1

Community has something the villain wants; total destruction might be overkill, but the villain doesn‘t want to (or can‘t, for some reason) get what he wants through a stealthier approach

2

Community has upset the villain’s deity by its actions

3

Community irritates the villain because it is aligned with goodness or law

4

Community irritates the villain because it is free and spreading concepts of liberty

5

Community irritates the villain because it is too happy and cheerful

6

Community is owned or ruled by the villain’s rival

7

Community is too close to the villain’s secret lair

8

Community is too close to the villain’s well-known lair

9

Community knows something about the villain’s past

10

Community knows something about the villain’s weakness or weak spot

11

Community offers economic competition to the villain’s own operations

12

Omens have told the villain to destroy the community

13

Revenge Roll on "Table 1-19: Reason for Seeking Vengeance/Revenge"

14

The community is harboring one of the villain’s enemies or rivals

15

Villain seeks to bring about the pre-requisites of a prophesy, and one pre-requisite seems to require the destruction of this community

16

Villain seeks to send a message to others about his power, or to turn this community into an example

17

Villain wants the bodies of the dead

18

Villain wants the location, and all inhabitants need to be gone

19

Villain’s racial hatreds

20

Villain’s religious hatreds