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<blockquote data-quote="coyote6" data-source="post: 5118100" data-attributes="member: 1225">It's a D&amp;D 4e game.The Emperor could be a 38th level minion. <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=":)" />Clearly, one (or more) of his unreasonable excesses should be mobile. He could have some colossal walking statues of himself strolling around the empire, so that all might be allowed to behold his great, glorious, and beneficent visage. They're colossal because life-size statues just don't properly convey the majesty of his mien.Of course, the travelling statues occasionally step on a person or a hamlet, but it's hardly the emperor's fault if foolish people aren't watching where they're going or are building things in the wrong places.Another roadshow spectacle: some arcane device that forms clouds into various shapes -- the emperor's face, his favorite horse/dog/pig/other pet, the Imperial Palace(s), honored subjects (e.g., his favorite concubine or a general or gladiator -- they get rewarded by being put on the cloud poster), and so forth. The clouds are formed, and then sent to the four corners of the empire.Any deleterious or odd weather effects that might seem to accompany or follow in the cloud images' wakes are strictly unfortunate coincidences, of course!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="coyote6, post: 5118100, member: 1225"] It's a D&D 4e game. The Emperor could be a 38th level minion. :) Clearly, one (or more) of his unreasonable excesses should be mobile. He could have some colossal walking statues of himself strolling around the empire, so that all might be allowed to behold his great, glorious, and beneficent visage. They're colossal because life-size statues just don't properly convey the majesty of his mien. Of course, the travelling statues occasionally step on a person or a hamlet, but it's hardly the emperor's fault if foolish people aren't watching where they're going or are building things in the wrong places. Another roadshow spectacle: some arcane device that forms clouds into various shapes -- the emperor's face, his favorite horse/dog/pig/other pet, the Imperial Palace(s), honored subjects (e.g., his favorite concubine or a general or gladiator -- they get rewarded by being put on the cloud poster), and so forth. The clouds are formed, and then sent to the four corners of the empire. Any deleterious or odd weather effects that might seem to accompany or follow in the cloud images' wakes are strictly unfortunate coincidences, of course! [/QUOTE]

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