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<blockquote data-quote="DrunkonDuty" data-source="post: 3997492" data-attributes="member: 54364"><p>Well for suicide you need to make someone's life unbearable. Try to drive them to despair. Take a look at the Book of Job in the Bible for inspiration. The Outsider should target the character's loved ones and those things/places that are important to them. Destroy their life's work. But do it slowly, piece by piece. And preferrably with the character getting oh so tantalizingly close to saving the day. Trouble is, in a social game like DnD there's always the party to act as support network. You'd need isolate the character from them too, which would be difficult to pull off, and may be interpretted as "picking on." </p><p></p><p>In my current campaign I want to bring the characters close to despair. (But not suicide.) I've spent 14 levels getting them attached to their home land. The rest of the campaign is going to it's slow destruction as a ring of enemies besieges it and slowly tears it down. Enemies they have helped make. I'd dearly like to see the characters fighting the last fight, bravely facing their own destruction so as as many civilians as possible can escape at the last minute. But we'll see how it turns out.</p><p></p><p>Gluttony. Now this one has me stumped. Eating to compensate. But to compensate for what? Short of putting addictive substances in the food or some sort of curse I'm not sure what to do. Would certainly work best with a good role player who was happy to go along. Just generally describe the delicous food that keeps coming the character's way.</p><p></p><p>Pride: mmmmm. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /> A friend of mine ran an Ars Magica game where he worked on the pride of one of the <em>PLAYERS</em>. Worked well too, just about had the guy destroy the world. Which was of course the devils' plan.</p><p></p><p>Started by making the PC inferior to a powerful NPC (the head of the coven) who frequently over ruled and/or bossed around the PC. Then along come these "Nephilim" who need a favour, one that incidentally would let the PC get his hands on the Book of Ages (macguffin of ulimate power.) Of course using the book would actually unmake the world. The other players worked it out just in the nick of time and stopped the proud one. I wasn't there so only have the broad outline but it did sound very good.</p><p></p><p>The Fiend Folio has PrC's for outsiders give specialised powers in areas like temptation, possession, creating cults. Haven't used any of them but they look good.</p><p></p><p>look forward to other's ideas.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrunkonDuty, post: 3997492, member: 54364"] Well for suicide you need to make someone's life unbearable. Try to drive them to despair. Take a look at the Book of Job in the Bible for inspiration. The Outsider should target the character's loved ones and those things/places that are important to them. Destroy their life's work. But do it slowly, piece by piece. And preferrably with the character getting oh so tantalizingly close to saving the day. Trouble is, in a social game like DnD there's always the party to act as support network. You'd need isolate the character from them too, which would be difficult to pull off, and may be interpretted as "picking on." In my current campaign I want to bring the characters close to despair. (But not suicide.) I've spent 14 levels getting them attached to their home land. The rest of the campaign is going to it's slow destruction as a ring of enemies besieges it and slowly tears it down. Enemies they have helped make. I'd dearly like to see the characters fighting the last fight, bravely facing their own destruction so as as many civilians as possible can escape at the last minute. But we'll see how it turns out. Gluttony. Now this one has me stumped. Eating to compensate. But to compensate for what? Short of putting addictive substances in the food or some sort of curse I'm not sure what to do. Would certainly work best with a good role player who was happy to go along. Just generally describe the delicous food that keeps coming the character's way. Pride: mmmmm. :lol: A friend of mine ran an Ars Magica game where he worked on the pride of one of the [I]PLAYERS[/I]. Worked well too, just about had the guy destroy the world. Which was of course the devils' plan. Started by making the PC inferior to a powerful NPC (the head of the coven) who frequently over ruled and/or bossed around the PC. Then along come these "Nephilim" who need a favour, one that incidentally would let the PC get his hands on the Book of Ages (macguffin of ulimate power.) Of course using the book would actually unmake the world. The other players worked it out just in the nick of time and stopped the proud one. I wasn't there so only have the broad outline but it did sound very good. The Fiend Folio has PrC's for outsiders give specialised powers in areas like temptation, possession, creating cults. Haven't used any of them but they look good. look forward to other's ideas. [/QUOTE]
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