Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="arwink" data-source="post: 1096081" data-attributes="member: 2292">I know nothing about greyhawk, but one of the real joys of planar invasions is that the multiverse tends to be very equal in its approach - all worlds are fair game <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The traditional choices are demons, especially folks like Lloth, Graz'zt and Orcus, who make cool big-bads.A more interesting choice would be to leave aside the Evils altogether, and plan an invasion of chaotic types from Limbo - Slaad get no-where near the love they deserve.&nbsp; The advantage of this is that the slaad aren't likely to have centralised leadership, so even if the PC's kill one big-bad there's still the possibility of several others going about their own plans.&nbsp; Lawful creatures work for this as well - formian invasions are equally as frightening as demons, and are usually slightly easier for lower level parties to handle.One idea, if you really want to throw the Pc's a twist, is this: the second mage is planning the invasion.&nbsp; He originally started as a good wizard, but has secretly drifted towards evil due to the influence of an evil artifact he was studying.&nbsp; He can summon demons no problem, but only for limited time and not in enough numbers to form an army.&nbsp; So he gets his old friends to send him capable adventurers, then sets about getting them to gather the components of an ancient gate that will let hundreds of demons cross over.Nothing like putting the Pc's in the midst of a war that they themselves are partially responsible for starting <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="arwink, post: 1096081, member: 2292"] I know nothing about greyhawk, but one of the real joys of planar invasions is that the multiverse tends to be very equal in its approach - all worlds are fair game :) The traditional choices are demons, especially folks like Lloth, Graz'zt and Orcus, who make cool big-bads. A more interesting choice would be to leave aside the Evils altogether, and plan an invasion of chaotic types from Limbo - Slaad get no-where near the love they deserve. The advantage of this is that the slaad aren't likely to have centralised leadership, so even if the PC's kill one big-bad there's still the possibility of several others going about their own plans. Lawful creatures work for this as well - formian invasions are equally as frightening as demons, and are usually slightly easier for lower level parties to handle. One idea, if you really want to throw the Pc's a twist, is this: the second mage is planning the invasion. He originally started as a good wizard, but has secretly drifted towards evil due to the influence of an evil artifact he was studying. He can summon demons no problem, but only for limited time and not in enough numbers to form an army. So he gets his old friends to send him capable adventurers, then sets about getting them to gather the components of an ancient gate that will let hundreds of demons cross over. Nothing like putting the Pc's in the midst of a war that they themselves are partially responsible for starting :) [/QUOTE]

Verification