Venerable Villains is a series of posts that delve into different aspects of playing a bad guy in roleplay. Villains and bad guys come in a vast range of shapes and formats, but they are rather rare, and to find them done well is even rarer still. They are also essential to any good story-line or plot for breeding conflicts and tensions. We are going to talk about all kinds of villains and how to make them work. If you want to catch up with any of the other sections of this series you can find the index here: Venerable Villains Index Page.
Last time we talked about the Archetype of your new villain character. We discussed fine-tuning that type with working out where they were on the scale of good to evil and what their personal method of villainy was. We also took a look into consequences and that is where today’s post evolves from. When playing a villain that you want to use in roleplay as a bad-guy or antagonist for other PC characters you need to be very aware of one very crucial thing; Community Manners.