What would you consider a spiritual attack?

17 thoughts on “What would you consider a spiritual attack?”

1. I think I’d need a little context to answer that question

2. What context would you need? I’ve left it open to ambiguity for a reason.

3. Richard Dawkins?

   More seriously, it might depend on the context. In which context are you thinking? Depending on what you’re thinking, I’d include possession, pushing ideas into someone’s head, or overwhelming someone with pure evil/good.

4. I’ll leave it up to you. I’m trying not to lead anything in a certain direction. I want to see what things people consider spiritual. The tangible, the intangible….

5. I don’t even get if you’re looking for a monster move, a homemade rule for a compendium class, an object, a place… I can talk about what I generally think the words “spiritual attack” mean, but I feel like that’s not what you want to hear.

6. That’s exactly what I want!   :T

7. oh. Well, I don’t see the point of that. So I guess I can’t help you. Sorry 🙂

8. Possibilities I see:

   Attacks on the mind, pretty much anything I might allow a Defy Danger Wis check for.  Possession spells, pushing ideas into someone’s head, memetic attacks (things Man Was Not Meant To Know),

   Attacks of a non-physical nature from an other worldly source. Gods, angels, demons, raw energy from the negative or positive material planes (if your world has such things), “energy drain” attacks.

9. Similar to what Alan De Smet said, a “spiritual attack” could be:

   1) An attack capable of damaging a creature’s soul or spirit. (Level drain. Sucking someone’s soul out. Life force draining attacks. Etc.)

   2) An attack capable of damaging someone’s sense of faith.(Pointing out the holes in someone’s religious beliefs. Providing proof that someone’s deity doesn’t exist. Etc.)

   3) An attack from a spirit, such as a ghost. On an attack that is focused through a soul/spirit.

10. Alan De Smet Sounds kind of like a mesmer.

11. If you controlled someone’s spirit, do you think you would control its physical body as well? Its mind? Something else?

12. Yes. No. Depends. :/

13. Maybe you control something more subtle-their destiny ? Their dreams? The way nature or other spiritual forces react to the one controlled?

14. Agreed, ghostly stuff, extra planar/cleric/druidic sources of power & magic, illusion magic maybe.

15. For me it is an attack on someone’s faith

16. I might even throw fear in as an attack against one’s spirit. 

17. Depends on the setting. In a DW game it´s for the players to decide.

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