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That House
2019-04-15, 06:15 PM
My favorite evil character is my current PC, Quint Latimer, or Draijl, or Count Archibald of Castleton or Duke Reginald. He is a beautiful work of BS.

He’s currently a Bard 2/Warlock 2, (lots of enchantment/illusion, including the EIs for at-will Silent Image and at-will Disguise Self), he’s a variant winged tiefling, he has six fingers/hand, goat hooves, wings, blue cat eyes, fangs, blue skin (about this shade), and smallish golden chinese dragon horns. He dresses on the cutting edge of current fashion, is meticulously neat, and plays the violin, the bow of which he reinforced and added a point to it. (He uses the bow as a rapier). I plan on taking the rest of my levels in bard (College of Whispers).

Personality-wise, he’s an egomaniacal, narcissistic, psycho/sociopathic, paranoid, manipulative bastard. (My iPad literally autocorrected bastard onto the end of the sentence. It knows who it’s talking about). He’s the leader of the party, with high Charisma and all, and is using them to make up for what weaknesses he has. (He sees them as necessary tools that he has to have on hand if he’s going to achieve his goal of toppling kingdoms and placing himself at the top of them).

His flaws are many, which keeps him from being too evil Mary Sue-ish. He has a flair for the dramatic, even when it would endanger his plans. He feels compelled to make a mess sometimes, just to break out of the drudgery of maintaing a perfect appearance and all. His physical strength and constitution are low, necessitating brawny allies, and all of his skills are social skills, so he needs a rogue to help him when stealth is needed. Finally, he has deeply repressed inferiority complex, feeling like he needs to prove to his devil father that he’s not a failure, but he sometimes suspects he is.

He’s quite a bit of fun to play, his flaws have gotten me into a lot of trouble, such as when Quint killed some noble’s children because they were trying to mess with the blackout drunk party Rogue, but his social skills and bardic magic have gotten me out of a bunch too.

I’ve only played two sessions with him, and it hasn’t all gone too well OoC (see my post about IC and OoC conflict for an insight into my moderately dysfunctional friendship with a fellow player), but it’s mostly been a thrill.

Maybe someday I’ll write up a list of his criminal exploits, of which I’m sure there will be many.

So what are your favorite villains, whether they were the PCs or the actual enemies?

NRSASD
2019-04-16, 11:18 AM
Three words: Strahd von Zarovich.

A good runner up would have to be a certain celestial in Curse of Strahd though. His warped perception of reality is a limitless source of jokes!