To write a villain that is well written and affirm that they are irredeemable or beyond saving is to state the notion that there can be no hope for yourself in your darkest hour.
Are your villains redeemable user? Worth saving? Or have you abandoned hope?
Depends on what we did last and what the party is feeling.
Right now I'm jonesing for the thug bbeg who is dumb as fuck right up until he outsmarts you and drops you off a cliff.
why must plots have centralized evil villains commanding underlings?
Why can we not have decentralized evil committees that plan and execute their evil separately without the oversight of a central authority?
Because you usually want to have a very definitive "win" condition.
If you have one Big Bad who is Behind It All, you beat him, you have a dramatic moment you can point to and say "we won".
A decentralized glut of evil doesn't really offer that.
No one ever said they "must" it's just easier so the person creating the story can focus on other stuff and not worry about a natural build in stakes and intensity.
A good villain would have a network of terror cells set up in exactly that communistic mannert to ensure that his plans came to fruition despite his demise, or in the case that the heroes convince him to turn good
>"good" villain
Opinions, brah, opinions
>Are your villains redeemable user?
Probably? My current villain (since Veeky Forums dislikes the term BBEG, we'll use villain here) isn't really evil. He just wants to unmake history past a certain point in order to save a culture that was destroyed by something beyond their knowledge. Said culture isn't even his but he believes it to be better than anything since then and that the gods willingly kept certain knowledge from that culture in order to let them destroy themselves. As a celestial, he dislikes that duplicity.
>Worth saving?
Eh. If you even consider him to be evil in the first place, he's probably worth saving? He was once a powerful and righteous champion of good and law, after all. Now he's more of a hyper-powerful archaeologist with a historyboner and a grudge about divine dickery.
>Or have you abandoned hope?
Yes. For unrelated reasons though, outside of the game.
>since Veeky Forums dislikes the term BBEG, we'll use villain here
What? When?
Hope is only for people with assets to extort. The only thing I have left to hope for is an early death.
...and free food.