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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6831298" data-attributes="member: 42582">I think, by the rules, the character would be mind-controlled. It's never been clear exactly what, in D&D, that feels like - maybe the character feels elation in the divine presence while the spell is in effect, and then - when it wears off - returns to feeling disdain towards the cleric and/or the cleric's god.This is the bit where we don't agree.Making a pact with a devil brings with it an implication that my PC won't complain about your PC having made a pact with a devil.Being a cleric brings with it an implication that my PC won't complain about you mind-controlling me by casting Bless.You being a battle-master who uses ally-boosting manoeuvres brings with it an implication that I won't feel it cheapens my sense of my PC's talent that you can help improve my action economy.And building a fighter, no matter how pious, brings with it an implication that the gods will generally decline to hear my prayers - even if I'm locked in mortal combat with an evil cultist.I think that, in a lot of D&D play, these points of detail are just ignored. The table simply doesn't drill this far down into the fiction.At tables where there is this sort of drilling down into the fiction, I don't see that the warlord is in a particularly different boat. The table has to find some way of reconciling the details of party play, and PC builds, and class-siloisation, with their prepared conception of the fiction.</blockquote>

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