I’ve created a home brew world, I’ve got my players confined to a small island continent for now. As an undead plague is spreading and it’s quarantined by ship and airship blockade. My players will be fighting it out with mind flayers, devils, demons, mages, and the undead for control of the island in the wilderness, dungeons, and large cities.They do not know much about the rest of my world. I want to have another island nation based around monks that see this as an opportunity to invade the island continent to take it as territory during the chaos going on.
I need advice and ideas on how to flavor this? What kind of monks to use as this bad guy invasion force?
How would I make a bbeg monk leader?
What would their culture be that drives them to conquer?
How would they dress, how would they fight?
How big should I make their attack squads for a group of 5 lvl 6 adventurers?
A lot of villains think they're doing what's right either for themselves (the really evil ones) or for the good of everyone (the hard-to-sway believers).
For Monks in a monastic tradition, I'd go with the latter.
The question in my mind would be what in the chaos triggered the sentiment that they must conquer/invade/collar/subjugate/eradicate/remove/whatever the island continent. Did some prophecy kick off by signs embedded in the chaos - whether accurate or misinterpreted? Did a council decide it was time to intervene before things got so bad that nobody would recover? Are they worried that the chaos will spread to them if they don't stop it?
Believers can often be deaf to pleas and can often be unstoppable - little more than machines ruthlessly following a plan. A lawful alignment in such a case.
On the other regarding dress and tactics, I'd ask what their traditions require of wartime. Are there limits to what they'll do? Are there rituals involved in their offensive maneuvers? Do they consider the opponents redeemable or not? Do they consider the noncombatants who could merely possibly have been negatively influenced to be too much of a risk to be left alive regardless?
In other words, how ruthless are they and why?
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I’ve created a home brew world, I’ve got my players confined to a small island continent for now. As an undead plague is spreading and it’s quarantined by ship and airship blockade. My players will be fighting it out with mind flayers, devils, demons, mages, and the undead for control of the island in the wilderness, dungeons, and large cities.They do not know much about the rest of my world. I want to have another island nation based around monks that see this as an opportunity to invade the island continent to take it as territory during the chaos going on.
I need advice and ideas on how to flavor this?
What kind of monks to use as this bad guy invasion force?
How would I make a bbeg monk leader?
What would their culture be that drives them to conquer?
How would they dress, how would they fight?
How big should I make their attack squads for a group of 5 lvl 6 adventurers?
A lot of villains think they're doing what's right either for themselves (the really evil ones) or for the good of everyone (the hard-to-sway believers).
For Monks in a monastic tradition, I'd go with the latter.
The question in my mind would be what in the chaos triggered the sentiment that they must conquer/invade/collar/subjugate/eradicate/remove/whatever the island continent. Did some prophecy kick off by signs embedded in the chaos - whether accurate or misinterpreted? Did a council decide it was time to intervene before things got so bad that nobody would recover? Are they worried that the chaos will spread to them if they don't stop it?
Believers can often be deaf to pleas and can often be unstoppable - little more than machines ruthlessly following a plan. A lawful alignment in such a case.
On the other regarding dress and tactics, I'd ask what their traditions require of wartime. Are there limits to what they'll do? Are there rituals involved in their offensive maneuvers? Do they consider the opponents redeemable or not? Do they consider the noncombatants who could merely possibly have been negatively influenced to be too much of a risk to be left alive regardless?
In other words, how ruthless are they and why?
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.