Last Monday the party fought a mature adult red dragon owning a Chaos Diamond with the ability to cast Word of Chaos. The two non-chaotic characters (our healer and our damage dealer) were soon confused and ran away. This being a high-level fight including two bluespawn godslayers, two blackspawn exterminators, six redspawn arcaniss (all from Monster Manual IV) and about fifty kobolds (these provided the comic relief) taking about 10 rounds meant that they basically didn’t participate at all.
I made sure to not list the spell in my M20 Hard Core rules. And I’m thinking of houseruling it out of my games altogether.
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Yeh, *Confusion* is one of the unfun spells. On the plus side though, *Dragonspawn* are teh awesome! :D
– GreyWulf 2008-08-20 18:39 UTC
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Yeah, late pay-off from the *Red Hand of Doom*. 😄
– Alex Schroeder 2008-08-20 18:47 UTC
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At the very least, you should make the PC-only spells. ;)
– Marco 2008-08-21 07:07 UTC
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Well, *Confusion* is like all the fear effects. I’m thinking the main problem is that the victim runs away, effectively doubling the penalty and making it very hard for others to actually help. So what I’m thinking of right now is that it’s good enough to *take cover* or something similar. To take last Monday’s example, have Aurin and Nanami to hide behind the castle walls.
– Alex Schroeder 2008-08-21 07:57 UTC