Fwd: Realmspace Attack

Another post for my friend.

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>Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 00:59:18 -0500
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>Subject: Fwd: Realmspace Attack
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>Here is more of Mr. Moore's ideas for an ogre attack on Realmspace. Comments?
>
>Thomas.
>
>Subj:  Ogres vs. Realmspace
>Date:  96-11-17 23:01:27 EST
>From:  TSR Roger
>
>I would assume, if I were running a Spelljammer campaign, that the ogres had
>some intelligence about the state of affairs in other crystal spheres--but
>that intelligence could be out of date or very general, if not outright
>wrong. (I don't see ogres as having the spy & intelligence network that the
>scro might.) Also, given their looser organization, parts of a huge fleet
>might break off while en route to a destination to check something out, loot
>a small world or merchant fleet, whatever, on to rejoin the big fleet later.
>     As an example, I might have a group of PCs in Realmspace, based on the
>Rock of Bral in the Tears of Selune, when they receive word to be seen by the
>Imperial Fleet representative on the Rock. The elves have heard from an elven
>wizard using a crystal ball that a large fleet of ships has entered
>Realmspace and is making straight for Toril. The PCs could be hired to move
>out and scout the fleet, retreating back to Toril if in too much danger.
>     As DM, I will have set up a large force of 5-8 ogre mammoths (or similar
>ships from <Lost Ships>) with about 5-30 smaller ships of a great variety. If
>I wanted to toss in some shockers about the oncoming ogre fleet (aside from
>its heading directly for Toril), I could add the following:
>     1. Bombard cruisers: large ships each built around a single huge cannon,
>like a giff Great Bombard, but with a marine complement. These move ahead of
>the main fleet, firing on capital ships that approach them (elven armadas and
>man-o-war ships especially). The ogres could use green slime shot and
>explosive grapeshot against enemy ships, too.
>     2. Scavvers. A huge number of scavvers accompanies the fleet or is
>contained within a large freighter within the fleet, to be released later on
>numerous attackers. The scavvers are under the control of various wizards
>with the fleet, mostly ogre magi with magical devices.
>     3. Drow. (A real shocker, eh?) At least one drow-crewed monarch is with
>each ogre fleet, coming in as allies to destroy all other elves. The drow
>might have some control over the ogres, or they might be temporary allies, to
>flee later as the situation allows. The drow lend enormous magical and
>clerical support to the ogres.
>     4. Remnants of earlier scro fleets coming in as support vessels, giving
>some aid to the ogres against the elves.
>
>The main ogre plan in Realmspace is to hit the Tears of Selune and establish
>bases there as rapidly as possible. From there, the ogres will move out
>around Toril and Selune, beating the crap out of any Imperial Fleet ships it
>can find. The aim here is to keep the elves down on the planet and out of
>space. The main ground targets here are Evermeet and Cormanthyr (their
>intelligence is very much out of date here). Giant space monsters like
>witchlight marauders might be dropped on Evermeet if possible.
>
>As the ogre group comes in, part of it splits off to head for Kapri, to
>attack the elven satellite there (the ogres saw it by telescope but do not
>realize what the satellite is). Elven PCs might be hired by the elves of the
>IF to stop the ogre group at Kapri and save the satellite (but the IF doesn't
>know about the true situation aboard the satellite, noted in the product
><Realmspace>).
>
>If the ogres get into the Tears, they will be very difficult to root out, and
>could cause enormous trouble there and around Toril for decades. The Rock of
>Bral will come under heavy attack, too; defending it will be very important
>to the PCs.
>
>
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