{"id":1781,"date":"2026-06-01T02:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2026-06-01T05:59:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:59:28","slug":"villains-by-necessity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/?p=1781","title":{"rendered":"Villains by Necessity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A number of years ago &#8211; musta been while I was in college, to judge by the publication date &#8211; I happened to read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/eve-l-forward\/villains-by-necessity\/\">Eve Forward&#8217;s <em>Villains by Necessity<\/em><\/a>.  Someday, I&#8217;ll track down a copy that isn&#8217;t going for $40+ for a mass-market paperback&#8230; but today does not seem to be that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve always wanted to run a fantasy campaign with the novel&#8217;s basic premise. Good won the war against Evil &#8211; a little too completely. The world is now tilting toward a pole of absolute Goodness. If not stopped, the entire morally-imbalanced universe will implode in a flash of floral-scented bunny sunshine. The PCs are the last unredeemed villains. They must save the world by releasing Evil from its prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It would probably degenerate into degeneracy within a half-dozen sessions, but there you are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of years ago &#8211; musta been while I was in college, to judge by the publication date &#8211; I happened to read Eve Forward&#8217;s Villains by Necessity. Someday, I&#8217;ll track down a copy that isn&#8217;t going for $40+ for a mass-market paperback&#8230; but today does not seem to be that day. I&#8217;ve always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[43,46],"class_list":["post-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-setting","tag-campaign-concepts","tag-generic-fantasy-rpgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1906,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions\/1906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libellus.de-fenestra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}