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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 7567724" data-attributes="member: 259">I'm playing an adventure in which the PCs own a tavern (if you know the adventure, you know the adventure, but no spoilers necessary). Our characters are a bunch of theater nerds who work as an acting troupe: we adventure and kill bad guys, and then write plays about our exploits and perform them at our tavern at night. It's pretty fun. I'm an illusionist.Anyway, we just hit fifth level, and I took Hypnotic Pattern, and I was thinking about its use in a tavern, and it occurred to me: the decadent rich would pay bank to have some spells cast on them.Hypnotic pattern has several descriptors:-Twisting pattern of colors-victims are charmed and incapacitated-victims are in a "stupor"It only lasts for a minute, but that sounds mighty like a drug trip--and given the "charmed" aspect, probably a pretty good one.There's a danger in letting someone cast it on you, obviously, as it makes you helpless. However, in a relatively civilized place like a city, I can easily imagine wealthy rakes going in groups to a caster's den, each paying 5-10 gold, and en masse submitting to the spell, while their bodyguards watch at a safe remove.What do folks think? Are there other spells intended for combat that might be appealing to the decadent upper classes?</blockquote>