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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thanee" data-source="post: 1440113" data-attributes="member: 478">A pretty easy way to get them involved would be to have them live in one of the northern villages which get raided constantly and have it overrun by an orc horde. The PCs amongst other villagers have to flee while relatives fall to the aggressors. This should at least set the mood for fighting back against them, once given a chance to do so.  Their retreat could mark the first stage of your adventure (levels 1-4) before they meet up with someone (an army or whatever), where they can apply their skills more offensively until they reach the levels in which they can be sent on a mission to strike against the head as a culmination of the campaign.  One big problem with the invasion approach is, that you have to keep the uber NPCs (like Alustriel) at a very low profile. Seriously, if the orcs become a threat for the Silver Marches, the big lady could just snip her fingers and let the king fall over dead. There's not much hindering her to do so, right? <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=";)" />  But that's a very generic problem with adventures in the realms, which involve a threat like this.  Anyways I would definitely try to get some differing sidestories into the campaign, because fighting orcs all day long will get repetitive pretty fast. The Silver Marches have many perils waiting for travelers and the PCs might as well encounter some of them during their journey, which have no direct connection with the orc invasion.  Bye Thanee  P.S. I believe there was a novel which had the orc invasion in the Silver Marches as theme, but I don't recall which it was. Maybe someone else can.</blockquote>

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