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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7563609" data-attributes="member: 20564">I'd have the demon lord get away to someplace "safe" thousands of years ago that's now populated.  BUT, while weak he's still a match for the non-adventurers there, and starts to spread his corruption.So maybe in a few months the price of food is going up.  Shipments aren't making it in.  Turns out he took of a halfling community, and spread from there.  Now he's got dozens of villages under his command.  Fiendish-infested halflings will be much different than the later demons, especially if there's a way to unpossess them so they shouldn't be killed.The farming community is just thinking one example of that's insulated fromt he rest of the world enough for him to get a foothold.  It could be he takes over a church of a good religion, his infernal words persuasive and convincing them to break from dogma in small ways but ones that turn them further and further from good.Anything corrupting good could be fun - making a known gold dragon his thrall, etc.A completely different thought is he ends up mascerading as a the demon lord Yeenoghu and taking direct control of packs of gnolls.  It gives him a fighting force, and if he looses screws over a demon - win/win.  But that isn't much challenge for 10th level characters unless he starts empowering a much of gnoll warlocks.A more level-appropriate challenge is that he spends time overcoming his weakness as the vizier to a thane of Fire Giants.  They are all lawful evil, and I'm sure he can become fire giant size to fit in.  Starts with that tribe taking over other tribes (single combat?), so you can put in rumors of the fire giants fighting among themselves.  Then when they have enough they come into the civilized lands and start enslaving the "little ones" who have claimed so much land.</blockquote>

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