Quick question for the man himself! Kalashtar and gender. In EE it suggests that one could inherit the Quori of their parent of opposite gender. Is this extremely rare /or intended? Everywhere else I read it’s said that Kalashtar and their Quori are “gender-locked”. The idea that they were gender-locked is something from the original edition that we're largely dropping in the spirit of "play the character you want to play."
— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) March 17, 2021
Sharn is under attack by a zombie plague, dragon, war or similar huge ongoing catastrophe. Apart from the Spotlighted PCs, The Redcloaks and Sharn Watch, Who else would be on urgent response for short term, and long term defense/Evacuation of the city if needed? The Blackened Book for magical support, the Guardians of the Gate to manage long term defense or coordinate evacuation.
— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) November 18, 2020
If it's a plague, I'd expect the mayor to coordinate with House Jorasco.
— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) November 18, 2020
Sure. This is covered on page 130 of the Sharn sourcebook: 'The knights and paladins of the church
Okay, that’s helpful, and in a campaign to reclaim the city- What about the silver flame? I know they are from thrane but if Zombies were overrunning a city would they intervene? (Plague or not) templars of the Silver Flame are allowed to “do
battle with inhuman forces of darkness as it is
necessary to protect the peoples of Khorvaire.”'— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) November 18, 2020
But there's not very MANY of them. The sourcebook notes that Coldflame Keep, built as a garrison for a hundred templars, currently only quarters eight.
— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) November 18, 2020
the ability to play a truly gender neutral character has actively made my life better. Your setting is a fantastic place where I can feel comfortable for the first time in my almost 50 years in this earth. I'm glad to hear it!
— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) February 17, 2021
I have a question regarding the forge adept artificer that I haven’t been able to solve. Ghaal’shaarat says you can touch a magic weapon, so could you use enhanced weapon infusion and then ghaal’sharat for a +2 bonus at lvl3? Seems like RAW but not sure if RAI The Ghaal'shaarat states that it grants a +1 bonus "unless the base weapon you imbued already has a higher bonus." Enhancement bonuses aren't cumulative. If it's a +1 weapon already it thus stays a +1 weapon. If you use your 8th level +2 bonus on a +1 weapon, it becomes +2.
— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) March 18, 2021
The point is that is that you keep OTHER properties of the weapon. So if you turn a Flame Tongue into your Ghaal'shaarat it gains a +1 to hit/damage while also retaining the fire damage effect. But you use the best enhancement bonus of the two, you never combine them.
— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) March 18, 2021
Is “Sora” a title, similar to Lhesh? It’s the Goblin word for “Grandmother.” It’s a title of respect, but not a rank like Lhesh.
— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) March 14, 2021
It's not stated as providing that benefit in the RAW, so it would be up to the individual DM to decide. But it seems like a good house rule to me; the idea of passives is to reflect an average roll, and that would be represented by a +2 bonus.
— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) February 23, 2021
One of my players is a druid that uses powers from a daelkyr. My campaign is also shifting to a chamber agent campaign, Would the knowing Chamber Dragon(s) exclude someone affiliated with daelkyr?
Or not care so long as they are assets against the Lords of Dust? I'd say they wouldn't care as long as they're an asset. Consider that Argonessen didn't actually endorse Vvaraak helping Khorvaire deal with the daelkyr; they're largely indifferent.— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) March 17, 2021
Great, That’s what I thought. Follow up on the Vvaraak thing. Even though the chamber did not endorse Vvaraak’s teachings, that wouldn’t make them opposed to having a Gatekeeper Aligned Pawn/agent (multiple of my players’ backups are gatekeepers, we swap out often) No, not at all. Same thing: If they are useful pawns, they will use them. They didn't care to TEACH the Gatekeepers, but what's done is done.
— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) March 17, 2021
Have there been any non-human Keepers of the Flame? Certainly. They’re mostly human, but that because most of the people of Thrane are human—just as almost all of the Keepers of the Ghaash’kala have been orcs.
— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) October 21, 2020
