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<blockquote data-quote="Kurotowa" data-source="post: 8123602" data-attributes="member: 27957"><p>I figure it's basically the D&D version of the Jedi Mind Trick. If you want to get past a guard at the door "We have permission to enter, let us through" is fine. So is "We have important information your boss will want to hear immediately." "Drop you weapon and march alone into the monster infested woods for the next hour" is not. No reasonable person would do that. It'd take mind control to force that on someone, and Suggestion isn't mind control. You need Dominate Person for that.</p><p></p><p>What about something like "You should betray your boss and work for us instead"? Well, that's where roleplay and circumstances come into play. Coupling that with an offer of higher pay and better treatment might help push it into being reasonable. So will knowing the guard's specific relationship with their master; it's one thing to do this with a goblin whose ogre overlord beats him regularly, and another thing entirely to do it with a human who's already treated well and has a strong bond of loyalty to his employer.</p><p></p><p>I figure at least some of this is a hold over from older editions where low level spells like Charm Person were used to turn monsters into thralls who obeyed every command given them. That's not how those spells work anymore. Charm Person and Suggestion aren't mind control spells. They are <em>mental influence</em> spells that have clear limitations on how powerful they are.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kurotowa, post: 8123602, member: 27957"] I figure it's basically the D&D version of the Jedi Mind Trick. If you want to get past a guard at the door "We have permission to enter, let us through" is fine. So is "We have important information your boss will want to hear immediately." "Drop you weapon and march alone into the monster infested woods for the next hour" is not. No reasonable person would do that. It'd take mind control to force that on someone, and Suggestion isn't mind control. You need Dominate Person for that. What about something like "You should betray your boss and work for us instead"? Well, that's where roleplay and circumstances come into play. Coupling that with an offer of higher pay and better treatment might help push it into being reasonable. So will knowing the guard's specific relationship with their master; it's one thing to do this with a goblin whose ogre overlord beats him regularly, and another thing entirely to do it with a human who's already treated well and has a strong bond of loyalty to his employer. I figure at least some of this is a hold over from older editions where low level spells like Charm Person were used to turn monsters into thralls who obeyed every command given them. That's not how those spells work anymore. Charm Person and Suggestion aren't mind control spells. They are [I]mental influence[/I] spells that have clear limitations on how powerful they are. [/QUOTE]
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