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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AllisterH" data-source="post: 4177197" data-attributes="member: 51325">This raises an interesting question about metagaming.How the hell does anyone in the campaign world know the limits of an aboleth's mind-control? More importantly, how do they know the limits of mind control for this *specific* aboleth? The same thing goes for many of the outsider/far realm beasties. I don't think aboleths wrote down in a book somewhere their exact powers....For example, in our world, the vast,vast majority of adult people can't run the 100 meters under 20 seconds. Yet every 4 years, we get at least a 10 people that can clock in under half the time and about a hundred more that can do in under 11sI still say the big problem is what another poster alluded to and that's the reliance on magic. A succubus has the time (she's immortal), she has the looks (she can shapeshift), she's got the skills (Bluff,Diplomacy and probably more sexual secrets/techniques that you can shake a tail at) and she's got the powers (judicious use of Charm and Dominate), yet she can't control the king without a specific magic ritual/spell?</blockquote>