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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hadrian the Builder" data-source="post: 5099674" data-attributes="member: 73776">How do I get my players clued-in and suspicious that the current ephemeral bad guys might be a Rhakshasa who just let them "win" to advance a nefarious plot? And how do I get them suspecting they are being manipulated?I need some creative ways to start indicating and detecting that the party has been fooled again without detracing from the wily cunning of this type of villain.------------------I'm running an Eberron Game where the major villains are Rakshasas. One is the final epic battle baddie that ends the campaign (The Shadow in the Flame/Bel Shalor). One is the epic tier bad guy (The Wyrmbreaker, his exarch), and one is the Paragon Tier threat, a Fang of Khyber.But what I'm really after is this: I want to start having the Rhakshasas directly "mess with" the party, but I don't want to do a cheesy shapeshift-to- true-form-laugh-and-run every time. Nor can I allow the party to try to take on a threat they are not ready for...The heroic tier is coming to a close without the players directly interacting with any of the major villains (as far as they know). I have some ideas for information I can feed them that will suggest that some of their Heroic tier villains were agents of the Rakshasas.</blockquote>