Posts Tagged by smart
| July 20, 2011 | Posted by Matthew J. Neagley |
This is the final installment of our smart villain series, in which we discuss the smart villain’s gear. Prior parts discuss Overview, Community, and Lair External and Internal defenses. The final line of defense a smart villain has is his personal possessions. If his contacts, his lair, his tricky tactics, and his guardians fail, all he has left are his stylish pants and whatever he has in them. Your smart villain’s gear should be appropriate to their flavor and well suited to the tactics you…
| July 4, 2011 | Posted by Matthew J. Neagley |
In the first three parts of The Smart Villain, we talked about general approaches to smart villains, the community, and external lair defenses. This time we’re looking at interior lair defenses and tactics. In our final installment we’ll discuss the smart villain’s gear. So as the smart villain, your base has been breached. Good thing you knew this would happen and you’ve planned accordingly with: Traps: Much like outside the lair, traps can play a key role inside. As before, if there’s a chance your…
| June 13, 2011 | Posted by Matthew J. Neagley |
In part 1 of The Smart Villain we talked about general approaches to smart villains. In part 2 we gave several strategies for how the smart villain uses the community for defense. This time, we’re interested in the external defenses to the smart villain’s lair. Next time we’ll look at internal defenses and tactics, and our final installment will discuss the smart villain’s gear. If pesky PCs manage to get past the agents, misdirection and pitfalls the smart villain has in place in their local…
| June 1, 2011 | Posted by Matthew J. Neagley |
In part 1 of The Smart Villain, we gave two general approaches to how smart villains are handled in game. In parts3 and 4 we’ll discuss the smart villain’s lair, and in our final part, we’ll take a look at the smart villain’s gear. This time we’re discussing, in depth, some community based strategies for your smart villain to employ. To the smart villain, community is of great importance. Not only does the community serve as an information network and a resource base, but they’re…
| May 31, 2011 | Posted by Matthew J. Neagley |
The smart villain is a common GMing problem. How do you portray a person who’s smarter than you? And because we’re talking about games of imagination we’re not even talking about people like Steven Hawking or Marilyn Vos Savant: we’re talking about entities beyond the limit of human intelligences; dragons, alien intellects, super villains, mad AIs, godlings, and the like, and regardless if what Benson’s says about your brainpower is true or not, you’re just not THAT smart. So the best thing you can do…
