D20x5 Calibans, Igors, Renfields, & Other Wretched Servants

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D20	This Wretched Servant Serves...
1	A sociopathically greedy business mogul.
2	A lich reduces by its enemies to a crawling, mummified hand.
3	A megalomaniacal troglodyte who uncovered ancient entombed technology.
4	The spoiled half-human child of a fairy-prince.
5	A crazed paladin who has cybernetically modified themself into a model of the world that their faith demands should be.
6	A hellspawned cambion who has embraced their vicious blood.
7	A doddering old wizard whose evil is now as much the result of senility as malice.
8	A bandit-chief with pretensions to warlordism.
9	A hyperintelligent ectoparasite that desires to make all humanity its cattle.
10	A semi-divine whale who has grown to loathe the works of landlubbers.
11	The ultraterrestrial harbinger of an invasion from the acid-soaked realm of the machine elves.
12	A clanking sapient automaton whose heart is a doomsday clock that ticks ever closer to the end of days.
13	A vizier with ambitions to take the throne for themself.
14	A criminal mastermind with fingers in every rotten pie.
15	A pirate-lord who’s sailed stranger seas than the seven known.
16	A prideful priest whose veneer of virtue hides sickening hobbies.
17	An alien organism they’re nurturing back to full, titanic might after its mutually mangling impact with the world.
18	A heretical conspiracy set to overthrow the current order.
19	A fraying tyrant with ever-teetering delusions of towering grandeur.
20	The matriarch of a clan of inbred assassins with weaponized mutations.

D20	This Wretched Servant’s Behaviour...
1	Is tailored to their audience to best misdirect and manipulate.
2	Is generally cringing obeisance.
3	Is chortling, callous joie-de-vivre.
4	Can be summed up in cycles of excess and apathy.
5	Is hammy, scenery-chewing, a self-conscious performance.
6	Is always testing and abrasive.
7	Is fatalistically depressive.
8	Is blandly bureaucratic.
9	Is compulsively self-doubting.
10	Is a deceptive, self-serving tangle of lies.
11	Is vegetatively slothful when they’re not performing their duties.
12	Is talentlessly poetic.
13	Is unwaveringly, untiringly loyal.
14	Is contemplative yet impulsive.
15	Is glory-seeking and self-destructive.
16	Is amorously awful.
17	Is simmering aggression that’s always rising to boiled-over fury.
18	Is wry amusement with everything around them, masking a prickly, fragile ego.
19	Is hyperactive hyperfocus on each new topic raised to their attention.
20	Is a sculpted facade of virtue and honour.

D20	This Wretched Servant’s Deformity Is...
1	Toes on their hands and fingers on their feet.
2	Upside-down ears that leak earwax constantly.
3	The left half of their body is half-again as large as the right.
4	Slit pupils like a lizard’s.
5	Purple skin like a full-body bruise.
6	A single scaly horn growing out the side of their head.
7	Uncannily perfect beauty.
8	The doll-like stillness of their face.
9	Veins that wriggle like worms beneath their skin.
10	A wrinkled throat that bulges like a frog’s when they inhale.
11	Hairy palms.
12	Serrated, wedge-shaped teeth.
13	A smattering of benign teratomas.
14	An elongated spine that’s folded like an accordion.
15	Hair that grows in porcupine-spines.
16	A mouth that opens much too wide.
17	A fleshy, prehensile tail.
18	Copious acne that sprouts in symbolic patterns.
19	A nose that’s just two flat holes.
20	A neck, arms, and legs that are twice as long as normal.

D20	This Wretched Servant’s Madness Is...
1	That they are the true master and their master is really their servant.
2	That If they consume the shed skin, hair, nail trimmings, etc., of their master, they’ll take on some of their master’s power.
3	That they are immortal so long as their master lives.
4	A boundless belief in the fundamental goodness of everyone else.
5	Clinical lycanthropy they lapse into when frightened or surprised.
6	That their master is the only one they can trust and everyone else is a spy or saboteur.
7	That their master is watching everything they do.
8	That their master is a god and they must invent rites and taboos to avert their master’s wrath.
9	That the world is ending tomorrow (always tomorrow, never today) and that everyone should act like it.
10	That avoiding all sexual behaviours and displays will allow them to accumulate vital essence.
11	That everyone secretly serves their master, and any obstacles are only competition for their master’s favour.
12	That they are a demonic entity summoned by their master as a familiar.
13	That eating pieces of art will make them more beautiful.
14	That you can know everything there is to know about a person from their handshake.
15	That all actions are permissible if you are polite while doing them.
16	That the existence of the supernatural is a baseless superstition.
17	That time is exactly cyclical and that they remember every event that has or will ever happen.
18	That love and compassion burn them like acid.
19	That they’re your (and everyone else’s) long-lost twin, forsaken for their dreadful superiority.
20	That children are treacherous and seek to replace adults through secret violence.

D20	This Wretched Servant Mostly Serves By...
1	Preparing and administering horrific poisons.
2	Offering pathetic and profuse praise.
3	Acting as their master’s messenger and herald.
4	Kidnapping their master’s enemies’ loved ones.
5	Collecting tribute, by force if necessary.
6	Performing fell magic too dangerous for their master to risk.
7	Constructing and operating cruelly ingenious machines.
8	Rousing mobs and misdirecting vexations.
9	Spreading lies and conspiracies.
10	Immortalizing their master’s deeds in song.
11	Luring the credible to their doom.
12	Liasioning with other malicious types.
13	Leading squads of other minions.
14	Handling beasts and acquiring more and more dangerous sorts.
15	Sagely advising on many fields of expertise.
16	Organizing improbable heists.
17	Acting as a bodyguard.
18	Providing a legitimate front to underhanded enterprises.
19	Enacting gruesome assassinations.
20	Designing their master’s hideouts and lairs.