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Monster DMs
Archfey DMs: One of your adventures is at a masquerade. Has character voices and multiple-paragraph backstory for every NPC you meet. Rewards XP for flattery.
Dragon DMs: One of your party is going to die, absolutely. No character voices, only yelling. Loot is very, very good.
Goblin DMs: Going to throw gold coins at you when unsure what else to do. Encounters are twelve ¼ CR enemies. Most likely to have a NPC named after dicks.
Lich DMs: You thought were done with that storyline but not so fast. Don’t touch that, it’s probably cursed. Dry sense of humor.
Mimic DMs: Amazing voice range and skill. Dungeons feature multiple dead-ends. Plot of campaign stolen wholesale from stories they like.
Vampire DMs: Is going to use your backstory and make you regret it. Will let you seduce the villains. Ravenloft campaign.
@takran @morrighan-in-wonderland
Tag yourself I’m pretty sure I’m Lich
I’m some horrible bastardization between archfey DM mimic DM and vampire DM.
Archmimpire DM: Is going to use your backstory and make you regret it. Has character voices and multiple paragraph-backstory for every NPC you meet. Will let you seduce the villains. Plot of the campaign is stolen wholesale from stories they like.
Things I love about the “villain turns good” trope:
- Ex-villains graduating to “weird
uncle” status.
- Ex-villains and hero(es) turning the
events of previous battles into bizarre inside jokes.
- Ex-villains embracing the power of
friendship and love.
- Ex-villains putting up walls and
keeping to themselves until the heroes teach them what it means to
trust someone.
- Ex-villains messing up and being
forgiven because redemption is a process, not an endgame.
- Ex-villains being shy and uncertain
about their new place as a hero.
- Bonus: Ex-villains hiding behind their hero friends during moments of shyness and uncertainty.
- Ex-villains being tempted back to the
dark side only to realize how much their newfound friendships mean to
them.
- Ex-villains pretending to return to the
dark side, and using their villain cred to be a mole/saboteur on the
heroes’ behalf.
- Ex-villains taking the same skills and
character traits that made them effective villains and using them for
good.
- Ex-villains defeating current villains by being better at those skills and traits than they are.
- Ex-villains being rejected by almost
everyone except the very few willing to give them the benefit of the
doubt.
- Ex-villains being ferociously protective of those few.
- Ex-villains convincing old allies and friends to follow them to the light side.
- Ex-villains helping their hero friends
through guilt and self-doubt by reminding them that your mistakes don’t
make you and it’s never too late to turn things around.
- Ex-villains receiving unconditional
trust and affection from someone small and innocent, and having no
idea what they’re supposed to do with that.
- Ex-villains reuniting with heroic loved ones that they don’t have to fight against anymore.
- Ex-villains looking around at their new friends and their new home and having to sit down and ride out a sudden wave of powerful emotion because they can’t remember the last time they felt content.
I could use some of these.
I really want a movie where there’s this Dark Brooding Male Hero who’s like, a total badass, and during all the fight scenes he keeps getting flashbacks to happy images of his wife, and like his whole narrative is framed around his wife, and all the other heroes on his team know that he’s got this passion and vengeance and think it all has to do with his dead wife… but then near the end of the movie his wife shows up and he’s like “hey babe” they’re all shocked and they’re like, “Wait I thought all your power and passion came from avenging your dead wife?” and he’s like “no bro, I just really love my wife, she’s really cool, she’s what keeps me going” like… a reverse fridge
Unfridge your wives 2017
Unfridge your wives 2018
“This whole saving the world thing has kept me from seeing my wife for like, three days and I was really starting to miss her!”
It turns out he’s normally a ray of sunshine and is only Dark Brooding Male Hero mode when he misses her.
