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Message: <blockquote data-quote="azmodean" data-source="post: 1970501" data-attributes="member: 26590">Traps, of course!  That should really help.  With a very nature-oriented settlement I can see druids holding off an army, but I just can't see most larger settlements having much in the way of druidic defenders.  I'll have to use that idea about the dragon, but just with something besides a dragon.  It'll really make this group angry to be seen as the "lesser of two evils".I guess I should have been more detailed with the current scenario, though.  The party burned down some small villages to prove their allegiance to a nation of hobgoblins.  (Actually they overdid it a bit, they were sent out to collect some ears for bounties, and ended up torching two entire villages, which has both nations gearing up for war)  More recently they strafed the town with a dragon (a ghost in the party got incredibly lucky when he tried to possess the dragon, so they essentially had an adult dragon as a party member for about ten hours (the duration of the possession))The settlement in question is either a small or large town by the reconing of the DMG, but it is heavily fortified due to it being the settlement nearest to the border with the hobgoblins.  The settlement is definitely on it's guard, as it is gearing up for war and was also heavily damaged by the dragon attack.  (about 5 minutes long, with a 12d6 lightning bolt going off every 1d4+1 rounds, oh, and did I mention the demons that were tagging along?  It was one crazy game.)I am also interested on people's thoughts of what smaller settlements could do to protect themselves.  With anything smaller than a small city, the highest level characters are lower level than my PCs.  Is there anything the hundreds or thousands of lower level inhabitants could do to protect themselves from a group of 11th level evil PC types?Just for clarity, I don't have a problem with my players burning down towns left and right, I just don't want to miss out on an opportunity for an interesting encounter that this situation may provide.</blockquote>

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