The villain is long dead. Despite his death, he still casts a long shadow over the world...

Literally the real world.

It depends on the setting what the bad guy did.

Hitler did nothing wrong, 1488, white power, no niggers, cuckolds, jews or degenerates allowed.

Fourth Reich comes. That's how I would do it.

Cults, lots of cults

Pseudo-romans. Technologically advanced warlord conquers most of the known world. Eventually the empire internally collapses, but in its wake are government and cultural policies that can be interpreted as evil. This creates a cynical, and greedy populace.

Ever watch JoJo's Part 4-6?
Even though DIO is dead, His LT's/Son/Magical Artifacts that he dug up in order to plot his World Domination are still out there, and being used for nefarious purposes.

His blood cursed the land so that anyone who feels bad things ever makes horrible monsters happen.

>the villains deeds are used by a new batch of villains to justify their actions
Good setting

Fuck it, I'm doing this for my next campaign.

>Villain was an asshole conqueror of some flavour
>When he died his lieutenants assassinated his heir and drove the rest into exile
>Empire divided between them with constant petty wars over the remnants of the empire
>Some children of the asshole conqueror are gathering support to reunite the empire under their control
>The villain's children are just as cruel and ruthless as him

>tfw the next 8 years look bright

E. Hoba is one of my favourite villains. Well done OP.

The villain's established institutions, laws, and customs are so woven into the fabric of society that even people who considered themselves his enemies live according to them. Nothing short of a complete cultural upheaval can undo this. But they were all designed to continue to empower the institutions that continue to carry on his work after he's no longer in play.

>/pol/tards trying their hardest, bless their tiny little dicks

The BBEG had a lot of giant monsters, sort of a collection of minibosses. Now that he's defeated, the minibosses are trying to carve out their own small empires, and if the players don't stop them in time, one of the minibosses might become the new BBEG.

No monsters remain or evil orc armies. But everyone suffers from PTSD and believe monsters still lurk in the woods and swamps and cower in fear when they animal sounds at night.

There is no faith in the gods only in the strength of your fists.

>make nazi joke
>apparently I'm /pol/ now
Thanks Trump

Villain was a powerful Necromancer who razed half the planet with his undead horde before being defeated. Now the remnants of his forces are running wild without leadership. The final bastion of civilization might be secure but the food is running out and tension builds among the factions without the single unifying threat that brought them together.

You have to try tame the madness outside the walls before the forces of light fall to starvation and infighting.

I thought everyone is sick of zombie apoc already

Villain was a powerful Gnome who razed half the planet with his gnomish horde before being defeated. Now the remnants of his forces are running wild without leadership. The final bastion of civilization might be secure but the food is running out and tension builds among the factions without the single unifying threat that brought them together.

You have to try tame the madness outside the walls before the forces of light fall to starvation and infighting.

>The villain is long dead. Despite his death, he still casts a long shadow over the world. His presence is still felt and his legacy remains.
Chaika.

Lots of ruins, wastelands, remnants of powerful magitechnology, giant war machines both destroyed or semi functional, monsters everywhere, magically/alchemically enhanced super soldiers now working as mercenaries.

How are you running out of food if there's gnomes everywhere?

...

So, basically Hitler?

Glenn Cook is good at this, between () and Swordbearer.

In Swordbearer, the main villains are purely background character gods who are all arrayed against each other and whom we don't really see until the very end. Their legacy is felt across the world in the form of artifacts (a sword, a staff, a shield, a tiara) that are all the most magical things in the world; when they emerge again in the hands of a new "hero," after a few thousand years, kingdoms fall and millions die in the resulting moving and shaking. This happens in a cycle, and history has been going on for much longer than anyone thinks; it's just that some of the resulting wars are extreme enough in their destruction to have erased memory of them.

Pft, the obvious choice is to create your own army and conquer the world your self. None of that lame "I have to be the lackey of a villain because the DM thinks it'll make a good story" bullshit.

Playing in a campaign kinda like this right now actually, but the villain is still alive, just defeated.

To be brief, its basically an epic warlock who was trying to merge the material plane with the hells. The four most powerful heroes of the time went to assassinate him and ended up fighting him all across the continent, with him constantly fleeing to locations with fresh advantages and them chasing through teleportation. He killed the heroes one by one across the continent, receiving grievous wounds himself, until in the final round between him and the archdruid she trapped him in the middle of on of his crumbling fortresses and fled her own spirit away to the moon.

Two years later, our party of chucklefucks decides to leave the postapacolyptic town they'd been helping build in defend as it finally had a good enough militia and walls in place to be secure without there help. Adventure begins with us leaving to go scout the surrounding waste for other people. Moonspirit eventually contacts us and tells us we have the best chance of journeying to each of the places a hero was slain, grabbing their legendary gear, and eventually traveling to the warlock's tomb and hope that a part of probably 4 lvl 8s decked with gear from the corpses of a bunch of lvl 20s can take an epic level warlock with no swordarm (cut off by deceased paladin) no or very few spells (cant rest in the druids prison) and whose been living in a 20x20 bubble of probably mostly his own shit for 2 years sustained by nothing but presumably some equivalent to a ioun stone of sustenance. So that the spell he cast which is slowly withing the lands will finally cease.

Not exactly on topic, but seemed close enough to share.

they act like Veeky Forums was some polite understanding bastion of discussion before. These faggots are in practically every fucking thread

>trips
As another user said, LOTR.

>heroes kill the villain
>everyone cheers
>things are still shitty, because people are shitty themselves and the villain was just profiteering off of that

All character's are the villain's son's or daughter's.

Fuck off, Ghengis

That was unexpectedly funny.

depends on what level and system you are using desu,

>high level D&D
campaign starts with the party standing over the villain's corpse confused over his final words
>" you fools I was........"
little did they know the villain was the only one keeping things together, he may have been a tyrant or some other form of well known BBEG. but his methods had kept a form of order to the world, and his death has broken it all now the true threat shows itself (prob an old god or something or other up to you desu)

>lower level
some years after teh death of a BBEG things havn't gotten better and have only gotten worse the heroes were reviled for making things worse and the land has fallen to chaos, lawlessness and anarchy rampages, bandits who wouldn't have dared rampage under the old BBEG now do so freely. old lords who were kept in check now let their tyranny reign. and all is bleak and shit.

He was your wife in disguise!

This, though maybe not all of them.

The real question is, should they know that their parents were evil?

>Critize the puppet for offering generic ideas
>Offers generic idea

Simple. He set up a long-term plan to unleash a handful of powerful boss monsters onto the world to force humanity to unite against them and put an end to war, only it gets subverted by his own subordinates.

Look into X'ion and Fragged Empires. Basically, societies rebuild themselves after genocidal war, and a lot of bio-weapons are infesting the galaxy.

Nationwide constitutional carry soon fellow burger.

Yeah, Killary fags never fucking learn. You yanks dodged a yuge fucking bullet, I don't see why her supporters are still trying to pretend that it was somehow all /pol/

Don't forget them evil russians hacking muh election

This. Just have a campaign based off of Leviathan: The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth.

If this was the setting I would immediately make a Necromancer. Nothing would stop me.

Sounds awesome. Has something like this ever happened in real life, because it sounds familiar. Full disclosure: burger-tier edumacashun.

>Son's
>Daughter's
Whose son? Whose daughter? What belongs to them?

Sum peepul kant' sphell. Dial wid itt.

This, it never ends well. I was in a game like that, and our "moderate BBEG" questgiver/princess/villain boss was a complete and utter cunt whose plan was complete shit, and when I sided with the "real BBEG" who at least wanted a strong, nationalist country that would genocide the orcs, the DM tableflipped and stopped running. Never have a designated boss.

What are the odds it was all actually just that DNC staffer who mysteriously died in a "robbery" where nothing was taken right after the leaks came out? "Idealistic young volunteer discovers corruption in his party and sends it to wikileaks" isn't exactly farfetched, and blaming the Russians keeps this from being Watergate 2.0. I mean, you literally had major news organizations colluding with one candidate against the other. Serious answer, no /pol/, no DA JEWS.

The common peoples hatred.
Had some coffee.
Realised what the fuck I'm typing.

>closed tab here

What's the liberal obsession with penises about?

That seems more like a human thing, rather than a sign of any particular Political Affiliation.

You'd think that, but no, it's almost always liberals.

LotR really captures that feel of a whole era being lost to war. Sure, Sauron was defeated and the free peoples of middle-earth are still pretty free, but everywhere there are ruins that stand as testament to his terrible reign, countless battlefields still littered with the bones of the dead etc.

Maximum melancholia.

Evil princess huh? He was probably mad because you didn't side with his waifu-insert.

I saw the first episode, seems very meh.
Does it get more interesting further in or is the entire series basically "this is waifu, that's it"?

Three episode rule, McNig

I don't really feel like wasting 3 episodes worth of time on something that starts off on a very mediocre tone.

What else are you gonna do with your time? Post on Veeky Forums?

Well shit man, forget I asked.

I mean when you're autistic to the point where you can't even answer a question without throwing a shitfit, I'll not bother you then.

...

It gets more interesting once the characters start interacting and developing.

Then you meet the dragon. She never stops being worth it.

Red Chaika is when everything gets suspicious as hell. Porn because it's what I have on hand.

[spoilers]I thought it was cut a little short, and they could have done more after blue chaika. I would have liked to see more shades of chaika before the big rainbow came out. That said, the final set-up was well done, especially the weird mix of devotion versus utility about gathering the pieces of the Emperor Gaz's corpse. I just wish the final chaika wasn't quite so successful.[/spoilers]

What? I just asked a question

>big, easily identified public villain's wicked, evil army of evil destroyed forever
>the rest of the world is free to rejoice in victory
>the victors divide up the villain's stronghold amongst themselves
>half go to the expansive murdercult the good guys teamed up with to win
>the other half go to the good guys who vaporized 2 citites as a 'cleaner solution'
>the celebration and excess of their victory never ends, until some 80 years later
>people have begun to grow bitter toward the post-war paradise
>some suspect the BBEG wasn't much worse than the victors
>others suspect he wasn't BBEG at all
>some even say he was trying to halt the murdercult's expansion westward and the decadent orgy that was to follow in its absence.

I don't think most of them are Hillary voters, Veeky Forums has always been one of these boards more "serious" and disconnected and /pol/ has been so visible during the elections that now there is a paranoia towards /pol/ards crossposters.

So now there cannot be jokes somehow related to /pol/ without people blaming /pol/ards and actual /pol/ards shitposting in reaction.

Yes. It happens a lot. Usually it's referred to as a change of dynasty - often, those are immediately followed by wars of reconquest, until everyone has one king again.

Alexander's empire upon his death is immediately split up amongst his top generals, the succesors, who each grab a region and start squabling, murder his wife and only heir, steal his corpse, warring and politicking amongst themselves and only ever working together if they are banding against someone who has declared intention to restore the empire. This is the succesor states period. This goes on until they are all conquered by either Rome or Persia
Ghengis Khan created the largest contiguous land empire to yet exist. It falls apart during his grandson Kublai's reign, on their way back home to vote for the next khan they get into a civil war instead and Kublai conquers China and has himself declared Khan which the others recognize but only really give lip service to.
Also see: Any medieval European history. Off the top of my head charlemaine's empire is split up amongst his three grandsons, but any dynastic system has great potential for civil wars between brothers or what have you

>BBEG is killing millions to gain godly power
>Defeat him to ensure freedom and peace for humanity and get hailed as the savior of the world
>New campaign set two centuries later demonizes our old characters as the ultimate evil and downfall of Man

Sheesh, quick way to piss everyone off and make us abandon the main quest in order to wage a war against a religion and half the world. If we didn't fuck up so soon we might have killed more than the original bad guy.

Yeah because black people and part-black people totally weren't a thing in society before obama and he personally controls them all....

Way to go showing retardation knows no colour.

Dude, I just had a GREAT idea for a quest.

>hero is such a hardass motherfucker that the world is so terrified by them and being punished for wrong doings there are no wars for 200 years even after they have died

The main evil god or demon was killed a long time ago, but his essence fell on the earth, and corrupted a good part of the world.
Most monsters are born from it and the influence of the dark god still corrupts mortals.
Magical creatures were the most easily affected and most magical races are now outnumbered by their corrupted counterparts.
Not that monsters are all evil, especially the most intelligents ones, but the animals are extremely aggressive and the corrupted intelligent beings are hardened by the hashness of their environement and at odd with the uncorrupted races as they often desire to conquer their far more hospitable ones.

The former good god or angel that slayed him was also corrupted but instead of becoming evil, his wounds never fully healed and his heart was hardened.
Too impure for the Heavens he came from, he lived for a time on this world and founded a Kingdom hellbent on protecting the pure lands from the impure ones.
From his union with the Daughters of the Old King who traded His immortality for the ability of bearing children, the Blessed Dynasty of the realm was born.
He then left this world for creating the Pure Realm that the pures can join after death.

>The villain's
>'s
I don't know user, it seems we will never know.

Smaller scale version for low level heroes I have actually done:

Heroes stop maniacal wizard who is turning everyone into stone men. Though he died, his consciousness exists, still speaking to one of the PC's due to a failed last minute possession attempt.

The heroes actually went the hidden back way into his inner sanctum. The main bulk of his tower, and his monsters and treasures and knowledge, remain undefiled and heavily guarded.

Next couple of sessions when I return to play with these guys, they get to delve into said wizard's tower, with the incredibly snarky wizard grumbling in the one PC's head the whole time and possibly warning him and only him of lethal traps, as he doesn't want to die.

They'll eventually figure out certain secrets about the wizard and the magical disease he harnessed and was cursed with.

The town and surrounding area are still utterly fucked by the stoneman plague, and it turns out that the scattered surviving stonemen are all like zombies, spreading the plague even without magical help. So the PC's both get to rebuild the nearly genocided town and deal with saving surrounding areas from the remnants of the plague. Things get really bad when a dragon gets infected, tries to control it and generally becomes a bigger danger and vector for the disease than the wizard ever was.

>Bad guy, while undoubtedly evil, had the goal of uniting the world under their own banner to put an end to wars and focus on bettering the world (Through tyranny and absolute rule)
>It turns out all of the kingdoms launch a major international war just days after he's dead, believing their competitors to be weakened
>The war lasts for generations until people are tired of it, and monsters are running rampant with most able bodied people being sent to war
>Small band of heroes sets out to put an end to the war and bring about peace
>How?
>By reviving the ancient villain and helping him rally his forces to take over the world and bring about peace

why would evil guy want peace? he's evil, its like you dont know what that word means.

Are you kidding? The bad guy with "good intentions" who goes way WAY too far is a classic.

Stability.

You can't rule unless you've got solid ground under you. The heroes could revive the old tyrant and suddenly the world snaps back into place, either under the tyrant's thumb or all aligned to fight back.

There's rivals and there's enemies; You don't fight rivals when there's enemies at your door.

Evil =/ Chaotic

Dominator's still kind of active, though.

Or he was up until they fucked up his corpse castle. I dunno if he comes back later, but I haven't started The Many Deaths of the Black Company yet.

This sucks and is cliché as fuck.
Let him have held back a hedonist utilitarian ultimate 'good' intelligence instead. It wishes to bring hedonist util maximum by killing all sticklers and propagators of non-hedonic ideology and lifestyle, it cares only for sapients, and it's intending for a global Lotus Eater trap at the end.
Characters will struggle between the nature of their intuitive ethical disagreement with this course, and the naïvely good nature of it

>little did they know the villain was the only one keeping things together, he may have been a tyrant or some other form of well known BBEG. but his methods had kept a form of order to the world, and his death has broken it all now the true threat shows itself
So Emperor Palpatine? He was militarizing the galaxy for the coming Yong Invasion.

Trump and Rubio talked about dick sizes during the primaries.

Anyone have the comic where the polfag comes into the thread and shits everywhere

Pretty apt here

Hobbes was right again!