pukunui
Legend
Some good points all. Thank you for taking the time to give me lots of ideas and things to consider.
This is a good point. The leader of this rival party is someone the PCs have met and worked with briefly before, and he's really the only one "important" enough for me to want to keep alive. He could indeed have a rotating crew of underlings the PCs have to wipe out every so often.As with many things, Order of the Stick presents a very realistic take on the rival party in that OotS's rival party the Linear Guild really is only Nale with a rotating cast of disposable and replaceable generic rivals so that the GM would really only have to keep Nale alive and not the entire opposing party. This would be much more doable than a full party of reoccurring characters.