u/Potential_Boot7855

I was working on an idea that my players gave me of a BBEG leading an army that involves a war they take part in to fend off their forces. Issue is I realized, I have no damn clue what to actually make the BBEG

I considered a lich leading an undead army but I'm already running a campaign with a lich BBEG currently and want to avoid doing back to back villains that are too similar. I'm not entirely sure what would be a good idea for a villain like this and I'm not too sure where to even start looking to get new ideas

Does anyone have an idea for a monster or even a villain archetype that could work for something like this?

I'm not entirely sure what made me think of this question but I keep wondering what about things like crabs or lobsters would need to change. I don't entirely know enough about what features animals gained to survive the desert or what something like a lobster would need to lose/gain in order to survive

Sometimes my players share random ideas and one idea was that in a future campaign the BBEG led an army and a full siege against a city they had to defend, and I kind of want to play with this idea. But I feel like a lich is a bit too easy to settle on for this idea, and I feel like I'm struggling to think of other good BBEG options

I just bought an Arctis Nova 1 and the headset isn't appearing on Steelseries GG at all, nor is it appearing in my audio output options in Windows. For a bit I did have audio but it was distorted and was muting any voices. How can I fix this?

I have a modpack that until recently has had no issues whatsoever. Suddenly JEI stopped working correctly and only showed 4 pages when normally there's over 70 and I had to resort to uninstalling JEI and replacing it with REI, and that worked fine. But today I tried logging onto Minecraft, I load into a creative world just fine to test some stuff with Create, and then the second I click E to open my inventory the game crashes. I load back in and the exact same thing happens. How am I supposed to fix this?
I'm playing in Version 1.21.1 with NeoForge 21.1.227
Kind of update: While writing this I found out that for some reason it's happening only while in Creative??? I can open my inventory and everything just fine in Survival mode but Creative for some reason breaks it?

Mod List:
[Let's Do] Furniture
[Let's Do] HerbalBrews
[Let's Do] Meadow
[Let's Do] Vinery
[Let's Do] Wilder Nature
Alex's Caves (Unofficial Port)
Alex's Mobs (Unofficial Port)
Appleskin
Architectury API
bad packets
Balm
Better Library
Biolith
Bookshelf
Botany Pots
Botany Pots - Mystical Agriculture Compat
Botany Pots Tiers
Citadel
Citadel (Unofficial Port)
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
Configured
Create
Create Aeronautics
Create Confectionery
Create Crafts & Additions
Create Sifting
Create Slice & Dice
Create: Stuff N' Additions
Create: Better Create
Create: Better Villager
Create: Bits N' Bobs
Create: Blaze Burner Fuels
Create: Central Kitchens
Create: Copycats+
Create: Dragons Plus
Create: Enchantment Industry
Create: Integrated Farming
Create: Interiors
Create: New Beginnings
Create: Sophisticated Backpacks Compat
Create: Trading Floor
Create: Ultimate Factory
Cucumber Library
Curios API (Neo/Forge)
Delightful Creators
Explorer's Compass
Nature's Compass
FramedBlocks
GeckoLib
Immersive Furniture
Iron Chests
Kotlin for Forge
Macaw's Furniture
Mechanicals Lib
Moonlight Lib
Mouse Tweaks
Mystical Aggraditions
Mystical Agriculture
Mystical Agriculture Tiered Crystals
Nature's Compass
Prickle
Ribbits
Ritchie's Projectile Library
Roughly Enough Items
Sable
Sophisticated Backpacks
Sophisticated Backpacks Create Integration
Sophisticated Core
Supplementaries
Supplementaries Squared
Underground Villages, Stoneholm
Vista
Vista Aeronautics Fix
Waystones
WTHIT Forge Edition
Xaero's Minimap
Xaero's World Map
YUNG's API

I really don't know how to explain well. I have a bunch of mods mostly Create and addons, but Create items themselves don't seem to exist in my world when I logged in today and only items from one or two addons are showing. I can't even see normal vanilla Minecraft items aside from a slimeball. How can I fix this?