How would you make a music-based BBEG?

By hypnotising others.
youtube.com/watch?v=GdZcsrtiUac

make usage of some meta magic, while fighting this bad guy have your own playlist with songs with different character and tempo, shuffle this shit and make guy act depending on music players can hear
now thinking of it, you can make him "obtain" every piece of music on playlist during campaign, with pcs trying to harm his list

youtube.com/watch?v=Vdd4rBlsj2o

youtube.com/watch?v=Q46dDbUJZcc

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youtube.com/watch?v=NMczRJh_OeI

When you get the transient facts...

There is no other choice than the music meister
youtube.com/watch?v=yHY9USNC_Fk
youtube.com/watch?v=DzPM9TnBFHU

I can never die.

My nigga!

Well you could make an evil bard who defames them, convinces everyone they are the problem and gets the world to turn against them, and cucks them for good measure.

They released an album marketed exclusively for fish, their fanatical followers took the lyrics "go into the water, live there, die there" quite literally.

It's quite easy to adapt them into tyrannical villains, they control the world's economy and to a large degree it's culture. Many of the shows characters view them as villains and if you remove the prophecy stuff they basically are to anyone who isn't a fan.

You get caught between two epic-level warforged bards dueling, what do you do?

Only if he has an equally musically inclined foe.

No one posted it so here you go.

Is that the fucking Golden Record he's holding

>Hasn't gone down to the sweet sick beat of whale song.

His likes to sample the Complete History of Cybertron for his tracks.

>Rob Zombie as a Lich
>Metal Concerts to raise entire graveyards of dead
>Semi-Living people moshing nearby
>As they die, they return to the Pit

Saving this for the next metal setting thread

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youtube.com/watch?v=Pp0xs_xpTYo

It's from an episode of Samurai Jack where he infiltrates a rave full of brainwashed minors.

David Bowie back from dead as a powerful lich.
I'd pay to see it.

The girl he had to rescue was a qt

>rides a motorcycle that divides into a pair of segways shaped like musical notes
>both of them are so precisely balanced they can easily do horizontal jumps between telephone wires while maintaining forward momentum
>their wheels can function like helicopter blades so the user can fly around like Mary Poppins

And this fabulous bastard has the balls to whine about Batman's toys.

An evil DJ, with pic related, playing youtube.com/watch?v=pxqHo6FJ_fM

literally just use MC Ride

>fantasy

bard lich.

>cyberpunk
techno punk star dj/club owner

>anime
Mirror B

>My dick is rigor mortis.

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>At last, I have stolen all sound below 250 hrz and condensed it into a single mililiter of pure, liquid sound.
>With this, I will dominate all music with this ultimate destructive power
>here in my hands! THE BASS DROP.

maybe not the BBEG but definitely lieutenants

If you're going to do a music-based BBEG, then they need to have some appropriate music. None of this metal stuff, oh no. A music-based BBEG needs to have class, style, and pizazz.

And nothing says evil incarnate more than disco.

youtube.com/watch?v=Q7BLKOu6NXA

I fucking love this whole thread. I forgot how bumpin' that samurai jack pied-piper rave was.

>all sound below 250 hrz
So you're telling me he's making this whole speech in a pitch higher than middle C?

So, something along these lines?

youtube.com/watch?v=HsGRsDe3iRw

Music based magic
>Summons demons made of ROCK
>Controls people's behavior with music
>Destructive sonic waves
Come on OP

best girl

youtube.com/watch?v=u6yZlGoD5rA

Not gonna let this thread die just yet. Bump.

Necromancy/Creation pathed bard literally creating audiences for his shows?
youtube.com/watch?v=0ttGgIQpAUc

Or, for a lower level campaign, just a straight up serial killer bard, who perhaps hires the party to act as "bodyguards" because he's "worried" about the deaths that have been happening around his concerts.
youtube.com/watch?v=O3HCXh9WQSo

>Cause I'm the bad guy
Doesn't mean you can't date, hell if anything it means that your squeeze is even more disposable by being male.

>split dress
>evil regalia
>matching tube socks and sneakers
It works for her, and I'm not entirely sure why.

What are you talking about?

I love this song.

She is trying to say that she's not some love interest who exists only to empower the leading roles or cause romance drama.

The current campaign I'm in had a minor boss battle against a Jampire a while back. Vampire with 80's metal hair, a red leather longcoat, no shirt, and a big old crystal guitar. He fought by throwing dominated groupies at us, playing concussive blast power chords, using the pyrotechnics as combination aoe/escape clouds, and dominating our hired muscle.
At one point our bard stole his guitar and used a sick solo to blow him apart.

The DM foreshadowed that later we'll be fighting a Glampire. I can't wait.

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youtube.com/watch?v=pN2FRZRA0WM

That is literally the plot behind Crimson Sea and it's squeal.
Also the Siren BBEG trio in Rainbow Rocks.
DJ Octavio of Splatoon.
Misfits of Jem.
And one of the macross series.

Those are just the ones off the top of my head.

best girl

youtube.com/watch?v=_lK4cX5xGiQ

patrician taste my friend

>he's a big stick

youtube.com/watch?v=cNAdtkSjSps

Everyone does.

He was already created.

dad, come quick! MC Ride is in my area again!

I'LL FUCK YOU IN HALF

Frank Zappa comes to mind, but he could only ever be the hero

BLACK. HEAVEN.

>Undead buffed by his Zombie Witch cabal (living dead girls, if you will)
>Fleshcrafts a nigh-indestructible body (more human than human)
>Armies are led by an unstoppable daemon engine, undaunted by flesh or terrain...hushed whispers call the war machine the "Dragula."

Fuck yes, I'd play this.

>not being willing to read about the evil wizard Zappa

This is how it was done:
youtu.be/Q62RjHfX5yM

TRULY YOU FETID HUMANS HAVE FAILED, THIS THREAD HAS OVERLOOKED THE MIGHTIEST WARRIORS IN THE UNIVERSE

YES!

I have a Slasher in my WoD game who leaves Der Erlkönig playing at the site of every kill 'cus Changelings.

Drove my party fucking insane every time they entered a room and heard the first few notes.

youtube.com/watch?v=5XP5RP6OEJI

For an epic level campaign:

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I do not have a single clue...

>tfw no ddr alien waifu

m.youtube.com/watch?v=mOVJgpO_zZY

Like in Reboot!

youtube.com/watch?v=iYrKYETorM8

youtube.com/watch?v=t4LtCCswlWk

This is quite brilliant.

>captcha wants trees
Fuck off Erlkönig.

>pic related, in a literal way
YES YES YES!

>His Chariot from where he commands his armies ushers in a darkness that the sun cannot dispell; Black Sunshine if I may

>Necromancer front man chanting the song that raises the dead.
>Rest of the band are bards that buff the moshing army of undead.
>He can't be stopped, he can't be reasoned with, he cannot die.
>But everything will burn

I like it. I read into the poem after it being referenced in a game and just thought 'Shit man, that's basically just Changling right there.'

It even has a creepy line you can use to toy with the investigator when they start

'Oh, come, thou dear infant! oh come thou with me!
For many a game I will play there with thee'

Don't forget he multi-classes into (electric) Warlock.

Which comes in handy with the ladies.

Well, I know my next character. Doesn't matter the system.

When in doubt, just rip off Ghost.

youtube.com/watch?v=cvJLmOcJu5U

Music is powerful.

It can influence peoples' emotions.
Lyrics can amplify peoples' thoughts.
You could go the hypnotic route.
Sound is fast, powerful, and can't be protected against by typical combat means.
To be deafened is to seriously weaken one's abilities to react to other people and your surroundings.

I now want to run a campaign where the BBEG is a former bard, become lich, whose music sucks the youth from his fans.

His band are bards that granted immortality by him as long as they buff his never-ending armies of the dead.

He surrounds himself with not!succubi (so...pretty much normal groupies) and throws lavish parties that increase his legend and reputation while gaining the favor of [insert god/ess of excess here]

He goes on tour every century or so. His shows are akin to the King in Yellow...if it were a metal concert.

>BBEG
Could you run a campaign where the players are his problem solvers instead?

I wouldn't want to stop Lich Warp Tour

I can't get the image of a group of bards who just want to be the opening act...

...but they have no idea what they signed up for. It's going to be one crazy summer.

That could be how he recruits band members! Every tour has a new opener and the best member from that band is brought into the group. Best is a combination of playing skill, stage presence, ability to fuck shit up, ability to get fucked up, and how many groupies you can satisfy in an evening.

I love this.

That's not even the creepiest line.
"I love you, your beautiful countenance excites me/And if you're not willing then I will use force!"

I'm gonna use Exmilitary as fight music for demons and there's nothing my Co-GM can do to stop me

Gotta go for dem couplets doe

Unfortunately the poem doesnt lend itself to interesting kills. The Slasher teaches folklore at a local university so thats the quirky killing style

If I used Glitch Mob for Deathwatch, I don't see why he would.

If you pass he burns an X in your head and lets you fuck the pretties.

Fucking awesome.

Rumor has it that the Lich Rob Zombie had true death at one point... but his soul was so black the Devil himself spew him back onto our world. Zombie now calls his chosen 'The Devil's Rejects'

What would the make up be made of in this world?

How many more song titles can we cram into this thread?

That fucker from Lolipop Chainsaw?
The punk rocker who used music and curse words to attack the PC.

As I read that I heard it in my head like a Disney Song. I don't know how to feel about this.

I kinda liked this guy, despite...you know, it being Buffy.

youtube.com/watch?v=h2vihYpsE1Y

Ar Tonelico has plenty of genocidal singers from Mir to the will of the planet itself:
youtube.com/watch?v=dvUMQqZgiqI
youtube.com/watch?v=SGaM07Pc-nI
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>ctrl+F "dancer in white"
>0 results
Goddamn folks, pic related.

>ctrl+F "DJ Phylactery"
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Also goddamnit. That's some classic Veeky Forums gold.
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