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FurAndStone
Since: Jan, 2015
19th Aug, 2020 06:44:59 AM
We have Quest Giver for the good version, and Treacherous Quest Giver for the secretly evil version.
MetaFour
MOD
(Old Master)
I've seen this specific scenario (and the "actually evil" followup) a few times so I'm wondering if it's a trope.
The cliché D&D game starts with the adventurers meeting in an inn, where an old man gives them the starting quest (e.g. "kill the goblins in the cave").
The common subversion is that the old man much later turns out to be the Big Bad in disguise (usually an Evil Sorcerer).
Seen in Overlord 2012 (in an In-Universe RPG run by Ainz, by complete accident), the Flash game Dangerous Adventure 2, the Warcraft 3 fanwork Dark Times...
Edited by Chabal2