KTDARPG: Favorite Game Baddie

The first poll asked about heroes; the second was about villains. Our players were asked: "Ok, time to fess up and vote for your favorite bad guy or girl from the game to date! Just for fun...and maybe to see what kind of bad guys we love to hate as new ones are created for the game. VOTE FOR JUST ONE! Let's see who's made the most lasting impression."

Some were bigger than others; some were more recent than others; some were badder than others. The choices were (in alpha order):

Adult AK General (The power behind the Anti-kids and the last living adult--and turns out he was Hawk's uncle too!)

Asklepios (Absolutely mad crazy medical genius among the Brotherhood. His human experimentation was legendary--and feared! Seems he had a fondness for branding people.)

Brena (Queen of the Brotherhood. Enough said!)

Cricket (Green-faced beauty among the Grimms in their gambling den. Fondness for dipping metal-tipped fingernails into poison before a fight.)

Daddy Bacon (Skater and leader of skating gang, typical small-time baddy who knows how to take advantage of most everything and everyone that comes his way.)

Dread (Was only in Fort River for a short time but made an immediate impression--by taking over Drake's Bar and killing people to prove his point. Ultimately, we just never found out what his point was.)

Fel (AK leader in the Battle of the Southern Plains. Absolutely ruthless and unfeeling. Will sacrifice anything--and any one--to win.)

Lion-F (One of the 3 leaders of the Anti-kids. Wound up turning on Brena and seizing control for himself. Was responsible for loosing the kid-killing Virus on Fort River.)

Nemesis (Low on the totem-pole of the Brotherhood but very practiced in the arts of personal evil. Put females on leashes to make them behave and had no compunction whatsoever against killing for expediency. Luckily he was killed off early--this one gave a lot of people the creeps!)

Nyx (New baddy in town. Still early, but attitude speaks volumes!)

Rah (The boy who would be king. He had the attitude, the manpower and the resources to buy just about anything he wanted. Fond of torture and enslavement as inducements to cooperation too.)

Shemion (A Brotherhood general, pretty much left in charge in Fort River when the AK's attacked. Imprisoned Xeno. Blackmailed Chyna. Very much the military mind, which in the end was bad enough to consider him a bad-guy.)

Thorne (Original leader of the StormRiver tribe and the one who turned his tribe's interest to keeping and trading slaves. Was responsible for Chyna's poisoning as well as her excellent fighting skills.)

Tom-F (Speculation has always turned on whether Tom-F was really a bad guy or not. He was a merchant-king in Fort River, resource-rich and a wealth of information. His empire was vast and unrivaled in the city. But from there...it's all speculation.)

Once again, poll results don't matter as much as what our players have accomplished! Like the list of heroes, our slate of villains is rich with all levels of villainous behavior and potential. Believe me, creating a "bad" character is not an easy thing to do. Most of us have taken a shot at it, with some surprising results. Makes the tapestry that is our game a lot richer and more interesting, too.

-Chyna