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Greetings, fellow couch surfers! We’ve got a fun scatter scene for you today as our players are getting closer to meeting their next big villain. Let’s see what evil is lurking around the corner!

We’ve had a few notable villains in our long-standing DnD campaign so far, including: The Six (rival franchise), Merv the Swerve (vengeful bandit), the Night Hag (on the run), Deke Rivers (traitorous party Bard), and now Lord Galobax DuGalle (the Crosstown Cutter)! DM Ben loves having lots of ongoing adversaries in his games so that the party is always guessing who might be screwing them over next.

Today’s TTRPG post is all about Lord Galobax DuGalle. He’s an extremely wealthy businessman who runs a thriving importer-exporter business. Unbeknownst to everyone in Waterdeep, he’s the wackjob responsible for all the brutal city murders where victims’ feet are literally sawed off and taken as a sacrifice to his god. Really creepy stuff that has the entire city on edge.

The players have no idea they’re about to meet this serial murderer on his home turf and instead are simply showing up at DuGalle’s fancy estate to deliver his rescued niece, Delliah, who was rescued from the Night Hag (along with Shamus and Adrik) by our adventurers. The snooty butler will answer the door and ultimately let the ruffians enter, but no farther than the parlor room.

With our party finally back in Waterdeep, the players are cashing in on all their recently completed quests, and returning all these spooked kiddos to their families is high on the list. DM Ben wants to really impress upon the group just what a bigwig ol’ Lord Galobax is in the community. As we’ve shared in previous posts, he likes to set an immersive scene for new NPCs, and that’s just what we’re going to focus on today. All you need are a few memorable scatter terrain items.

We’ll start with a few posh pieces by Cast n Play! This couch and sofa are from their fun Pirate’s Ship Set (of all places). Again, you don’t have to go crazy setting up a dialogue-heavy encounter. Just make it memorable so the group remembers how rich a snob this guy is.

Resident painter Kimmy Utah colored the room fantastic here with these excellent deep reds and golds. Perfect right?! This is exactly the furniture vibe we want to convey from someone who has more money than he knows what to do with! Just remember no salsa on the leather!

Next up, we’ve got this rad lion’s rug by STL Miniatures. This former king of the forest is from their wicked Fantasy NPCs 2 Trophy Hunter Set! Again, DM Ben is setting a little bit of an intimidating tone here – very similiar to Dudley Moore’s intimidating Father-in-law in the movie Arthur.

Kimmy Utah took care of the paint palette on our flattened friend here, and we just love it! She does such an amazing job blending colors together. We’ve had this particular 3D print in our display cases for a while, so it’s nice to finally get it into our DnD game!

DM Ben grabbed a couple of simple wood floor tiles to rest everything on, and just like that, we’ve got ourselves a fancy parlor scene! Now, the furniture or rug on their own don’t do much, but when combined with a cool mini (sorry, that’s not Lord Galobax DuGalle but we wanted to show scale here), you have framed the vibe perfectly. Now it feels like the players are in a rich man’s mansion, about to interact with high society! Let the new villain shenanigans begin.

Until next time!