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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BOZ" data-source="post: 6248478" data-attributes="member: 1241">Definitely some helpful suggestions there for when it comes down to fighting, so thank you for that.  What we're expecting from the band of raiders is as follows.  The first wave will not be expecting an attack from us; they are coming to extract their tribute from the town in return for their continued existence, and they likely don't know that adventurers are helping them.  So, changing the look of the town and local area is not a good idea yet; in fact, we started with casting wall of stone, but that made the captain of the guard nervous about the success of our ruse.  The second wave is probably when more of your ideas about fortification and landscape alterations would come in handy then; if we are successful in eliminating everyone who comes in the first wave, that will likely come in the form of a more combat-ready force to investigate what happened to the tribute-gatherers and punish the townsfolk for their resistance.  If we are successful in defeating them, then whatever comes in successive waves will be ready for a more powerful force (us), as I imagined they will have realized there is more than just the townsfolk resisting them at that point.  At least, this is what the locals predict, so who knows how it will really go.  <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />We definitely do need the villagers (about a thousand of them) to provide support, as it would be sheer hubris on our part to think that we can take out a superior force without help.  But they are only a support role, so we are helping them help us.So, as for the feathers, the DM wasn't specific on the types we need, so I am not sure.  We have brought up getting feathers from a griffon or something, but he did say those would be too large.  Not all the feathers of a bird are the same size, so I am not sure that one bird would have all the "right kind", and you probably right about needing wing feathers.  The person I am helping is a fletcher and he raises birds of prey, waiting for them to molt and then collect the feathers, but he only gets enough feathers from this to keep the town's hunters in supply of arrows.  I do like your idea on how to call the birds though, so that is something I will consider either in conjunction with or an alternative to baleful polymorph.</blockquote>

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