I added a death knight to my campaign as an enforcer who doesn't speak. Went multiple sessions with the DK being badass with rolls and slaying NPCs, just to have a player point out I pretty much just added Darth Vader into the campaign 😂
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One of the first ever campaigns I ran featured a hobgoblin Paladin of Asmodeus who started out as a side antagonist. He initially appeared hunting demons in the same city as the PCs were operating in, not openly hostile at first, but they were still wisely wary of him at first. He was initially going to appear as a major encounter later, but sadly, the campaign had to end when most of my players graduated college and went back to their home states. Online play wasn't as prevalent/easy at the time as it is now, unfortunately.
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Was planning to use one as a main villain. Accidentally reawakened by the party the former crusader / paladin returns from death to fulfill his crudade with his army (armors animated by the souls of his fallen) to complete what he failed at as a human... conquest. Now the party has to stop them as they accidentally unleashed this crusader foghting for a long forgotten purpose upon a world that has known peace for a long time. Strategy, planning, diplomacy etc can all be used. And if one wants to prevent them from changing sides to the crusader of running off one simply has to out their home villages in the potential path of destruction the crusade would / will bring, so to protect their homes they now have to fight. Ways to solve this: 1) kill the crusader 2) put him to rest 3) other creative means, whatever you wanna do. His devotion is unshakable, persuasion just to stop won't work, he's a fanatic. Sounds like a fun idea to run at least. Especially when you give the death knight paladin abilities (but all damage types become necrotic etc...).
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I recall dragon fable having a death knight player class. I wanted to play one in table top for ages
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I think an Oath of Vengeance Paladin who decided to take Vengeance on their chosen God or Diety after a tragedy could be fantastic storytelling and a great friend turned foe for a party to deal with
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Time to implement this for my ongoing game! I'll give him a fitting name.
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Funny how the forever DM almost always plays paladin or cleric as their main. I've found war priest to be a good mix of both, and for some reason it occurs to me just now that I haven't run a death knight villain since the late 90s. I think I will next campaign.
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I have to keep this in mind considering I'm playing a necromancer character in one of my new campaigns
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Our party in a Rappan Athuk campaign was attacked constantly by a death knight who was a former NPC party member that died and was buried in the woods early on in the game. It was such a relief when we finally defeated him and brought him back to our side with a resurrection
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Here’s how I’d play it 1) Make Paladin NPC with a happy family who the party uses to collect information/gain resources. 2) Have the Paladin go missing on one of his missions, if the players check his family is missing too. 3) Have the paladin reappear, now oathbreaker paladin. Have him apologize before attacking the party but he noticeably holds back. 4) Dying breath begs the party to save his family who the BBEG is holding hostage. 5) At final confrontation, BBEG pulls out the Death Knight who either wants to fight the party for abandoning his family, or is an unwilling puppet who begs the party to destroy him.
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I actually set up a Chekov's gun Death Knight in my campaign! They were the Creator of the big bad evil guy they currently run against, and if they wanna continue the campaign after - Boom! Some scheme thousands of years in the making resurrects the creator as a Death Knight! If not - NEXT CAMPAIGN BBEG!
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Don’t forget to give your death knights magic items too makes them a lot more intimidating.
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It's funny you say that. I just watched Archlich's video on "How to run a Death Knight like a chad."
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then you do a sci-fi setting and bring in his clone to fight the party. after that, the clone comes back as a cyborg several times with fewer living parts finally an ai metal cooler style.
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I want to create a death knight character to play in a game that is like those ones from Warcraft that rebelled against the Lich King
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There was a twist that my DM and I cooked up togethe. Where during the finale of the first campaign I was in where my character was security the BBEG's Death Knight and had to fight my party
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I saw they added death knights and a death knight armor in baldurs gate. Drake should do a playthrough as one
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Den of the Drake
Death Knights are seriously underrated and should be present in more D&D games 💀⚔️🛡
Sincerely,
A Paladin main who is stuck as the forever DM
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