11-27-2022, 08:09 PM | #11 | |
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Boston area
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Re: Talent/Spell of the Weak: Control Person
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controlled it." Maybe that has been changed. (I use the latest PDF.) |
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11-27-2022, 08:14 PM | #12 | |
Join Date: Dec 2021
Location: Indiana
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Re: Talent/Spell of the Weak: Control Person
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I like the idea of a test of wills. |
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11-28-2022, 07:52 PM | #13 | |
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: New England
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Re: Talent/Spell of the Weak: Control Person
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At least I've not been flouting the rules all this time. But when it says that the controlled figure won't know who controlled it, does it imply that it will know that they were controlled at all? |
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11-28-2022, 08:04 PM | #14 |
Join Date: Jun 2018
Location: Durham, NC
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Re: Talent/Spell of the Weak: Control Person
They have to know. I imagine it would be like watching yourself do things on TV. You just keep doing things that you don't want to and cannot stop it. Maybe if someone was mentally unstable they could assume it was a psychotic episode, but most people and animals will assume there was another actor in control.
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11-29-2022, 07:22 AM | #15 |
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: New England
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Re: Talent/Spell of the Weak: Control Person
The two possibilities of either knowing that your body was under someone else's control or not being able to resist impulses that seem to come from your own mind each possess their own flavor of horror.
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11-29-2022, 10:12 AM | #17 |
Join Date: Jun 2018
Location: Durham, NC
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11-29-2022, 01:14 PM | #18 |
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: New England
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Re: Talent/Spell of the Weak: Control Person
I guess I like dialing up the horror more.
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11-30-2022, 10:58 AM | #19 |
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Boston area
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Re: Talent/Spell of the Weak: Control Person
I know the week's over, Shostak, but I have a question about your suggestion. You pointed out that PCs and also NPCs have higher IQs these days, and so Control Person has become less useful -- a 3/IQ roll is pretty easy to make. Thus, go for an IQ contest instead, giving the caster better odds of a successful casting.
But there are two other Control spells, Control Animals and Control Elementals. Animals and Elementals haven't increased their IQs. There are two options: (1) Go with an IQ contest here. Advantage: simple consistency. Disadvantage: Control Animals has just gotten a lot better for no good reason. (2) Go with a 3/IQ roll here. Advantage: Controlling Animals is still easier than Controlling Persons, but not massively so. Disadvantage: It's hard to come up with a thematic justification. Which of these two do you prefer? |
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domination, house rules, magic, mind control, resistance |
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