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<blockquote data-quote="soviet" data-source="post: 9629230" data-attributes="member: 6925338">You can get people to do pretty much anything with the right pressures. Even something unthinkable today can become acceptable tomorrow. Look at world events 80 years ago and world events happening right now. Look at people strongly advocating certain actions right now that they argued vociferously against just a year or two ago. In my game Other Worlds I discuss this issue (social conflict, not fascism). My game has stake setting, which means that the player and GM have to agree that the result being sought is reasonable given all of the circumstances. So, if you want to try to convince the King to give up the throne, I don't want to say it's impossible, but you have to do the work and build the leverage to make that a plausible outcome. Or, perhaps, stumble into those circumstances. It can't be a two minute conversation out of the blue when everything's going great. The second question is how this affects player characters. Can they be forced to give up the throne, abandon their existing world views, betray their friends? On any dice roll?&nbsp; My answer in Other Worlds is that for player characters these rolls create a pressure. This is within the agreed stakes. You can still choose not to go along with the new policies, help fight the neighbouring village, betray your friends, etc, but you will pay a cost. Maybe a severe one. You could be seen as unreasonable and uncooperative and overlooked for the next promotion. You could be ostracised in your community and have bricks thrown at your windows. You could be faced with prosecution, asset seizure, and eventually execution.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soviet, post: 9629230, member: 6925338"] You can get people to do pretty much anything with the right pressures. Even something unthinkable today can become acceptable tomorrow. Look at world events 80 years ago and world events happening right now. Look at people strongly advocating certain actions right now that they argued vociferously against just a year or two ago. In my game Other Worlds I discuss this issue (social conflict, not fascism). My game has stake setting, which means that the player and GM have to agree that the result being sought is reasonable given all of the circumstances. So, if you want to try to convince the King to give up the throne, I don't want to say it's [I]impossible[/I], but you have to do the work and build the leverage to make that a plausible outcome. Or, perhaps, stumble into those circumstances. It can't be a two minute conversation out of the blue when everything's going great. The second question is how this affects player characters. Can they be forced to give up the throne, abandon their existing world views, betray their friends? On [I]any[/I] dice roll? My answer in Other Worlds is that for player characters these rolls create a [I]pressure[/I]. This is within the agreed stakes. You can still choose not to go along with the new policies, help fight the neighbouring village, betray your friends, etc, but you will pay a cost. Maybe a severe one. You could be seen as unreasonable and uncooperative and overlooked for the next promotion. You could be ostracised in your community and have bricks thrown at your windows. You could be faced with prosecution, asset seizure, and eventually execution. [/QUOTE]

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