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What's your favourite "I have to do what you told me, but not in the way you wanted" story? (aussie.zone)

submitted 3 days ago by Zagorath@aussie.zone to c/rpg@ttrpg.network

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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?

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 12 points 3 days ago

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.