OOC Chat and Planning

Enjoy your vacation. Vice definitely won’t have face tattoo that cost all his gold while you’re gone.

Summary of night time activities
Breaking & Entering Figure approaches Earic and is chased off down to street level where the elf woman is restrained
Claims Earic is a house traitor. Earic claims ignorance but suggests his journal is the target. Elf woman is missed by an arrow and taken back into the hotel and questioned. Gwenylleth bears the Mark of Shadow and was sent by house Cannith to get Earic's diary. She knew to look for the carriage.
Currently debating what to do with Gwen and what do do next

So far, yep.

Everyone sending notes to Nictorah, what are they planning? What's Core's past? Why the elf is scared of Malbor? Who is Merrix d'Cannith? Will Kleber ever shut up about money?

Find out in the next episode of "Eberron: Rising from the Last War"

That's not nice. Now put them back and say you're sorry 😐

I put the Aberrant into Mind. :)

A skill challenge is a set of skill checks to get through a situation. It’s actually a mechanic from fourth edition, but I really like them.

The goal is getting out of town and escaping the archer. Basically a chase scene. Failing means he catches up to you and the inevitable consequences.

You decide which of your skills you would like to use and how you use them to help with the escape. Telling me how you use the check in the story. The DC is 12, a 12 or higher, you succeed on the check. When the team has five successes, you escape. If you get three failures first, you fail the skill check and don’t.

I use initiative to decide the order.

Does that make sense Genecortess?

Yeppers. :)

👍🏻

added my initiative to my earlier post after realizing I hadn't rolled it initially

Man... Core is hanging poor Malbor out to dry! Lol

Letting the "touched" character wander the streets alone, with keys to our ride, looking for someone that Malbor has no idea where they went, while possibly having assassins hunting them?

Damn, just kill him yourself man! 🤣

Lol, He has Vice with him and the tavern is near the inn.

I'm talking about Malbor getting picked off.

Core sent him to find Gzizmix... who went with Earic. And no one in our party at the tavern knows where Earic lives. With a risk of assassins, just asking where to find Earic isn't safe.

Core wants Malbor dead. 🤣🤣

Lol, I see. I’m hoping Malbor is smart enough to wait at the hotel tho. Perhaps take the cart for a spin while he waits.

sorry busy day/night at work.. I'll post later today

I was waiting to see if Core would post a good bye, he let me know a couple days ago. I noticed today, he had already removed himself from the adventure.

wow, y'all been busy. a lot to catch up on.

So, I am new to the whole Eberron setting and don't know if there's any homebrew lore in play so excuse me if this question sounds dumb.

Isn't the ability to create dragon marked warforged a huge thing? Like, cause open conflict between houses big?

I’ve tried to stay away from homebrew as I’m still new to gm-ing and I could easily break something. I believe you’re talking aberrant dragon marks. They’re definitely hated by the houses, but they sometimes happens when bloodlines from different houses have children. For example, mark of storm mixed with mark of shadow could potentially cause an aberrant mark. These marks are not recognized, the abilities are mixed. Houses fought to keep the marks "pure". There are Romeo and Juliet type stories where this happened.

Forcing a mark is only rumour and speculation and would only be from the darkest of magic. Depending on the views of the kingdom, using a warforged would either be unacceptable tantamount to putting a dragon mark on another race outside of what’s acceptable to the houses. Or for those that believe the warforged should not have been granted freedom, they could see it as the next "upgrade" that gives them an edge in future war.

As for warforged still being produced, the laws officially say that production of all warforged must have been stopped, all creation forges must have been destroyed and all previously created warforged have been granted freedom. There are rumours that creation forges may still exist, but it’s unproven as yet.