What are ways a mad scientist can fund his crazy experiments if he isn't already rich?

Make a love potion or mind control device, use it to marry some really rich, really old person. Hopefully they'll kick the bucket naturally pretty soon, but if they don't, you can always just murder them. Or use them as guinea pigs.

Kickstarter and/or Patreon.

Then you use your first ramschackle prototype to do the job, duh. Like a helmet, that let you control BEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSZZZ!

alternatively kill the henchmen after the gig

Honestly, this would probably work. People have funded worse things through those sites, and at least you can probably deliver on your promises.

See, that's the kind of stuff that makes it harder to hire good henchmen in the future. You're evil, sure, but human resources is still important.

To ensure success, pitch your crimes against nature as high concept art projects.

Actually this makes sense. You could come out with the worlds next wonder, some sort of equivelent of the i-phone. Even with genius the transgression rules, it doesnt matter that it stops working because someone openend it up. Afterall, who really understands how an i-phone works?

And besides. "I always keep the best inventions for myself."

>MAD_Scientist420 (PhD in Theoretical Physics) starts a kickstarter for "A totally kickass doomsday device that will overthrow the world order as we know it"
>Stated goal: $40 million dollars
>Collected so far: $12
>Days left: 3

Lie and say it's a machine that lets you talk to cats, or some kind of sex toy. You'll get funded within hours.

Agree to make a dirty bomb for the Libyans.

Or hell, just say you're making a porn game. A furry porn game at that.

A really, really great mad genius should be able to actually make a furry porn game that's also capable of overthrowing the world governments.

Read "Herbert West - Reanimator"

They get resourceful

I like having a mad scientist (or wizard, or whatever,) providing the bbeg with devices, monsters, and crazy bullshit in exchange for funding. Bonus points if the scientist is far more dangerous than the putative villain, just more interested in research than conquest.

I've got a madsci in my game who's been playing both sides of the conflict since before the current PCs were born.

>Ah, yes, you're Olivia's girl! I knew your mother. Charming woman. Excellent bone structure, surprising toxin resistance.
>"You fought my mother?"
>Indeed! Helped her save the world, once. Then stole most of her blood for a side project.

An MLP porn game. You'd be funded in minutes.

A porn game that hypnotizes people. Guarantees success on the next kickstarter and you get internet minions.

You won't even need to lie about the hypnosis part either. Hell you could probably say it straight up hypnotized people and they wouldn't care

Hell, for a few people that would be *why* they got the game

>>Keep in mind that you'll probably need henchmen and/or science abominations to do your bidding if you want to do bank robberies. Which usually requires some money to begin with.
If you are any self respecting mad scientist then you have the startup covered. If you know science that well then you should at least have some schooling in science and thus you should have been able to work at least with a little bit science in the past before your insatiable yearning for mad experiments could no longer be numbed or sated.

Plus you should have genius level intellect meaning you should be able to create crazy shit in your garage with minimal requirement. Maybe slowly, maybe it took you a few years of saving to scarp all the ingredients together but your tenacity FOR SCIENCE knows should have no limits. otherwise you are not fit enough to be a mad scientist.

Heh.

The new henchmen don't have to "know" what happened with the previous henchmen. If you are catching my drift. Besides, useful henchmen should not ask many questions either because they know very well that everyone is better off that way or they just too stupid to realize it.

You know, there could be an entire mad scientist's market out there. Trading one mad invention for another. Those mad biologists have to get their microscopes and unspeakable dissection tables from somewhere, after all -- why not from mad engineers?

Find a rich guy or a rich kid that is going through emotional instability and probably has depression and anxiety issues. Become his close friend, if an adult, you have to create a new drug and let him dependent of it... bonding with him even more and doing some sweet talk to make him interested in your cause. If it is a kid you do the same, but building a father-son relationship and not necessarily giving him drugs.

People talk. If they keep vanishing while working for you? Word's gunna spread.

A small loan of a million dollars

I remember reading some reddit thread some many years ago about a dude who just robbed modern banks by slipping a note claiming that he was armed, calmly asking for it and then walking out.
Apparently he just did it for the thrill, had proof of his heists and made a not-so-modest amount of money, which he returned when he turned himself in.
I remember he said that modern banks practically account for robberies, so it's not a "big deal" if a robber chips a bit of money away as long as nobody is hurt.
The two major issues with this is-
>I'm telling this from anecdotal memory
>This would not work in pre-19/20th century style banking

Selling organs.

*Other peoples'* organs.

>ransack a landfill for baseline shitty inventions
>rob a bank
>use funds to build better shit
>try to conquer the world
>get foiled
>go to step 1

>ransack a landfill for baseline shitty inventions
Behold! I have invented a way to recycle all landfil to its constituant material, without any emmisions or heat waste!
Rather than selling the design to cities I'll use it to destroy the eiffel tower.

I dunno, I could see a mad scientist selling his own if he'd invented some way to replace them.

Sell guns to murderers

Well, there is a reason we call them MAD scientists...

Speaking of mad, captcha apparently thinks calzones are a type of pie.

How can anyone be so fucking evil??

Thats kind of a special case, merging all steps into 1.

And really, when you create a mechanical monstrosity that can devour metal and other materials to upgrade itself further, WHY WOULD YOU CONDEMN YOUR BELOVED CREATION TO EATING SHIT?! No, no, no, it deserves the best and the tastiest materials!

If you're a mad scientist why not just build your own minions?

>fund his crazy experiments
not
>fund his video games

>posts a guy who started his career by stealing other guy's robots

Wily built the robots, Light did the programming. That's why Wily had so many more robots than Light and why they were all psycho.

The Professor, while selling his various doomsday devices to Hedonismbot, reveals that the Spheroboom is his personal favorite and he can't bear to part with it. Taken directly from the wiki. Love that movie.

find a bored, rich sociopath who would have no qualms making everyone's lives miserable out of boredom.

Boom, now you're rich!

Fuck 50 fat chicks for $100 a piece. Or fuck 5 REALLY fat chicks for $1000 a piece.

Hold up, I'm a mad scientist.
I can make a superdidlo that is capable of penetrating the lard waves.

Transforming captives into extremely sexy slaves and selling them off to various rich bastards is a classic.

Fat chicks have nu-male protecters now, you're expected to fuck them for free,
or even pay them for it.

Huh, maybe you could get some funding from tumblr tier regressives by saying you'll use your machine to smash the patriarchy.

That's why most of his money comes from his delivery company.

Patent and license some of his bullshit.
Works for Mr. Fantastic.

Regular doctor during the day, mad doctor at night.

"I'm afraid your husband didn't make it, Mrs Hughes"

"He only came in for a cough"

"It was much worse than it looked. Also I had to amputate his arms."

Sure. How are you gonna get the parts?

>pancake pancake pancake

This is particularly important, because it is unlikely you will ever actually profit from any of your nefarious schemes due to heroic interference. By having a steady stream of legitimate revenue you have something to fund your legal battles with and to pay for the exorbitant expenses of your nefarious ideas. In this setup evil would be more of a hobby, than a job.

Opening a legitimate pharmaceutical company.

Or just a snake oil company. It's legal, you don't have to waste any time doing actual science for your day job, and homeopathy and "alternative medicine" makes serious cash.

I dont know man, the top selling drug in 2015 made 14,012 million dollars.

Invent something that collects lost change. There's a fortune out there in vending machine slots, under couch cushions and in gutters.

That's a lot of money, but why spend time and effort to make a drug that actually works when you can sell placebo pills?

Fucking Harvest. How can something so shitty be so powerful? Swarm stands are OP.

Doing legitimate work. Being a lab tech, or a lab supervisor, or a professor putting up with endless students who aren't even ready to learn the science because they can't write in paragraphs, or...

I should become a mad scientist.

Johnson & Johnson made 16.3 Billion dollars in 2015. I would like to see a snake oil company that comes close to that.

>Funding legal battles.
You'd be setting fire to money trying to fight them. 'Yes Mr Judge, it was a freak accident my mad killer robots blew up the building for the third time this week.' Just settle, it's cheaper than paying a legal team to actually have the battles.

I never argued that they're as profitable as real drug companies. I'd just rather take the easy way.

They're an old-standing brand. If you want this kind of money, you'll first have to fight against people with this kind of money.

If you got mad science skills it shouldnt be that hard.

Hey man, I'm just trying to advise the modern mad scientist.

Sell fedoras to this guy , you'll make a fortune.

by selling mad science at both the african warlords fighting each

My favorite Stands are the ones that just seem weird or weak at first, rather than the "I PUNCH THINGS HARD OR SHOOT STUFF" ones. And it seems Araki does too, seeing as they've become the norm now.

In a game of Space 1889, my character invented the computer and then used it to rule the stock market. In the end, he owned most of the world's economy indirectly, his bride's wedding dress alone would have bankrupted many african nations.

Forgot to mention, before that he invented a gas rifle that could shoot a bundle of TNT with a explosive cap and sold it to the navy to arm their skyships with.

I wish...

On the flip side, he has buzzsaw-tipped gorilla arms now.

Would play/10
No group though...
Anyone have roll20?

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Just make some future gadgets!
Or rely on your friends to work at a maid cafe.

This.
Embezzle grant money
"Sure, I'm totally working on that cure for cancer..."

Technically a star destroyer Ray gets rid of one kind of cancer

Ghostbusting.

Seriously, it's the easiest fucking scam made even easier if you have some electronic tech lying around.

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Government funding: youtu.be/op2hRvUgcms

Is this the russian Game from that Police Academy movie

Cave.
Box of scraps.
It's a start.