How can I get a group of adventurers into a sort of nerve gear session?
background:
I am helping GM this week for a group that plays a sort of episodic type game. Anyways... The party will find an old sorcerer/wizard who offers them some boons if they pass his test (pretty basic I know). If the group accepts I want to have them do a bunch of short test modules in a similar style to the aptitude test in divergent. Where I run them through a dozen or so quick tests that immediately change when they solve the problem. If possible I would like the whole experience to happen in their characters minds (nerve gear style), this way I can have control over what items they get access too and I can easily control the environment around them. Is there a spell/spells that would allow me to do this? Or do I just have to use to game master and "make" it happen?
Sounds like some advanced Illusion spells, or just a lot of low level ones going at the same time. I would make it difficult for them to disbelieve it by having them go through a "magic" door. With the proper set up most of the players will just go along with it until there a reason to disbelieve it. But, with that being said the more you describe how it is being accomplished the more likely the players wouldn't even call for a will save.
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