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Old 08-04-2022, 03:21 PM   #3
b-dog
 
Join Date: Nov 2006
Default Re: Pathetic Boss Monsters?

I guess for me it seems that movies and stories need mastermind bad guys to create suspense and foreboding. But in RPGs the mastermind would realistically annihilate the PCs right away with ingenious traps and tricks and also ambushes at times of vulnerability. The pathetic bad guy has some power but not necessarily super intelligent. He may have made a few sneaky traps in his dungeon but he will for the most part be in his dungeon not really devising diabolical plans to harm the PCs. He will likely have one or more of the 7 deadly sins like pride where he thinks his dungeon was so well designed that no PC could overcome his traps. Or maybe he is greedy and spends his time counting his treasure and admiring the works of art he has collected. Or maybe gluttonous where he has servants make him delicious meals and if he is a monster then maybe the meals come from the people in the countryside near his dungeon. And so on.
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