So, we are playing Princes of the Apocalypse after getting through Lost Mine and I won't bug you all with the details and homebrew mini adventure we did, but we ended up deciding to stay in Phandalin for a bit, fortifying it after a particularly catastrophic earthquake hit and ended up making the town fabulously wealthy by exposing massive mineral wealth; of course, the town was leveled but, eh. TLDR, we managed to royally piss off the air and water cults after utterly annihilating the Black Earth cult. Then they came for our new home.
In a stroke of luck, our cleric (who had claimed Ironfang) called on Ogremoch (who had not been summoned) with Planar Ally, which states any Celestial or elemental.
He then rolled a natural 20 on convicing Ogremoch to help us in exchange for all the surface mineral wealth in Phandalin (which was anywhere between 50K-100K gold). Did I DM this right? It's an interesting twist and the idea was so batcrap crazy I practically leapt at the chance.
I'm running the same campaign right now and although I love the fact you went with this insanity, I feel I need to correct it. If it was that easy to summon Ogremoch or any of the other Elemental Evil Princes, then the cults' prophets wouldn't need to do a lengthy ritual to have their gods invade the world...
Per the spell they ask Ogremoch for aid. Which he sends another creature that is loyal to him, not Ogremoch himself. So at best we are talking about a Dao or Earth Elemental Myrmidon. Although I'm sure this made for a very cool and memorable experience for your players, it should not have been possible.
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So, we are playing Princes of the Apocalypse after getting through Lost Mine and I won't bug you all with the details and homebrew mini adventure we did, but we ended up deciding to stay in Phandalin for a bit, fortifying it after a particularly catastrophic earthquake hit and ended up making the town fabulously wealthy by exposing massive mineral wealth; of course, the town was leveled but, eh. TLDR, we managed to royally piss off the air and water cults after utterly annihilating the Black Earth cult. Then they came for our new home.
In a stroke of luck, our cleric (who had claimed Ironfang) called on Ogremoch (who had not been summoned) with Planar Ally, which states any Celestial or elemental.
He then rolled a natural 20 on convicing Ogremoch to help us in exchange for all the surface mineral wealth in Phandalin (which was anywhere between 50K-100K gold). Did I DM this right? It's an interesting twist and the idea was so batcrap crazy I practically leapt at the chance.
I'm running the same campaign right now and although I love the fact you went with this insanity, I feel I need to correct it. If it was that easy to summon Ogremoch or any of the other Elemental Evil Princes, then the cults' prophets wouldn't need to do a lengthy ritual to have their gods invade the world...
Per the spell they ask Ogremoch for aid. Which he sends another creature that is loyal to him, not Ogremoch himself. So at best we are talking about a Dao or Earth Elemental Myrmidon. Although I'm sure this made for a very cool and memorable experience for your players, it should not have been possible.