It's as dramatic as you want it to be. From your earlier description, it
sounds like your players would find it anticlimactic, since they always
wanted to fight him.
But you have said repeatedly that doing it militarily won't do.
So a few options:
- Do the hellcrack thing. It's a fight to a standstill, and pitting their
martrydom against his. Also, they don't have to fight so hard he comes in,
they can also persuade him to come fight them.
- As 1, except they convince him to jump into the hellcrack, etc. Combine
fighting off his army with talking LDoaH into a new course of action.
- HeroQuest baby!! - Quest into a myth that can stop him. Something about an
unstoppable foe. Or perhaps something about the Mirror of God's Purpose.
(Anyone who looks into it sees God's true's purpose for them.) Something
about the Knight of the Cataclysm. Something about Hrestol's Death. (After
all, LDoaH also thinks of himself as a martyr.) Or whatever works for them.
The heroes quest for this revelation/power what have you while their army
fights a desperate defense of the path. (Maybe have the group go back and
forth in their focus, as the path of the heroquest is shaped/shapes the path
of the battle. After all, that IS the community they are getting support
from, yes?)
Maybe LDoaH gets drawn into the quest, and you have your confrontation with
him on the HeroPlane. Thus the answer is in myth and what it means, not in
defeating him militarily; their very souls are at stake; the PCs are central;
even if the final scene is talking, it is anything but anticlimactic.
Just my 2cents.
LC
On January 30, 2007 08:44 am, frank_rafaelsen wrote:
> > Sounds like time to go and have a word with LDoaH and
> > persuade him that he got it wrong. The sort of thing
> > that HQ does very well, and RQ very badly.
> >
> > And yes, I do mean "persuade", not "kill". You seem to
> > have ideas on his motivations - use them.
>
> Wouldn't convincing LDoaH of the error of his ways be anticimactic? I
> want him to act in a way that resembles the pure, serene evil of
> Jonathan Doe from Seven.