Could hypnosis be used to improve roleplaying games?
Is it worth the risk of a player doing something incredibly stupid because they genuinely believe they are their character?
Couldn't be more stupid than making this thread desu.
>>47463698
Hypnosis is not a confirmed phenomenon and is largely discredited, though it does help in reducing pain felt by patients.
-source: Took a psychology course in high school+college.
>>47463807
It's apparently consequential enough to have laws forbidding its practice in many countries and states.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage_hypnosis
I remember attending a stage hypnosis show in high school, and while it was rather entertaining, what really amazed me was when a friend of mine, who had not been initially selected to go up on the stage, fell into a trance while sitting in the audience. We thought he had sort of fell asleep while sitting up, and we couldn't rouse him awake.
Without missing a beat, the hypnotist lead him gently onto the stage, and made him do all sorts of outrageous stunts for our amusement. It was quite surreal.
>>47464016
There are also laws against performing witchcraft
>>47463698
You want Dark Dungeons to happen for real? Because this is how Dark Dungeons happens for real.
>>47463698
>Is it worth the risk of a player doing something incredibly stupid because they genuinely believe they are their character?
Obviously.
Why did you even need to ask? Are you some kind of normie?
>>47463698
>worth the risk
>hypnosis
>risk
dumb shitposter
https://desustorage.org/tg/search/filename/1448848396600/type/op/
>>47463698
Ok, my knowledge about hynosis is very low, but what I know, I doubt that it would work, and either way, it isn't worth the effort...
>>47464789
None of those are shitposts, though. What exactly are you trying to prove? That one guy uses that image a lot to start varying threads that all have some kind of grounding in traditional games? So fucking what?
>>47463698
What's the worst that could happen?
>>47463698
This smells like a very subtle Magic Realm...
>>47465578
Subtle like a brick to the head.
>>47465578
Supposedly out there are people who use hypnosis that don't jerk off to it, but I have my doubts. Every hypnotist I've ever seen is kind of a creeper
>>47465578
>>47465707
Quit memeing. Just because something CAN be a fetish does not mean that it always is, even on /tg/. Or /d/, for that matter.
There are some people on here who are so trigger-happy to call anything "magical realm" that I have no idea how they could actually function in a real roleplaying group.
>playing an elf is an elf fetish
>playing a dwarf is a hair fetish
>playing a half-elf is a crossbreeding fetish
>playing a dragonborn is a reptilian fetish
>playing a gnome or halfling is a size difference/midge/dwarf fetish
>playing a female martial character of any kind is a musclegirl fetish
>playing a female caster character of any kind is a femdom fetish
>playing a bard indicates you have a casual sex fetish
>playing with a low Intelligence score is a bimbo/brute fetish
>playing a monk who wears sandals is a foot fetish
>playing a cleric that can heal is a subby healer fetish
>playing a cleric that can raise the dead is a necrophilia fetish
>picking up a fucking rope during character creation or tying up incapacitated baddies is a bondage fetish
>a wizard wearing a robe is a bottomless fetish because who knows what they've got on under there
It's goddamn embarrassing. Not everything that could possibly be construed as a fetish calls for shrieks of "magical realm." Fucking Christ.
>>47464789
Those are all pretty legit questions, desu.
