#aleuthera

One 'enemy' in particular is a monster that I took from a book series I really loved as a teenager, though partially home-brewed to fit in with the story I am telling at the moment

I finally got to drop the actual name of the monster in-game in our session the other night, since the party had no idea what exactly they were looking for, and they'd been trying to find out for probably ten sessions. It was very much not a name any of them knew in-character, nor something they would find in a source book

And then one of the players immediately googled it and found the original media/wiki page that had some (not all) the details about the creature that I used as my base of inspiration

"how do coup's work"

"elements involved in a coup"

"how to run a coup dnd"

"coup plot dnd"

"convince players of coup dnd"

"how to stop a coup dnd"

"have dnd party stop coup"

And I hate leaving myself to come up with plot points and specific info on the fly while in the session because my impov doesn't work like that :/

Any DM tips for playing/creating an evil doppelganger type character of a PC?

The party was asked to meet a 'spymaster' of sorts, with only a couple clues to go on. They started in a bathhouse which had a secret entrance down into unused tunnels/storm drains/aqueducts beneath the city, past a crumbled section of tunnel that broke through into centuries old catacombs, and finally to their spymaster who was set up in a large, dried out step well

In order, my specific inspirations were: Dijkstra's bathhouse connected to the secret passages under Novigrad from the Witcher 3, the undercity sewers and their multiple dangers from Baldur's Gate 3, and the Thieves Guild base of operations in the old cistern beneath Riften in Skyrim

So. Group chat got sent this. Yay lol :D