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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jayj" data-source="post: 2185383" data-attributes="member: 14916">Re: Wererats: you can still use them, as lycanthropes are NOT extinct in Eberron. Sure, some fled to Lammania, but some stayed behind (there is even a werewolf pack enforcing the will of the Daughters of Sora Kell in Droaam). If the PCs manage to purge a budding wererat gang in Sharn, the Church of the Silver Flame will be sure to help them with a bit of healing later on. If you go this route, replace the wererat leader's "alien squid" for a pseudonatural thingie.Good thought on lycanthropic and the Silver Flame's reaction. The problem is, the reaction wouldn't be limited to offering healing to those who fight the wererats. Even if the formal Inquisition is over, I'd expect every paladin, cleric, and loyal warrior of the Silver Flame in the city who isn't corrupted beyond caring to converge on Little Plains like a small army to root out the lycanthropes door-to-door. Then again, that would only add to the chaos... hmm.The assassination attempt in SiD was only to motivate the Baron (in your case, Councilor) to institute martial law. If you have another reason for him to do so, the assassins become redundant. If you still want it, have Daask use some of the aberrants of House Tarkanan as a strike force.I probably still want it, since it's the first clue after the PCs leave the celebration that things have gone beyond a bunch of were-thugs and insane bookstore wizards. Working in House Tarkanan seems to be the most fitting, I suppose (the one who pays the bill can be the quori's host. Daask plans this little ambush when suddenly a half-dozen Aberrant-marked assassins show up and say 'Hey, we were hired by an anonymous benefactor to help you whack these guys'. Daask has to be creeped out by this, but who's going to turn down the free help?)As for Hextor clerics in the temple of Pelor, you can smuggle in some clerics of the Fury, or even use a pseudonatural human cleric of the Dragon Below (in place of Daros Hellseeker). Instead of devils, make liberal use of aberrations. Instead of having osyluths and barghests prowling the streets, have the councilor hire monstrous mercenaries (secretly outlaws) from Malleon's Gate.When/if the Councilor is discredited, have a junior politician take his seat at the Council. Except that this junior politician has been replaced by a changeling (no need to be associated with the Cabinet), following orders from Daask.Ooh! I like. The Tyrants aren't the only ones who can pull off the old "Single councilor played by many unknown shapeshifters" trick. If the councilor is killed by a Boromar assassin, he shows up the next morning hale and hearty, saying 'The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated'. Given this, maybe I -can- replace the wererats with changelings w/ class levels. If the changelings are a bunch of Becomers (read Races of Eberron) from Lower Dura who want to get into political power, Daask will have an easy time of convincing them to sneak about and cause trouble in order to get their man into office as Daask's puppet. I don't expect them to last long if they cheese off the Tyrants, but they can get an opportunity for a start, at least.Anybody else have any ideas? - Jayj</blockquote>

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