So I participate in an online pathfinder living world, a group of players in this living world came across the "Deck of Many Things"
(http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic-items/artifacts/minor-artifacts/deck-of-many -things-harrow)
One of the cards in question is the Tyrant Card:
"the character gains the one-time ability to issue a single command to any creature in the multiverse and have the order obeyed. The target is affected as if by the spell dominate monster, and even orders for the target to kill itself are followed. Any creature targeted by this effect knows that it is acting against its will, and knows the identity and location of the character. Immortal creatures cannot effectively kill themselves, and the act only causes them considerable but fleeting pain. Additionally, creatures with the ability to grant such boons typically also possess the power to revoke them, and do so as soon as the command releases them. The GM ultimately decides what this command can accomplish. The character may use this card's effect whenever he wishes, but may only use it once."
There is some debate as to what this card can actually do. Is it strictly interpreted as the Dominate Monster spell for whom it can effect? Such as things immune to mind effecting would be immune to the playing of this card?
It specifically says it can affect anything, but that the momentary control afforded by the card has risks.
It specifically says it can affect anything, but that the momentary control afforded by the card has risks.
Thanks for your reply. Most of us engaged within this debate on our home server agree with that view, just figured i'd open up a discussion about it here to see if I could gather a larger consensus on it. There's just one or two debaters who feel that it's simply a free Dominate Monster spell with no save involved.
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For unusual creatures made by the GM, they could rule that their creature was not eligible if it did not qualify as a
creature in the multiverse
Certainly shouldn't use it with more than 1 or 2 NPCs, but for that really strange all powerful NPC, the DM could say that the NPC exists outside the multi-verse and is ineligible as a target. Like, for example, if your setting had a DM with a physical body (like in that D&D cartoon), they would probably be exempt from that target requirement.