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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 9629645" data-attributes="member: 7025508">I would not draw the same conclusions than you. I don't think you can get anyone to act against their principles, it is just that a lot of people really do not have principles or lie about what their true principles are. Then again, in a RPG we might not have pre-established how principled every NPC is so one might just let the dice results determine that.Whilst some things might be genuinely impossible, I agree with you that most aren't in the right circumstances. And then the challenge becomes engineering those right circumstances that make it possible to get what you want and to me that sound far more interesting gameplay than just hoping you roll well on the dice.I really dislike social mechanics being used against PCs, but this I like. It is not that you were convinced by the demagogue that sacrificing the babies to the daemon lords of chaos is a good idea, but everyone else is convinced about it and now think you're a traitorous freak for not wanting to usher a new golden age via diabolical baby sacrifice.</blockquote>