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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Graf" data-source="post: 2862006" data-attributes="member: 3087">This isn’t meant to be a thread about the Quori per RAW (if you’re looking for that you should be at KB’s utterly brilliant FAQ thread on the wizards boards).(Basically the Quori as written are this relatively monolithic but subtle force that can communicate very frequently and efficiently with each other over vast distances due to the nature of the realm of dreams of which they are the undisputed masters).They have century-long schemes and are presented as vastly dangerous for the average party. I.e. you could assassinate some minor evil politician person and by the next morning an assassination squad (from a completely different group that has no overt connection) would quietly and efficiently wipe you out.I’ve run games before where villainous groups operate like super-efficient evil spy organizations and, generally, players hate it. They have less information, they’re on the defensive and their survival is largely based around external factors (i.e. the DM writing it so that they don’t get wiped out because of x,y,z).After waking up from a particularly murky dream I started wondering why the realm of dreams was such a great communication medium. Obviously the Quori are natives, they can teleport around at will, they are vastly intelligent, they are virtually all wedded to the service of this dark and powerful intelligence, etc. etc. etc.What if the realm of dreams was, well, dreamlike. This complex and confusing murk where communication was symbolic, difficult and even the quori had trouble making themselves understood; where time expanded and contracted in a horrific and subjective fashion so a 20 day meeting for one participant was just a 5 second hash of blurred information?It seems like the important part of the Quori (the things they’ve actively done in Eberron) would be retained… they move on a grand scale (cause it takes a long time to get everyone on the same page), they have trouble effectively dealing with small resistance forces (Adar), they’d still build (over centuries) their big egg contraptions, build up different (sometimes conflicting) humanoid organizations to deal with various missions and so forth.They can always communicate directly and quickly in the material plane but it poses significant risks and it explains why they aren’t in Khorvaire in significant numbers (groups like the Trust could intercept communication).Also it removes the need on the part of the DM to figure out why the Quori aren’t wiping out the players the second they have some impact on their plans.Am I missing anything?</blockquote>

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