For example, when agreeing with Minthara to attack the grove, the game doesn’t give me any indication that it’s going to be possible to then get to the grove before her and prep
Dont she litteraly tells you that she and her army will wait for your signal?
That most cruicial part of her plan is that you will infiltrate the camp, and open the gate? O_o
or even that it won’t just then automatically treat my character as hostile to the tieflings.
Well, that would suck ...
Personaly im not a fan of that when NPCs get informations straight from DM, bcs they have no other way to find out ...
Few curently presented examples:
- You kill Ragzlin > whole goblin camp is hostile ... even if you do it inside "silence" and no alarm is raised.
- You decide to attack Kagha > all Druids are fighting Tieflings ... how did they learned what is happening in Kagha's cave? No idea.
- You attack any member of that Zariel "paladins" band > all of them are attacking. Again, no matter if you use Silence, no matter if you also use darkness or do that behind closed doors ... somehow they all are conected.
But by giving me a “[Deception] Yes, I’ll help you” option the game could indicate to me that I’ll have further choices to make later and can still side with the tieflings after all (as well as giving me the more intangible satisfaction of having my intentions recognised by the game and Minthara a fair chance to realise my insincerity).
Two notes:
1) Thats not how [Deception] works ...
[Deception] is used when you are telling somebody a thing they dont believe ... and roll represents chance that they will believe you, or not ...
Here, same as when Nettie demands you to swear you will drink the poison ...
Minthara have no reason to disbelieve you ... therefore you are not [Decieving] her, even if you lie ... you say exactly what she wants to hear.
Also you just told her position of her target, and she WILL attack it, no matter what ...
If you will betray her, she will deal with you ...
2) Try to bring Wyll with you.
I believe you get what you want.
