Remember legenday actions should scale with the party size. You got 6 players? 6 legendary actions. Teach the players what true fear is
2025-12-02 18:30:22
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etheriouszer0 :
I did a campaign where there was 25 bosses leading up to the big bad and as a bonus action it was able to use a buffed up version of the past bosses attacks since he was the one to grant that power. All the villains also dropped a magic item the party could use, but all the effects were halfed in some way since it was made by this big bad’s magic. I created a whole new damage type for this guy. Just think outside of the box for the big bad and it will be memorable
2026-01-14 21:58:53
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Dashboard DM :
Your big bad’s should feel like the DM is cheating.
2025-12-22 01:08:20
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Chris Mowery :
I always build my BBEG as if it were a player and im a min maxer.
2026-01-17 13:53:32
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gunneraflleje121 :
my group is fighting the crusaders and are going against essentially the 7 deadly sins. I can’t wait for there first encounter with all of them in 1 room. they don’t know it yet. but i set it up so they get stronger the more of them in one area 😂
2025-12-17 23:04:52
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Wolfe the Banisher🎲 :
This is the coming of oblivion. They should have no choice but to lose faith- but fight anyway.
2025-12-18 15:16:35
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Tony❤️ :
my big bad was their best friend and summoned deran the night serpant
2025-12-16 23:45:53
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d6 Hit Dice :
If your players aren't fearing for their lives on round 1, then its not the big bad
2025-12-23 22:18:51
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lemoncitrine :
double initiative? give them 3, 4 spots in initiative
2025-12-18 21:09:43
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Ember Vita :
I mean they weren't going to win the fight against him in this saga already, but now I'm so going to make him 100x more flashy!
2025-12-01 07:09:15
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Chaz Thomas :
Add more HP!
2025-11-29 17:42:14
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📼👁🌌 Elwann 🕸⌛️🎥 :
I will.
2025-11-29 17:40:12
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ThLizardOfAuz :
I had such brutal encounters for just my Mid-Bad that the players asked me to tone it down for the Big-Bad 😅. They always had a way to make them weaker or turn the tables but the party at the time just wanted to hack away at the HP instead of planning/scouting ahead
2026-01-03 08:03:52
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azaea :
only had two players show up for a one off. I was sure they were gonna wipe. nope. one of the two min maxed like crazy and dealt over 300 damage in 4 turns.
2025-12-24 17:48:01
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Chaz Thomas :
And yes this is good advice. Especially for one shots.
2025-11-29 17:42:53
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Eli Spinnar :
maybe a good or bad idea but I thought about a villain with god powers but he can't hurt people so he helps a dictator to do all the hurting for him
2026-06-07 22:47:37
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Nico :
We are going against God's, currentlythe Godess of bad luck Beshaha. We have a minus d4 to each roll and if we roll a 20 we have to reroll. She used legendary actions to go six times in the turn order. She can also make us attack each other if we fail a save. We are scared enough 😂
2025-12-03 14:21:12
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Edboyo :
Used Sephiroth as a boss one time. My man got three reactions on top of all of his JRPG BS.
2025-12-18 22:06:11
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tau :
big bads should be terrifying
2025-12-24 16:20:21
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KirinWargSlayer :
You don't ask with respect. You don't offer friendship. You don't even think to call me Game Master. Instead, you come into my house on the day my DND session and you ask me to do m☠️rder...BET🤣🤌
2025-11-29 18:09:39
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thor :
I had one big bad they ran into early level and it ripped the arm off of one of them.
2025-12-12 04:33:33
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Jayden :
this is why im running a fable based campaign, and why The Crawler is the BBEG....one of them are getting Walter'd, and they wont know who until it happens 👀
2025-12-01 13:18:57
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Deej :
To shreds you say 👀
2025-12-02 04:49:48
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nick :
My Custom made big bad with his two custon made minions, taking out using a trip I used from the book(a bomb on a tirp wire). why did it have to do so much damage????
2025-11-29 17:49:23
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ConfusedbutAlive :
We had a BigBad destroy magic items everytime a spell was cast. Never been stressed so hard in a fight
2025-11-30 23:12:27
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