Roy Batty from Blade Runner. Hannibal Lecter. Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now. Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men. You can’t handle the truth! I’m having an old friend for dinner! Greed is good! Nobody panics when things go according to plan!
This is it! The villain’s denouement!
But the players don’t want to hear it. They just want to shoot the bad guy in the head.
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I didn’t QUITE have this problem. I had a “not great, but workable” talk by the villain.
My newbie player didn’t interrupt it. He joined her instead.
Luckily, he was playing on his own that day, and afterwards I explained a) that his character was now an NPC, and b) under normal circumstances, PCs are expected to be at least neutral. I think he’s got it now, but we’ll see next session.