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Amazing_Triangle 02-18-08, 10:31 PM	Alright this is what I am thinking of. Big Event: Ogre army led by "new threat" is marching towards major town and PC's town is in the way. Small Events: 1) Goblins and Kobolds are leaving the surrounding areas and trying to find a new home and new food supplies. 2) In the Sewers of the City experiments and drug manufacturing to weaken city. 3) Gangs are being manipulated to fight each other and battle for control of the city. 4) Bandits on the road ways breaking shipments up and stealing cargo Details: 1) Sorcerers and Clerics of Evil deity always summon demons and demonic variant. 2) Thugs are blood thirsty killing constantly I really just need ideas on how you would do any of these things. I would love any feedback on this. Thank you in advance.
Etarnon 02-19-08, 01:10 AM	These all sound good, haveat it, and just do them in a series of encounters or disbursed as background info.
Orchomenos 02-19-08, 10:03 AM	Check this thread (http://www.dndarchive.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=1241), and scroll down to the Bloody Eye. This might help. :P You could have an hag covent allied to the ogres. One of the hags, disguised as normal woman, needs is helped by the PCs, and to thanks them, give them her brooch. But this brooch is the covent's Hag Eye. So the ennemies would know everything the PCs know (up to what the Hags are willing to tell the BBEG - they could have some secret agenda). Have the foes attack towns after towns, wherever the PCs pass, and using secret info only the PCs know.
Amazing_Triangle 02-20-08, 07:05 AM	Check this thread (http://www.dndarchive.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=1241), and scroll down to the Bloody Eye. This might help. :P You could have an hag convent allied to the ogres. One of the hags, disguised as normal woman, needs is helped by the PCs, and to thanks them, give them her brooch. But this brooch is the convent's Hag Eye. So the enemies would know everything the PCs know (up to what the Hags are willing to tell the BBEG - they could have some secret agenda). Have the foes attack towns after towns, wherever the PCs pass, and using secret info only the PCs know. Love both things I have already stolen them and will be using them. Anyone have any more ideas as to details about any of these things.
Orchomenos 02-21-08, 01:34 PM	Hey, I watched Underworld: Evolution yesterday, and it reminds me about your idea. The movie begins in Middle Age, with a bunch of vampires tracking down the first werewolf. They happen in a devasted village, and they burn every corpse to avoid it becoming a werewolf, and pillaging every house because everyone is already dead. So I thought: what if someone partly witnessed this bunch of riders, travelling only by night, and burning everything in the village before leaving? So in your setting, what if the Ogres, while still not really sympathetic, were not the true bad guys but actually hunting down some lycanthrope/ghoulish monster? Perhaps a CE Troll Were-Megaraptor, very hard to kill. Humans bitten by him would become were-Deinonychus, and to avoid that, the ogres burn any remaining corpse...
Amazing_Triangle 02-21-08, 07:42 PM	So in your setting, what if the Ogres, while still not really sympathetic, were not the true bad guys but actually hunting down some lycanthrope/ghoulish monster? Perhaps a CE Troll Were-Megaraptor, very hard to kill. Humans bitten by him would become were-Deinonychus, and to avoid that, the ogres burn any remaining corpse... Maybe like this the army is trying to stop a threat as you said above "CE Troll Were-Megaraptor" where they would become "were-Deinonychus" and like in Blade 3 they become much stronger in the high-bred form that it is dangerous. and the Ogres are on a "holy" mission to find these beings.