How I believe the Durkula awareness reveal will go.

[Jay R]

Yes, but you have to account for vampiric tastes; as long as you're not bathing in the blood of your enemies you're probably okay.

That must be what the lavender bath gel and a good loofah are for.

This thread is a success! We've figured out one of the Giant's unrevealed plot threads!

Hooray!

[Gusion]

Actually, his knowledge of the rules is better than yours.

I was wrong to use dodge, as typically it does stack. In my above example I was specifically citing that it didn't... but it was a bad analogy as it led down this rabbit hole.

I'll go fix it. My underlying point remains the same.

[Lavennin]

Doesn't it depend on what the OOTS learns from exposing the lie? Having someone composed purely of negative energy in your friend's body is one thing, knowing that being has trapped your friend's soul and intends to destroy thousands of lives is another. In D&D universes good characters tend to fight vampires on sight, but OOTS didn't, and they may as well hesitate to do so even after learning the truth, depending on which truth they learn. It's possible that Durkula could convince them he shares their goal and since there is no way to bring Durkon back, staking Durkula would mean losing their team cleric. However, this is not how I believe the story will go, simply because we already have Belkar.

[theNater]

Actually, his knowledge of the rules is better than yours.

Thanks, littlebum2002!

That must be what the lavender bath gel and a good loofah are for.

This thread is a success! We've figured out one of the Giant's unrevealed plot threads!

Hooray!

I guess we can add "afraid of vampires" to the list of things we know about the MitD.

Doesn't it depend on what the OOTS learns from exposing the lie? Having someone composed purely of negative energy in your friend's body is one thing, knowing that being has trapped your friend's soul and intends to destroy thousands of lives is another. In D&D universes good characters tend to fight vampires on sight, but OOTS didn't, and they may as well hesitate to do so even after learning the truth, depending on which truth they learn. It's possible that Durkula could convince them he shares their goal and since there is no way to bring Durkon back, staking Durkula would mean losing their team cleric. However, this is not how I believe the story will go, simply because we already have Belkar.

Absolutely. If nothing else, the fact that Durkula currently resides on this word gives him some incentive to keep it from being totally obliterated. This makes an alliance possible, even if it would only be temporary.