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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7738506" data-attributes="member: 29398"><p>Not so much an outlier as you think. In my games pretty much anything goes. Charm someone else's PC? Fill yer boots - but know well that the same might happen to you in turn sometime down the line... Same goes for killin' or stealin' or whatever else.</p><p></p><p>Crazy example of this from very early in my current campaign. An all-hands in-party brawl had broken out, and as fate would have it something like 4 or 5 party members had access to charm either by spell or bardic song or innate ability...and they did; in a looping chain where character A charmed B, B charmed C, C charmed D, and D charmed A all within the same round, with all saves failed! Character E, who could also charm, picked on some other random bozo. What a mess...and all done through gales of laughter! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>As for someone sitting out - it happens. Fact of life. There'll be times when your PC is held, or paralyzed, or stone, or captured, or unconscious, or dead, or otherwise out of action for a greater or lesser amount of time. To mitigate this I always encourage people to have two characters on the go, so if one gets hosed they've still got the other. There's also usually at least one party NPC that a player can take over for a while if necessary. And as most other things wear off but death kinda doesn't, we usually try to get dead (or stone, or long-term-captured) PCs either revived, recovered, or replaced with a new PC at the first realistic opportunity.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7738506, member: 29398"] Not so much an outlier as you think. In my games pretty much anything goes. Charm someone else's PC? Fill yer boots - but know well that the same might happen to you in turn sometime down the line... Same goes for killin' or stealin' or whatever else. Crazy example of this from very early in my current campaign. An all-hands in-party brawl had broken out, and as fate would have it something like 4 or 5 party members had access to charm either by spell or bardic song or innate ability...and they did; in a looping chain where character A charmed B, B charmed C, C charmed D, and D charmed A all within the same round, with all saves failed! Character E, who could also charm, picked on some other random bozo. What a mess...and all done through gales of laughter! :) As for someone sitting out - it happens. Fact of life. There'll be times when your PC is held, or paralyzed, or stone, or captured, or unconscious, or dead, or otherwise out of action for a greater or lesser amount of time. To mitigate this I always encourage people to have two characters on the go, so if one gets hosed they've still got the other. There's also usually at least one party NPC that a player can take over for a while if necessary. And as most other things wear off but death kinda doesn't, we usually try to get dead (or stone, or long-term-captured) PCs either revived, recovered, or replaced with a new PC at the first realistic opportunity. [/QUOTE]
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