Do you use contemporary IRL organizations and people as inspirations for your villains?
Mostly cults
>>93440000>can be anything>choose to be a pussy
>>93440000Somehow, there's always some kind of unaccountable CIA/FBA-type organization in the games I run and the players often end up in a situation where they have to fight them.
>>93440017Do they ever end up working with them?
There is a Nativist gang in my setting based off the Bowery Boys of NY and Billy Boys of Glasgow. Whether they are good or bad is up to interpretation.
>>93440017Real life CIA is too fantastic to be used on a game. Is jsut not believable
>>93440010... jelly?
>>93440000Not necessarily as a villain but anything with a modern or scifi setting I run will have Albert Stubblebine and Jim Channon show up at some point.
>>93440000One of my villain factions is an Ivy League University that is totally not based on Harvard. They dabble in satanic witchcraft & use their own students as mercenaries, cannon fodder & human sacrifices, paying them in grades. The students go along with it, as they value their academic performance & accolades over their own lives & the lives of others. The faculty, students & even the parents are all cartoonishly evil. When learning that their child has been killed in battle by Team Good Guy, the parents' first reaction is anger as their son or daughter's death could possibly negatively affect their GPA.
>>93440000Not exactly contemporary, but one of the villains in a recent call of Cthulhu game was the resurrected corpse of Vladimir Lenin
