[RPM] What are some ways to make Mind and Body and sense effects harder to pull off?

[Emerald Cat]

Originally Posted by Raekai

Of course, you can resist, but what if you don't want to? Let's say that you're suspected of being an alien, they take you in, and, to prove your innocence, you won't resist their detection spell.

Well, if approaches like this would be a problem for you, there are ways to curtail this kind of behavior.

One possibility is that mages can't tell whether their spell was resisted or not. If the resistance is entirely achieved by nonmagical means, then the mage would have no way to tell if their spell worked properly.

Alternatively, you can add a strong subconscious component to resisting spells. A good way to handle this is to require a Will roll to avoid resisting spells cast by those antagonistic towards you. Most people resent being investigated enough to require this Will roll.

Even if mages could tell that their spell was resisted, they would have no way of knowing whether it was intentional or not on the part of the subject. So resisting a forensic spell couldn't be considered an admission of guilt under these rules. And would prevent forensic spells from becoming the end all be all of legal arguments.