Showing posts with label Villains. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Villains. Show all posts

Monday, August 10, 2020

Grand Goals & Current Schemes

 It occurred to me today that there is a great lesson for running your villains and campaigns to be found in Super Hero comics that I had never quite caught on to. These lessons show up in other fiction, even in pre-published campaigns, but they're never really called out as such. Like I've said numerous times about things in sociology: the concept is so simple that we frequently don't discuss it. Also like sociology though, in not discussing it and assuming it is already broken down as simple as it needs to be we leave room for misunderstanding what is going on and what we need. When we're running a game, that leaves room for plot holes and other things that can leave an arc feeling unsatisfying. 

So today let's talk about your villain's grand goal, and their current scheme.