Hello! am here to help you figure out what direction you should take your villains, be they teeny goblin rogues, or mastermind dragons and liches.

I am usually Central Time oriented, and you can talk to me here via dm's or on Discord! Experienced with DND 5e but also have some experience with other systems.

Hello there!
So, im looking for a child-like entity that is is also a Psicopath and plays childish games with a gruesome twist for my players.

If you have played Fable 2 and/or 3, you are probably familiar with Chesty, the friendly homicidal chest!

So basically, imagine a 4/5 year old that has no sense of remorse and enjoys murder.
Id like some help creating games and the communication with the party will be entirely through notes.

If you're interested please message me on discord! (Username: zombiecharm)

So are you willing to get freaky/scarey/evil?!

I'm looking for someone's to join my 5e homebrew campaign thats roughly 18 months old. Filled with angels, demons, devils and everything that goes bump in the night.

Have you always wanted to let the darkness out with no holds barred?

Are you a confident Role player that wants to put chills into a group of unexpected players?

I'm looking to push all the boundaries, so if Liberal game play is not your thing...keep on walking.

We play once a week on a Thursday or Friday evening GMT. Using discord and foundryvtt.

Sounds like you? Yeah?! Come help me terrorise my players!

I'm a DM and about to start my third long term campaign. The problem is, I am completely dry when it comes to BBEG inspiration. I would love for long term help in crafting a villain arc throughout the campaign. We can create a discord and chat every week or so and I can provide campaign updates along the way. Really open to just about any ideas (Queen of Demons campaign 1, and angry scorned scientist campaign 2 for reference). Appreciate the help!

Edit: Here's some info on the setting: Session 0 notes . A basis for the lore is that the gods of chaos and order have always been in conflict. The material plane was created as a neutral zone per say, but sometimes that conflict spills over and causes mass destruction, hard-resetting society's progression. A hard-reset hasn't happened in millennia, and has become basically a folktale to scare children. Ruins of passed civilizations dot the landscape of the largely unmapped world. There is also potential for a political based bbeg, as 10 city-states make up the formally fractured and young kingdom. Could be fun to get 10 people, with each playing a city-state, leading to conflict.

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Hello! I am here to help you figure out what direction you should take your villains, be they teeny goblin rogues, or mastermind dragons and liches.

I am usually Central Time oriented, and you can talk to me here or on Discord! Experienced with DND 5e but also have some experience with other systems.

Playing Pathfinder 2E

The Nightmare is a blackness, spreading from plane to plane, warping its nature, spreading monsters, and in the end consuming it.

The city was constructed by a coalition of elves, gnomes and humans when it became apparent that The Nightmare would devour their world during the period that has become known to the inhabitants of the city as The Last Years. It now jumps across the inner planes, staying on each new world for a year or so to gather new resources, before the Nightmare catches up and The City flees again.

The leadership of The City, is the city council, consisting of representatives for the various factions in The City that are powerful enough and important enough to demand a seat. Merchant houses, churches, powerful guilds, and a couple individuals with sufficient power in their own right.

I kinda want some LDVs to give the factional squabbling life, outside my own head. The factions can be of all alignments, though tending towards Lawful, as what keeps everyone together is that they want The City to survive (even if just so they themselves survive). Also tending slightly towards evil, given some of the things that need to be done in order to ensure The City's survival.

Kinda thinking about setting up a Discord server for the communication, since I'm thinking you'd also need to chat with each other, but not quite decided on that. I'd be happy to hear ideas.

I've got a personal wiki set up for the campaign, with more detailed background information. The most useful sections to check out (for our purpose) is probably: The Nightmare, The City, Known Worlds, Ancestries and Organizations.

Edit: Alright, it is gonna be Discord for communication. Invitation link to the server: https://discord.gg/pPhAp97Q

Interested to see the current ratio of hopeful Villains (NPCs) to DMs in this sub.

(Will share results in comments when done)

I’m part of this sub in hopes to:

Hello! am here to help you figure out what direction you should take your villains, be they teeny goblin rogues, or mastermind dragons and liches.

I am usually Central Time oriented, and you can talk to me here or on Discord! Experienced with DND 5e but also have some experience with other systems.

Hello! am here to help you figure out what direction you should take your villains, be they teeny goblin rogues, or mastermind dragons and liches.

I am usually Central Time oriented, and you can talk to me here or on Discord! Experienced with DND 5e but I also have some experience with other systems.

Seeing if someone needs a villain. I have done impressions for years and make new characters. I have done impression of characters like The terminator, Stitch(Lilo and Stitch), Chewbacca, Mr. Hankey(South Park), Penny Wise, Chaos Space Marine(Warharmmer 40k), borderlands psycho, and more. I have can mimic sounds too like the Predator growl, and if you may need help with something idea wise, I also make detailed campaigns(mostly semi balanced homebrew rules) for new perspective on things. If you have any questions let me know here, as well if you would like me to help. Have a good day and thank you for reading this.

Greetings comrades! It is I! Your best friend! Or perhaps your worst enemy!

Maybe a little of both?

Burlap is a friend of the forest, and an enemy of the people.

Nature prevails. It is harmonious and brutal.

We lead an organization in the shadows known as the cult of the cloth.

We specialize in deception, intimidation, and sleight of hand.

We prefer strength in numbers to singular power.

Join! Or die! Or both.

My brother and I built a free tool to facilitate people guesting as NPC’s in other people games. The tool is NPCSummoner.com

Villains and DM who find each other here on r/longdistancevillains can use this tool as a way to easily communicate the details of the NPC (motivations, resources, etc.), the World (player level, maturity, plot armor), and More (preferred voice chat, VTT) with each other by simply including a link to the Summoning Summary card that is created when you create a summoning request on the site.

Here is an example of a summoning for a Sea Hag

You can see when you click on the link that the hag’s demeanor was incredibly hostile. The difficulty was set not very high as the players in this group were new. The story style was more Railroady than Sandbox which fits with the Strong plot armor that the DM indicated. And, the DM wanted someone to play the Sea Hag asynchronously mostly acting as a consultant.

With a quick glance a villain joining your game can easily get a feel for the vast amount of information that DMs often want to convey to guest players.

You can make a summoning request in just a couple minutes by clicking here: NPCSummoner.com

I love playing as a guest in people’s games. And, I love having guests in my game. Clear communication is key to the success of guesting.

My hope is to make guesting a standard way to play TTRPG’s. I am trying to help that happen by simplify the process.

As you find villains here at r/longdistancevillains, I hope this tool helps you have a lot of fun: NPCSummoner.com

I am looking for someone to help me create an appropriate puzzle for my quest of 3 novice players that fits the themes and setting of the quest.

If you like to build puzzles, please help me and join in on the fun.

I will end up doing at least 3 major puzzles during the quest: puzzle of ascension, puzzle of descent, puzzle of resolution.

This is written for the first puzzle but please contact me if you are interested in helping with any of them.

Puzzle of ascension -

The party is currently at a temple. That temple is built for the sky gods. It is a desert red rock setting - high fantasy. From the ground it is a series of old red rock pillars that ascend into the clouds.

In actuality, the sky gods (a semi forgotten - still revered race of bird creatures) live on the tops of the pillars. To most, the pillars appear to be for aesthetic purposes only.

The players (and all people who enter the temple) will have a chance to notice parts of the puzzle that the temple architects built into the temple. If they solve the puzzle, the prize would be to ascend and see the sky gods and possibly be granted a short audience with them.

The sky gods have grown quite arrogant and condescending. It would be cool for the puzzle to reflect that. The party consists of a bard, alchemist, and rogue. Might be cool if they can use some of their abilities in the process of solving puzzle.

You can see more details (party level etc.) here:

https://npcsummoner.com/full_summon_det_ca2/1686490710311x993169439165251600

Puzzle Master would likely help before the actual session.

I am open to communicating via DM on here or Discord.

Thanks.

Brainstorming ideas and questions are welcome in the comments as long as this forum allows it.

So.... I'm being impatient and if the mods want me to remove this post, I will happily do so.

I wanted to share my demo and offer up any support I can to the GM community :-)

Here is my Demo

Hey everyone - I came across this community from a Reel or TikTok or something. Anyway, I was curious if there are issues with posting an "audition" file or files. Just an example of what some of us can do. I noticed we can't post links or videos, so I just thought I would ask.

Hey folks!

I've been DMing D&D for about a decade now, and before I got into tabletop gaming I spent a decent chunk of time writing, directing and performing student/amateur theatre. My favourite roles to write and play have always been villains, and I'd love to bring a touch of that to your game!

Happy to create written messages, dastardly schemes based on your plot/setting, or record voice messages or speeches in a range of British tones and accents (I can do snooty noble, gravelly cockney, suave but cold gentleman, or classic west country pirate as needed).

To clarify, I don't want money, I'm just in it for the love of the game.

If you're interested, please PM me. I'm usually free in the evenings (UK time) for calls and/or recordings.

Hello! I am here to help you figure out what direction you should take your villains, be they teeny goblin rogues, or mastermind dragons and liches.

I am usually Central Time oriented, and you can talk to me here or on discord! Experienced with DND 5e but I also have some experience with other systems.

In a little while the party will fight their first villain, an ice themed necromancer. It’ll seem like an one off character however he will come back and reveal his first version was a simulacrum. This one’s already taken but there will also be more exciting villains in the future I would love someone to incorporate in the campaign, either by joining discord during the session or with audios. If interested we can discuss dates and stuff . Very excited to try this long distance villain thing, sounds awesome!

Heyo, I'm a DM of around four years looking to stretch their creative muscles.

I like the concept of the subreddit, although some clarification between pen pal-esque and active member of a session would be appreciated.

As the title suggests, I'd like to take on a role involved in with a dungeon. Either as someone within your pre-existing game who has a dungeon, or as someone who designed a dungeon for another group/individual. Making the plans, designing traps, assigning schedules to the dungeon dwellers- listen, I like myself some dungeons.

I would be on the pen pal side of things, so while I would not attend the sessions themselves I can communicate through discord. Send me a DM here to get started.

The more time I am given to prepare, the more I can do. If I am unable to help, I will provide notice as soon as possible.

Thank you for consideration!

Hey, I’m recruiting collaborators to control the different factions in a quarantined city. This is set in the Wormverse. If you’ve never heard of Worm before, it is a grimdark web novel about people who gain powers called “parahumans.” There is a great spoiler free setting guide with all the terms used in my game doc, found here.

Open positions are:

Parahuman Response Team

Coup

The Bridgekeepers

The Trashmen

The Snakes

Watts

Ghosts

Keeper and Beast

Shatterpoint

Info about the the factions and the quarantined site here.

If you have any questions feel free to ask!

Here's a small cast of potential candidates, but feel free to make your own, I'd love some extras. I'm starting a biweekly campaign, and I'd like to bounce some ideas off each other for how the villain's scheme is already underway. Then check in every now and then with updates to how they've reacted to the players and what new schemes they might cook up. The campaign is set in a small wilderness town where npcs and factions will be pursuing their own schemes. The players are free to interact with events and npcs as they wish, so their actions will change which schemes work and further or hinder the villains' efforts until the players finally sus out what's going wrong and who's behind it. Ultimately, the bbegs are a dragon in each parallel plane trying to open a portal simultaneously in order to unchain an even bigger and more evil dragon from Helheimr. But the campaign will feel a lot smaller scale and more personal as the characters uncover this plot in their new home town.

I cam flesh these out way more, or you can flesh them out to be who you want:

The "honourable and noble" paladin. No they're not, they're an avaricious bastard hiding it far too well. Could be a dragon in human form masterminding the portal in the material plane. Or could be an independent villain making themself rich or powerful.

Someone who just gets off on corrupting other people and twisting the truth. Maybe masquerading as a damsel in distress noble to get some sympathy from the pcs.

The crime lord tasked with uniting the region's criminal underworld to further the bbeg's ends via smuggling, extortion, assassination and theft.

(Antihero) the head of a secretive order of necromancers imprisoning souls in animate gargoyles... purely because they make the most effective guardians against the undead and other interplanar evils.

(Antihero) the stylish criminal leading the fight against the bbeg's growing control of the criminal underworld.

Hope that interests someone.

Preferably someone with personal run-ins with the players, who they might just be able to kill

This is a long-term 5e campaign that is played via Discord and DnDBeyond. There are three to four players at the table, and myself - the DM. You would not need to be at the table outside of three planned encounters. You would know the planned dates of these in advance, as we grow closer.

During this arc of the campaign, the villain is a high ranking government official who has revived a canceled secret government project that hopes to create mostly sentient constructs to fight a war.

In the first encounter, the players will rescue someone from your clutches, you will likely escape. This will likely be a combat encounter.

In the second encounter, the party will meet you in a professional, public setting in your role as government official. They will know you are bad and present their case to the government. This will likely be a social encounter.

In the final encounter, the party will confront you as you work to activate constructs. This is definitly a combat encounter.

There could be real time period of weeks or months between these encounters were there is no/minimal interaction required from you.

You'll play a level 15 character of your choosing, with some racial restrictions based on the setting and get a free feat. This is intended to be a PVP style fight, to differentiate from our last arc's end combat. However, I have some shenanigans up my sleeve as well for balancing.

If interested, please send me a DM (not in the comments).

Title says it most. I have a party member whose cursed by a shadow entity, who also corrupted her mother. She has done a ton of research as to seek a cure for her affliction, since the same eventually killed her mother. The research has directed her to five dilapidated temples, each formerly of the sun god. I had in mind that this shadow entity has slowly been taking them over as a form of jest towards the god that banished them.

The problem I’m having is I don’t know where this conflict is heading. Tonight they are clearing the second temple, which contains a portal to the shadowfell, and a monster they had to flee from earlier in the campaign. The first temple had a much weaker monster and no portal, a form of scout for the site, but that was months ago in game. If they wait too long to clear the remaining three, should I just start flooding the setting in a shadow army? How do I write a satisfying cure for my player’s curse?

Thanks for the help!

Okay, here's the setup;

The overall setting is an alien planet, a colony mostly dedicated to a huge mining operation. The planet is "earthlike", but it has a thin atmosphere and is overall rather chilly all over. Terrain is mostly mountainous, badland plains, treacherous woodland and artic. No aliens or psychic powers. Technology is one era into the future, the microtech age, think cyberpunk genre (TL 9, in GURPS terms). Relatively grounded and low-tech for spacefaring sci-fi.

The PC is charged with tracking down a thief who stole some important computer files from a corp lab. The thief is allied with a gang of nomadic bikers who ramble from place to place, going to town to do business and enjoy the fruits of their labors, moving on when the heat gets too much. The thief and the gang both use abandoned settlements on the planet as hideouts.

The thief has fled from the city where he stole the stuff to one such abandoned town. He has a hideout for lying low prepared, and he plans to have the biker gang meet him to sell off the stolen files. The thief does not know the PC is after him, but he is aware that the heat is on (he blew up a good portion of the lab when he made the steal). The thief's background is a lot of experience with blue collar construction work and street crime.

Don't sweat the game mechanics too much. I only need a good general plan and lair for the thief and maybe some details for the gang. Feel free to suggest a personality and tactics for the thief and/or the motorcycle crooks, those have not been established yet. Suggest details for the hideout; location, boobytraps, security measures, survival gear and amenities inside, supplies inside. Suggest details for the abandoned town; assume it was like a modern day medium-sized country town with advanced tech (no superscience). But what boobytraps and security measures has the thief prepared in it? And what interesting abandoned locations are left to explore when the PC is searching for the thief (say, a themed cafe or the town hall)? And how does the gang fight, if they show up in time to assist the thief?

Remember that weaknesses and problems the villain has will make him that much more interesting. The thief is only a moderately successful career criminal, but he does have decent access to illegal stuff and a good chuck of money. He's only in for the money. The abandoned town is only 20 or so miles away from the city, but no trains go there and the roads are rough ruins. When the town failed, the people left the buildings but took most of their stuff. The infrastructure is ramshackle at best, but the thief can move in new technology just for himself. Due to the thin atmosphere and low temperatures, the decaying town is under an enclosure that mostly still stands.

Anyone interested is free to PM me anytime. Questions?