Susano Posted March 1, 2010 Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 Re: Female Master Villains Well' date=' D&D has two prominent ones--Tiamat and Lolth.[/quote'] Don't they also have someone called "The Lady of Pain"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaplayboy Posted March 1, 2010 Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 Re: Female Master Villains Don't they also have someone called "The Lady of Pain"? that was the mysterious power behind Sigil, the city at the center of Planescape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted March 1, 2010 Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 Re: Female Master Villains Loviatar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest steamteck Posted March 1, 2010 Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 Re: Female Master Villains Don't they also have someone called "The Lady of Pain"? THat's the evil goddess Loviatar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted March 1, 2010 Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 Re: Female Master Villains On a personal level, playing fantasy, whether D&D, DragonQuest, whatever, the gods are never villains. They may be motivators and influences, by they are by no means villains. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted March 1, 2010 Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 Re: Female Master Villains THat's the evil goddess Loviatar Which, in D&D terms, are actually two different deities (Planescape's Lady of Pain & Loviatar). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest steamteck Posted March 1, 2010 Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 Re: Female Master Villains Which' date=' in D&D terms, are actually two different deities (Planescape's Lady of Pain & Loviatar).[/quote'] OK, back in the day AD&D. Loviatar WAS the maiden of pain. I never checked out Planetscape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted March 1, 2010 Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 Re: Female Master Villains So... Mentalla was behind the 8-Ball? You are not the first to make said comment... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karmakaze Posted March 1, 2010 Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 Re: Female Master Villains By the by, if what you're looking for is master villains to use in a campaign, I could probably write a couple up for you... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted March 1, 2010 Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 Re: Female Master Villains I'm beginning to think that for the last word in feminine evil you need to check out Walt Disney's villainesses-- http://www.disneyvillains.net/ I would also include the Future Shego from Kim Possible: A Stitch In Time to that list as well. Of course there are male villains, and their numbers grow with every new movie (I'm surprised Sid Phillips from Toy Story and Syndrome aren't included, if we're counting Pixar movies as Disney) but if you're looking for characters to--ahem--borrow from to create supervillainesses, then this would seem to be the place to find them. Hope that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulcan Posted March 1, 2010 Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 Re: Female Master Villains Loviatar predates D&D by a good long way. She's an old Finnish goddess, as I recall, the Maiden of Pain. The Lady of Pain is somewhat different. She runs Sigil, the city at the center of the D&D multiverse with gateways to literally everywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted March 1, 2010 Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 Re: Female Master Villains Loviatar predates D&D by a good long way. She's an old Finnish goddess, as I recall, the Maiden of Pain. The Lady of Pain is somewhat different. She runs Sigil, the city at the center of the D&D multiverse with gateways to literally everywhere. Yeah, I remember Loviatar having a write-up in the ol' Legends & Lore book back in the day under "Finnish Mythos" before she somehow got adapted into the Forgotten Realms pantheon. And I do admit some confusion about her and The Lady when I dabbled in Planescape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted March 1, 2010 Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 Re: Female Master Villains Gee' date=' how do supervillainesses differ from normal women then? [/quote'] Between about 300 to 500 total points. Lucius Alexander Palindromedary Enterprises Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrine Posted March 1, 2010 Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 Re: Female Master Villains I've always held the opinion that feminist supervillains wear the costumes they do to elicit stereotypical behavior from males they meet. It's a power-trip thing "See this fabulous body? You can't touch it. Now I'll punish you for wanting to." I wouldn't limit that opinion to fictional females, myself... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrine Posted March 1, 2010 Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 Re: Female Master Villains Liberated women aren't ashamed of tbeir bodies. Even though some of them should be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadborder Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 Re: Female Master Villains The on-going metaplot myself and friends were working on in Champions Online featured a female master villain; Corproate Buyout, she was a cyborg demon CEO who commanded armies of battle droids, black magic mafosi and super-powered Lawyers in her bid for world domination. Good times. Pty about the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DusterBoy Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 Re: Female Master Villains With them super-powered Lawyers, did she need the black magic mafiosi? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSgt Baloo Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 Re: Female Master Villains I wouldn't limit that opinion to fictional females' date=' myself...[/quote'] Where do you think I found the inspiration? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadborder Posted March 3, 2010 Report Share Posted March 3, 2010 Re: Female Master Villains With them super-powered Lawyers' date=' did she need the black magic mafiosi? [/quote'] The black magic Malfosi were her thugs. The Lawyers were there to provide legal support. They were designated as "(something) Lawyer"; exmaples included Ninja Lawyer, Sharkman Lawyer, Skeleton Lawyer, HAL 9000 Lawyer, Zombie Lawyer and so forth. Hey, when one of the PCs is a lawyer in secret ID who specialises in superhero cases, it leads to all sorts of whackiness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DusterBoy Posted March 4, 2010 Report Share Posted March 4, 2010 Re: Female Master Villains She'll need Daredevil Lawyer then. . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuclear Fridge Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Re: Female Master Villains My (on hold) campaign features Madam Steel, adapted from an old Rifter concepts. Basically a master tech thief with a huge base; she's a living brain in a cybernetic body... or bodies. She can switch from one custom frame to another, in the same fashion as the Borg Queen.[/b][/b] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Re: Female Master Villains My (on hold) campaign features Madam Steel' date=' adapted from an old Rifter concepts. Basically a master tech thief with a huge base; she's a living brain in a cybernetic body... or [b']bodies[/b]. She can switch from one custom frame to another, in the same fashion as the Borg Queen.[/b][/b] In Ghost in the Shell II, Motoko Kusanagi does that one better... she lives in the 'net and runs multiple bodies at once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaplayboy Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Re: Female Master Villains I had a particularly nasty female master villain named Nexus--she had a supreme mastery of teleportation, able to port through shielded areas and, as her nastiest attacks, to either port solid objects into people, or vice versa(combo killing attack/entangle, IIRC, plus enough TP UAA to reach the nearest solid surface). She wore power armor for protection and ambulation, being a paraplegic outside of it. Stealing things, running a crime syndicate, and breaking villains out of prison for fun and profit were her general modus operandi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Holck Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Re: Female Master Villains The Nagasaki Dragon is a nuclear holocaust survivor from Japan. Her skin has burned to scales. She is immune to poison and radiation and carries nerve gas canisters on her belt. She is an old martial arts master specializing in mental combat and runs an intelligence gathering team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobGreenwade Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Re: Female Master Villains In my own world, the only female master villain is a large-headed mentalist whom I originally named Brain. After a certain cartoon rodent became famous under that name, I changed hers to Mistress Mind. She was the founder and leader of a villain group called the Sinister Seven, but I always left clues that she was gearing up to create something larger. Also, while I've never really thought about it before now, Doctor Olfactus would make an interesting master villainess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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