Mind Control?

[BelDragos]

Are you going to allow any kind of mental or magical control? It would be very boring and not very fun if it happened to you. Psionics and the other magics historically had their versions of mental domination from mind control to a charm or even a fear causing them to flee. The mundane skill of hypnosis can acheive simular results. What is your opinion on the matter?

[fredrick]

Maybe it could be managed where mind control is a fairly difficult skill to become any good at... and you get resist control rolls every game round. (second or whatever) Granted a very high lvl character could still come up and take control of a very low lvl character.. but we could have groups of high lvl chars who exact vengeance on behalf of those weaker for such abuses of power. (For a good PvP system, I think self-policing is the way to go)
Then, if you resist the roll of a certain individual, your resistance to THAT individual goes way up. (Hey, you already overcame their will-power, and now you're not surprised by the invasion) Your resistance to that person would have to fade w/in an hour/day (that's too much information for the server to keep track of), but that would prevent someone from totaly manipulating someone else's character.

Also, you can only control one person at a time. (Some people can't walk and chew bubble gum at the same time... let alone walk with 2 bodies at the same time.) You could do other things; like a mental blast which stuns them and drains their mental stamina to multiple people maybe... but not control.

I think it would be great to have a psionic skill. It's a bit more psi-fi than fantasy, but borderline, and works well.

[UBIK]

i mentioned this before, i think it was in the races thread, i believe they said mind controlling a player would be impossible and not fun for the other player, but there is a possibility to be able to mind control a NPC, but i could be completly wrong......

[Slitherrr]

It would be an interesting thing to work out... And, still, very un-fun for the mind-control-ee, so it would therefore have to be, like Fred said, either nonexistent or very very difficult.

And as for controlling two minds, maybe you can't. ::Nonchalantly sticks a piece of bubblegum in his mouth, the promptly falls to the floor:: Err, never mind...

[Kymeri mac An Iolar]

Aye, I have to say I would be very unhappy to have myself controled by another.

[BelDragos]

How about NPCs. Or should we eliminate it from the game?

[Kymeri mac An Iolar]

There were 2 classes in EQ that didn't necessarily mind control, but charmed or befriended animals or monsters.Druids could charm and befriend animals. Enchanters could charm and mezmerized monsters.

[Rolfe]

I believe we have a wizard spell that falls under necromancy by the name of posess. I THINK it's necromancy but I just can't remember for sure right now. That's about it for wizards I believe. Psionics have crazy stuff including one of the few overlaps, a spell similar to posess.

[BelDragos]

How about mind-effecting spells such as fear or sleep?