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<blockquote data-quote="Buttercup" data-source="post: 1286892" data-attributes="member: 990">My players have agreed to clean out the elite orcs who are based somewhere in the mountains, and are pillaging and destroying&nbsp; just for the sake of doing damage.&nbsp; They have had several encounters with these orcs, who appear to travel in cells consisting of a mid level leader with cleric, fighter or barbarian levels, and 6-12 orcs who are 1st or 2nd level warriors with a fondness for crossbows and axes.&nbsp; &nbsp;The orcs are not where they are supposed to be.&nbsp; Normally they stay north of the Ice Mountains.&nbsp; The party is high in the mountains, it's winter, the weather has been terrible, and every one of them has come within a hair's breadth of death at the hands of these orcs, who have been harrying them through the mountains for a month now.&nbsp; &nbsp;For our next session, I need some orc encampments.&nbsp; I've got a few caves from map-of-the-week, but I'm having trouble setting them up.&nbsp; These are temporary encampments rather than permanent fortifications, and there are quite a few of them scattered about.&nbsp; How many exactly, I'm not sure.&nbsp;Another piece of info--there is a massive invasion about to break against a famous border fortress which is the only thing stopping thousands of orcs and their evil elf masters from engulfing the lands from which the PCs came.&nbsp; When they left, they knew that the invasion had been forseen by a diviner.&nbsp; Now the orcs who are harrassing them at present might be connected to the invading orc tribes or might not.&nbsp; They might be deserters looking for a new home, or they might just be engaged in random destruction for its own sake.&nbsp;And finally, these orcs worship an evil god that the PCs have managed to piss off by killing a high priest.&nbsp; They have been finding clay disks on the bodies of all the orcs they have killed so far, and they know the disks are the symbol of this god.&nbsp;So, my questions are these: What will be found in these orc encampments?&nbsp; What tactics do you think they would use?&nbsp; Why are they there in the first place?&nbsp; Do you have any ideas about who the BBEG might be, and how I can bring him to life?&nbsp; Are these orcs related to the ones invading back east?&nbsp;Thanks in advance for all the cool ideas I know everyone will have.<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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Buttercup, post: 1286892, member: 990"] My players have agreed to clean out the elite orcs who are based somewhere in the mountains, and are pillaging and destroying just for the sake of doing damage. They have had several encounters with these orcs, who appear to travel in cells consisting of a mid level leader with cleric, fighter or barbarian levels, and 6-12 orcs who are 1st or 2nd level warriors with a fondness for crossbows and axes. The orcs are not where they are supposed to be. Normally they stay north of the Ice Mountains. The party is high in the mountains, it's winter, the weather has been terrible, and every one of them has come within a hair's breadth of death at the hands of these orcs, who have been harrying them through the mountains for a month now. For our next session, I need some orc encampments. I've got a few caves from map-of-the-week, but I'm having trouble setting them up. These are temporary encampments rather than permanent fortifications, and there are quite a few of them scattered about. How many exactly, I'm not sure. Another piece of info--there is a massive invasion about to break against a famous border fortress which is the only thing stopping thousands of orcs and their evil elf masters from engulfing the lands from which the PCs came. When they left, they knew that the invasion had been forseen by a diviner. Now the orcs who are harrassing them at present might be connected to the invading orc tribes or might not. They might be deserters looking for a new home, or they might just be engaged in random destruction for its own sake. And finally, these orcs worship an evil god that the PCs have managed to piss off by killing a high priest. They have been finding clay disks on the bodies of all the orcs they have killed so far, and they know the disks are the symbol of this god. So, my questions are these: What will be found in these orc encampments? What tactics do you think they would use? Why are they there in the first place? Do you have any ideas about who the BBEG might be, and how I can bring him to life? Are these orcs related to the ones invading back east? Thanks in advance for all the cool ideas I know everyone will have.:) [/QUOTE]

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