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Yes. Mind control isn’t being persuasive or charismatic, or even psychological abuse, fraud, or gaslighting - we know how all of those...

This reminds me of the True Lies quote: Helen: "Have you ever killed anyone?" Harry: "Yeah, but they were all bad." I think that's...

That seems pretty extreme and completely lacking nuance. If a slight, innocuous change is "horrifying evil" where do you go from there...

Maybe lacking some nuance. Could even be done for the greater good, theoretically. But you mentioned it being permanent and unknown...

Still play versus would love to play are very diffrent questions. So none. But someday I will break out the classic Car Wars box I...

Yeah. To me even a "slight" use of mind control is beyond horrifyingly evil in and of itself. Permanently altering someone's mind in...

While I like the simplicity of the 5e foundation for me to use as a toolkit, I can see the validity in what you said.

i will admit, even within the sole confines of 5e's spell slots and levels i think there's surprising room for making different...

It might not say it in current DnD, but it's fairly common in fiction that people need the spark of magic before unlocking the ability...

Yeah, go back to using "campaigns" as a word for "setting".

I think that's tied up on old notions of honor. It's honorable to stand and fight. It's not honorable to poison someone. So good people...

Horrifyingly evil. You could say its not even the same person anymore.

I think posts juxtapositing mind control versus killing are sort of missing the point. The idea isn't "Is mind control more evil.than...

So many little carboard pieces and counters that you had to keep them divided by type or organization in ziplock bags or you would spend...

That's a great post. Yeah, D&D is the game where Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser team up with Aragorn, Sir Galahad, and Mazirian the...