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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grayswandir" data-source="post: 7060" data-attributes="member: 585">High Level FunOkay.  One of the characters in the group I DM is a lawful good cleric of Serra (long story - pretend I said Heironeous).  Due to certain campaign events, the church of Serra, new to the world and trying to establish itself, found itself at odds with the church of Solarus (think Pelor).  The cleric, told that Solarus and his church are corrupt, decides to start a holy war to wipe them out.  The funny thing is, the character *knows* that Solarus is not corrupt at all and that his goddess is being manipulated by the god Apollo (trickster god who in the past thousand years has lost most of his worshippers to Solarus).  But he decides to start his war anyway.His principal foe is the paladin-realm of Gotheth, considered by most to be the greatest military power on the continent and indeed the next rising empire.  So he travels to the east to the nation-state of Aminadab, a lawful evil militocracy with a standing professional army, whose patron god is Hextor.  Aminadab is not very expansionistic, but is irked that Gotheth is considered greater than they and has been for some time looking for a chance to test its might against that of Gotheth.  With a Diplomacy roll in the upper thirties, the cleric convinces Aminadab to march through the territory of its neighboring state Zephim to attack the Gotheth-controlled territory of Entau.  Aminadab, in a year-long war, manages to drive Gotheth out of most of Entau.Now, Entau has been the base of operations of our party for some time.  It used to be an evil magocracy (think Thay), but was rent by civil war for several years, threatening to collapse into anarchy, before Gotheth came in and took over in a "peace action".  The Entauns didn't like being ruled by Gotheth, and they don't like being ruled by Aminadab, nor do they wish to be ruled by the Serrans when Amindab leaves (Aminadab has granted rulership of that land to the Serran church).  With his Leadership feat, our Fighter (True Neutral with Good tendencies) begins raising an army in the countryside, training them to fight against Aminadab and against the Serrans.  (Yes, our party is pretty split up.)  So when the Cleric visits the Fighter and sees this, he alerts the Aminadab forces to the existence of this treasonous band!  He tells Aminadab to "go easy on him [the Fighter]".  Needless to say, the Fighter is now a wanted criminal, to be killed on sight.Over the course of the next year (game time), the Gothethian heavy cavalry proves no match for Aminadab efficiency (and pikes).  Gotheth falls to Aminadab.  The party spends some time in the Doppel plane (see MotP) and returns to find that 16 years have passed.  The elven nation of Sylandrea is just north of what are now Amindab-controlled territories, and the party feels that it might soon be threatened by the might of this growing empire.  So our Neutral Good elven ranger travels back to the Doppel plane, where the elves of Sylandrea are lawful-evil worshippers of Lolth.  She requests soldiers from the doppel-elven-king to train the 'real' elves in case Aminadab should attack.  In return, she agrees to provide reconnaissance, scouting out locations in Aminadab-controlled locations so that the doppel-elves can easily plane shift and make slave raids!  She never thought that the evil elves might be just as happy to take peasants as slaves as Aminadab soldiers.Yes, I am an Evil DM (tm).</blockquote>

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