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"This is only the beginning..." (startrek.website)

submitted 11 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network

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[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 22 points 11 months ago

I always love a good "I have achieved immortality" right before they die.

Sends everyone panicking, looking for the phylactery, warning people to keep their eyes out, "he's still out there", and yet the only thing left is the memory they're keeping alive with their paranoia.

I have watched a party get absolutely consumed by it. It was a blast getting to give the "While you hunted for a pawn that wasn't even on the table, I made my gambit" speech and have them realize what was meant with immortality.

Was even better when I pulled out notes on everything they theorized, and threw the Uber-BBEN of their own making at them. A twisted Frankenstein's Monster made out of their own thoughts, barreling down at them from the gaping maw of Hell. The only thing missing was someone trying to turn it into the Staypuft Marshmallow Man.

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You don't know what I do for mankind. I was your god, even if you couldn't see it. By killing me, you have doomed yourselves...

[–] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 10 points 11 months ago

"Oh shit, that's not good. I check if he dropped anything cool!"

[–] teft@startrek.website 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I like He Who Remains version:

"I'll see you soon."

Would be good for a lich with a second phylactery that the party didn't know about. Or maybe the phylactery they destroyed was just a decoy.

[–] pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 11 months ago

“Oh, what a world! What a world!”

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The way my group just dismisses all side action and hyper focuses on stopping the BBG, if I was DM I would make his speech reveal he was more of a good guy than the party, that his plan wasn't even evil, and had they taken the time to do more investigating instead of just following hearsay and rumors, they could have avoided so much bloodshed.

[–] LoamImprovement 2 points 11 months ago

That sounds like a pacing issue. Out-of-character the group might agree that there's a desire to do side plots, but in-character a (heroic) party that is aware of a great evil is going to take actions in the interest of stopping that evil, even if they're knowingly unprepared (plucky young heroes who win against overwhelming odds are the stuff of legend, after all.) This is why it's important to keep scope small at lower levels - as tempting as it might be to daisy chain a much bigger bad to a smaller one with a cryptic note or mysterious secret symbol so that you can do an "all according to plan" speech later, if you drop a plot hook, the players will bite on it with the force of a million industrial hydraulic presses and not let go until the whole mystery is unraveled.

Also, don't pull a grey-and-black gambit on the party unless it's what the plan was all along and the party has been aggressively ignoring the other bait. As a player, one of my biggest pet peeves is catching shit for doing what I thought the DM wanted us to do with the narrative they laid out. It's right up there with a "mastermind" villain who is obviously ass-pulling contingency plans when the players do shit the DM didn't account for. Protip to anyone reading: if your villain needs to have plot armor so the plot can continue with zero hitches, they're not a very good villain, and it's not a very good plot.

[–] Ilflish@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

The classic, "Zanzibart, I've failed you" and now the party is wondering who the frig that is and his connection to BBEG

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Death is but a door, time is but a window, I'll be back

[–] Royal_Bitch_Pudding@ttrpg.network 2 points 11 months ago

He is Vigo! You are like the buzzing of flies to him!

[–] Attaxalotl@ttrpg.network 3 points 11 months ago

“When you hear the thunder, when the storm comes for you; remember me” –🍊