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Venerable Villains: Authority Type Bad Guys

February 9, 2019

In this installment of Venerable Villains we are looking into different types of bad guy, starting with the Authority Bad Guy.

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 storyline 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.

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Venerable Villains: A Villain’s Motive

June 28, 2017

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.

What is your villain’s motive? What inspires and drives them? Why are they doing what they are doing? That’s what we are looking at in today’s post, and it can be more complicated than you’d think. It is easy to assume a villain’s motive is to take over the world for personal gain. But in truth that is not how it works anywhere outside the Animaniacs. To write a really good villain you need to know what motivates him to do what he does and why.

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Venerable Villains: Series Index

May 31, 2017

Venerable Villains up is a blog series aimed at helping you create and roleplay awesome bad guys and villains in MMORPG's.

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. Within World of Warcraft, you can happily and easily content yourself with Blizzard’s pre-made Bad Guys. They have plenty to choose from in the game world; the Legion, the Scourge, the various cults, and so on. But some folk look for and desire something on a more close and personal basis. Something that can develop and grow, change and adapt to suit their story and within their time frame.

This leaves a desire and/or a need for player-character (PC) villains for that personalized touch and the ability to adapt with a story-line. So occasionally people will create a character to stand in as a villain for plots and stories for themselves, their friends or their guilds. Some people will just be drawn by the idea of playing a bad guy even if they don’t have a need for the character. We are going to talk about all kinds of villains and how to make them work. So buckle up and stay tuned.

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Venerable Villains: The Basics of Bad Guys

May 4, 2016

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.

Within World of Wacraft, you can happily and easily content yourself with Blizzard’s pre-made Bad Guys in the form of the Legion, the Scourge, the various cults, and so on. But some folk look for and desire something on a more close and personal basis. Something that can develop and grow, change and adapt to suit their story and within their time frame. This leaves a desire and/or a need for player character (PC) villains; for that personalised and touch and the ability to adapt with a story-line.

As such occasionally people will create a character to stand in as a bad guy for various plots and stories for themselves, their friends or their guilds. And some people will just be drawn by the idea of playing a bad guy even if they don’t have a pre-set need and slot for the character. We are going to talk about all kinds of bad guys here so buckle up and stay tuned.

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