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#1 zombiegleemax Feb 17, 2006 3:23:03	Someone once said there were rules for consequences of not respecting the planar contract. Does anyone know any details about that?
#2 zombiegleemax Feb 17, 2006 6:15:22	Someone once said there were rules for consequences of not respecting the planar contract. Does anyone know any details about that? Back in 2nd edition, if you subscribed a "contract of Nephtas" (magical object found in Tome of Magic) and you didn't respect the terms of the agreement, you were struck deaf, mute and blind..but i'm not sure if this is a good example of a planar contact....My DM said that Nephtas was a pit fiend but this could have been only an invention by him so i don't really know...
#3 zombiegleemax Feb 17, 2006 7:50:07	Everyone knows that you must obey the contract you signed. Never had problems with that, but I was just wandering if there was a mechanical explenation :embarrass
#4 Cyriss Feb 17, 2006 13:36:22	I don't know of any actual rules on it. My players made several deals with a few Baatezu. The deals I would make always appeared ok right up until the PC's would uphold their end. That way, they had no reason to try to break the deal. For example: One PC made a deal with a Baatezu to have feeblemind removed from another PC. Her part of the deal was that she had to perform simple tasks in the investigation of a murder suspect. It sounded easy enough so she agreed. All she had to do was visit a town & investigate the crime scenes where a woman is accused of killing her husband. She was told that there are creatures in a cave nearby and she has to kill them and bring proof of their existance to the court as evidence. The fiend told the PC that she will find blank scrolls, quills, & ink in the womans house and she was to take them along with other items he gave her to the court as evidence. Long story short, the court realized this woman was a worshipper of Lolth (creatures were giant spiders, the items the fiend had her give the court were spider summoning scrolls, & a prayer book of Lolth) and she was sentenced to death by hanging. The womans kids were boarded up in their house and were burned alive. The PC enjoyed helping to solve a murder case even though the sentence was hard for her to take. She later found out that the woman was innocent & not a worshipper of Lolth and the PC realized the fiend tricked her. The Baatezu summoned the spiders and had them kill the husband. He just wanted to watch the PC help an innocent family get wiped out. The player never once had any reason to break the deal because everything seemed legit...and fun!
#5 julescarv Feb 19, 2006 15:32:21	What about having Kolyaruts gate in and give those who break contracts -- whether Faustian evil-tainted bargains with Baatezu or just and good agreements with archons -- a stern talking-to, and if that doesn't work, laying down the smack with longsword and vampiric touch?
#6 zombiegleemax Feb 24, 2006 23:36:21	Hmmm. Apart from those, howzabout fiends coming to enforce the bargain... I can think of some pretty nasty things they'd do to someone who reneged on a bargain...
#7 ripvanwormer Feb 24, 2006 23:42:53	http://www.tabula-rasa.info/Roleplaying/BaatezuContract.html
#8 thanael Feb 25, 2006 4:49:19	Dicefreaks Gates of Hell supplement has some rules on pacts with devils. (I think they're special feats)