Replacing Morgar Manthai With Forvian Crow? (SPOILERS)

[Krathanos]

Greetings, Hivemind!

We're three gaming sessions into our brand-new Hell's Rebels campaign (it's awesome so far). Here's a question of mine that popped up:

Morgar Manthai is the "traitor" in the early going, being basically a nobody in the resistance who is unlucky enough to get himself charmed by the imp.

Forvian Crow is an old friend of Laria and the guy the PCs are supposed to rescue from the salt works. After that, he doesn't do anything of note (if I didn't miss something).

So my question is: Are there any reasons NOT to replace Morgar with Forvian? Being "betrayed" by someone the party saved earlier surely would make more of an impact than going "oh, it's that guy over there, whoever he is!".

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

[Crustypeanut]

I believe the encounter specifically states that you can choose any non-important NPC for the task - Forvian Crow works perfectly as a result. I agree that it might make more of an impact since the players were the ones who actively saved him - and now he's 'apparently' betraying them. Crow has no other use in the campaign - his team isn't even a unique team XD.

Go for it! :D

...if my players have rescued him by the time the Imp does her bit of sabotage, I might just use this myself.

[Misroi]

Agreed - this is a great bit of economy of characters, and Forvian's betrayal will cause more conversation than random guy on Team 2 who retroactively got a name because he just became important to the plot.

[Krathanos]

Thanks, folks. :)