The wish spell. Genies. Deals with devils. Even lower-ranked abilities like suggestion-type spells, depending on how they’re used. It’s a classic trope of RPGs that someone will use some sort of magic or magic-like ability to force someone else to do or believe something, or cause something to happen, but for that thing to not necessarily go in the way the person who did it intended.
What’s your favourite story in a game you’ve been in where something like this happened?
Mine is not in an RPG per se, but in God Emperor, a megagame (a closely-related genre of game). I managed to get myself elected as God Emperor, but shortly afterwards, someone used an ability they had to force another player to “believe any one thing you say”. They told me I had to believe “it would be good for the empire if you stepped down as emperor”. I paused to think for a second, before replying “yes, it might be good for the empire, but not for me.”
I then proceeded to be taken out by a military coup orchestrated by the military general of my own House. (Because everything was happening all at once and there was no communication between the Council and the War Table.) But for that brief moment it felt really cool.
My players had spent months finding the combination for a fortified vault door, and finally return to the cave they orignally found the door. Just as the champion begins entering the combination, the wizard realized the party had since leveled a few times, and disintegrate was in her exploration shortlist of prepared spells
nobody was happy about that in the moment, hehe
Part is still waiting to happen
Our characters were hired in the past to extract the country-level head of security of one of AAA corps. After they did that, in “wishes and stars”, one of the players expressed that it would be cool if things they get in contact with would come back later
So in close future they will be hired to extract him from a secure train and in doing so they most probably will (unless the decide to fail that mission) antagonize their fixer, which just so happens to be Lofwyr - a great dragon that is the owner of another AAA corp
And the plan is that in beat climax run the samurai will meet a heavy modified clone of the guy, that is bodyguard of continent-level CEO of the first corp
The further plan is, that after that beat, this arch will try to explore the reality when cloning is possible.
I’m sure they’ll be thrilled to meet the first guy again :)
