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<blockquote data-quote="The Aberrantion" data-source="post: 5736691" data-attributes="member: 6685522">This is bad and you should feel bad for doing this to your players.&nbsp; &quot;Oh hello, I'm King Ronald. I live in a world where Wizards use&nbsp; sulfurous powder to literally make globs of fire shoot out of their&nbsp; hands, and their muttering magical nonsense makes even the strongest castle wall&nbsp; collapse within moments. What's this? Someone has a rare and expensive&nbsp; magic power that smokes and explodes when set to flame? Drop everything,&nbsp; I must have this at once! Send my finest assassins! Now if you'll&nbsp; excuse me, I'm going to visit the court priest and have him literally&nbsp; ask God how I'm doing as king. See you later.&quot;&nbsp;I started getting physically angry reading that. Alter your <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />ing plot so that the player can do what he wants.&nbsp; Your stupid derivative made-up setting is not a real place with it's own rules and regulations, it literally exists only to be interacted with by the player characters.God damn. How do you start thinking like this? How do you start thinking&nbsp; that your amateur-grade fictional place is more important than&nbsp; your buddies having fun?&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Hell, you wouldn't even have to alter it that much to accommodate said player. Just realize that there&nbsp; are other options besides &quot;mind controlled forever&quot; and &quot;insane&quot;. Maybe&nbsp; the players don't change all the way. Maybe they realize what's&nbsp; happening as they slowly transform (or learn The Truth some other way),&nbsp; and decide to do something about the artifacts and the people who own&nbsp; them. For more dramatic tension you can set it up that once the ritual&nbsp; is complete, you slowly change over a long period of time, so the PCs&nbsp; have to race the clock before they become mind slaves.See, that would be a fun campaign. And it only took me like 20 seconds to come up with it.Mod Note: Please see my post below.&nbsp; ~Umbran</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Aberrantion, post: 5736691, member: 6685522"] This is bad and you should feel bad for doing this to your players. "Oh hello, I'm King Ronald. I live in a world where Wizards use sulfurous powder to literally make globs of fire shoot out of their hands, and their muttering magical nonsense makes even the strongest castle wall collapse within moments. What's this? Someone has a rare and expensive magic power that smokes and explodes when set to flame? Drop everything, I must have this at once! Send my finest assassins! Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to visit the court priest and have him literally ask God how I'm doing as king. See you later." I started getting physically angry reading that. Alter your :):):):)ing plot so that the player can do what he wants. Your stupid derivative made-up setting is [I]not a real place with it's own rules and regulations[/I], it literally exists only to be interacted with by the player characters. God damn. How do you start thinking like this? How do you start thinking that your amateur-grade fictional place is more important than your buddies having fun? Hell, you wouldn't even have to alter it that much to accommodate said player. Just realize that there are other options besides "mind controlled forever" and "insane". Maybe the players don't change all the way. Maybe they realize what's happening as they slowly transform (or learn The Truth some other way), and decide to do something about the artifacts and the people who own them. For more dramatic tension you can set it up that once the ritual is complete, you slowly change over a long period of time, so the PCs have to race the clock before they become mind slaves. See, [I]that[/I] would be a fun campaign. And it only took me like 20 seconds to come up with it. [color=darkorange][B]Mod Note:[/B] Please see my post below. ~Umbran[/color] [/QUOTE]

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