An idea to start

I just thought of something... I want the story to start with a BANG per-se, but I don't want to start the group out in a fight.. *yawn* I had an idea this morning to start the story out with some largish creatures gathering up forces of some smallish, creatures. I want to stay away from the traditional D&D creatures b/c I think it's just been overdone and I want to come up with something fresh. These creatures are not that bright, but they are strong and they are territorial and fight a bit. I would want these creatures to have a culture, and a village (of sorts) and families, which are torn from them by the big, bad guy and they are given a choice, fight for me or we kill you and yours. I would probably have their society very strict and definate gender and class roles would come into play. I am thinking that their society might be somewhat reminesceant of the "traditional" brutish Indians of the movie old West. ***Please don't think I believe that the Native American tribes are brutish, I just want to portray these guys similarly to the way the old black and white westerns (mostly wrongly) portrayed the Native Americans. ***