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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5107708" data-attributes="member: 4937">I find that campaigns/encounters/adventures play out better if there isn't one single big bad.  If you have one single big bad, and he goes down earlier than you expected him to in the campaign/encounter/adventure it can leave you in a lurch.  And, solitary NPC's are very much prone to getting beat down by targetted PC fury.So I would suggested modifying your otherwise excellent idea so that the actual power behind the orcs is essentially an orcish adventuring party.  The most power is vested in a crippled high level orc spellcaster (I'm thinking palaquin as part of the image), as you suggest, but he's (or she!) forced to rule through a more traditional Orcish brute over whom he has some sort of influence (spouse, offspring, orcish brute has high wisdom but low intelligence and recognizes need for advisor, whatever).  As far as most of the orcs are concerned, the real power behind the throne is just a subservient advisor who their real leader bosses around and tolerates for reasons of his own.  They are joined by a high level priest of Luthic or Shagras (or favorite orc diety) and perhaps a high level goblin assassin who actually understand the real power structure.  This opens up the oppurtunity for hostile internal factions.  For example, perhaps some ambitious priest of Grumash understands that the real leader is a feeble cripple and is secretly manuevering his own more typical champion into place to dethrone the current chieftain.</blockquote>

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