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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brisk-sg" data-source="post: 1695114" data-attributes="member: 5037">"Leave the City and Wait until I come For You." is the common phrasing our DM uses in the campaign (Noeuphoria and mine). The suggestion itself isn't much of a problem.  The problem comes into how you character acts to meet this suggestion. For instance, one of my characters, Gulrik Fishtaker (Fighter 10/Ranger 1/Horizon Walker 1) was recently suggested by an Illithid on a recent attack in the City of the Glasspool.  He was told "Leave the City and Wait until I come for You.", which is fine for a sugestion in and of itself.  We had a bit of an arguement when it came to me actually leaving the city.  Gulrik was surrounded by Kuo-toas when he was suggested.  Getting to the city gate required passing through several groups of kuo-toas (we were fighting about 30 of them).   I explained to the DM that since we are in the middle of an intense for you life battle, that Gulrik was going to do standard moves and try to dispatch any foes that stood in his way to escape from the city. I personally believe this is acceptable as suggestion gives you a reasonable course of action to fullfill.  It IS reasonable to leave the city, keeping my life intact so I can wait outside until he comes for me, It is unreasonable to drop my guard and let everything cut me down, thus making it so I can not carry out the suggestion.  If I am dead, I certainly can't meet the Mind Flayer outside of the city. I made a strong case for it, and also explained that Kuo-toas are my favored enemy, and I have Finslayer, an Intelligent Longsword dedicated to killing Kuo-toes with an ego of 22 who per the description will try to dominate me if I ever flee from battle with Kuo-toes.  He did allow me to do it, though he thought it was 'stupid'. I personally interpret Suggestion as giving you a suggested course of action that you must carry out.  How you carry it out is only limited in how the suggestion is worded, it doesn't suddenly make you stupid or suicidal.  A suggested character should take actions that make sense toward meeting that goal, but not to the exclusion of other dangers not mentioned in the suggestion.  If the kuo-toes are not mentioned in the suggestion, and they are a threat to my character, and thus to the goal of the suggestion, it should be reasonable to defend myself from them.</blockquote>

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