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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wycen" data-source="post: 6133583" data-attributes="member: 13732">I'm playing in a sandbox game focused on an island, with wilderness exploration and with background history that the previous empires did bad things and so a few powerful beings took it upon themselves to keep humanity (and elves, etc.) from ever being dangerous again.The campaign blog has some info you might find useful here: <a href="http://fateoftara.blogspot.com/2012_03_01_archive.html" target="_blank">http://fateoftara.blogspot.com/2012_03_01_archive.html</a>The orcs in your game.  What our DM would do is have Crannog, the big bad evil guy that we've never met, but believe is as powerful as a demi-god, is using the orcs to attack settlements to make sure they can't rise up and endanger the planet again.  Orcs of course are angry and quarrelsome, so even if they are successful they will end up turning on each other and fighting amongst themselves, thus Crannog wouldn't have to worry about then destroying them next.  Crannog of course has powerful minions who masquerade as orc warlords, so simply use their raw power to force the orcs to do what Crannog wants.</blockquote>