[MH] [RPM] Willing Sacrifice & Mind Control

[jeff_wilson]

Originally Posted by Rev. Pee Kitty

If you're using psi, magic, etc., to make someone sacrifice his FP or HP, he's not "willing." Willing means, "Done, borne, or accepted by choice or without reluctance."
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Coercion is okay, because the person is still making the choice. "Help me or I'll kill your wife," is a valid threat, because he could choose to let his wife die. But Mind Control takes away that choice completely -- he's not making the sacrifice, you are making it on his behalf.

I don't think the coercion case is compatible with the common understanding of "without reluctance" if you're dealing with impersonal forces like most spell magic, and with respect, "by choice" is a value judgment more suitable to be made by the placated or petitioned being than given a blanket treatment by a supplement writer. Feeders on dark emotions might reward decisions under duress equally or more generously than the virtuous unsolicited martyrdom that would impress a more paternalistic, moral divinity.