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Hoondatha
Great Reader
USA
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 Posted - 17 Jul 2006 : 06:19:17
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I've been struggling with an atypical group of adventurers for a number of years, now. It's been amazing fun, but also filled with challenges, and I'm kind of curious of other people have encountered something similar.
In brief, one of my players has a dwarf who's trying to resurrect Ammarindar. He's got forty thousand enthusiastic dwarves (and that's just the army), and he adventuring buddies have agreed to help. There are seven PC's, all levels 15-19.
Arrayed against them are several fortified cities filled with orcs or tanarukks, and several hundred miles worth of tunnels that are in desperate need of a monster hunt. Lots and lots of foes, but most of them are relatively low level.
Obviously, much of the campaign will be on the strategic level, manuevering armies, scouting, sieges, things like that. There's also a couple of iconic foes like Khanyr Vhok and I can throw in a dragon or two, but there's really a limit on the high-level monsters that plausibly can fit in the area.
Has anyone else dealt with situations like this? What did you do to make things interesting? (Of course, the fact that the party's mage is a chronomancer opens up a whole other bag of worms.)
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scererar
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 17 Jul 2006 : 06:56:26
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| just as you said, more in the stratigic mode, directing armies against foes. While your characters have dealt with these monster types before, your troops may have not. Use your expertise to counter and conquer the enemy. I think what you have so far sounds intriguing. Maybe have the troops fight off the main enemy forces, with traps and other difficult encounters involved, but withold that elite enemy force that blasts through the ranks with ease that only the PC's can muster the strength and power to fight them off. |
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