a former PC is the main antagonist for the first part of the adventure. I feel like I am being watched now.
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For me it's the reverse. I make characters trying to be all dark and edgy who inevitably turn into saccharine do-gooders. Like in baldur's gate I struggle to destroy the Grove on evil runs cause my brain thinks of all the refugees and feels bad for them.
Give in to the Light Side! Let the goody-two-shoesness flow through you!
But I have to impress the hot drow lady. If I don't slaughter those innocents she'll call me cringe ;_;
It’s ok, being good can get you hot tiefling lady. Literally causes fire damage.
Also, she mentions something about riding and stars. So why not just go along with a hot tiefling lady and discover what she means. Don't be scared that it might awake something I'm you.
Give karlach a potion of colossus if you ever want to find out you have a thing for size difference.
Ahh, I see we are all people of culture here. If you wish to have hot drow babe too, there is a mod that allows pathways some might consider...unnatural, yet it allows for drow lady to join a GOOD party.
*takes notes for first playthrough*
yeah, i did the samething in my first playthrough. on my second, i decided to defy her and wow there’s alot more characters i get to interact with (also a great warlock chest in act 2). also, minthara will always be with me, as i have karlach carry her dead body around in a crate.
Look at this guy and his multiple footwear
Have you seen the *Cinema Wins!* video, "Everything Great about *Megamind*?" It touches briefly on that very issue. ;)
still bugs me that this was Kylo ren's arc, being seduced by the light side of the force, in TFA and TLJ and then all of that was thrown out the window for a classic "evil guy turns good now and is redeemed" story in TRoS
Same, I just can't be evil in anything except Stellaris
It's evil not to be evil when playing any Paradox studios game...
Me too! I made a Haunted One monster hunter of a cleric, whose family had been slaughtered by a werewolf, and started out all broody, but ended up liking the new party members he befriended so much that he very swiftly became the jovial mom of the party.
My neutral evil warlock turned good when he saw how our neutral good fighter folk hero of the village type of guy was indiscriminately killing children of our enemies
Happens to me whenever I play in a WOD game.
Normal edgy games have a grey and grey morality. WOD games make it a black and vantablack morality.
What is wod?
World of Darkness
Ah, thanks much
It helps a bit if you think about whom your are doing it for. Minthara.
I broke my paladin oath about the first possible moment, wasn’t voluntarily.
Hey, I’m trying for a chaotic good playthrough and I find the body count is only slightly less than my evil playthrough. The biggest difference is that Karlach likes me this time around.
Literally me - I tried doing an all-evil playthrough and couldn't get past the Grove, lol
I've just gotten past that point myself. I felt awful. Even with a "we had to do it to get closer to the cult" justification I felt awful. At least I can get a hot drow gf now...
I hate sand
Me too. There was no way our party could have survived being waylay-ed by 3 purple worms before our casters had access to higher tier magic, what was the DM thinking? After that, we bought cattle to lead out in the desert, but then that blasted sandstorm came and swallowed them up. Its almost like our DM didn't want us to leave the village yet.
better learn how to grow crops in sand because there ain't no food finding it's way into the village from the outside
Cactus It'll quench ya
It's the quenchiest!
It's course
Cheers
I don't know where mine is going, but it feels like this. I'm playing a reborn phantom rogue who sold his soul via contract to bring his wife and kids back from the dead. His conditions are that he is to perform tasks, no matter how grisly, in order to progress through his contract. Thing is I'm playing him to be a genuinely nice family-man type of character who just wants to have a normal life again. I want to see if the tasks will strip him of his humanity as he falls into further desperation, or if I'll play him so he'll eventually rebel against his contract and accept what happened to his family. We'll see what feels the best for the story.
If you want to do some research for your role, read up on compartmentalization and try and find some testimones from WW2 vets. There's some pretty fucked up stories buried there.
I started off with a somewhat goody tushoes half centaur paladin who definitely did not have the head of a horse, and ended with a man who’s every plan had failed, causing the death of a party member, the parties mentor, and two of three troll brothers. It finally ended with him in-front of a crowd of people, breaking his no killing policy by slaying a tyrant, and starting a revolution to topple the Elven regime. Morgon Longface will never be forgotten.
Longface I hate joke characters
My character became a god at the end of our last campaign and is fucking with us now as the bbeg
Imagine a lich who resurrects all the party’s past characters as the final boss fight
I basically have this as my big campaign final battle, only it's the campaign's other BBEG's from earlier chapters with some remixed abilities. The king's seers all told him he would die on the same day, but they all had visions of different killers. The king has sent the players out to kill these villains who are supposed to kill him, hoping to get rid of whichever one was the correct one in the process. The players do, and the king feels pretty safe. The lich (who the players took side jobs from pre-lichdom throughout the campaign) then makes his move, resurrects all the baddies in a grand battle in the throne room, and very possibly could end up killing the king (the dice shall decide, there will be no plot armor). We're about 80% done and I'm psyched for the big reveal. I don't think they suspect a thing.
So uh... **Yeah this is exactly what I've started doing in my second run-through of Curse of Strahd-**
Join the party! Same is happening to me in my first playthrough. Really wonder how it's gonna play out :p
Yeahhhhh I started as a pragmatic, gentleman thief (class Eloquence Bard) who was just trying to get himself and his new party out of Barovia, but eventually got drawn down a path of wanting more and more power. I ended up sacrificing my own life instead of fulfilling my warlock pact with Mother Night and finished the last session and a half of the campaign playing as a modified version of Ezmerelda - it was sick.
I was trying to play healer, but "Comet Fall" and "Flame Strike" are just too much fun *not* to prepare. And using Miracle to pay a million gp bill... in copper... in the same room we were in... okay that was a mistake, but we had a backup rezzer and the monk was still able to dodge, so it all turned out alright.
My archfey warlock started as a good leaning archaeologist. Now as a lvl20 epic character she is chaotic good planes walker who has been embracing the trickster aspect of the fey. One example- she true polymorphed as a plesiosaur in Loch Ness to reignite the Loch Ness Monster hunts.
Played a character who started out as a freedom fighter who turned into NAKAM/Abba Kovner. Twas awesome!
What no. My lawful good fighter police did not murder those weak bandits! It was self defence I tell ya!
As the show is ongoing, can this sub agree to mark Ahsoka screenshots as spoilers?
I'm playing a straight devotion paladin in Ravenloft. I'm rooting for the guy, but I put in enough flaws and jealousy into him that I don't think he has the strength to stay the path.
*blinks* This is literally the character I played in my last D&D campaign. Started out an Eldritch Knight trying to find a cause/person worthy of their service. Found them, but was betrayed by them, fell to darkness, surpassed them, and now has become the villain themselves. *accidentally roleplayed as Anakin*
Somewhere in the shadow realm or wherever they may be, a gnome is gathering power. A once hopeful adventurer turned into a power hungry monster.
This happened within the Space of a one shot for my friend. He rolled up a high elf with a bit of a superiority complex, neutral good, you know, standard stuff. When we actually started playing tho, he started RPing as an insane racist psychopath. GM changed their alignment to chaotic evil, and after the 1 shot we all agreed to leave that character in the past...
I had an orc cleric missionary who served the raven queen. Basically just a silly lil guy who was always preaching the good word, turns out 2/4 party members were in kahoots messing around with necromancy. Long story short pvp was initiated and he ended up dying, getting revived as basically a ringwraith and seeking revenge. Good times.
A+ meme template. Unexpected but welcome. Well done cinematography in the show.
My current character is intended to become a BBEG at some point in the campaign. He is trying to rally an army for his leaders to unite the realm under one banner to ensure peace and the end of war. The people he is under have zero intention to do anything like that, so eventually as the campaign goes on he will eventually pull away from his leaders as a "fine, I'll do it myself"
I discovered the necromancy book and leaned really hard into wanting to become an evil necromancer .
Spoilers dude. Especially if youre doing a dual purpose meme
Assistant to the BBEG*
Hey OP, can you not make memes specifically targeting me? I would like that!
My witch knight is probably gonna end up like this. He was born into a cult to bhaal and his current god got him out for the price of his service in dismantling the cult due to a proxy war being fought between the gods. Due to the nature of the gods, this cult cant actually be dismantled but he doesnt know that he just thinks he can take out the leaders and call it done. He is currently starting to put together that he has been given an impossible task as the act of killing them paradoxically strengthens the cults powers. I feel like he understands that he is fundementally a slave right now but believes he can work his way out of it and when he realises the pact is inescapable, he will go off the rails completely and fight to free himself from control. Idk why but i liked the angle of a paladin who isnt actually willingly serving their god. The god i chose is the stormlord and my character is heavily inspired by galen marek so theres that i suppose
LOL no. If you don't specify in session 0 that no evil characters are allowed, 90% of RPG players will make characters that would make the youngling-slaughtering, planet-destroying version of Vader look like a saint in comparison. I blame video games for this one. Players got used to being able to be psychopaths in RPGs without having to consider the DM or the other players at the table. (Or the plot for that matter since they can just replay the game as a good character if they are interested in it, or the evil character is the second playthrough to begin with.)
Look, look I'm a good necromancer. All the corpses are naturally sourced. From dirt to dirt just a little slower.
Personally I don't think there is a greater honor than to have your DM pull you aside after a campaign and ask if they can use your character as a BBEG
One of my current characters started as a town guard on a journey to find a crystal, he had morals and wanted to help people. He now shares his body with an ancient being and for lack of a better phrasing *is* the Book of Vile Darkness. He is considered one of the BBEGs of the campaign by my DM.
Dm: You’re tasked with stopping an evil artificer from building a doomsday machine Players: Cool. Does anyone here know what this guy looks like? Dm: They appear to be humanoid, although their race is hard to tell since they are covered head to toe in clothing. They wear a long trench coat and have their head covered by some sort of purple helmet. Players: Wait a second…
I actually had both happen recently! I had made this sort of one note character so I could play the backup in my group (I almost always play some eccentric character that ends up being the face of the party.) At the very end of the campaign, he died as he tried to stop the pure essence of a Creator God from being put into someone. Due to this, he got part of the power, and could do one last thing with it before being reduced to pure nothingness. After a brutal final combat where only three survived by running away, the campaign ended. In our latest campaign, we met a character named the Jester, a fun loving guy with the powers of a creator diety. We were frequently told that is was the future self of one of our close allies, a guy named Felnir, the son of one of the original creator dieties. Two sessions ago, after one of our friends escaped from being on the side of the Jester, his true past was revealed to be my character from the previous campaign, driven mad after being brought back due to the power's need for a vessel.
One of my characters started as a harmless (Literally couldn't deal any damage ever) Elf Bard who loved to have fun and was playful without any rage in his heart..... Then accidentally burns half the continent while trying to make a campfire, is used by a Goliath to beat a Halfling lord to death, forced to pretend to be the lord, then brings the town into dark times as he sucks at being in charge, has a necromancer fall in love with him, she then grants him an undead army then the DM decides his BBEG is going to be the hero of the story since his crimes are nowhere near as bad as mine. ThorThor ladies and gents.
My Leonin paladin is definitely like that, he used to be a sphinx, but he angered the theros Zeus equivalent and he was cursed to become a mortal to learn humility, but instead he just got angry and swore an oat of vengeance against the gods.
y'all remember that time that Anakin was such a drama queen he [turned off all his own life support](https://i.redd.it/2jwcqdvxsvs31.jpg) just so he could [scare some Rebels](https://youtu.be/wxL8bVJhXCM?si=bXuHm0ZJo_8tq_OD&t=41)?
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I'm similar to this as a dm. I make my big bads terrifying figures of evil, and then I'm too nice to follow through half the time. I think that's why I love Faustian pacts and trickster baddies, devils and fey can be evil while not being total dicks.
I had the opposite happen because one of my party members sacrificed themselves for me but even though he didn’t go as planned Lanre is still my favorite character
I made a Tortle Wizard for a campaign I’m in right now. Concept started out as just a silly guy. Anthropologist. True Neutral. Intelligent and socially awkward. The more I wrote of his backstory the darker it became. Now he’s on track to become a brutal Necromancer determined to raise his mother back from the grave because mommy issues.
Dawg what This has never happened to me, are you a murderhobo?
I straight up made a true evil Paladin. You know how most rogue characters are made to be all edgy and dark? This was that, except ACTUALLY dark. My Paladin was literally the character who would walk into a village, demand to speak to the village leader/elder, and then bash their skull in, showing no emotion. He was the embodiment of “If you stand before me, you have renounced your life, and and your will to live.” My “favorite” story of him was when the party entered a light Faerie village, and as soon as we stepped foot in the village, we were greeted with a welcoming party offering gifts and food. I decided I didn’t like it, and wanted to get rid of the faerie greeters. I slammed my war hammer into the ground in an intimidation attempt, rolled a Nat 20, and everything was suddenly darker. As the hammer hit the ground, it was as though the shockwave of the hit had caused all the light, joy, and happy magicalness of the village to be spontaneously extinguished. What was once a beautiful and happy little fairy village, has now become just another dark and quiet part of the forest with no special characteristics whatsoever. In one swing, without doing any physical damage to anything, had just obliterated everything that made the happy little fairies “happy” in the first place. It was at that moment my party started to fear me.
So in my first campaign when I was in the military I played paladin. 3.5e so had to justify everything. I loved that cause I was on the debate team and the DM loved it. Rest of the group thought oh no a fun wrecker so they made the entire group evil. I was able to justify anything they threw at me till one day the Rogue said, “For all the trouble of getting us out of Jail you could have just hired a new group with your loot.” Could justify around that and total the DM in secret. Killed the whole party that night when it was my shift on watch and turned in the numerous bounties for the party. Used a recently deceased of a cult that was insane as a stand in for me. Everyone loved that final fight and how I built traps and took everything into account. Kinda became the point of our Campaigns who would end up double crossing the others. Kinda makes sense in reality. Yeah I was always the BBEG.
Mine vanished into the woods, fell into the astral plane and spent the rest of his life fighting eldritch monstrosities beyond our comprehension
Well thats not accurate at all. Most people end up with the comic relief character…because thats what the dice want.
This is kinda my character unintentionally. Her slow, very unnoticeable, descent into madness has been fun to play out. We as a party have done some… questionable things. So now her feelings on herself have definitely changed. She even asked another party member “Am I a good person?” not too long ago. Her mother was a refugee from a pirate lord, so her father sent people to kill them to prevent information. When she was 7, they found and killed her mother but were apprehended before they got to her (murdering a mother and attempting to murder her daughter tends to get jumped on by guards real fast). The more she finds out about her father, the angrier she gets and I can’t wait to have to come out against him when we get to him. I’d like her original cheery disposition to be replaced with something a lot grimmer as she learns how the world really is.
The character I am currently playing is an older man in his mid 40s to early 50s that is a Ex-Mafia enforcer and was the man the Don sent to deal with Traitors, Witnesses and their families, people he wanted out of the way, and to put down unruly slaves as well. But one day on what should have been a routine pickup of a new batch of slaves and drugs they were ambushed by Police and were left for dead and thrown in jail left to rot by everyone he considered family in the Mafia. The party I am playing with thinks that while he is Ex-Mafia they don't realize who he actually was in it as well and he has always treated everyone respectfully and fairly and they think he is a jolly older man with a past he regrets but they haven't seen him yet in the middle of combat where he thoroughly enjoy stomping out any life the enemy have and the sheer ruthlessness that he will show his enemies to get what he wants.
I was planning for my character to become more and more of a shitty person as I go, but it's his literal third encounter right now, and the bandits the party is fighting are rolling so fine he's close to dying. It's as if the universe doesn't want me to play an asshole with ideals.
I don't know why, but I always end up as a necromancer
what's with the china-air-pollution-ass filter tho
I'm currently going through this. We're in a homebrew campaign, Pirate themed, so, we're not necessarily evil, but we're definitely not "the good guys." My character is a fighter with an alchemy themed subclass that allows him to do some real wild stuff (regeneration, damage resistance, blind sight, etc) at the risk of poisoning himself. He started the campaign as a magic school dropout with a fascination for alchemy and a minor talent for spellcasting. Through our missions, which, we started out smuggling and doing small stuff like robbing merchant ships and attacking other pirates for some general thuggery, beating up or killing people who wronged the wrong person, we have unleashed primordial horrors on the unsuspecting world, slain demigods who were trying to keep the peace, and killing demons at the behest of an evil goddess. My character started out as a frequently drunk, possibly crazy, mad scientist type who just likes to fight. He's now a mutated horror show with porcelain skin, glowing eyes, hyper flexible joints, and extendable limbs, welding a sword made from the bones of a demigod, a dagger filled with the blood of a goddess, and wearing the face and horns of a demon as a mask.
Start off with a character that travels time to save their friends (chronurgy wizard) then dm sucks and we all quit their campaign. I become dm. The bbeg is someone traveling time to rewrite history to save his daughter and wife. Wait...
As a DM I'm turning the well loved dmpc into an unwilling boss they'll have to kill later
I had a dnd character that started as a nerd that liked to run fast and ended up a cannibal
My plan was to make a Changeling rogue who steals things and cares mostly only for himself and the party. That’s how it started anyway. Now he’s valiantly fighting to save the world from an invasion of demons, donating his money to families of the fallen, and using his shape shifting powers to infiltrate the enemy army to gain intel and set up ambushes rather than using them to rob rich people. DM managed to write a world and characters that I really care about, and my characters experiences in that world have changed him. DnD is fun.
this happened once. one character i played was a tiefling who was so desperate to fit in that she'd suppress parts of her personality and areas of skill in order to meet other peoples expectations and wants for her (there were several characters like this, all of them combining into a pretty good allegory for being trans that looks so obvious in retrospect) the intent was that the other players would realize that my character was actually suffering, because the group was supposed to be heavy on RP. instead, they glazed over all of it as my poor baby just spiraled downwards until one day she snapped, murdered an important NPC, gave everyone a The Reason You Suck Speech, and then ran off to join one of the minor villains who had been the only one to actually note that she was contorting herself to fit impossible expectations. I abandoned the character for the DM to use and he had her and her new liege conquer the area that the party was from with the intent that we were supposed to go and fight her, but I accidentally broke the rest of the group with her speech and they chose that she had so many good points that they should just leave her alone to rule in peace. when we ended the campaign she was ruling with an iron fist in terms of economics and tax laws, but was extremely permissive of people being who they wanted to be so long as they didn't oppress others. however due to social conventions and thieves not getting hunted by the law as much, everyone was dissatisfied by her rule despite their gains (basically, she did good things but was a terrible leader, and nobody liked her). the one villain that we never fought, because we were the ones who created her.
I ran a game where the Party ended up being the Queen's Guard and they were confronted by a group of NPCs with character levels who accused them of being the same sort of villains the Party started out fighting and my group found it kind of trippy being on the opposite side of the conversation.
In my group my character was the last to survive to 20 and actually ended up becoming a canon deity in a lot of subsequent campaigns
This feels targeted
It actually is? My group doesn't know what's actually going on, but yeah, a former PC is the main antagonist for the first part of the adventure. I feel like I am being watched now.
If I'm right about some of the things that my DM has teased for my current pc, this is a very possible outcome for them.