stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com I was going to do this to my table. We only have 2 PCs currently (my wife and stepson), so I gave them a GMPC guide who was supposed to be the BBEG in disguise.

But they came to love the GMPC, and I can’t do that to them, so now he’s just their pet human.

This happened in my game. I spoke with the player about having his character swapped with another version of him from an alternate universe, and he was down for it. Then it happened in game. None of the players realized it. This went on for years (literal real time years) before he betrayed them. It was delicious.

Got betrayed in a Forgotten Realms game by a guy who’d been playing his own doppleganger for nearly two months.

He scorching ray’d me in the back, then yelled at me for missing all the obvious clues. It hurt twice.

Having the traitor in the party, has a binary result, it’es either one of the best campaign you’ll play, or a horror story, no middle ground

This is sort of the case with my game. After 4 years, I just revealed to the party that the ‘big bad’ villain is actually my childhood friend and that she may not be as much of a threat as she’s letting on. I don’t actually know who the real villain is.

Ah man did this just spoil The Good Place for me?

You’re fine, this image and my own comment aren’t spoilers, 'tis but a silly little meme. The show is great and I hope you’ll enjoy it!

iamthetot@sh.itjust.works No. But you should binge season 1 ASAP before people start telling you why it doesn’t.

Nah, just a workable screenshot

I remember a one-shot that had a twist like that - followed by the twist of the recently disarmed fighter removing his armored gauntlets, pointing at the traitor, and casting the system’s equivalent of Magic Missile. As he pulled his magic sheet out of his pocket he explained that he’d just been a misleadingly strong and well-armored wizard all along but hadn’t told anyone but the GM.

That was a fun little moment.

That’s probably where I’d plan for a later twist where the GMPC was actually the BBEG at one point but got replaced by the current, more ruthless BBEG. There’d be a whole succession of people of varying evilness sharing the same name and title. Kind of like a Dread Pirate Roberts situation.

You havent even watched it yet? What the fork, ash-hole?

I’ve seen season 1, but it was a long time ago.

No. Are you watching it? One of my favorite series of all time.

Time for a rewatch!

No they both just have sinister laughing face. This is actually in response to a clown doing a hijink

Yes, but what about elevensieth times?

It’s certainly one way to get the table to listen to you when you tell them for the last goddamn time, you’re not DMing the next campaign…

… Because it’s you, isn’t it.