BonesOfTheEarth

I don’t much mind players being forced to tell the truth through magic, because most players powergame lying anyway. If all a magic is good for is preventing players from lying in such a way that no one can tell that they’re lying from their emotes, that doesn’t seem that bad. It’s not unfortunate when you are used to the high privilege of being able to lie in RP without ever having to deal with verbal ticks, confusion, or the stress of a real tribunal that someone may strip you of that right to basically cheat, through magic. 

As someone who got a lot of use out of mental magic roleplaying as a shade and a frost witch, I greatly enjoyed the heightened creativity in the sleeping illusions. I rarely used the magic to sway trials or interrogations, and I mainly just PM’d people ((Got a ward?)) so my character could read their name to come across as a little spookier. I taught a lot of magic through mental magic because it made it easier to control surroundings to make it more fantasy-esque, and as far as spooking people goes, mental magic was tier 1 for scary RP. 

just go get a mental mage and then it solves all ur problems with 0 effort whatsoever

sure they get ‘tired’ and feel ‘exhaustion’ but they are a 100% foolproof way to get the truth out of someone and absolve them of guilt or pin it entirely on them. what downside is there to mental magic?

seemed like a lot of fun for ppl who had the magic and not much fun for anyone who didn’t