Sure, though probably only of a low- to mid-level campaign (or system equivalent for games without levels but which still have character advancement). When you get to high levels the stakes should really be higher than a mere bandit, although something neat that you could do is start with a bandit who gets his hands on some kind of power-enhancing thing that makes him far, far more dangerous then he was back when he was just a bandit - but since banditry was his life he is still basically thinking like a bandit and using that power for banditry, just on a larger scale now.
A bandit who lucks into acquiring a genie's lamp, for example, and now has a genie to boss around. Just make sure that the genie is truly subservient, otherwise the genie is the real BBEG, not the bandit.
Sure, for something like a low to mid level game. I particularly like what suggested.
[...] >shitty
Put your money where your mouth is homosexual, post your art.
I mean I liked it too, but full disclosure, I wasn't exactly being original. It's just Return of Jafar, except Abis Mal actaully gets to boss Jafar around effectively.
Sure, for something like a low to mid level game. I particularly like what suggested.
[...] >shitty
Put your money where your mouth is homosexual, post your art.
eh it's not terrible. Looks a little flat though. Especially the trees in the background. The leather stuff looks a little weird to me, tbh, but it's fantasy and fantasy is full of weird leather shit.
Make the bandit attack the wrong caravan. He was hoping for a cowardly metchant but ended up attacking some important noble, killing him and ending with an enormous bounty on his head. To escape the predicament maybe he makes a deal with some dark powers, uses some forgoten artifact or in his adrenaline-fueled panic discovers that he has powerful magical abilities.
Always found the concept of accidental big bads fun
>the bandit lord built his stronghold at the center of an iron-mining town in a mountain famous for its replete stores of iron >the town's steel mill continuously produces steel for use in creation of armor, swords, spears, and, most notably, guns >the mountainous gunfort, accessible by a single mountain pass, is all but impregnable by any nearby armies >the bandits, who have lived on the mountain for years, are well aware of how to hunt and fight on the slopes, harrying even guerilla fighters attempting to sneak up the mountain >they also enforce a protection racket on the farming villages at the base of the mountain, promising safety from both them and any nearby taxmen so long as they supply the gunfort with crops >bandit lord's just gonna keep stealing shit until someone manages to fight their way up the mountain and kill the fricker >even if they manage to get to him, the bandit lord's pact with the iron demon within the mine makes him more than a match for all but the most stalwart heroes
Done. You're welcome
stapling a single element of sekiro onto a copypasta of ds2 doesnt make it not ds2
and doesnt change the order of release
2 years ago
Anonymous
>a single element of sekiro onto a copypasta of ds2 >not a single element of ds2 onto a copypasta of sekiro
Snake Eyes were a bandit clan. Snake Eyes built the gunfort. Snake Eyes had influence in Ashina lands before Ashina Isshin did his thing. The set up is much closer to the set up in Sekiro. This is not disputable fact.
feudal lord has chivalry and inconvenient things like laws to worry about, bandit is his own petty king
https://i.imgur.com/2N3pgaD.jpg
Can a bandit be the BBEG?
Look to the routiers of the hundred years war for inspiration, semi-professional soldiers that caused absolute havoc and devastation in france by working en-masse to take over castles, establish "patis" -protection rackets and torture those who couldnt or wouldnt pay, kidnapped people for ransom anyways-anyone they saw who didnt have a written protection letter, if you couldnt pay the ransom then they'd either torture and murder you or you'd get to join them as an unpaid servant until you paid your ransom-many such people just became routiers themselves, raided farms, burned down crops and cut down orchards, stole livestock, raided towns and villages, defeated several baronial and royal armies as they numbered in the thousands and would spread out in a network across a province's castles and fortified towns and come together if any were in danger, devastated most of France aside from the areas controlled by England, invaded the papal states, invaded the rhineland, invaded castille (although they were paid to do so as a mercenary army), and a large chunk was paid off into italy under Florence and became known as the 'white company' and were very successful,-defeating several venetian armies, another group were the two private armies of two rival gascon lords who would act as routiers when not required for battle and would often be set against the lands of each's favoured faction if not one another. several routiers were individually excommunicated, in Auvergne one was captured and his captor threatened to release him back into the wild like a fricking plague bacillus unless the towns of auvergne all paid a huge amount of money to hand him over to them (they agreed and cut him to bits with an axe).
Most were loosely aligned with one side or another, the ones with no side didnt last long, most were with the English, in theory.
Theres one example where they took over the castle of the bishop of auvergne as it was only defended by an old man and a dog and they pretended to be nuns, and then proceeded to terrorise auvergne from that base for 11 years. You could have your villain be a routier captain thats been mercilessly pillaging your home province, has a large army and is basically untouchable while your kingdom is at war and the towns and cities are refusing to raise taxes to pay for anything other than their own defence, meanwhile the nobles are mostly broke or prisoners held to ransom, or have joined in.
I actually had a discussion with my brother about something similar. >xp is gold or a similar material resource >bandits abuse this by organizing their structure like a pyramid and having everyone tithe a portion to their superiors so there's one guy at the top who's basically Oryx and therefore quite powerful >if the bandits have Oryx, what prevents them from steamrolling everyone? >the monarchs of the various kingdoms that make up the known world do something similar with taxation and make up for the smaller individual tithes with a greater number of tithes >they can't kill the god of bandits because he's too powerful to neutralize without a cost that would weaken them on a geopolitical scale
There you go. Dorlewenger, God of Bandits (or his precursor) is trying to use the sword logic to acquire power and immortality and someone wants him dead.
>Bandit is just a mercenary used to stealing during peace time. >Upstart prince hires his crew for a coup. >He kills the royalty and then betrays the prince to take over himself with some magical artifact or weapon.
"Have you ever murdered someone? No? Then you can't say it's bad!"
"What do you mean this egg is rotten? Can you lay a better one? No? Then eat it!"
"You're telling me that smoking a fiberglass and sandpaper cigarette is bad, but I don't see you smoking! You can't say it's bad if you don't smoke, moron!"
"How do you know hardcore child porn is horrific if you've never seen it! You can't judge, so just shut up!"
Artists that tell people they can't judge if they can't draw are automatically shitty artists, regardless of actual quality. It's just deflecting criticism onto a strawman. Subhuman technique for feeble ego'd troglodytes.
Why would you feel the need to bring up child porn unprovoked in your argument? Like how do you just naturally Segway into that? Are you unhinged? That literally sounds like Alex Jones level of thought patterns.
Fire Emblem: Three Houses has a bandit as the BBEG in the Golden Deer path. Basically there was a bandit who stole all of the dragon bones and turned them into weapons to slay them. It was kind of a nice twist since bandits are one of the more generic mobs you can kill so seeing one ascend to the highest level of power was cool.
>BBEG
let me guess, you also call your butthole a SWPP (soft wet pink pucker)
Grow up.
Sure, though probably only of a low- to mid-level campaign (or system equivalent for games without levels but which still have character advancement). When you get to high levels the stakes should really be higher than a mere bandit, although something neat that you could do is start with a bandit who gets his hands on some kind of power-enhancing thing that makes him far, far more dangerous then he was back when he was just a bandit - but since banditry was his life he is still basically thinking like a bandit and using that power for banditry, just on a larger scale now.
A bandit who lucks into acquiring a genie's lamp, for example, and now has a genie to boss around. Just make sure that the genie is truly subservient, otherwise the genie is the real BBEG, not the bandit.
>A bandit who lucks into acquiring a genie's lamp, for example, and now has a genie to boss around.
I really really like this idea
I mean I liked it too, but full disclosure, I wasn't exactly being original. It's just Return of Jafar, except Abis Mal actaully gets to boss Jafar around effectively.
Sure, for something like a low to mid level game. I particularly like what suggested.
>shitty
Put your money where your mouth is homosexual, post your art.
Reminds of that one Dave the Barbarian episode where that nerd found that magic zipper
people seething about this on /tg/ will always amuse me
Did Ughposting become popular again?
You made a thread for this dumb question?
he keeps shilling his shitty art
"shitty" lets see you draw something better
kek cry more you redditor homosexual
I don't see any art, b***h. You were talking shit a second ago.
cry more homosexual, literally everyone will keep ignoring you
>everyone will ignore you
You aren't. I still don't see anything better from you by the way.
Looks like he hit a nerve.
eh it's not terrible. Looks a little flat though. Especially the trees in the background. The leather stuff looks a little weird to me, tbh, but it's fantasy and fantasy is full of weird leather shit.
I got a "simple background" with "detailed character" cause it was cheaper
>tvtripes
kys
>BBEG
Go back to reddlt.
BANDIT, SOUL LEVEL 99
48 VITALITY
66 ENDURANCE
12 ATTUNEMENT
16 FRICKING STRENGTH
10 DEXTERITY
BUT DONT TELL ANY1 U LEVELED THAT UP, YOU FRICKIGN homosexual
I remember when I was underage and thought this was funny too.
That one level of DEX really did cost OnlyAfro in the end, didn't it.
Isn't (they) a femboi now?
He removed "homosexual" from the video I think. I went back and watched it recently and it had been edited
Make the bandit attack the wrong caravan. He was hoping for a cowardly metchant but ended up attacking some important noble, killing him and ending with an enormous bounty on his head. To escape the predicament maybe he makes a deal with some dark powers, uses some forgoten artifact or in his adrenaline-fueled panic discovers that he has powerful magical abilities.
Always found the concept of accidental big bads fun
A man with ambition just needs an opportunity.
>the bandit lord built his stronghold at the center of an iron-mining town in a mountain famous for its replete stores of iron
>the town's steel mill continuously produces steel for use in creation of armor, swords, spears, and, most notably, guns
>the mountainous gunfort, accessible by a single mountain pass, is all but impregnable by any nearby armies
>the bandits, who have lived on the mountain for years, are well aware of how to hunt and fight on the slopes, harrying even guerilla fighters attempting to sneak up the mountain
>they also enforce a protection racket on the farming villages at the base of the mountain, promising safety from both them and any nearby taxmen so long as they supply the gunfort with crops
>bandit lord's just gonna keep stealing shit until someone manages to fight their way up the mountain and kill the fricker
>even if they manage to get to him, the bandit lord's pact with the iron demon within the mine makes him more than a match for all but the most stalwart heroes
Done. You're welcome
that's just a dark souls 2 dlc
All that's done is make the BBEG a regular feudal lord.
>feudal lords are just bandit gang leaders that convinced people to call them lords
Checks out
Actually, it's a Sekiro area.
the old iron king predates it
Old Iron King didn't have a gunfort
stapling a single element of sekiro onto a copypasta of ds2 doesnt make it not ds2
and doesnt change the order of release
>a single element of sekiro onto a copypasta of ds2
>not a single element of ds2 onto a copypasta of sekiro
Snake Eyes were a bandit clan. Snake Eyes built the gunfort. Snake Eyes had influence in Ashina lands before Ashina Isshin did his thing. The set up is much closer to the set up in Sekiro. This is not disputable fact.
feudal lord has chivalry and inconvenient things like laws to worry about, bandit is his own petty king
Look to the routiers of the hundred years war for inspiration, semi-professional soldiers that caused absolute havoc and devastation in france by working en-masse to take over castles, establish "patis" -protection rackets and torture those who couldnt or wouldnt pay, kidnapped people for ransom anyways-anyone they saw who didnt have a written protection letter, if you couldnt pay the ransom then they'd either torture and murder you or you'd get to join them as an unpaid servant until you paid your ransom-many such people just became routiers themselves, raided farms, burned down crops and cut down orchards, stole livestock, raided towns and villages, defeated several baronial and royal armies as they numbered in the thousands and would spread out in a network across a province's castles and fortified towns and come together if any were in danger, devastated most of France aside from the areas controlled by England, invaded the papal states, invaded the rhineland, invaded castille (although they were paid to do so as a mercenary army), and a large chunk was paid off into italy under Florence and became known as the 'white company' and were very successful,-defeating several venetian armies, another group were the two private armies of two rival gascon lords who would act as routiers when not required for battle and would often be set against the lands of each's favoured faction if not one another. several routiers were individually excommunicated, in Auvergne one was captured and his captor threatened to release him back into the wild like a fricking plague bacillus unless the towns of auvergne all paid a huge amount of money to hand him over to them (they agreed and cut him to bits with an axe).
Most were loosely aligned with one side or another, the ones with no side didnt last long, most were with the English, in theory.
Theres one example where they took over the castle of the bishop of auvergne as it was only defended by an old man and a dog and they pretended to be nuns, and then proceeded to terrorise auvergne from that base for 11 years. You could have your villain be a routier captain thats been mercilessly pillaging your home province, has a large army and is basically untouchable while your kingdom is at war and the towns and cities are refusing to raise taxes to pay for anything other than their own defence, meanwhile the nobles are mostly broke or prisoners held to ransom, or have joined in.
ugh
sure, just look at the likes of Genghis Khan or Che Guevara
I actually had a discussion with my brother about something similar.
>xp is gold or a similar material resource
>bandits abuse this by organizing their structure like a pyramid and having everyone tithe a portion to their superiors so there's one guy at the top who's basically Oryx and therefore quite powerful
>if the bandits have Oryx, what prevents them from steamrolling everyone?
>the monarchs of the various kingdoms that make up the known world do something similar with taxation and make up for the smaller individual tithes with a greater number of tithes
>they can't kill the god of bandits because he's too powerful to neutralize without a cost that would weaken them on a geopolitical scale
There you go. Dorlewenger, God of Bandits (or his precursor) is trying to use the sword logic to acquire power and immortality and someone wants him dead.
>Big Bandit Evil Guy
Checks out.
>No country for old men
>BBEG
Ugh
Can a whizart be a LBEG?
i like whizarts but they're really strong(smart)
Frick off you nogames homosexual.
Absolutely, yes
>thread about a bandit being the BBEG
>posts the most successful bandit hunter in all of history
Why not? It's just a matter of the fella's ambitions, and the scope of the game you're running.
are you a fricking zoomer? why do you feel the need to abbreviate that?
>Bandit is just a mercenary used to stealing during peace time.
>Upstart prince hires his crew for a coup.
>He kills the royalty and then betrays the prince to take over himself with some magical artifact or weapon.
Mundane evils are the best evils
"Have you ever murdered someone? No? Then you can't say it's bad!"
"What do you mean this egg is rotten? Can you lay a better one? No? Then eat it!"
"You're telling me that smoking a fiberglass and sandpaper cigarette is bad, but I don't see you smoking! You can't say it's bad if you don't smoke, moron!"
"How do you know hardcore child porn is horrific if you've never seen it! You can't judge, so just shut up!"
Artists that tell people they can't judge if they can't draw are automatically shitty artists, regardless of actual quality. It's just deflecting criticism onto a strawman. Subhuman technique for feeble ego'd troglodytes.
Why would you feel the need to bring up child porn unprovoked in your argument? Like how do you just naturally Segway into that? Are you unhinged? That literally sounds like Alex Jones level of thought patterns.
I wanted an inflammatory eye catch. i can tell it worked, by why is that what you're focusing on?
Fire Emblem: Three Houses has a bandit as the BBEG in the Golden Deer path. Basically there was a bandit who stole all of the dragon bones and turned them into weapons to slay them. It was kind of a nice twist since bandits are one of the more generic mobs you can kill so seeing one ascend to the highest level of power was cool.
Oh I completely missed this. Yeah this is the guy.
Underage b&
homosexual
Really interesting. I think they could.
sure
He's closer to a Cossack than a bandit even if Cossacks were just a nation of bandits.
Hes not the BBEG of the DLC, thats gaunter.