I'm puzzling over how to run the actual banquet. I still need to figure out how to make the banquet go on after I mistakenly let the heroes find evidence of the meal being poisoned. However, what this post is about is the list of occupants in the room. The list shows eight nobles plus the king, plus his adviser and bodyguard.and Duke Gallo's chaplain. Other than that, there are eighteen "Steppengard soldiers" listed as part of the participants. Are these soldiers presumed to be the bodyguards and/or halfway guards, or are they supposed to be standing in as attendees? I can see it either way, although the numbers roughly fit the apparent number of seats at the banquet. If they're not the attendees, who else is in the room, and why aren't they listed? Are they simply too puny as combatants to be worth the ink? I can't see leaving a bunch of tables empty -- someone besides the nobles have to consume the poison, just in case some clever spellthief figures out how to reactivate the Eight Lands' Boon!
Thanks,
Bill
Thanks,
Bill