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<blockquote data-quote="STARP_Social_Officer" data-source="post: 3750214" data-attributes="member: 41202">OK. Here's a way-out-one.The campaign I'm working on right now is an update of my previous one. It's a steampunky setting with a healthy dose of film noir, so we have a culture based on the United States during the Depression. None of which is really relevant to my point, which is that the home city, and large tracts of the world, are now governed democratically.Which brings me to my question. How do you have a vibrant liberal democracy when magic can change people's minds so easily? It's possible to use spells like mass charm person, mass suggestion, dominate person, enthrall and fascinate, not to mention bardic music, on the hustings to influence how people vote. What's to stop a candidate casting a few charms when he's on his soapbox? Has anybody done anything like this before and what safeguards were in place (in-game or metagame) to stop this happening? Or did you not stop it happening, and simply have being charmed by a candidate as one of the many interesting quirks of a standard election campaign?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="STARP_Social_Officer, post: 3750214, member: 41202"] OK. Here's a way-out-one. The campaign I'm working on right now is an update of my previous one. It's a steampunky setting with a healthy dose of [I]film noir[/I], so we have a culture based on the United States during the Depression. None of which is really relevant to my point, which is that the home city, and large tracts of the world, are now governed democratically. Which brings me to my question. How do you have a vibrant liberal democracy when magic can change people's minds so easily? It's possible to use spells like[I] mass charm person, mass suggestion,[/I] [I]dominate person[/I], [I]enthrall [/I] and [I]fascinate[/I], not to mention bardic music, on the hustings to influence how people vote. What's to stop a candidate casting a few [I]charms [/I] when he's on his soapbox? Has anybody done anything like this before and what safeguards were in place (in-game or metagame) to stop this happening? Or did you not stop it happening, and simply have being [I]charmed [/I] by a candidate as one of the many interesting quirks of a standard election campaign? [/QUOTE]

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