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<blockquote data-quote="Gizzard" data-source="post: 1349664" data-attributes="member: 527"><p>I am not sure if this is true. </p><p></p><p>I always felt that Charm messed with the victims mind substantially, somehow managing to provide magical answers to simple questions like "Oh, so if you aren't Charmed then you can tell us where you first met your old friend the Beholder or what his name is or...." If you consider it in this light, then this tendency to justify the Charmed status is just part of the spell effect.</p><p></p><p>(Does it sound nuts that someone would start making up stories to support something that wasnt true? Has anyone seen the experiment where an "measurement electrode" is strapped to a subjects neck, then a current is secretly applied in order to stimulate the muscle and involuntarily turn the head. "Why did you turn away?" asks the experimenter. And, most often, the subject replies with an answer that they make up on the spot. Not because they are lying, but because the brain is defending itself from the inexplicable. "I must have had a reason for doing that...")</p><p></p><p>Anyway, similar to what someone else said early in the thread, we always played Charm as if the Charmer were an "bad girlfriend" turning the Charmee against the party. All too effective. ;-) This ruling also helps after the Charm wears off to understand what the reaction of the Charmee might be at that point.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gizzard, post: 1349664, member: 527"] I am not sure if this is true. I always felt that Charm messed with the victims mind substantially, somehow managing to provide magical answers to simple questions like "Oh, so if you aren't Charmed then you can tell us where you first met your old friend the Beholder or what his name is or...." If you consider it in this light, then this tendency to justify the Charmed status is just part of the spell effect. (Does it sound nuts that someone would start making up stories to support something that wasnt true? Has anyone seen the experiment where an "measurement electrode" is strapped to a subjects neck, then a current is secretly applied in order to stimulate the muscle and involuntarily turn the head. "Why did you turn away?" asks the experimenter. And, most often, the subject replies with an answer that they make up on the spot. Not because they are lying, but because the brain is defending itself from the inexplicable. "I must have had a reason for doing that...") Anyway, similar to what someone else said early in the thread, we always played Charm as if the Charmer were an "bad girlfriend" turning the Charmee against the party. All too effective. ;-) This ruling also helps after the Charm wears off to understand what the reaction of the Charmee might be at that point. [/QUOTE]
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