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Dungeon Master’s Block

16: Good, Bad, Unkillable Villain

Dungeon Master’s Block

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5613 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2015

⏱️ 93 minutes

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On this episode we discuss what makes a great villain a great villain. Strike fear into your players today!   The Crit Fumble Chart of Doom   Patreon @DMs_Block Facebook Stitcher iTunes   [email protected]   The song in this episode is Stadium Thing by Nathan Alford. soundcloud.com/nathan-alford

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0:00.0

Welcome back to this episode of the Dungeon Master's Block, the place where we focus on the

0:17.0

Dungeon Master, the most important person in the game, the only person capable of playing

0:21.9

God, killing characters, and lowering the ego of all the other people at the table. I'm one of

0:28.0

your host, Dungeon Master Mitch, and I'm Dungeon Master Chris. And we want to welcome you back to

0:32.0

another episode. This episode, we will be exploring the villains of D&D. BOMPONB So we will be looking at what does it take to make a good villain?

0:43.3

And when we say good, we obviously don't mean alignment.

0:46.3

But what does it take to make a great villain that your players are going to be able to just grab onto and hate with all of their guts. And what is it that makes

0:56.2

a villain a bad villain? And we mean a villain that is just not interesting. A villain

1:01.8

that your players could care nothing less about. So that's what we're going to be talking

1:06.0

about on this episode of the Dungeon Masters block. Before we go into all of that great stuff, Chris, we have some shout outs. Yeah, we do. I have one here from P-Man Pre. Actually, I think it's P-Man P-Man P-M-Pry, because it's from DM Main Prize, who we've had a lot of interactions with. And he gave us a five-star rating on iTunes, and it says a DM is born. He says, once many years ago,

1:29.0

a man sat down on a Christmas day at home of a friend and ally. The friend showed this man a game,

1:34.4

not a game, a world in which all things were possible, D&D. This great event planted in the man a seed

1:41.1

that would take three years to grow. And until that time, the seed set deep in the fertile soil of his mind. And he goes on to share a little bit more about his journey and when 5E came out, and he said, I am going to get all the books and just study them. And if a group presents itself, we shall play. And thankfully, he did find a group. He's been emailing us back and forth about some just fun things that he's been doing with his group.

2:02.4

And so, the M.A.P.P. We like it. We like it a lot. You're awesome. Keep it up.

2:08.7

We've got another one here, another five star. It's entitled Amazing D&D Podcast. And it's from Captain Captain Andrew.

2:16.8

And he says, keeps me entertained at work and you can

2:20.4

tell they really love the game two thumbs up yes we do love the game thanks to the two thumbs up

2:26.2

and the five stars Captain Captain Andrew I love that story time the time during the episode where we talk about what happened last week during our

2:39.1

campaigns our favorite moments what we learned about ourselves and what we learned about each other

2:45.9

please join us now as we enjoy Storytelling.

2:59.8

So Mitch, this week in Storytime, we are going to be recapping and telling a little bit about your past campaign.

3:02.9

And so with no further ado, what did we do in your campaign?

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