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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 5063960" data-attributes="member: 54846">I want to play a summoner (ADV player guide class) that is the thrall of the thing it summons. Maybe it could be using the summoner as an anchor to this world, maybe it is trapped in the summoners body.</blockquote>Unrelated question: Is the ADV out?I have a few thoughts on this.One, an old idea of mine is that an individual would Trade something of themselves in exchange for power from an entity. Want some True Names of power? Give up the ability to talk unless you are uttering them. These casters just trade away things they "don't want" to entities that have use of them, in exchange for boons. So, this guy could have traded something away in order to get the power the entity grants him by living inside of him. Perhaps his freedom in exchange for the power to (do something). Or even vengeance (Help me destroy X who did Y to me, and you can possess me).Another is from the game Dragon Age. Not to provide any spoilers, but there, Pleasure Demons grant many different kinds of pleasure. Fulfilling a child's whimsy and control fantasies, giving a man the illusion of a loving family, etc. In exchange, the demon gets to see the world, experience it through the host, and feed on their euphoria and other emotions. Maybe someone who wants acceptance/popularity/etc. The demon can even be attached to their host in an almost emotional way. So the entity could be facilitating an emotional/psychological need for the character. Perhaps he's an addict and the entity offers to remove the addiction (or, the character wants the illusion of a constant high, without the drawbacks or having to sink money into his addiction). Whatever the entity is giving him, the struggle for Good is when he pierces through the illusion state it has him in, wakes up and says No. In either case, the end result might be the PC having to decide between what he needs and what is right.[/QUOTE]

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