JeenLeen
2018-02-17, 09:11 PM
For Exalted 2nd edition, there's at least two Linguistics charms where you write something and those who read it undergo a powerful unnatural mental influence. One is to love/greatly admire the writer, and the other is to undergo a desired Compulsion or Illusion effect (i.e., compelled to do X or believe X). Both Charms are Instant duration, so no motes committed.
Am I reading it right that you just use motes when writing it, and then anyone who read its undergoes the effect (at least assuming they are part of the targeted audience)? My main concern is the idea that my PC could write an essay and have it effect a potentially unlimited number of folk who read it.
Is that correct pre-errata? What about post-errata? (I'm in a pre-errata game, but interested in both versions.)
Also, I recall reading somewhere in the core rulebook that extras don't spend Willpower to resist unnatural mental influence unless it's against their Motivation. If that's true, and I have Lingustics 5, the 'beauty modifier' from Linguistics would drop most average mortals (App 2)'s DV by 3. So, with Lingustics 5, most extras would automatically succumb, right?
Lastly, I'm in a modern game. What's y'all's opinions on an essay written in an online blog, or a handwritten thing being photocopied, to impact the masses?
EDIT: I should add that, in the setting I'm in (very homebrew), superheroes (like as in Marvel or DC) have existed for a few decades, but Exalts are just now showing up as well. It is very illegal to use mind control except in self-defense, so the brokenness of an online blog rewriting everyone who reads it's beliefs is compensated for a lot of powerful supers trying to arrest the Exalt.
On that note, since the Charms are not Obvious, does anything 'RAW' state that folk can notice it's magic and not just a really compelling essay? (At least, assuming no real crazy stuff is the point. I'm thinking of using it mainly to convince gangs to change who they work for and to spread a cult that worships supers as gods.)
Am I reading it right that you just use motes when writing it, and then anyone who read its undergoes the effect (at least assuming they are part of the targeted audience)? My main concern is the idea that my PC could write an essay and have it effect a potentially unlimited number of folk who read it.
Is that correct pre-errata? What about post-errata? (I'm in a pre-errata game, but interested in both versions.)
Also, I recall reading somewhere in the core rulebook that extras don't spend Willpower to resist unnatural mental influence unless it's against their Motivation. If that's true, and I have Lingustics 5, the 'beauty modifier' from Linguistics would drop most average mortals (App 2)'s DV by 3. So, with Lingustics 5, most extras would automatically succumb, right?
Lastly, I'm in a modern game. What's y'all's opinions on an essay written in an online blog, or a handwritten thing being photocopied, to impact the masses?
EDIT: I should add that, in the setting I'm in (very homebrew), superheroes (like as in Marvel or DC) have existed for a few decades, but Exalts are just now showing up as well. It is very illegal to use mind control except in self-defense, so the brokenness of an online blog rewriting everyone who reads it's beliefs is compensated for a lot of powerful supers trying to arrest the Exalt.
On that note, since the Charms are not Obvious, does anything 'RAW' state that folk can notice it's magic and not just a really compelling essay? (At least, assuming no real crazy stuff is the point. I'm thinking of using it mainly to convince gangs to change who they work for and to spread a cult that worships supers as gods.)