I am currently reading Death Masks by Ed Greenwood in preparation for my campaign which I plan on setting in around 1491 DR and I found a curious nugget from conversations between Elminster, Lareal Silverhand and Mirt:
1. The Chosen's and other magic users' power are waning
2. The newly reborn Goddess of Magic imposed a very interesting new rule - no mind altering spells are allowed to be cast on other Art practitioners and even if cast on non-magic users, it causes severe pain to the caster.
I think I can paste relevant quote:
"These days, we Chosen touch the minds of others with magic only when the need is dire. Doing so ruins most minds so Mystra has absolutely forbidden us from invading the minds of anyone who can wield the Art"
(...)
"And it has always tired and harmed the wizard trying to mind read" , El added. "So Mystra made it hurt so dearly that a mage using spells without Weave-aid will collapse before they learn much of anything. We Chosen can keep going - so she forbade us to probe wizards, and strongly cautioned us mindreading against anyone else. Adding the pain to keep us at that."
How would you represent this mechanically?
As for no.1, I think no change is necessary - considering that in 5e wizards and sorcerers are weaker than pre-Spellplague in 3.0/3.5, it kind of solves itself.
How would you - if at all - touch no2? In later conversations it is said that the new ban is the reason why War Wizards of Cormyr are no longer mind probing anyone anymore.
My two possible ways of handling it:
1. Ed doesn't really write with D&D rules in mind so his take on mind probing isn't really reflected in the current rules. There is hardly any spell that has the affect of what is described in the novel. That being said, does imposing some restrictions on specific mind altering or probing spells like Dominate, Modify Memory, Detect Thoughts seem reasonable?
2. Just leave it alone ;-)
EDIT: ignore the title, I wrote Enchantment because that was my first thought but it can just as well be Divination.
I am currently reading Death Masks by Ed Greenwood in preparation for my campaign which I plan on setting in around 1491 DR and I found a curious nugget from conversations between Elminster, Lareal Silverhand and Mirt:
1. The Chosen's and other magic users' power are waning
2. The newly reborn Goddess of Magic imposed a very interesting new rule - no mind altering spells are allowed to be cast on other Art practitioners and even if cast on non-magic users, it causes severe pain to the caster.
I think I can paste relevant quote:
How would you represent this mechanically?
As for no.1, I think no change is necessary - considering that in 5e wizards and sorcerers are weaker than pre-Spellplague in 3.0/3.5, it kind of solves itself.
How would you - if at all - touch no2? In later conversations it is said that the new ban is the reason why War Wizards of Cormyr are no longer mind probing anyone anymore.
My two possible ways of handling it:
1. Ed doesn't really write with D&D rules in mind so his take on mind probing isn't really reflected in the current rules. There is hardly any spell that has the affect of what is described in the novel. That being said, does imposing some restrictions on specific mind altering or probing spells like Dominate, Modify Memory, Detect Thoughts seem reasonable?
2. Just leave it alone ;-)
EDIT: ignore the title, I wrote Enchantment because that was my first thought but it can just as well be Divination.