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<blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 5644908" data-attributes="member: 1165"><p>[sblock]</p><p></p><p>There are also pit fiends, a single one of which could break the campaign. (Or maybe it was a balor, whichever one has Domination.)</p><p></p><p>Just because they're in the rules doesn't mean it's a good idea to use them.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There's still the risk of pulling a reverse Chosen of Mystra problem.</p><p></p><p>Compare the Dreaming Dark to, say, the Blood of Vol. I believe the BoV has Vol, 13 high-level agents... and that's it. (And those are high-level agents <em>by Eberron standards</em>, as far as I know.) If you can drop high-level NPCs wherever you want, regardless of alignment, that faction wins. Period.</p><p></p><p>There might only be one or thirteen of each of those high-level types of quori, and they could literally all be busy.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's a problem I've seen in a lot of settings, like StarGate and Doctor Who. The big bad villain (eg replicators or daleks, or in this case the quori) come up with a plot device that can <strong>destroy reality</strong>, which means the villains must be destroyed utterly, usually with a hackneyed plot device. In other words, perhaps it wasn't a good idea for the author to make it possible to launch such a massive army against Eberron in the first place.</p><p></p><p>This creates the precise problem we're talking about now.[/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="(Psi)SeveredHead, post: 5644908, member: 1165"] [sblock] There are also pit fiends, a single one of which could break the campaign. (Or maybe it was a balor, whichever one has Domination.) Just because they're in the rules doesn't mean it's a good idea to use them. There's still the risk of pulling a reverse Chosen of Mystra problem. Compare the Dreaming Dark to, say, the Blood of Vol. I believe the BoV has Vol, 13 high-level agents... and that's it. (And those are high-level agents [i]by Eberron standards[/i], as far as I know.) If you can drop high-level NPCs wherever you want, regardless of alignment, that faction wins. Period. There might only be one or thirteen of each of those high-level types of quori, and they could literally all be busy. That's a problem I've seen in a lot of settings, like StarGate and Doctor Who. The big bad villain (eg replicators or daleks, or in this case the quori) come up with a plot device that can [b]destroy reality[/b], which means the villains must be destroyed utterly, usually with a hackneyed plot device. In other words, perhaps it wasn't a good idea for the author to make it possible to launch such a massive army against Eberron in the first place. This creates the precise problem we're talking about now.[/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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