Hall of Infamy

Here's the biggest thorns in the collective sides of my players, other than themselves of course. (With one exception...)

1. Johnny Weedgrower the Brave
   The most HATED of them all! More later on this.
2. Daniel Ironwolf
   Grouchy personality, and almost definitely responsible for the death of Blueberry Mann's baby sister. (Almost.) Spent a lot of time beating up on the player characters, in Karameikos, Darokin, Rockhome, the Broken Lands, you name it. `Course they killed him the last time out, so they'll probably NEVER see him again...
3. Render
   Daniel Ironwolf's intelligent dwarf-hating sword. It has several special properties, and has made life more than miserable for the PC's several times.
4. The Master
   Fanatical cleric from Hule. His armies invaded the homeland of the player characters twice, from which it never recovered. Oh yes, their parents died too. Big deal, they were only a couple of NPC's... And this guy is supposed to be dead too.
5. Felspel
   Powerful magic-user who has defeated the player characters EVERY TIME they go after him. They wind up stripped naked, or cast into another dimension, or turned into monsters and banished into the Broken Lands, or a combination of the above. The kicker? They STILL go chasing after him!!!
6. 12' Troll
   They can't seem to kill this guy. If the adventure has a troll in it, he's there. Gotta love regenerating monsters.
7. Biff
   If Buff Bagwell the pro-wrestler was in D&D, he'd be Biff. How evil is this man? Carrie's fighter won't even touch him.
8. The Water Police
   Mysteriously appear whenever cheapskate players decide to get free water, instead of buying a drink like proper adventurers. Wearing black leather armor and silver badges, they overbear the stingy person and toss him in the local horse watering trough. That'll learn `em.
9. Nowl
   Lead the guards of Hann. Kept the town quiet, but this involved rather draconian measures. Many PC's were fined or imprisoned until they coughed up the money or magic items to buy freedom. Currently wandering, since Hann was liberated by The Tin Tyrant, and promptly taken over by evil clerics.
10. Sam
    Powerful fighter, master of the pitchfork who is on a vendetta to kill female clerics, or anyone who might fit that profile close enough. Seems a PC stomped all over his little heart. *sniff* Don't blame him, he's a victim...
11. `The Magic-User'
    First adventure the PCs ever went on, and they never even got his name...
12. The Bodyguard
    Ex-fanatical guardian of the legendary King of Hann, eventually mistreated enough to form an active dislike, and then outright hatred.
13. The Time Being
    Annoying pixie-like being from beyond time and space. Appears whenever someone leaves something here `for the Time Being'. He shows up and steals it. (Yes, this is the same guy from the Xanth book.)
14. Secretary of the Mage's Guild
    Low level apprentice who sits at the front desk and insults non-Guild members. Completely refuses to allow anyone to see other guild members, or to pass on messages. He gets away with this because he is a guild member, and attacking him brings on their wrath. How do you join the guild? Well, he claims you need to bring in a powerful, unique magic item for the guild. `And don't bother with any stupid staff of the magi. We already have dozens sitting in a closet. Too bad you'll never get to see them, because you're not a guild member...'
15. Vanessa
    The only PC listed here, she's been acting really `funny' ever since she found that rod of undead rulership that the Wraith Lord used to own... By funny I mean she keeps magic missiling, lightning bolting, and abandoning other PCs. They're getting pretty agravated at her.
16. Rahann Wolfshead
    Goblin chieftain who had captured the entire party once, and still wears the custom made silver sword he took from that encounter. To make things worse, the PC's were all forced to work FOR him when they were all changed into humanoids by Felspel...
17. Hero
    Ex-henchman who accidently nearly wiped out the entire party in a berserker rage. Then killed another henchman trying to escape from the enraged (and healed) party.
18. Shadow Lord/Wraith Lord
    Actually, they don't really have a beef against this guy. He died after a struggle, but that's that. If only they knew what true horror he's re-released upon the world...
19. The Advisor
    Weasily, weak kobold able to push the humanoid PCs around because King Thar liked him.
20. Jack Krist
    Another ex-henchman who's come to blows with the PCs, all for having a wee bit of amusement when his employer was shrunk to about 3 inches tall. Hey, you'd do it to your boss too!
21. Kalna Kaa
    From the `Drums On Fire Mountain' module, Kalna Kaa was a devil swine magic-user who captured Vanessa to use as a concubine. Demonstrating team loyalty, the other PCs came back about 2 years later and rescued her. (No wonder she's bitter.)
22. Halfling Village Dude
    Escorted the PCs on an adventure once. EVERY time treasure was found, he'd say `I'll take this to donate to the halfling village.' And he proceeded to take all the treasure they found that entire adventure. Why did they let him? Because he'd have wiped the floor with them if they refused. It's no fun telling people you were beaten up by a halfling.
23. Moe, Larry, Curly
    Completely inept thieves who STILL managed to capture the entire party and take all their stuff, even when they lost every single fight they were ever in. (Including their last, where they were killed.)
24. Mart Remalkin
    EVERY PC who has ever gone to Greyhawk has been conned by this guy. ALL of them. Some were robbed too, but most gladly handed over their money. PCs hate finding out they were swindled. I recommend it.
25. Glantri
    Yes, the whole country. They require licenses for everything, and fine, imprison, or confiscate everything else. One PC spent several thousand gold pieces to buy a magic sword, only to have it immediately confiscated. (She had a rapier license, not a sword license...) Other PC's have had to buy weapon licenses for sacks on the odd chance they might try to use them for snipe hunting. Finally, there's an underground crystal ball telecast of a certain naked elf's graduation test from the Great School. She REALLY hates these guys. (I'm just wondering why she thought it would be a good idea to throw all her clothes at a grey ooze, but my players have never made the most sense...)
26. Fudge the Incessant
    Tax collector at Castle Greyhawk. Once they realized there was no beating this guy, relations got much better. (Especially after they found a secret way past him, the deadbeats.)
27. Alfhild
    Ex-apprentice who was killed by a botched teleport spell cast by a PC. Reincarnated as an elf, she met her demise AGAIN when she was turned into a vampire on a later adventure, siding with the vampire over the party. Blueberry paid her off rather than fighting her.

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Updated 25 JUL 99