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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brimshack" data-source="post: 3416671" data-attributes="member: 34694">Speaking of the teleport away thing, one of my favorite villains was an evil wizard who wore a pair of ruby covered slippers...One of my favorite villains from recent years... He entered this setting: The campaign was set up to favor good characters, and I gave them enough time to realize the local orc leaders were willing to work towards peace. (The main scenario was an orc village 4 miles from a human village - in the event of war, both assumed they would be trashed regardless of the larger outcome.) The characters were sent in as a local police force representing a larger empire that had recently gained control of the region. They began forging ties with local humans as well as orcs, and starting finding their way around. Just as they had worked out how to maintain peace in the area, the military commander for the entire region showed up. As a representative of larger empire, he outranked all the PCs, annd he was a LE variant of Paladin. His intention was to exterminate all the local orcs, outright genocide. The cost to local human inhabitants was of no consequence to him (they were conquered people too). ...This really was the major villain of the campaign, not the orcs, and he could only be dealt with politically. It took the characters close to a year to set up a battle where they could fight him directly. Until then, they had to engage in some real sneaky deals to undermine the guys plans. If he could have ordered them on a suicide mission, he most certainly would have. Preventing that from happening took all the manipulative skills teh players could muster.</blockquote>

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