Considering how in vogue ancient egyptian shit is this days, how would you do an egyptian-themed BBEG

>BBEG

Bleh.

WHY ARE WEEBS SO OBSESSED WITH TINY SMUG GIRLS
This vexes me far more than it should

I mean it's objectively the correct answer to this question. Why not?

That just means the smug is working.

>Powerful Lich sealed inside a Sarcophagus
>Gradually undoing the hexes limiting his power
>Players increase in level roughly alongside him
>Shabti Minions
>Multiple phylactery organ jars, hidden inside Tomb dungeons
>PC's have to stop him before his grand design to cover the Earth in the desert sand (Or something) comes to fruition

Ancient undead lord of Duat who wants to cross the barrier between the living world and the dead world to fuse them together into an eternal empire. Naturally the gods of life want to stop this.

>Ruled by a divine and highly inbred family that is quite literally worshipped by the masses
>Great monuments dedicated to dead divine rulers
>In early times the afterlife was deemed to be exclusive to these divine rulers
>A highly oppressive, opportunistic and taxation system that exists to serve the royal family (all the land in Egypt is the Pharaoh's, the farmers rent this land to the Pharaoh, they then have to pay part of their grain to the Pharaoh as rent, they then have to sell the rest of this land to "companies" owned by the Pharaoh that process this grain into bread and alcohol, then the farmers have to spend their meagre profits from selling their grain to the Pharaoh on bread made by the Pharaoh. Oh, and there are massive import/export taxes also paid to the Pharaoh)
>The Book of Exodus

Egyptians are villains straight out of the box. They would make great BBEGs in a Glorious Roman campaign. On that note, given that Cleopatra was the last independent ruler of Egypt, I can imagine a vain and undead Pharaoh who demands a certain form of tribute from her population (virgins?) to maintain her eternal youth and beauty so she can remain in power even longer and exploit the populace even longer until the GLORIOUS ROMANS come to "liberate" the people of Egypt from her reign.

Get your hands on this.

I don't have my copy to hand, but one of the major BBEGs mentioned was an evil necromancer who went around disturbing the dead, for example to find out where they had hidden their wealth.

In Ancient Egypt, just because you were a mummy didn't mean you were evil and spread mummy rot. A walking mummy could just as well be your aunt, coming to have a few words about the cheap burial you got her. But disturbing the dead - that was fucking evil.

Sure, but I would do some tweaks to the setting. Mainly making the "Greece" realm more like Ancient Greece than the medieval fantasy Europe that it is in the games and so forth.

I don't think the setting is worth giving thought, I just felt like ripping off the main characters, because dick.

>BBEGs

If you don't know what a BBEG is, don't use that phrase.

Heh. But there is one thing worse that the setting, and that's the game mechanics.

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I for one am a fan of the classics.

Painwheel is best girl

Eh. It's nothing horrific, it's just grindy and lacking in content-per-payoff. It'd be better if instead of finding random pictures spilled about the world you were having prophetic visions of what was happening to the characters involved in those pictures, complete with a mini-scene.

>cumming with power of thousand suns

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Painwheel a cute
Fishcunt best girl.

Bronze age collapse Egypt would be a great option for a Mad Max/Dying Earth style game.

OP has a big smug girl.

>Pic related.

About time someone posted it.

METALOCALYPSE REFERENCE! TAKE A SHOT!

I'm astonished it took this long.

But Lamia was Libyan.

Big on the 'I AM A GOD' Goa'uld melodrama. Works a bit like one as well; possessing people to use as shells while keeping the spellcasting and just overwriting them.
Maybe go undead while you're at it; jump into a new person, kill them instantly and then raise them as undead to use. They're used up quickly, so it has to change fairly often to stay pretty and alive-looking.
Also, lots of priestesses of their cult like pic related to keep the followers coming in and breeding to keep him in new bodies.

Big monuments, lots of carved stone, lots of undead, lots of goddamn sand everywhere, and the PCs basically have to fight his army to get at him.

I think you just posted her, honestly. None of my players know what Skullgirls even is, although one or two have mentioned seeing me play it on Steam and another has mentioned familiarity with the Zone flash

Non-playable girls can't be best girls

>and another has mentioned familiarity with the Zone flash
Glad your friends are so open.

Hey, we're best friends after all. It's not like we watch porn together or anything. That would be pretty gay.

>Not watching porn together
>Not helping your bro out with mutual masturbation
>Not building fraternal bonds with skinship
>Not doing something the ladies would absolutely love to hear about
It's like you're not even trying to get a girlfriend.

This

Who makes these pictures? I see them in every thread about egyptians on here

Go full Queen of the damned. Faux Egypt is ruled by a cabal of vampires ruled by their head vampire. The deities are actually covers for demons they cavort with, and the priesthood is full of mage and necromancers.

In actuality the whole thing is more benevolent than humans though, as the vampires eat only criminals and are praised for their harsh, sure justice system which often dispenses with corrupt magistrates summarily.

Houtengeki.

He also draws elves.

They are formed in the clouds by God, then some guy who goes by Houtengeki takes pictures of them.

Sounds cool. I will check him out, thanks.

Big mummy nigga with a voltron made out of pyramids and the Sphinx.

youtu.be/uV7-xbsuvZg

Great theme as well

The fuck you think the "mummy" enemy is for?

In D&D they're not even mindless, so one with decent stats could easily be a BBEG. Probably wants to do undead-y shit or straight-up conquer the world. Pic related.

I call dibs on the lynx PC!

I'd probably play up the crazy diverse and interesting Egyptian Afterlife stuff. My first thought for it would be some kind of ancient manifested curse or grudge that brings the Anubis style "Weight your hearts against a feather" thing to the living world, and basically starts slaughtering the impure (of which there are many, for many, many reasons) wholesale and feeding their souls to the Ammit, all in an act of vengeance for the robbing of a sacred tomb. To beat it, you have to set things right with the grave-robbers, while fighting against a growing more dangerous threat as it tears its way through the countryside, mummies, demons, and all manner of monstrosities following in its wake in an increasingly escalating campaign of vengeance.

top kek

nice

POWERS OF DARKNESS!!!!

Really OP, you posted her. A completely self-centered bitch/prick who even after running her civilization into the ground demands to be worshiped as a god/dess.

This

It needs to be campy as fuck with a powerful mystic. Think Yakub+Apocalypse, using ancient knowledge lost to modern peoples to fuel his powers.

Wrong one. Ra's theme and Apophis' aren't all that similar.

youtube.com/watch?v=tpHw0mLA1Vo

They're both sweet though.

It's "ancient spirits of evil", bruh.

youtube.com/watch?v=xuWLThMuf7k

This is a reference to something?

my bad man. in my defense its been decades and i was too lazy to go look it up on google before posting.

Hey, at least it isn't the Imperial March as Linkara always uses when he does his Evil Ancient Egyptians gag.

No clue. Guess we'll find out next time on: Read The Fucking Thread Z!

Not enough KANGZ jokes, I'm proud of you guys

Eliza from Skullgirls. She's fucking awful, but you can't help but love her fancy ass.

A deranged, crazed priestess who believes she is Isis reincarnated, and seeks to rebuild the Upper and Lower Kingdoms and make them the centers of the universe that they once were. Using a combination of magic, technology, and social unrest, she is able to build an army of slaves and thralls to conquer the nation, and her armies are scavenging far and wide for...something.

One of her more insane decrees is that it is illegal to leave any crab alive. It is believed that her insanity may have something to do with the existence of crabs, but nobody is brave enough to ask her about it.

She hates crabs because a crab stole Osiris' dick in Egyptian mythos, and without that dick she ain't getting no dick. It MUST be Osiris' dick, for only the dick of the gods is worthy to coil in her temple chambers.

Would use the egyptian Phanteon. Its fucking facinating.

You got
>huge/powerful god like Geb
>cat people like Anhur/Bastet
>powerful spellcasters (and waifus) like Isis/Ra
>dog people like Anubis
>Cool undeads like Osiris

I'm not allowed to have black BBEGs at my table anymore.

A corrupt pharaoh and priest aiding Apep. Campaign starts off with signs and portents warning of the coming darkness, growing more urgent as events move closer to the final ritual and the priest's apocalyptic victory. The party must not only defeat the pharaoh, they must recover the Book of Apophis and learn the means to defeat their divine foe.

An ancient Egyptian god is awakened and he assembles a vast army of cultists who install their high-priest as ruler of the kingdom.

Read more Conan.

But the KANGZ joke is by far the best suggestion in the whole thread.

An Ayy with nuclear powered jetpack and and cum powered magic.

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Why are smug women so hot?

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*breaths in*
DASSSSSSSSSS
*inhales*
RITEEEEEEEEEE

Settra the Imperishable

It disgusts me we took this long

Now, some have mentioned the Peoples From the Sea, but nobody mentioned the fact that YOU could play as them. You could make a semi-historical campaign for the PCs where they go from city to city of the ancient Bronze Age empires and fight, sack and pillage to their hearts' desire. First the players could start in Greece, as the "Heraclids", the name the Spartans gave to the people from the sea when they invaded, steamroll the miceneans and then go to Anatolia and Asia Minor, from there the fights and everything should become ever more challenging: the players would become stronger and gain a bunch of followers from the tribes they awed with their martial strength, but the enemies would ever be more united and smart in fights, reaching as the end-battle the throne room of a Pharaoh, who would not only be a beast in melee, but also cast magic and miracles granted him from the gods.
After the party defeats Ramses the nth tho, they dying Pharaoh says "You fools! Now THEY can't be stopped! You doomed us all!"

"THEY" would be the Nubians, an extremely advanced civilisation, that only recently started weaponising its technology, so while being WE-WUZ-KANGZ-propaganda level of strong in terms of tech, they weren't adept in the use of weapons, until now, and now that they heard the news of people going trough the East Mediterranean and razing the old civilisations the Nubians see their chance to begin a world conquest.

To prevent the alteration of the course of history the PCs will invade Nubia with their now extremely loyal and war-capable followers and fight this uphill battle against an enemy that could kill you even from range with Kang-Lazer weapons.

But the players, the white devils, will still overwhelm them, and trough sheer ignorance and will of destruction will cause the downing and self destruction (with a lot of pressing of buttons which should not be pressed) of the great Nubian starships.

After the end of this war tho, the PCs would be in a stand still, as much of the Nubian tech, although destroyed, is still salvageable and some of the Nubian engineers still live.

Here the options fan out:
1- PvP ensues and the last white devil standing takes all the spoils to start his own history-ignoring World Conquest.
2- PCs start their World Conquest together.
3- They just save a single super-weapon the Ark of the Alliance which will pass to their descendants in the far future, when they will re-enact their forefathers in the wars and struggles to take back their Promised Land from traitors that stole it from them during their absence.

Painwheel is for bullying

Considering most of what we know about ancient Egypt is their burial rites, some kind of undead makes the most sense.

>not having multiple BBEGs competing for who is the B-est and B-est EG around

Story time?

I know Degenesis, but that doesn't sound right.

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>YAKUUUB!
here is this campaigns character sheet

They're not Egyptian.

>an ancient evil awakens

>my thicc egypt

With a quick rework, they can be.

That's not how you do it. It's
DASRIIIIIIIITE

I boggles my mind that despite Christianity being a kinda separate religion from Judaism, the images of Egyptians and Babylonians as malicious are so deeply imbedded in Christian nations. Imagine telling an Asyrian or Egyptian king, priest or scientist that because their nation conquered some insane goatfuckers, they would be forever remembered as villains.

TL;DR: life in ancient Egypt wasn't that bad even for slaves, except if you were a dirty semitic sheepfucker who hated everyone else.

>for slaves
Slavery wasn't a big thing in Ancient Egypt, I've heard. The labor for construction projects were considered part of off-season taxes.

>Christianity being a kinda separate religion from Judaism,
"kinda separate" being the operative phrase here

>these days
>casuls not into it at least since Yugioh aired
I did a one-off dungeon crawl a while back, in typical desert-location fashion had a semi-buried pyramid with a mummy boss at the end with hieroglyphs on the walls depicting his achievements.
Armed with a stone crook "with the power of a captured star" and a flail "that can even strike beasts from the sky" that worked more like a whip than anything, he was the worst dude, but between traditionalists, loyalists, and his own magic items, he was still preserved as pharaohs are known to be. The problem is, he was so furious with losing his iron-fisted earthly rule to mortality that instead of moving on to the afterlife, he just floated around in limbo the entire time. Once he was woken up by PCs undoing magic seals to get into the boss room, I had the body be more of a vessel for his vengeful spirit rather than his whole form. Once the party nabbed his magic stuff and killed the body, they looted the place and left, one of the party members noting with disdain at how crappy the place looks now, sand-blasted to hell and no signs of a grand kingdom in sight.
It wasn't until night watch that the aforementioned party member was caught trying to hotfoot it out of there, eventually everyone figuring out that their juggernaut had been possessed by the pharaoh, attempting to get away with a new body with plans to take over a nearby kingdom and rebuild his prosperous empire. One PvP fight later and their cleric is able to exorcise the bastard and kill him however it is RPG characters manage to "kill" ghosts.

The only society not impacted by the apocalypse is an inexplicably advanced nation that covers the majority of Africa.

That's because they weren't fucked to hell and back by the impact winter and they've been spending their time raiding europe for slaves and technological artifacts. Also their alien fungus isn't quite as malicious as the european strains, if I recall correctly.

>Slavery wasn't a big thing in Ancient Egypt, I've heard.

Slavery was absolutely a thing, in that anybody who wasn't a skilled laborer or tradesman was impressed into work gangs of laborers, who were essentially disposable labor for low-skill tasks. These laborers were headed by cadres of craftsmen, architects, and engineers, but the dudes who hauled the blocks themselves and did the heavy lifting were forced labor who had very, very little choice in where they worked or what they did.

They were "paid," but since they were subjects of the Pharaoh, they were the property of the Pharaoh, and could be treated however their masters wanted to treat them. These laborers were very different from the skilled laborers, who actually had some control over their lives due to their skills.

None of that explains how they became a technological superpower either equal or superior to any current European state, or how their society managed to unite tribes that have been at war for the entirety of recorded history.

Europe was fucked back into the stone age and the most powerful european state currently is on renaissance level with a few small cults that dip into sci-fi.
Africa mostly just managed to sort of maintain their pre-apocalypse status. What used to be a shithole when the rest of the world was breaking into star trek now being well off by virtue of mostly avoiding the apocalypse through dumb luck isn't that outlandish, I think.
I mean you need to consider that the degenesis world has like 200 years on ours before the meteors hit.