{"id":346,"date":"2012-12-12T00:34:29","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T00:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/random-bad-guy-obsessions\/"},"modified":"2023-02-27T00:44:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T00:44:11","slug":"random-bad-guy-obsessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/random-bad-guy-obsessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Bad Guy Obsessions"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a school of thought in certain books, comics, movies, and RPGs that giving a character one random obsession makes them well-rounded. While this is not remotely true, it’s at least a step in the right direction, and can sometimes even lead to something approaching three-dimensionality. Here’s \u00a0a random table to get you started on designing villains that don’t suck quite so much. <\/p>\n

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  1. One of the PCs<\/li>\n
  2. An animal (Mr. Fluffy)<\/li>\n
  3. A religion (Christianity)<\/li>\n
  4. A culture(Irish Heritage)<\/li>\n
  5. A famous person (Cher)<\/li>\n
  6. A historical person (Alexander the Great)<\/li>\n
  7. A craft (woodworking)<\/li>\n
  8. A hobby (gardening)<\/li>\n
  9. Proper etiquette<\/li>\n
  10. Personal hygeine<\/li>\n
  11. Works of art (Van Gogh)<\/li>\n
  12. A type of food (pizza)<\/li>\n
  13. Puzzles or riddles (jigsaw puzzles)<\/li>\n
  14. A sport (soccer)<\/li>\n
  15. Fringe technology (trying to build a weather control machine)<\/li>\n
  16. A fringe belief (UFOs are real)<\/li>\n
  17. A mythological creature (dragons)<\/li>\n
  18. A philosophy or belief system (Objectivism)<\/li>\n
  19. An ancient society (Sparta)<\/li>\n
  20. A conspiracy theory (911 was an inside job)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    There’s a school of thought in certain books, comics, movies, and RPGs that giving a character one random obsession makes them well-rounded. While this is not remotely true, it’s at least a step in the right direction, and can sometimes even lead to something approaching three-dimensionality. Here’s \u00a0a random table to get you started on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1996],"tags":[80,886,1268,1455,1761,2481,2539,2540,2541,2542,2543],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dumb-tables","tag-villains","tag-dumb-tables","tag-conspiracy-theory","tag-dragons","tag-npcs","tag-ufos","tag-mr-fluffy","tag-cher","tag-alexander-the-great","tag-van-gogh","tag-sparta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3035,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/3035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deathcookie.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}