How would you add Ronnie James Dio into your campaign?
Epic Level Bardbarian dragon slayer with a tiger mount.
>>44713166
With a sledgehammer to break open the coffin.
There is almost an incredibly powerful NPC, ally or enemy somewhere in my games known as the Holy Diver.
He would BE the campaign.
Gear List:
-Vorpal flamberge rapier (always goes straight through the heart)
-Leather pants of abdominal thrusting (+1 to hit high notes)
-Slashed silk leg warmers
-Vest
-Chest
-Giant police badge
>>44713166
Next to David Bowie.
3rd Level Lich Bard. +2 Perform (Singing). Usurps and replaces 14 Level Human Bard in the party of traveling Bards of Doom, troupe. They never achieve quite the greatness that they did before the human bard was replaced.
>>44715390
Give one of your players a vision in which Dio appears in order to tells them to embark on a grand journeyTO FIND THE LAND OF HOLLYWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-OO-OOOOOD.
>>44713166
I'd make him a particularly eccentric and charismatic (and wild-looking) Imperial Cleric.
>>44713166
>Implying Ronnie James Dio isn't the BBEG of my campaign
>>44713252
I'm using this for my next campaign.
>>44713166
>>44725661
>Boring Power-Rangers MOTW-sending Ghost-Pokemon version of Dio
>Not genuinely-original-take-on-vampires and a genuine potagonist-killigly vicious, perfectly evil parallel to a perfectly virtuous protagonist Dio Brando
When it's time to reward the bard, there is a skeleton with a prominent bald spot in the dungeon, clutching a magic guitar.
I run a Fate/ game.
He is already the final boss of the entire fucking setting.