"In D&D, it’s not a kill-your-darlings type situation, because they’re someone else’s darlings."

"I think, ‘Oh, they’ve got no way of taking these guys on’, and then the party does something I don’t anticipate and crush it."

"He did have a very good BAB. If only he hadn’t spent most of that fight blind and not hitting anyone."

"Then we got to fight her so she stopped being so distant, literally and metaphorically."

"But she was a really good dancer so the jury's still out as to whether she was a villain or not."

"Players can learn from their mistakes rather than being instantly killed by them."

"It was hours and hours of work and my beautiful villain with perfect hair ended up a bloody mess."