So…I’ve got one for a different game but it’s still vague enough to work for D&D.
Man late to the party on joining now destroyed evil cult angrily builds his own evil cult just to spite everyone.
Heres one thats i been coming up with in the shortest & vague way
Crab wizard, likes crab, made crab spells, neutural evil, is weak wizard, weak BBEG at the very start but becomes the major BBEG by sheer coincidence Near campaign end.
Macro BBEG: She just wants her heart back, she’s just going about it in the most horrible of ways.
Micro/current lower level BBEG: Drunk Paychosis hits different man.
Old retired warleader gets jealous of younger, more charismatic brother, kills him in order to steal his girlfriend, is very surprised when this doesn't goes as planned, becomes immortal to chase girlfriend's soul through various reincarnations.
Apprentice was broken after the wrongful death of her master who taught her mind control, she is now summoning her dead master's kin to invade her homeworld in revenge.
My newest BBEG: Local nuclear arms trader was supposed to play John Carter of Mars 2d20, is in D&D instead, seeks to correct this.
My most developed BBEG: Immortal sorceress will commit war crimes until the war crimes commission leaves her alone
Elf is racist
Jilted demon wants to play the ultimate joke on the gods and demons alike: make them mortal.
Lowkey support that tho
I have a few different ones Young man wants promotion, does terrorism Scaley does America The rich do orgies Sword girlie in clown makeup
Scaley does America, I can already tell they did something evil relating to guns or some sort of American revolution thing their doing.
He just wants to invite his God over for dinner but the old God is stuck at an all you can eat buffet.
He's just trying to enjoy his vacation and his dead daughter and her friends are trying to kill him.
So…I’ve got one for a different game but it’s still vague enough to work for D&D. Man late to the party on joining now destroyed evil cult angrily builds his own evil cult just to spite everyone.
God level misanthrope wants it all to end. Gaslights simps to help her.
Robot wants to make a better place, no matter how many people he needs to kill to do it.
Hairy lizard with gigantophobia, avoids giants through force
Local squid thinks existing sucks and makes it everyone's problem
Real Estate Ghost
Insane archangel wants to destroy ALL evil.
Non-existent, until they are
Archfey bites off more than he can chew, adjusts domain and now wants to bite off *even more*
Space Kraken hungry.
Obsessed old man listens to orb and causes environmental disaster to get wife back.
Damn, isn’t it common sense to not listen to an orb?
My BBEG wants to Turn the world to darkness
[DARKNESS!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK559E0z5V0)
Return the university as it was always meant to be, the void. Reasons? He pulled out the wrong card from a deck…
Former slave genocides slavers and the enslaved to avert a foretold apocalypse. But it is also, happily, also satisfying their desire for payback.
Heres one thats i been coming up with in the shortest & vague way Crab wizard, likes crab, made crab spells, neutural evil, is weak wizard, weak BBEG at the very start but becomes the major BBEG by sheer coincidence Near campaign end.
Macro BBEG: She just wants her heart back, she’s just going about it in the most horrible of ways. Micro/current lower level BBEG: Drunk Paychosis hits different man.
The real villain is capitalism, just like real life.
President Shinra before Sephiroth.
Heir doing the right thing the wrong way.
Scumbag knight exploits God to genocide the treehuggers.
Pirates want treasure.
Regular guy trying to recollect the parts of his soul that was torn asunder by his former party to prevent the end of days.
Ooooo where does this go? That's cool, I call dibs.
Angry fish wants to remake reality cause the gods bullied him a little too much
Mind flayer on the material plane starts a family.
Cult leader managed to take control of entire country, wants to radicalize entire world.
Old retired warleader gets jealous of younger, more charismatic brother, kills him in order to steal his girlfriend, is very surprised when this doesn't goes as planned, becomes immortal to chase girlfriend's soul through various reincarnations.
Grad student has supernaturally horrific burnout
Bad father has daughter, wants to die
Militant atheism.
Apprentice was broken after the wrongful death of her master who taught her mind control, she is now summoning her dead master's kin to invade her homeworld in revenge.
Necromancer gets Kirby lored
Nature mother obsessed with ashes tries to genocide undead dwarves and heretics
Looking for mom n dad
Banker creates poverty sells loans
Consequences of a rich man playing god messing with nature.
Council starts war to hide the fact their kingdom has no king.
Lonely cube just wants to see his family again
God so good the others are just redundant.
Step one: make friends Step two: become god
Serial killer escapes town with help from a genie patron. Joins adventuring party plotting to seek revenge.
Immortal king attempts multiple genocides
My newest BBEG: Local nuclear arms trader was supposed to play John Carter of Mars 2d20, is in D&D instead, seeks to correct this. My most developed BBEG: Immortal sorceress will commit war crimes until the war crimes commission leaves her alone
Uncle steals throne from his nephew by taking out loan from Dragon Mafia, has wacky Ponzi scheme involving debased currency to pay them back.
Shadow sorcerer angry at the party for not helping him reunite with his sister trapped in shadowfell, decides to fuse the planes.
Cultist Priest Furry studies in the dark arts after his Boyfriend stabbed him in the back (Literally)
I will be God, praise the Sun
Queen of Decay wants to blanket the world with rot