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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 8039705" data-attributes="member: 87792">Apocalypse World rules have quite a lot of safeguards built in. I'd have told the players no in D&D because D&D doesn't provide anywhere near as good tools for character development.First on the mind control, the mechanics for mind control in Apocalypse World aren't those of D&D. What you can do is create commands that the victim has to obey or take damage. Not the domination and taking over the character of D&D - instead it adds weighted choices. The player decided that as his character was at a low they were going to obey the instructions rather than fight them off at the cost it would imply. I also checked in with the player.As for killing a character, remember that I mentioned that you got four choices when life becomes untenable of which only one was to create a new character. If the creepy psychic had died permanently that would have been the choice of the player controlling the creepy psychic rather than the choice of the player killing the creepy psychic. As it was they had a choice of multiple consequences, but the becoming a Faceless was the one they found most appropriate.Which meant that whereas I'd have done what you suggest and banned both actions in D&D, Apocalypse World constrains roleplaying much less and allows options that are not on the table for either of us in D&D.And no I don't find the Vampire: the Masquerade story arcs satisfying so much as a crude, clunky, and intrusive prototype. Those character arcs I mentioned in Apocalypse World were not planned as character arcs - they were things that happened and the results of consequences.That said I fully agree Apocalypse World isn't for everyone and the characters are meant to be on the same side - but only about as much as the Babylon 5 protagonists are. Can I imagine that if one or other of Londo or G'kar was psychic they'd have done that to the other? Yes. Can I imagine one having left the other for dead? I'm thinking of the stuck-in-an-elevator episode where G'kar tried to let both of them die. Which is part of why Apocalypse World would be a vastly superior base-game for Babylon 5 than D&D ever would.</blockquote>

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