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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pyske" data-source="post: 212403" data-attributes="member: 3567">Re: Re: Newbie Group:  Slave Revolt from the Wizard's BoltholeI'd wait to respond until Master of Monkeys was done with this, but it has been about 20 hours now... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />The critters I was thinking of may not have been 3rd edition.  They were blind humanoids with extrasensory & darkness powers, more civilized than grimlocks.  I browsed through my books last night, but couldn't find them.  The closest thing I found were the dark creeper / dark stalker from Fiend Folio, but they weren't blind.  Still, I might just have been mis-recalling.Formians are an interesting idea, but when I looked them up I decided that their telepathy / hive mind and the at will teleportation of the Myrmach would make it hard to justify a guerilla force's survival.One reason I liked the idea was that it is definitely newbie-friendly to have obvious power distinctions by physical form, so that they don't get blindsided by an encounter that is too powerful for them.  I may still consider removing the really rough abilities and downscaling them.My initial idea for why the portal starts where it does:  if I make the PCs miners, they will have just broken into a small natural cavern which was previously totally sealed.  The wizard created this cavern as a teleport destination, since the bolthole itself is warded against teleport.  Since only he had been there, it was unlikely others would find it or be able to reach it.  It has been several years, in which the mining efforts have come closer and eventually intersected the cavern. Still, the mutual interest thing is a nice idea.  It also inspired this thought:  what if the villains are searching for someone who has been improsoned per the spell?  I dunno, I'll have to think it over; my initial inclination is still to have the two be coincidental to each other.I'm currently thinking the wizard will be neutral or good, but hostile to home invaders... once he learns they exist. I can definitely see your point about raids getting monotonous.  Any suggestions for how to avoid this?  My current thoughts are that the villains will react in such a way to prevent the same tactic from being used repeatedly.  Plus, I hope that the interactions with family, exploration of the bolthole, and random encounters will be enoug variety.  I'm not confident that it will be, 'though.I think I agree with the suggestion to have them form a community, I'm just not sure what the logistics should be.  SOme of this I can figure out when I get there, of course, but the more I know ahead of time, the better.Thanks again for the feedback and suggestions! . . . . . . . -- Eric</blockquote>

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