Mood swings, shooting the messenger even when the message is good, fear of bathwater, various OCD shit, like must touch a doorknob 3 times before turning it. You know, batshit insane.

Don't go with paranoia and multiple personalities, they're old as whaleshit.

The inability to go without cutting off the left nipple of ALL his victims.

A quirk needn't carry significant meaning. Take what's-his-face from Firestarter. He shredded cigarettes. Not for any explicitly-stated reason, he just did.

You could go the serial-killer route: maybe he takes trophies from his victims.

>>2135370
Being aware of the fact he is insane and not just in the "Lol I am so random" way, the "fuck man I have a problem here" kine of way.

Is obviously reading the lips of whoever he is talking too, and repeats the last few words of the others sentances before starting his own.

Has an odd habit of fingering and rubbing any piece of clothing around him.

>>2135370
I like that one actually, Were did my +1 sword go? "oh I scrapped that and made it a +2 sword of chosen enemy(me)"

>>2135370
Never looks the PCs in the eyes, always seems to be looking at something behind them

Has a wandering eye that slowly drifts to a female PC

Constantly talks to an imaginary person in the presence of other people, as if the person were actually present

-Smiles brilliantly in response to everything people say. Falsely.

My advice is to watch Silence of the Lambs and study Hannibal Lector very closely. Hannibal is probably the coolest serial killer in existence.

Also, rent Hannibal Rising and make it an example of what NOT to do.

Hrm. Are we going habitual tick or obsessive compulsive?

The former could be like pressing his forearm against the flat of a blade, a habitual response developed to silence a blade being drawn from it's scabbard. This could have several visual cues.

For the latter, it might be hard to do without seeming forced. Subtle is better than obvious, and the ability for the viewer to eventually learn WHY it happens and go back and look at that odd behavior is kind of fufilling.

Pick up the book Night Watch by Terry Pratchett, and then look up Carcer. I always liked him as a villain.

Make up mental illnesses that don't work the way real illnesses do, because the real ones are more personalized and you don't want a smartass (like me) going DURR HURR CONDITION X DOESN'T ACTUALLY WORK THAT WAY. Plus you can make up cool names for them.

make him like dane cook, in that he's so annoying he randomly forces the players to make a SAN check vs suicide

>>2135415
"Shit, man. i just killed this guy. Why did I do that? He just told me the eastern front is going swimmingly and I Killed him...and that dude next to him. I just have to keep killing people. I have a problem. People aren't supposed to do this."

"You know the dead are supposed to be respected but Here they are as my slaves. Dug up and shuffling around! These are peoples loved ones! For christ sake, MY loved ones! thats my damn father over there. I loved my father. Why am I doing this? I just can't seam to stop digging them up and once they're out of the ground I can't help but want to see them get up and move around.....watch the dirt and loose parts fall off as they jostle around and moan. God I'm sick"

>>2135469

Also, play mind games with your PC's. Don't tell them what he has, let them try to figure it out by observing his behavior, and just when they start to get warm on guessing his mental illness CHANGE HIS BEHAVIOR.

Have him talk to his pet ferret as though it was a god.

Then, three years of games later, have it revealed that the ferret is actually the villain turned into a ferret by a polymorph spell gone awry.

>>2135476
>>2135415
there was a character like this in a manga I read once (agito the lord of madness from watashi no messiah sama) That kinda turned me off the idea

>>2135465
Swing is another good one. Let the villian have no rhythmatall. He could be talkingnormally for a few seconds and then just suddenly start speeding up or slow lying down. Just like... thisyousee? And he jerks as he moves.

>>2135505
>>2135465
this would require me buying books....
and discworld got silly fast I dunno if I should pick it back up

>>2135512
It's satire.

>>2135512
just wiki it. Sometimes they just give you the entire story there. But basically Carcer is horribly, horribly sane and realized long ago that the law only works if you let it work. Otherwise a Watchmen is just a oddly armored and armed man with a two pence piece of metal. Also, while some people have demons on their shoulders that argue and fight with each other, his just egg each other on. And he carries a lot of knives.

make his reason to fight that the first monster the heroes killed in the dungeon his mom in polymorphed form

>>2135476
Random points of lucid behavior make for creepy antagonists. The more confused they are about their motives, the better. Even give the protagonists a few (false) chances to try and get the BBEG to see reason, before it all comes crashing down.

"I shouldn't be doing this... gods why am I doing this? (hero) please save me, I'm fucking out of control I can't stop... I mean I fucking stitched a ghoul mother to her still fucking alive daughter and sent the monstrosity after you... why... Why would I fucking do that? Momma told me to be a good boy. OH GOD MOTHER WHY! WHY DID I DO THIS?!"

>>2135527
Also, he's the kind of guy that could run in and kill a bunch of people in a bakery and then steal the bakery and then go, "Who, me?" when you called him on it. And you could almost believe it, until you looked into this eyes...

>>2135537

If said villain is generally going to be encountering the party at a distance, make them severely avoidant of interpersonal physical contact. Really, play them as an abuse victim or a PTSD sufferer, if you feel able to do it tastefully. The impact of these things on a person's behaviour are not only highly visible in appropriate circumstances, but pity-inspiring as well. A word of warning, though, do your fucking research so you avoid throwing out another ball of trite cliche.

>>2135540

>>2135370

Discworld is mediocre, but I hate it's fanbase for treating everything from the author like crack cocaine

Pedophilia

The second-to-last boss is an S&M little girl with a whip and chains. Like Hellraiser, but pedophilic.

>>2135567

>>2135580

>>2135545
Holy fuck, that guy has the exact same tatoos as the ship master from Cutthroat Island.

I am never fucking reading this manga ever.

>>2135543
All I can see is at the final confrontation the groups fighter closes in and the BBEG curls up into the fetal position and starts whimpering.

So whats the source of this mango? And is it good?

>>2135595
if you'd been reading the pages then you could tell that its horrendous.

You know what I always wanted to do?

Just make a BBEG that's a liar.

Right though his teeth, every time. He lies about his accomplishments, he uses illusion spells to make himself look tougher and have battle scars for fights he's never been in. He wears a mask across half his face, claiming he earned it from a belor fight, stuff like that.

He'd be an enchantment wizard, using the spells to boost his ego. He'd never kill the characters because he wants someone to be after him, he wants to feel important.

jojo's bizarre adventure villains have good quirks.

>>2135609
all fantasy manga is horrendous,but this one has lamia rape in it.

>>2135595
Monster Collection, its based on a tcg never released in america

-Compulsive Honesty
-Constant Idle Whistling
-Obsession with art supplies
-Youth (eight years old)

>>2135621
You forget Vinland Saga.

Though that's more Viking Manga than fantasy manga.

It's awesome anyways.

>>2135595
>So whats the source of this mango?

Fucking lol'd. Don't know why.

>>2135616
and hes never actually attempting any of the evil plots he gloats about. Turns out the entire quest was just big talk by some annoying prick.

Have him bite his nails. Not just when he's nervous or bored, but all the time.

Have him sit on chairs strangely, like one leg always thrown over one of the arms, or even just have him perch on the seat like some sort of bird.

As part of the realising 'holy shit I'm kind of heading out into insane territory here', have him order his lieutenant to stop him if he tries doing whatever his compulsive thing is, like eating the fingers of people he's killed or something insane like that.

For bonus points, have him fully aware of the fact that he's probably going completely insane and his most trusted lieutenant should be his sort of 'moral compass', stopping him from doing things that are a little TOO insane. When the PCs inevitably kill this lieutenant, the villain goes COMPLETELY off the deep end.

An example of this is Dio from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: His 'evil plot' in season 3 is actually extremely admirable: He wants to create a perfect world for all Stand users, where they can live freely and use their powers as a sort of system of ruling nobles/police force. However, he's well aware of the fact that he loves to kill people, hates people who foil hi 'brilliant' plots and has a HUGE ego, so he actually asks one of his followers (one who isn't being mind controlled and is still absolutely fanatically loyal) to keep an eye on him and stop him if he looks like doing anything stupid, in case he 'gets distracted'.

Come to think of it, Dio is a pretty fucking amazing villain.

>>2135665
Exactly. He'd use charm person and suggestion spells to keep the PCs going on, making people tell them stuff to make them follow the quest.

And at the end, there'd just be him, standing there, smiling.

>>2135619
WRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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>>2135692

>>2135637
vinland is not really fantasy

>>2135680
A villain with borderline personality disorder?

>>2135700

Can anyone here tell me what is the name of this manga?

Thanks

>>2135726
Boku no Pico

>>2135726

>Monster_Collection_Vol_3_066.jpg)

are you daft boy?

Hydrophobia. Not OH MY GOD THEY THREW WATER ON ME NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO hydrophobia, but make the guy absolutely goddamn terrified of deep water. If the heroes make their escape (or attack) by ship, he won't even scry them to find out their numbers, in case something goes wrong and he ends up out there in the deep dark sea.

Alternately, have him absolutely refuse to kill women or children (to the extent of trying to knock them out or just plain running away if one of the PCs is a woman or, god forbid, a child), and actively hunt down those who do within his 'patch'. If by some fluke he does accidentally kill a child, have him simply stand there staring in disbelief until he's quietly led away.

>>2135711
No, just a wizard with exceptionally low self esteem, to the point of having an inferority complex.

For a more serious route, I've always thought about taking the standard "organized" serial killer, and suggesting that he uses enhancement magic to fulfill his fantasies rather than murder. He's an amazing mage, extremely well studied and practiced, but he just uses his powers for personal gain, wandering around abusing the shit out of them for personal gain and advancement. Eventually, he can't be satisified with this, and decides to becomes someone who everyone will remember.

>>2135731
Aquaphobia.

Hydrophobia is actually rabies.

>>2135747
Thats the bunny.

>>2135747
Although a tendency to defeat foes by giving them rabies ... nah.

speaks to an imaginary friend that s/he thinks is real. Can be an awesome escape plan too.

Villian: You Can't See him but I have the worlds greatest wizard and warrior ever in my service! He's in this room right now! But nobody else but me can see him!

PCs: cast spells to find the guy, listen checks all this shit. but of course they don't find anything!

Villian: HE'S TO GOOD YOU'LL NEVER FIND HIM! DEFEND ME BO BO! *ESCAPES*

PCs: freaking out because they couldn't find out. until they realize there is no Bo Bo.

I've always thought it'd be interesting to make a BBEG who is trying to follow in the footsteps of his villainous grandfather. The BBEG actually really detests killing people/etc, but hes so devoted to his gramps that if his big plans called for it he would. He'd be awkwardly bad at villainy ("I'll knock you all down! ...wait, that sucked, let me try again...") for a while, but eventually he'd find The Amulet Of Great Super Powerfulness, and then he'd throw together raids that would make his grandfather proud...

>>2135768

>>2135720
Oh you.

Compulsive smoker, to the point of breaking out of a prison cell, slaughtering every guard and inmate in the place and ransacking the place they put the inmates belongings, just so he can have a smoke in peace.
The authorities find him quietly leaning against a wall somewhere out of the wind with a forest of dogends around his feet and an expression of affable bliss etched on his face.

He has absolutely no reason to be doing what he's doing, he just thinks it's hilarious.
Hell, make him an existentialist and you could have him laughing at the PCs attempts to stop him because even if they do, what the hell! It's still all pointless.

serial killer whose victims disappear without a trace until their severed body parts are found in sacks placed around the city each with a different odd enchantment.

"Oh, wow look a floating sack"
"Its not the sack thats floating. Its the foot inside"

Baked Goods.

>>2135848
I like this. After trekking for 6 weeks through the scorching desert to the hellish temple of chaos, the PCs discover that their quarry is already long-gone but has thoughtfully left them a bag full of scones and some enchanted ice cold milk.

>>2135873
the scones are a bit dry and the milk is booby trapped.

>>2135894
Booby trapped with EXTRA DELICIOUS.
Also scorpions.

>>2135894
>>2135898

The glass containing the milk shatters. The white liquid starts to expand as the enhancements shatter. You are now inside a Gelantinous Milk Cube.

>>2135910
AND IT IS STILL DELICIOUS.

>>2135933
Agreed.

- Make him a spellcaster overly fond of delay fireball. Give him a leather pouch full of nothing but amber beads
- Have him like nursery rhymes, but only the ones that have a really grisly story if you look up the originals
- Or like children. Not pedophilia, but a general concern for the wellbeing of kids
- If he's a bard/sorceror/some sort of dramatic class make him "direct" his life. Like the world is some sort of black comedy he edits for his own amusement
- Obsessed with anatomy. Compliment the PCs on their physique. Spring bizarre medical facts out of nowhere

dr. evil

>>2136072
>- Obsessed with anatomy. Compliment the PCs on their physique. Spring bizarre medical facts out of nowhere

Go with phrenology. Have him try to convince the PCs that they have the head-bumps of liars and thieves and that he is obviously in the right because he has the head of a born leader!

>>2136139
Or, go the opposite way. Phrenology obsessed BBEG who is pissed off at the PCs because of their wasted potential.
"Look at you! Swinging an axe like a barbarian! A man with a skull like yours could be the head of a university!"

>>2136072
"Your Barbarian friend with the exquisitely shaped clavicle seams to want to tear my head off. Why don't you hold him back with those delectably slender forearms while I grace those curvaceous ears of yours with a wondrous monologue "

>>2136168

Maybe not headbump based, but how about a BBEG who rages because everyone isn't fulfilling their maximum potential?

HE WILL BE THE CATALYST TO MAKE HEROES OF EVERYONE

>>2136188
this is an AWESOME IDEA.

but when everyone's a hero....no one is.

>>2136195

WHEN EVERYONE IS A HERO NOBODY HAS TO BE A VILLAIN

>>2136188
I'M GOING TO MAKE A LEGEND OUT OF YOU PATHETIC TWATS!

EVEN IF I HAVE TO DESTROY THE UNIVERSE TO DO IT!

>>2136195
Damned Syndrome.

>>2136199

Edith Forward - Villians by Neccessity. The bad guys save the universe from the forces of good.

>>2136188

That...is...AWESOME!

He could start off as unassuming quest giving NPC "A" who acts as some sort of talent agent for adventurers. He just pushes larger and larger jobs on you with less regard for any impact they have, until the group is doing shit way out of their alignment and they have to confront him.

Then he rages about how they could be the best thing since (insert fabled adventure group) and decides to go around causing horrible shit the party will have to clean up after.

>>2136228

so basically the movie "Unbreakable"?

>>2135848
Holy shit, how did I miss this post?

The PCs finally discover the location of the Evil Grimdark Temple, break down the door and run through a gauntlet of traps only to find a dish of muffins sitting on the altar. Muffins that visibly seethe with foul magic, but still just muffins. Blueberry muffins.

>>2136239

The difference is that the dude sees the potential in EVERYONE and isn't just trying to justify his bonebreakingness with creating an opposite number.

>>2136188
>>2136228
I am TOTALLY stealing this idea. Adding a few twists of my own, perhaps, to make it sort of my own, but stealing it nontheless.

>>2136188
>>2136228
>>2136458
This sounds really freakin weeaboo and i'd be ashamed if it turned up in a game i was playing in. That kind of "lol RANDUM XOX" plot is what you would see in an anime.

Maybe he could be obsessive about something. So much so that he'll go far out of his way to get it, or interact with it. Everything else is not only unimportant, but also irrelevant. He'd throw his own mother away for it. He'd spit on god just to see it. He'd piss on his own grave just to smell. Thanks to this obsessiveness he's amassed huge resources and connections, and made a few promises he never intended to keep. He overthrows nations, and destroys whole civilizations just for his ultimate goal. What that goal is up to you, though, OP.

>>2136474

It's not in any way weeaboo. However, in my estimation it's awfully stupid, and something you'd expect to see in someone's profile on a fucking WoW RP server.

>>2136168

>A man with a skull like yours could be the head of a university!

Holy shit I lol'd incredibly hard. I don't think I could ever roleplay this BBEG (with lines like THAT, I mean) without laughing way too hard. Any DM who can is a god among men.

>>2136188
...Irenicus, is that you?

>>2136618
The pain will only be passing. You should survive the process.

I had an idea which was generally well-received around here about a pure Lawful Evil villain who had managed to sleep her way to the top and then charm or dispose of everyone who opposed her.

She was the head of a school of sorceresses based on ritual mutilation, who gained their powers from harming themselves according to a series of rituals - particular patterns of scars, using parts of their own bodies for rituals with an organic element and so on.

Her plan was to stage a coup, starting by eliminating the brightest and best children of the nobility by either killing them in "accidents" or attracting them into her school of magic and turning them to her side.

>>2136506
As somebody who RPs on a WoW server, I can deny this.
then again I don't RP on Alliance side. Horde side seems to be pretty fine in terms of whackjobs.

>>2135370
Sauce?

He guts his enemies, pulls out all the internal organs, then cuts off the head, and sticks the head into the empty cavity he's created, then just for the lolz if they're male cuts off the genitals, and sticks them inside the mouth.

>>2136763
Sounds like somebody has a fetish.

>>2136857
That's not a good quirk, that's just fucking creepy. And stupid.

>>2136763
I remember a thread on this.

Ethics.

He twitches whenever someone mispronounces something

>>2136250
No word of a lie, I actually did this in a campaign as a side-session since not all of my usual bunch could show up that week. The players were responding to a request for help in a Dark Lord's Bakery. The final baker-boss had a MASSIVE muffin-chef's hat. He broke off and forcefed some of the players, who then developed crippling addictions to said muffins due to some comically low fort saves (I was just going to make them calm and sleepy, but DAMN, 1 ones in a row HAS to have penalties)

So, of course, they killed him and now have to stop off at the bakery whenever their precious foodstuffs level dropped low. They even had a bag of holding filled with the damned things.

Even my throwaway sessions seem to have huge impacts on the rest of the game.

Its more an idea for a campaign but meh:

The kingdom faces invasion by hordes of the possessed and a madman roams the streets of the capital, killing important leaders and ransacking wizardry research labs searching for a way to cure the madness.

Actually: Hes a raving lunatic because of the backlash from a ritual to summon a sinister unworldly supernatural entity, but all of his actions are somehow tied to trying to banish it back to where it came. The party is unaware of the second part and is serving the ruler of the kingdom that is using the power of the summoned entity to hold back the tide of an invasion from a neighboring country that has been possessed by another powerful demon. The truth is the demons are one in the same and its method of gaining control over people is by creating problems then tempting people with the power to resolve them.

The madmans quirk could be leaving pleas for forgiveness and help to god at the scenes of his antics.

He's a Lawyer who think that he's a pit fiend, and acts as such.

>>2136499

Maybe it's a demilich who just wants to get high.

HE WILL SMOKE THE ICHOR OF SLAIN GODS JUST TO FEEL BAKED AGAIN

>>2137081

Alternatively, he could be an extreme gourmet. HE WILL MAKE MEATBREAD FROM ALL THE MEATS IN THE MULTIVERSE.

He's got a hyper developed sense of smell, and wants to sniff a god.

A despot with more power than he can handle. To cope with his responsibilities he becomes very superstitious and obsessed with symbols. He sees 'signs' everywhere and acts on them instead of using his own judgment.

A psychopath. A very likeable psychopath.

Everyone likes him, they think, he's THE MAN - perhaps he's a seemingly benoveltn king, a priest (lol stereotype), or just a farmer who somehow thinks he's born to rule the world.

But the people don't know what goes on inside his head. They would be scared. His minions think they do the right thing.

Johnny the Homicidal Maniac is a good study in batshit insane personalities, if in a rather over the top pathetic way.

>>2137053
"Welcome to my lair of darkness!"
"This... This is just an ordinary office."

>>2137156

Also has to have all of his contracts signed in blood with a clause in very small print saying something along the lines "By signing the above you hereby forfeit you're eternal soul, and all rights to your first born child regardless of whether it is a male or female."

Make him compulsively write stuff. He gets a panic attack if he can't write down whatever idea he has at the moment.

For extra creepiness, you may want to have a portion (not all!) of his writings be Things Man Was Not Meant To Know. But be careful about this, it's potentially extremely cheesy.

>>2137081
Stealing/Continueing this.

A former elven wizard who was totally in the shit, dude, you know, man... He, like totally digged some fucked up shit man, like fucking 12 chicks while on fucking mushrooms man, fuck yeah.

So, one way or another(preferably used as a former PC/DMPC of an old campaign), he becomes a lich... BUT WHAT THE FUCK, A LICH/DEMILICH CAN'T GET HIGH. So a undead wizard has a severe case of cold turkey, and HE WON'T STOP UNTIL HE HAS GOTTEN FUCKEN STONED, DUDE...

Of course this could be an evil lich storming across the lands, or a good lich descending into the Underdark.

>>2137227

A VILLAIN WITH NO SHORT TERM MEMORY

He's got a loli bard following him around recording his every perverted action, he's never once touched her, and gets offended if anyone bothers her.

>>2137268
Morte? On coke?

>>2136900
>He twitches whenever someone mispronounces something

So this villain + an ork + a paint set = Pointillism?

>>2137289

Morte's a lich mimic.

A lawful evil elven villain who is best friends with a chaotic evil orc.

The elf is very intelligent, and civilised, the orc is not.
Epic bitchfights ensue.
"Wha caant I raap d' bitchz, not laike we can traide 'er fer yor stoopid tome ya lozt!"
"Oh please, I'd rather have you away from the dungeon. And please, don't talk about my tome... go to a tavern or something."
"Yeh, I'm gonna raep som fukken slutz..."
"Please, we don't need any guards on our bac... he left already. He'll be the death of me..."

*sigh*

>>2137285
how does loli become bard

>>2138243

Starts training young due to her family being a traveling group of preformers by the time she's twelve she'd be pretty accomplished but due to her family being low on fundage one year they sell her off into slavery.

>>2137296

FUND IT

>>2138243
The easy way to a high level Loli is variant Re-incarnation, or Polymorph Any Object (which is permanent, meaning her appearance will never change). Alternatively, she could be a Fey.