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<blockquote data-quote="HeavenShallBurn" data-source="post: 3927381" data-attributes="member: 39593">TreesNo, really.&nbsp; Before anything else was there what were there?&nbsp; To paraphrase a song &quot;there were plants and bugs and rocks and things.&quot;&nbsp; What if instead of animals it was the flora that had a ball.&nbsp; An entire planet/plane/whatever of plant creatures.&nbsp; Where animals never developed beyond that necessary to support plants.&nbsp; Most importantly what happens when they get out into the wider multiverse and see how plants fare at the mercy of these abominations that do not photosynthesize.The coolest part of The Two Towers was the march of the Ents, leverage that.&nbsp; First the portals open and nothing happens, just seeds and spores and pollen drifting through.&nbsp; But nobody who goes in comes back.&nbsp; Then the enemy appears, and it's forests.&nbsp; Angry trees led by Colossal Elder Treants, with regular treants, battlebriars, splinterwaifs and tendriculous as main forces.&nbsp; Preceded by wood-woads, thorns, woodling or wood elemental creatures.&nbsp; Even worse the longer they take an area the more it changes to suit them.&nbsp; Trees waking up and becoming hostile(as if animated but immobile until final stages) creatures taking on the features of plants, even in the midst of what should be safe areas their outriders can appear.&nbsp; Sprouted from the seeds and pollen that wafted out of the portals in the beginning.A second potentially cool one would go with the aberation idea but focus on less lovecraftian themes.&nbsp; The invasion of the spellweaver empire!&nbsp; Their armies of blink dogs and displacer beasts, girallions, grey renders, etherial filcher spies and marauder raiders, astral stalker assassins, warforged troops by the battalion.&nbsp; Changeling agents, Gerivar living seige engines.&nbsp; Shadesteel golem killbots.Hell, you can even have both, their ages long interplanar war spilling over onto the campaign world of the heroes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HeavenShallBurn, post: 3927381, member: 39593"] Trees No, really. Before anything else was there what were there? To paraphrase a song "there were plants and bugs and rocks and things." What if instead of animals it was the flora that had a ball. An entire planet/plane/whatever of plant creatures. Where animals never developed beyond that necessary to support plants. Most importantly what happens when they get out into the wider multiverse and see how plants fare at the mercy of these abominations that do not photosynthesize. The coolest part of The Two Towers was the march of the Ents, leverage that. First the portals open and nothing happens, just seeds and spores and pollen drifting through. But nobody who goes in comes back. Then the enemy appears, and it's forests. Angry trees led by Colossal Elder Treants, with regular treants, battlebriars, splinterwaifs and tendriculous as main forces. Preceded by wood-woads, thorns, woodling or wood elemental creatures. Even worse the longer they take an area the more it changes to suit them. Trees waking up and becoming hostile(as if animated but immobile until final stages) creatures taking on the features of plants, even in the midst of what should be safe areas their outriders can appear. Sprouted from the seeds and pollen that wafted out of the portals in the beginning. A second potentially cool one would go with the aberation idea but focus on less lovecraftian themes. The invasion of the spellweaver empire! Their armies of blink dogs and displacer beasts, girallions, grey renders, etherial filcher spies and marauder raiders, astral stalker assassins, warforged troops by the battalion. Changeling agents, Gerivar living seige engines. Shadesteel golem killbots. Hell, you can even have both, their ages long interplanar war spilling over onto the campaign world of the heroes. [/QUOTE]

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