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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5995039" data-attributes="member: 42582">When the bardic power Vicious Mockery has been discussed, I've suggested that, when used against (say) an ooze, or a zombie, what the bard is mocking is not the mindless thing in front of it, but (say) Juiblex, or Orcus. A bard's power to unravel things through mocking them presumably extends to the power of Juiblex or Orcus to give life to oozes and undead.I would need to know more about the context of the centipede encounter to know whether or not I could narrate the &quot;ray of truth&quot; in a similar fashion.I think this still preserves meaning, by the way - I think it makes a difference, in the fiction, that the bard has mocked Juiblex or Orcus. But the difference isn't an immediate difference to the action resolution. It's about the need to introduce some additional fictional content into the game, on which future consequences and complications might turn, in order to get the power is to work.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 5995039, member: 42582"] When the bardic power Vicious Mockery has been discussed, I've suggested that, when used against (say) an ooze, or a zombie, what the bard is mocking is not the mindless thing in front of it, but (say) Juiblex, or Orcus. A bard's power to unravel things through mocking them presumably extends to the power of Juiblex or Orcus to give life to oozes and undead. I would need to know more about the context of the centipede encounter to know whether or not I could narrate the "ray of truth" in a similar fashion. I think this still preserves meaning, by the way - I think it makes a difference, in the fiction, that the bard has mocked Juiblex or Orcus. But the difference isn't an immediate difference to the action resolution. It's about the need to introduce some additional fictional content into the game, on which future consequences and complications might turn, in order to get the power is to work. [/QUOTE]

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