That's all real real nice Doc, but you don't manage to explain why year after year corporations spend billions in PR, billions in marketing and billions in advertising. If it doesn't work as you seem to claim, why do they continue? Hmm?
No one said force btw, no one forces you, they induce you. And leave you with the impression that they didn't - an impression you seem to have retained.
when the inducement fails the compulsion also fails, dont you know how the Geas Spell works?
[h=2]Geas, Lesser[/h] (
Player's Handbook v.3.5, p. 235)
Enchantment (
Compulsion) [
Language-Dependent,
Mind-Affecting]
Level: Bard 3,
Sorcerer 4,
Wizard 4,
Components: V,
Casting Time: 1 round
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: One living creature with 7 HD or less
Duration: One day/level or until discharged (D)
Saving Throw: Will negates
Spell Resistance: Yes
A lesser geas places a magical command on a creature to carry out some service or to refrain from some action or course of activity, as desired by you.
The creature must have 7 or fewer Hit Dice and be able to understand you.
While a geas cannot compel a creature to kill itself or perform acts that would result in certain death, it can cause almost any other course of activity.
The geased creature must follow the given instructions until the geas is completed, no matter how long it takes.
If the instructions involve some open-ended task that the recipient cannot complete through his own actions (such as "Wait here" or "Defend this area against attack"), the spell remains in effect for a maximum of one day per caster level.
A clever recipient can subvert some instructions: For example, if you order the recipient to protect you from all harm, it might place you in a nice, safe dungeon for the duration of the spell.
If the subject is prevented from obeying the lesser geas for 24 hours, it takes a -2 penalty to each of its ability scores.
Each day, another -2 penalty accumulates, up to a total of – 8.
No ability score can be reduced to less than 1 by this effect.
The ability score penalties are removed 24 hours after the subject resumes obeying the lesser geas.
A lesser geas (and all ability score penalties) can be ended by break enchantment, limited wish, remove curse, miracle, or wish.
Dispel magic does not affect a lesser geas.
when i go shopping for something, i use my own criteria for choosing which brand, which variation and which colour i shall buy, or even if i will buy at all. for example, i needed butter for a recipe last week.
i chose Clover butter because it was cheaper than the other choices, and as butter is pretty much uniform, i made a fine choice. had another brand been cheaper i would have chosen it, even if i had never heard of it before. i rarely get the same olive oil twice in a row, except for a locally produced unfiltered oil thats great on salads. if a similar unfiltered product were available from another producer then i would have to compare them and their prices to decide which would be the better choice. thats how i shop, not with a fistful of notes on the latest ad campaign.
i buy Maruchan or Tiger Ramen, only Top if it is on deep discount, but for some purposes i require Ichiban Ramen, the actual ramen noodles, not the instant soup packet. regular instant ramen gets sqidgy on my okonomiyaki. i suppose i COULD make my own fresh ramen but ichiban makes a fine product for those situations and it costs me less in time and effort to get the prepared fresh ramen noodles. but then sometimes i use soba noodles on my okonomiyaki. i know, im worse than hitler.
