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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 1078701" data-attributes="member: 3146">Re: Alll-rite!!!Keep in mind that the suggestion has to be "reasonable" and that DMs may enforce that very strictly (I know that I do in order to keep Suggestion from turning into Dominate Person as some people I've played with have attempted to make it).It's not reasonable to run back to town and get lamp oil in the middle of a battle. (Although it might be if the battle hadn't started and I might decide it was reasonable if it looked like the character was facing a troll or other creature harmed by fire). Suggestions that I've seen work and think are often reasonable:"You're outnumbered and outgunned so you should run like h<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />" When the party kicked the door of the BBEG's evil temple open and grievously wounded two of his bugbear guards in round 1."If you fight, you're doomed; you should flee this island immediately" On the PC gnome after the yuan-ti had managed to sneak past the party and ambush them from behind.Ones I haven't seen work but which might anyway."You should tell them everything you know--they may be merciful and spare your life." During interrogation."He's just ordering you forward so you'll get killed in battle and he won't have to pay you; you should tell him to sod off." On a chaotic evil mercenary (or a mercenary in the employ of an evil man) ordered to attack the PCs. "If you join forces with the attackers, you'd get more of your overlord's treasure than he's paying you; you should strike up an alliance with them." This might be a reasonable suggestion to a chaotic evil mercenary if the PCs seemed like they'd go for that kind of a deal."These aren't the droids you're looking for; you don't need to see their papers;  you should wave them throug the checkpoint". It worked for Obi Wan. (If I were DMing, I'd probably want it phrased differently--so as to appeal to some aspect of the storm trooper's personality. Maybe something like: "These are too old/dirty/clean/intact/accompanied to be the droids you're looking for; it'd be a waste of time to read their papers. . . .")</blockquote>

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