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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Master of Monkeys" data-source="post: 211270" data-attributes="member: 4591">You might be thinking of the darkmantle (Monstrous Manual pg. 39) but they are not intelligent enough to be captors of any sort.  You could possible do a hive of formions as the captors.  This would work well in that as the group gets more powerful, there are always more powerful formions to fight.Of course, this brings up another interesting question:  Why is the portal where it is?  Does the wizard have his portal in the lair of a group of evil blind humanoids for a reason?  If the movement of the portal is random, there was no reason.  If the wizard created the portal, he is powerful and his reason would be something more than wanting to destroy the race.  I would say something akin to that he wanted what the humanoids are looking for.  Maybe they are searching for an evil artifact buried beneath the soil.  The wizard could possibly be either good or evil, wanting the artifact or wanting to destroy it.Maybe the wizard's place was never designed for intruders.  Maybe it is a fortress against outside forces.  Why would he have a portal in the middle of an evil civilization without some protection?  Maybe the most useful parts are locked off with barriers they have to overcome.  Maybe these barriers can only be overcome at certain levels (like a lock that can only be picked by a high level rogue or a rune that can only be dispelled by a high level mage).I would definately make sure the raids don't get boring.  If the raids all seem the same I could see a lot of people not liking the game.Maybe they are just a group of slaves like any other.  They could be searching for an ancient artifact like above, or they could be searching for a place; such as a portal to the plane of shadow or such.  They could be trying to take over everything below the ground like formions.Maybe start a community in the wizard's place?  They could try to take back their land with the group but just be a burden in battle.  If the PCs are especially powerful or elves or something, the battles could conceivably last for generations of the freed peoples.</blockquote>

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